 | Electro-Shock Blues by Eels
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £1.93 This album is the most intimate journey through grief and suffering I've ever heard. No other album has commanded so many of my tears and I don't even have a sister nor have I ever been sectioned
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 | Blonde on Blonde by Bob Dylan
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £2.75 Bob Dylan is a Shakespeare of our era. We should all feel privileged that our lives coincided. This is his Hamlet. That would make Desire his King Lear and Blood on the tracks his Romeo & Juliet...no?
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 | Ease Down the Road by Bonnie Prince Billy
Buy new: £9.98 / Used from: £6.00 Will Oldham has a voice that confers sublime peace and humilitity. He's so light-hearted it makes me float. Got his fingers in the earth. A wonderfully refreshing break from modern music's narcissism
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 | First Rays Of The New Rising Sun by Jimi Hendrix
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £2.47 Jimi Hendrix is to his guitar like a Samurai master is to his sword. Who wouldn't want to experience the sound of a man slicing the universe in half with his electric guitar?
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 | Beethoven: Piano Concerto No.5
Buy used from: £6.95 Is this the greatest piece of music ever composed? I'm too young to comment but so far yes. They should pipe Adagio Un Poco Mosso on repeat into the whole of London at rush hour. We'd all become monks
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 | The Complete Recordings: All 41 Recordings by Robert Johnson
Buy used from: £4.99 Soul-raking guitar, a voice that could drown the whole world. A man of experience. I love Dylan's description of him in 'Chronicles'
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 | O.K Computer by Radiohead
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £2.18 Mesmerizing. The ultimate soundtrack for a disillusioned mind. Try listening to this on the tube or on Oxford street and feel the despair burn your soul. Great stuff
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 | Bryter Layter by Nick Drake
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £2.96 Apparently Brad Pitt loves this album. Always knew I liked him. I played it to a Japanese guy once and he's worshipped me ever since. It plays particularly well walking through airports. No idea why
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 | Confrontation by Bob Marley & The Wailers
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £3.85 Apparently Tom Cruise hates this album. That's how good it is. Anyway I think he's making a big mistake and should switch to Rastafarianism as soon as possible
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 | Harvest by Neil Young
Buy new: £4.56 / Used from: £1.97 Neil Young is an alien. So's Joni Mitchel. Imagine what their children would have been like. These commentries are getting silly. Will try to be more serious
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 | I Am A Bird Now by Antony and the Johnsons
Buy new: £17.49 / Used from: £5.99 This album is just so beautiful I can't believe it's real. His hormones are all over the place - an unusual kind of suffering - great for the pain tourist
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 | I'm Wide Awake It's Morning by Bright Eyes
Buy new: £6.44 / Used from: £4.60 My most recent obsession. This guy's really got it. Contains the line 'If you love something then give it away'. Is this why I'm doing this list? You still have to buy them though
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 | What's Bin Did And What's Bin Hid by Donovan
Buy new: £3.97 I love Donovan. 'Catch The Wind' is still my favourite song of all time. Dylan didn't like the 'de-dede-de-dede's' but he can't always be right
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 | Hunky Dory: Remastered by David Bowie
Buy new: £4.00 / Used from: £3.77 Another alien. Definately his best album. I've loved this album since I was 10. That's time-tested. 'Quicksand' is one of the joys of Western Civilisation
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![Brainwashed [Digi-pack]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41YK9EZ2ZHL._SL75_.jpg) | Brainwashed [Digi-pack] by George Harrison
Buy new: £3.93 / Used from: £0.74 I love John Lennon but I still think George Harrison was the biggest reason why the Beatles were so great. This album makes me want to stare at the sun and melt away
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 | Absolution by Muse
Buy new: £5.48 / Used from: £3.00 I've listened to 'Blackout' more times than any other song and it still takes me places I never knew existed. It's in my top 3 songs of all time ever. Why don't they do more like it?
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 | Discovery of a World Inside The Moone by Apples In Stereo
Buy used from: £4.49 Robert Schneider is shockingly talented. I still can't believe he exists. If this album had 'The Oasis' and 'The Benefits Of Lying With Your Friends' on it would be very near the top of the list
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 | The Creek Drank the Cradle by Iron & Wine
Buy new: £6.98 / Used from: £6.18 In the middle of a noisey frenetic world Sam Beam sits quite still whispering sweet nothings with heart-melting affection. Stop and listen. Now
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 | Death of a Ladies' Man by Leonard Cohen
Buy new: £4.47 / Used from: £2.75 My favourite Leonard Cohen album. Actually I don't really like Leonard Cohen. I feel he's somehow a bit contrived, like wisdom is a shirt he thinks he looks good in or something
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 | Good Morning Spider by Sparklehorse
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £1.98 Another whisperer. Marginally better than 'Vivadixiesubmarinetransmissionplot'. Both utterly sublime. Mark Linkous suffers from bad knees. So do I. Is this the emotional connection?
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 | Bob Dylan Live 1975: the Rolling Thunder Revue by Bob Dylan
Buy new: £12.64 / Used from: £10.66 This is a recording of the greatest concert of all time ever (don't doubt me). Dylan's voice is electric. The biggest reason why I wish they'd invent a time machine. Play it loud
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 | Either/Or by Elliott Smith
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £4.59 Elliott Smith is eerie yet warm, tortured yet life-affirming; sweet and sour really. Could be massively underrated. How is he rated? Who does the rating anyway? I'm doing it. He's GREAT.
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 | The Best of Arvo Pärt
Buy new: £3.98 / Used from: £3.19 Been trying to avoid best of's but had to here - only if you haven't heard his music before though. Arvo Part only composes music for God. Oh and maybe Paul Reid. Anyone else is just coincidental
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 | The Joshua Tree by U2
Buy used from: £1.75 Tony Blair's favourite song is 'Where The Streets Have No Name'. How weird is that? I wish he'd tried to have street names banned in London just to hear his reasons for it
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 | The Velvet Underground and Nico by Velvet Underground
Buy new: £4.99 / Used from: £3.28 'Venus In Furs' makes me feel better about spending so much time asleep. Definately their best album. I wish I'd slept with Nico
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