 | Dark Side of the Moon - 30th Anniversary Edition by Pink Floyd
Buy new: £5.98 / Used from: £5.00 Coincidentally, the best-selling album of all-time in Britain.
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 | Abbey Road by The Beatles
Buy new: £9.78 / Used from: £6.50 If only the first side flowed as well as the second.
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 | Eli and the Thirteenth Confession by Laura Nyro
Buy new: £6.37 / Used from: £4.99 The first of the female singer-songwriters. Ahead of that movement and too sophisticated to be broadly influential.
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 | Wish You Were Here by Pink Floyd
Buy new: £5.98 / Used from: £5.50 This is a group utilising their equipment to expand their music, rather than being swamped by the technology like what happens now.
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 | The Beatles: the White Album by The Beatles
Buy new: £13.97 / Used from: £10.32 Deeply sinister and highly amusing.
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 | New Adventures in Hi-Fi by REM
Buy new: £9.78 / Used from: £0.75 How kind of them to put my top ten R.E.M. songs all on this one album.
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 | The Smiths by The Smiths
Buy new: £5.87 / Used from: £3.25 "And, well, it would."
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 | New York Tendaberry by Laura Nyro
Buy new: £5.87 / Used from: £4.27 A profoundly moving, earth-shaking, weather-changing masterwork.
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 | Animals by Pink Floyd
Buy new: £8.97 / Used from: £5.49 Not as broad as the above two Floyd albums. Waters is edging out Richard Wright (the greatest musician in the world).
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 | Strangeways Here We Come by The Smiths
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £3.90 Morrissey and Marr say this is the best Smiths album. I almost agree.
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 | Randy Newman by Randy Newman
Buy used from: £4.59 Only 28 minutes but more content than most artists manage in their entire career.
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 | Bossanova by Pixies
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £2.26 I thought they were developing their song-structures well here, though they are clearly too developed for most.
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 | Room On Fire by The Strokes
Buy new: £9.78 / Used from: £1.93 Concision.
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 | O.K Computer by Radiohead
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £1.44 The CD-version includes my favourite CD-booklet of all time.
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 | Imperial Bedroom by Elvis Costello
Immaculate sonic detail though I'm not listening for texture; just for his greatest set of compositions.
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 | Court and Spark by Joni Mitchell
Buy new: £3.98 / Used from: £2.97 I recently found out that it's Cheech and Chong telling Joni she's 'Twisted'.
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 | Trust: Deluxe Edition by Elvis Costello & The Attractions
Buy used from: £13.99 Trust Costello to try different styles and not fail.
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 | Doolittle by Pixies
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £2.98 Rubbish small.
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 | My Aim Is True: Remastered by Elvis Costello
Buy used from: £3.91 Welcome To The Working Lifetime.
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 | 12 Songs by Randy Newman
Buy new: £7.27 / Used from: £4.23 The title highlights the importance of production.
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 | Meat Is Murder by The Smiths
Buy new: £4.89 / Used from: £3.00 Note how Marr tricked Morrissey into exploring funk on 'Barbarism Begins At Home'.
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 | The Stone Roses by Stone Roses
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £3.45 As I've never taken Ecstacy, I merely equate this album with the feeling of falling in love.
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 | Astral Weeks by Van Morrison
Buy new: £7.27 / Used from: £1.99 Very popular, though not with anyone I've ever met.
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 | Blonde on Blonde by Bob Dylan
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £3.50 As relaxed as it gets. No additional stimulant required.
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 | Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band by The Beatles
Buy new: £9.98 / Used from: £6.00 This used to be the most influential album of all time.
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