 | With The Beatles by The Beatles
Buy new: £7.98 / Used from: £7.25 From the Cavern basement to the Apple rooftop, the Beatles took us on quite a journey over the years - here's where most of us joined in
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 | A Hard Day's Night by The Beatles
Buy new: £7.98 / Used from: £7.35 Full of the energy and excitement of the tie-in film but, surprisngly by 1964 standards, much of it's underlying melancholy as well.
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 | Help! by The Beatles
Buy new: £7.98 / Used from: £7.49 Like the film it accompanies, 'Help!' isn't as serious or as life-changing as 'A Hard Day's Night', but it's a whole lot of fun.
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 | Otis Blue: Otis Redding Sings Soul by Otis Redding
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £2.45 Put a great Otis Redding album on and the room seems to light up, with your speakers all but waltzing across the floor with you. This is one of the very best.
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 | Take Me for What I'm Worth by The Searchers
Buy used from: £7.50 Over-shadowed by contemporary releases for 40 years, it's about time that 'Take Me For What I'm Worth' is taken for what it is - a last glorious burst of Merseybeat that still points to the future.
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 | Revolver by The Beatles
Buy new: £7.98 / Used from: £7.25 Coming at the exact mid-way popint of the Beatles' recording career, 'Revolver' is full of forward and backward glances, both gloriously accessible and wonderfully weird.
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 | Parsley Sage Rosemary and Thyme: Remastered by Simon & Garfunkel
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £3.34 A glorious lesson in contrasts, continuing the twosome's ruminations on isolation, alienation and intellectual pursuits together with some of the duo's meatiest, funkiest recordings.
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 | Face To Face by The Kinks
Buy new: £3.48 / Used from: £2.50 Like the butterflies on the cover, this is The Kinks' metamorphosis album, the point where they changed from beat-bopping catepillars into one of the most distinctive, original bands that ever was.
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 | Between The Buttons (UK Version) by The Rolling Stones
Buy new: £9.88 / Used from: £8.54 A series of wolves-in-sheep's-clothing songs, with the quitest and folkiest of all Stones albums one of their most bitter and controversial when you scratch below the surface.
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 | Headquarters by The Monkees
Buy used from: £5.63 Viva la Revolution! The Monkees deliver their best record by kicking out their management and making records on their own. Practically every note of this album is played by them - and it sounds great!
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 | Evolution by The Hollies
Buy new: £14.69 / Used from: £14.94 An aptly-named album - you can hear the Hollies' sound developing at break-neck speed on this album, dosing each of it's tight three-minute pop masterpieces with a heavy bout of psychedlia.
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 | Small Faces by Small Faces
Buy new: £6.48 / Used from: £8.50 The Small Faces were busy transforming themselves from teenyboppers into something deeper on this album - despite it's fractured background, this forgotten little gem is probably their most consistent
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 | The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn by Pink Floyd
Buy new: £6.78 / Used from: £9.91 A throbbing guitar part, morse code, organ stabs, pounding drums, feedback - from the opening moments of their first album the Floyd are already creating a sound like nothing ever heard before.
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 | Butterfly by The Hollies
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £3.09 One of the best quirky English psychedelia albums of the period, packed with surreal lyrics, sitars, sound effects and hallucogenic mixes, together with an honest and mature heart.
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 | After Bathing at Baxter's by Jefferson Airplane
Buy new: £8.07 / Used from: £4.19 RCA must have been rubbing their hands with glee when the controversial Airplane delivered a hit record. And they must have been distraught to hear this no-holds-barred trmendously exciting follow-up!
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 | Their Satanic Majesties Request by The Rolling Stones
Buy new: £9.68 / Used from: £9.99 A second-rate Sgt Peppers? Hardly - this eventful musical journey into the darker underbelly of psychedelia beats it in every way.
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 | Buffalo Springfield Again by Buffalo Springfield
Buy new: £6.58 / Used from: £3.47 In a just world everybody should own this album - this fondly remembered record featuring three future superstars is a delight from start to finish.
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 | Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones Ltd. by The Monkees
Buy used from: £3.78 Less 'hands on' than it's predecessor, but even more inventive and wide-ranging, perfectly poised between easy charm and genre-bending adventure.
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 | The Who Sell Out by The Who
Buy new: £6.08 / Used from: £2.46 Ah, the days of pirate radio! Weird jingles, stranger disc-jockeys and downright bizarre music all competing for space with the day's commercial candy-floss.If that's your cup of tea, then so is this!
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 | The Notorious Byrd Brothers by The Byrds
Buy new: £3.98 / Used from: £2.00 11 compact symphonies welding different styles together, with hard rockers breaking off for a good ole pedal steel solo in between bursts of feedback, all tied up with a space-age sea-shanty.
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 | Friends/20/20 by The Beach Boys
Buy new: £5.78 / Used from: £3.29 Very short but very very sweet: the last really traditional-sounding Beach Boys album is chock-a-block full of delightful harmonies, jazzy licks and intriguing lyrics. Brian Wilson's on great form.
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 | In Search Of The Lost Chord by The Moody Blues
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £7.60 Loose concept album on which the Moody Blues attempt to find the one true chord that will unite us all in peace and harmony - and come pretty darn close to finding it.
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 | Anthem of the Sun (Remastered and Expanded) by The Grateful Dead
Buy new: £9.98 / Used from: £6.33 A truly unique album mixing four separate concert performances and some studio overdubs into one glorious whole that unfolds gradually, taking the listener on a journey they will never forget.
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 | Cheap Thrills: Remastered by Big Brother & the Holding Company
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £3.82 Janis Joplin at her best, just 'one of the boys' here but still able to channel 25 years' worth of raw passion into performances so alive it's hard to believe she's been dead for nearly 40 years.
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 | White Album - The Beatles by The Beatles
Buy used from: £19.72 This album finds the Beatles returning to the childlike enthusiasm that made their early records so appealing, along with the ever-growing sophistication that runs through all their late-period work.
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