![Captain Fantastic & the Brown Dirt Cowboy [Deluxe Edition]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51Ge1LC7F2L._SL75_.jpg) | Captain Fantastic & the Brown Dirt Cowboy [Deluxe Edition] by Elton John
Buy new: £8.98 / Used from: £6.99 The last of a great run of Elton albums. Songwriting perfection... 1975 was his creative peak and (like McCartney with "Yesterday") old Reg must wish he could write songs like these today.
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 | Live in Japan by The Runaways
Buy used from: £54.80 The Runaways showing they could do LIVE! The media's dismissive jailbait tag didn't hold these teenage girls back when Punk Rock sent all the "boring old farts" into hiding. Respect is (over)due!
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 | The Slider by T. Rex
Buy new: £8.98 / Used from: £4.98 There was nobody like Marc Bolan and nothing like T Rex in the early '70s. A genuine classic album. Nearly 40 years on, this still sounds fresh. Best thing he did buying that 'leccy guitar!
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 | Aladdin Sane: Remastered by David Bowie
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £2.90 Bin the rose-tinted spectacles...! THIS is the last of the great Bowie albums - following twin progeny Hunky Dory & Ziggy Stardust. All downhill from here. Feathers suitably ruffled, Bowie fans?
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 | Never Mind The Bollocks, Here's The Sex Pistols by The Sex Pistols
Buy new: £9.78 / Used from: £3.95 If you don't have this, there must be something wrong with you. Iconic... and THIS 2CD version is the one to own!! Includes the "Spunk" demos and the Spedding mixes as well as the album proper.
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 | Leave Home: Remastered and Expanded by The Ramones
Buy new: £9.98 / Used from: £2.99 I refer the house to my previous comment.... Ramones' debut broke all the rules... and jaws hit the floor back in 1976. "Leave Home" followed and is even better! The rest is history. RIP. Job done!
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 | Alive by Kiss
Buy new: £12.69 / Used from: £9.99 When you've finished sniggering at the back...! It's easy to mock now, but this live! album silenced the critics. "You wanted the best..." etc. Manchester 1976. Hotter than Hell. Good times.
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 | The Hoople: Remastered & Expanded by Mott the Hoople
Buy new: £4.88 / Used from: £5.13 Mott's last and best... Ian Hunter called it a day soon after its release. The Hoople left on a high - showing us (albeit unintentionally) that it can be done! You can't make the best better.
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 | The Best of the Rubettes by Rubettes
Buy new: £10.29 / Used from: £3.51 Everyone's guilty pleasure. I kid you not. Flapping-pants-tastic tunes coloured a politically unsettled '70s Britain for us teenagers. Ah nostalgia... it ain't what it used to be (sigh)
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 | Wouldn't You Like It? by The Bay City Rollers
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £2.74 No Rollers... no Ramones, the story goes. Da Brudders owe more to the Bobby Fuller Four than these five Scots lads... but everybody watched "Shang-A-Lang" on TV (whether they care to admit it or not).
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 | Raw Power by Iggy & the Stooges
Buy new: £3.48 / Used from: £1.99 Want to annoy the neighbours? This'll do the trick! Iggy's remix "goes one more" all the way to 11. The needle must have been stuck in the red. Am I the only one who prefers the original Bowie mix?
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 | Alternative Chartbusters by The Boys
Buy new: £9.98 / Used from: £7.75 Call 'em what you will (pigeonholed as "The Beatles Of Punk" at the time) but this is "power pop punk's" finest (three quarters of an) hour. "Re-mem-ber those Brickfield Ni-i-ghts".
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 | Agents of Fortune by Blue Öyster Cult
Buy new: £3.48 / Used from: £1.89 "Babies... before we're done here, you'll all be wearing gold-plated diapers". Check YouTube if you don't know what I'm on about... but BOC's breakthrough album is a class act from 1976.
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 | The New York Dolls by The New York Dolls
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £3.21 The band your momma prayed you wouldn't become while you were practicising in father's garage. But this was one of those essential albums without which none of this would be possible etc.
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 | Trilogy (Billion Dollar Babies / School's Out / Killer) by Alice Cooper
Buy new: £28.29 / Used from: £40.21 I couldn't decide between "Billion Dollar Babies" and "Killer" but somebody is selling this box set of both PLUS "School's Out" for just £3.99. Stop reading this nonsense and go get it!!
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![The Scream [Deluxe Edition]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41TkKkSXu2L._SL75_.jpg) | The Scream [Deluxe Edition] by Siouxsie And The Banshees
Buy new: £8.98 / Used from: £6.00 A proper whooping and wailing Banshees album complete with bonus Peel Sessions disc. Bleak and beautiful. Ethereal and sinister. Women had something to say & they found an appreciative crowd in Punk.
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 | Roxy London WC2: A Live Punk Box Set by Various Artists
Buy used from: £46.37 Those familiar with '70s UK Punk will know the original Roxy WC2 LP. Great insight into what these bands were like before they were signed. Brilliant collection with entertaining dialogue.
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 | Can't Stand the Rezillos: The (Almost) Complete Rezillos by The Rezillos
Buy new: £6.98 / Used from: £5.23 Loud, brash, fun. Big chopping guitar sound, big hair and big wide smiles. Not a bad 'un on here! Top pop punk cartoon toons. Marvellous.
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 | Time's Up by Buzzcocks
Buy new: £6.68 / Used from: £4.83 "Spiral Scratch" EP and other Devoto-era gems. DIY Punk came to the provinces in 1977 & Manchester became the adopted capital thanks to these guys (terrible CD sleeve though).
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 | Sweet Fanny Adams by Sweet
Buy new: £7.78 / Used from: £4.39 As glam as you wanna be... sneeringly referred to as hod-carriers in drag, but this album proved just how good Sweet were. And bonus tracks worth having (for once). Buy it.
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 | Hurt by Chris Spedding
Buy used from: £14.68 You wouldn't believe how many albums this guy has played on. Everything from Wombles to Pistols. This guy IS the '70s, and his own album is a peach. A very good "best of" collection is also available.
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 | Loaded by The Velvet Underground
Buy new: £8.88 / Used from: £6.29 Out with the old, and in with the new. Velvet Underground's swansong prepared us for Lou Reed's most revered solo albums from 1971 to 1976.
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 | Cast Of Thousands by The Adverts
Buy used from: £7.09 Re-defined the term "difficult second album". The Adverts were crucified in 1979 for this... but it is a MASTERPIECE. Buy it if you haven't got it, and give it another listen if you have.
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 | Bad Girl/Venus d'Vinyl by Cherry Vanilla
Buy new: £18.09 / Used from: £8.48 An unbeatable twofer. Both Cherry Vanilla albums on one CD. Omnipresent punk chanteuse. Shame on you if you don't know who she is.
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 | The Joey Heatherton Album by Joey Heatherton
Buy new: £20.99 / Used from: £15.90 Offbeat and camp offering from actress and singer Joey. Insane but bloody brilliant! "Gone" is an all time fave. Bonkers brass!! And a cover that'll turn more than heads. OK... gotta go. Ta ta x
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