 | Led Zeppelin IV by Led Zeppelin
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £2.33 1978. Yes, I know I should have been into punk, but I wasn't!
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 | The Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd
Buy used from: £3.30 1979 I remember trying to translate the lyrics of "Brain Damage" for my exchange partner in France.
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 | Closer by Joy Division
Buy new: £5.88 / Used from: £3.73 1981. My older brother came home from university with a copy of this. I remember sitting on the floor in the dining room listening to it over and over again - utterly mesmerised.
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 | Heaven Up Here by Echo & the Bunnymen
Buy used from: £3.99 1982.
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 | The Velvet Underground and Nico by Velvet Underground
Buy new: £6.38 / Used from: £2.83 1983. For a couple of years I just couldn't see past the Velvet Underground. Complete obsession.
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 | White Light / White Heat by The Velvet Underground
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £2.85 1984. Sister Ray lasted exactly the length of my walk to lectures in the morning. I listened at ear-bleeding volume.
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 | And Don't the Kids Just Love It by Television Personalities
Buy new: £9.48 / Used from: £26.96 1985. I went to see the TVPs live, and Stuart and I quit the band we were in to form The Catburgers within a month or so. TVPs recordings were hard to come by - we got a tape from New Yorker Lisa.
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 | The Painted Word by Television Personalities
Buy new: £9.79 / Used from: £7.95 1987. Dan's finest hour.
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 | Kaleidoscope World by The Chills
Buy used from: £22.49 1990. The Chills were awesome live. We put them on in Edinburgh at our club, Speed 3.
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 | Screamadelica by Primal Scream
Buy new: £2.98 / Used from: £0.01 1991. The indie-dance crossover album that took me and many of my friends with it.
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 | Orbital 2 by Orbital
Buy new: £6.78 / Used from: £4.30 1993. If I had owned this on vinyl I would definitely have worn it out!
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 | Illinoise by Sufjan Stevens
Buy new: £8.98 / Used from: £7.00 2006. I was kind of busy from '95 onwards with parenthood. This is the first album that really grabbed me when I started listening again.
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 | The Trials Of Van Occupanther by Midlake
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £6.93 2007. A short but sweet love affair. I've got a bit sick of this album now, but it was all I listened to for a month or so.
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 | 6 and 12 String Guitar by Leo Kottke
Buy new: £11.98 2007. This is what's getting played most right now.
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