 | Red Handed by Gillian Glover
Buy new: £10.99 / Used from: £8.47 Strong but not mindless female vocals with classy "support"
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 | Skeleton in Armour by Fusion Orchestra
Buy used from: £39.99 Superb: exciting, clever, inspiring - needs to be LOUD.
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 | Different Class by Pulp
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £1.52 Sound of my era, makes me feel drunk - in a good way
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 | Miserere
Buy used from: £4.99 My other era - I'd love to think we sounded like this - perhaps on a good day...
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 | Walk on the Wild Side: The Best of Lou Reed by Lou Reed
Buy new: £12.49 / Used from: £1.47 Woody Allen of rock (sort of)
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 | Original Masters by Steeleye Span
OK, so now you know I'm being honest.
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 | Out of Time by REM
Buy new: £4.61 / Used from: £0.76 Sixth form, and the first non-classical CD I bought that was good
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 | Goldmark/Sibelius - Violin Concertos
Buy new: £10.75 / Used from: £7.61 My first Radio 3 find. Addictive.
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 | Sonatas for viola and fortepiano
Buy new: £13.99 Not the recording I have (with the Rubinstein too) but still so evocative it's hard to believe you're not hearing words.
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 | Shooting Rubberbands At The Stars by Edie Brickell & New Bohemians
Buy new: £3.97 / Used from: £3.15 (mostly) happy songs you don't have to think about too much
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 | Mozart: Wind Concertos
Buy new: £8.99 / Used from: £8.68 Not the best recording but I'm cheating; for grim times to keep me breathing.
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 | The Ultimate Collection by The Kinks
Buy new: £9.98 / Used from: £6.50 Short songs with a great cleverness:ease of listening ratio
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 | Mixed Up by The Cure
Buy new: £9.78 / Used from: £1.88 Cringe-making but expresses things that more tasteful things don't.
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 | Byrd - Masses and Motets
Buy new: £12.48 / Used from: £8.43 Sublime, increasingly pared back music for late night fire-watching
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 | Purpendicular by Deep Purple
Buy new: £9.98 / Used from: £5.07 Impossible to choose but no point in listing all of them - this is my current favourite
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