 | Emperor Tomato Ketchup by Stereolab
Buy used from: £6.51 right on the cusp of the 'new' and 'old' Stereolab, a flawless album.
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 | Maggot Brain by Funkadelic
Buy used from: £7.18 indespensible
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 | Goin' Back Home by Lightnin' Hopkins
Buy used from: £3.50 Lightnin' recorded very widely in the 60's, and very patchily in terms of quality, this album succeeds in uniting the very best of his more up-beat numbers.
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 | 20 Mothers by Julian Cope
Buy used from: £5.33 The self-styled arch drude in psychedellic pop krautrock mellotron meltdown, 20 songs and every one's a mother.
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 | Author Unknown by Jason Falkner
Buy used from: £7.37 Exquisite album of perfectly crafted rocking songs by an oft-overlooked power pop genius.
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 | Histoire De Melody Nelson by Serge Gainsbourg
Buy used from: £9.00 Gainsbourg's sleazily atmospheric concept album, a 24 carat gem..
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 | To-Day's Sound by Piero Umiliani
Lovers of Perrey/Kingsley and Morricone will love this groovy laid back electronica.
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 | 6 6 6 by Aphrodite's Child
Buy new: £8.78 / Used from: £7.99 Once you get past the whole Demis Roussos/Vangelis thing this is a darkly brilliant masterpiece.
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 | Killing Joke by Killing Joke
Buy new: £7.89 / Used from: £3.00 A grungily brilliant (but very short) album, although this has been knocked off by everyone from Nirvana to Bowie its lost none of its menacing shine.
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 | 1968 by France Gall
Buy used from: £34.96 The most ham fisted use of a sitar since Brigitte Bardot's Harley Davidson, and Gall's corncrake like vocals do nothing to undermine this 60's pop classic.
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 | The Essential Sonny Boy Williamson by Sonny Boy Williamson II
Buy used from: £16.77 But seriously, a superlative performer surrounded by fabulous musicians delivering wickedly well observed songs, marvel at the man's skill and impeccable timing. An absolute corker.
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 | Prose Combat by MC Solaar
Buy used from: £7.80 The man's gone very much off the boil these days, this is however a genre transcending tour de force from the best french lyricist since Gainsbourg.
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 | How to Meet Girls by Nerf Herder
Buy new: £10.28 / Used from: £0.94 Catchy as scabies and funny as hell. A nerd-core revelation.
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 | Sixties Girls Vol.2 by Various Artists
Buy used from: £19.99 Patchy but worthwhile (not to mention inexpensive) set of compilations of French sixties girl groups, number one being the best of the three.
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 | The Psychedelic World of the 13th Floor Elevators by 13th Floor Elevators
Buy new: £16.98 / Used from: £8.79 It's all here (almost)
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 | Heart of the Congos by Congos
Buy used from: £12.00 Lee Perry at the top of his game producing an awesome band, atmospheric and sublime.
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 | Kick Out the Jams by MC5
Buy new: £7.98 / Used from: £3.95 Everything up to eleven, the motor city five tear it up live.
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 | Monsoon Featuring Sheila Chandra by Monsoon Featuring Sheila Chandra
Buy new: £12.29 / Used from: £5.99 Sheila Chandra's superb voice cuts through the cheesy eighties production and instrumentation a fantastic sitar tinged pop album.
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 | Self Assembly by Noonday Underground
Buy used from: £18.98 Fantastically well judged, a whole psychedellic-pop-Jefferson-Airplane-wig-out melting pot, from the people who brought you Adventures in Stereo.
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 | Modern Lovers
Buy used from: £20.00 A bone fide classic.
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