 | Chosen People by Dave Davies
Buy new: £10.29 Under-rated younger Kinks' best solo album, full of enlightening songs about humanity's state and how to resolve it. There's a great song about alien invasions in there too.
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 | Dreams by Grace Slick
Buy new: £22.99 A riveting, eclectic album showing off all sides of Grace's talent, from autobiographical head-hanging to orchestral ballads to epic rockers. Her best solo album by far.
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 | The Visitors by Abba
Buy new: £3.98 / Used from: £2.45 Farewell album from the 'other' fab four is alos the toughest, dealing with broken relationships set to a hardened synthesised backing. The title track may be the best thing they ever wrote.
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 | Pacific Ocean Blue by Dennis Wilson
Buy new: £8.98 / Used from: £7.79 Amazing 'lost' album from under-rated Beach Boy mixes the lyrics of 'Pet Sounds' with the orchestral adventurism of 'Smile'. One of the most powerful CDs I own, with Dennis' gruff voice perfectly cast
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 | Daylight Again by Crosby Stills and Nash
Buy new: £9.98 Oft-forgotten album recorded under trying circumstances but that doesn't affect the quality of this superb album. Stills+Nash are on top form and even an ill Crosby gives us highlight 'Delta'
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 | Younger Than Yesterday by The Byrds
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £1.69 Smashing psychedelia set finds the Byrds having fun with bleeping synths, speeded up aline voices and other-worldly harmonies. And that's just for one track!
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 | At Folsom Prison by Johnny Cash
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £2.49 Hearing The Man In Black sticking up for the hardened convicts temporaily in his care is a sound to behold. No one else had such natural charisma and no one else had such a voice.
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 | Bee Gees' 1st by Bee Gees
Buy new: £11.98 / Used from: £17.15 Sweetest and most inventive album by the Brothers Gibb. Psychedelia meets folk with some nicely surreal edges, plus the classic ballad 'To Love Somebody' to enjoy.
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 | Animal Tracks by The Animals
Buy used from: £15.00 Beaty and Bluesy, this is one of the highlights of the Animals' back catalogue. 'For Miss Caulker' is a cracker!
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 | Nite Flights by The Walker Brothers
Buy used from: £21.99 The last - and weirdest - Walker Brothers album, featuring their most out-there material in among the ballads.
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 | Other People's Lives by Ray Davies
Buy new: £9.08 / Used from: £3.95 Stunning return to form by elder Kink after a decade or so away, featuring some of is most characteristically whimsical tracks+the gorgeous 'Lonesome Train' which ranks with his best ever compositions
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 | 1+1 by Nils Lofgren
Buy used from: £14.99 Highlight of this fantastic group's short amount of releases finds future E-Street Band member Nils Lofgren on fine form, with many of these fine songs in his set list in the present day.
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 | Dingly Dell by Lindisfarne
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £4.49 hated at the time of it's release, this 3rd album which broke up the band actually makes for fine listening some 35-years on after the event. Captivating, adventurous and nicely intimate.
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 | Love Song for Jeffrey/Free and Easy by Helen Reddy
Buy new: £13.98 Whatever happened to this promising singer? Both of these albums are classics, with Helen's lovely warm tones matched by some strong material.
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 | Aqualung by Jethro Tull
Buy new: £4.88 / Used from: £3.53 You'll never think of the poor again without thinking first of this album, part-subtle, part-heavy rocking, with twists and turns like few other albums. Perhaps the quintessential Tull set.
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 | Straight Up by Badfinger
Buy used from: £14.79 This Apple band wrote some of the best ballads in the business, with Pete Ham on especially fine form on this great CD. George Harrison produced some of the tracks and practically every one is a gem.
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 | Freeze Frame by Godley & Creme
Buy used from: £6.77 This album by the ex-10cc duo somehow manages to be the most adventurous and the most listenable all at the same time. 'I Pity Inanimate Objects', sung by a demented toaster, will make you cry.
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 | Milk and Honey by John Lennon
Buy new: £7.38 / Used from: £3.36 This unfinished, posthumous album always gets overlooked even though it contains some of the most joyous and exhilerant work Dr Winston O'Boogie ever did. 'Borrowed Time' especially hits the spot.
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 | Reborn Again by Denny Laine
Buy new: £8.79 Great 'comeback' from ex-Moody Blue and Wingsman, with a suite of songs about reaching deep within yourself to cope with life's many problems.
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 | Pipedream by Alan Hull
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £5.96 Tuneful and good-humoured first solo from Lindisfarne mainstay. 'United States Of Mind' will blow you away with its simple beauty.
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 | Last Time Around by Buffalo Springfield
Buy new: £6.58 / Used from: £2.45 People always talk about the first two BS albums and never the third - which is yet another under-rated classic, with Stills and Young doing a dry run for their CSNY material.
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 | Rings Around the World by Super Furry Animals
Buy new: £4.78 / Used from: £0.99 A really fun album with a gentle heart, the near-closing track 'Run Christian Run' may well be the best song this Welsh Beach Boys have yet to produce.
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 | Wings Over America by Paul McCartney and Wings
Buy new: £15.78 The best live McCartney album has a truly remarkable back catalogue to draw from and shows great care in the way it re-visits old friends. The best ever lineup of Wings just crackles with electricity.
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![Sounds of the Loop [CASSETTE]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/21mfcpt7PPL._SL75_.jpg) | Sounds of the Loop [CASSETTE] by Gilbert O'Sullivan
Buy used from: £7.95 Seeing as my beloved 'Off Centre' LP seems to be missing from Amazon, here's your next best O'Sulliovan bet. Late-period classic is more adventurous than most, but still with hummable tunes throughout
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 | 5317704 by The Hollies
Buy new: £10.79 / Used from: £44.14 The Hollies' ;caluclator' album (type the numbers in and see what happens when they're turned upside down!) is also known as the 'ballads' album. A fine, rounded mature end to this list.
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