 | Bleed Like Me by Garbage
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £0.97 Good solid pop music. Rocks out with added electronic production. Very appealing music.
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 | 10,000 Days by Tool
Buy new: £7.28 / Used from: £6.49 Not as good as it could be but still excellent obtuse prog-metal filled with real venom. Great singer.
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 | Someone to Drive You Home by The Long Blondes
Buy new: £7.98 / Used from: £1.73 Very literate and melodic pop music. Feels like a female companion piece to Lloyd Cole & the Commotions excellent "Rattlesnakes" album.
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 | Fantastic Playroom by New Young Pony Club
Buy new: £9.78 / Used from: £2.86 Competent dance-pop. Every track sounds the same and the lyrics are nothing great but it does sound very good.
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 | With Teeth by Nine Inch Nails
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £1.97 NIN are a great band and this might be their best album. The aim seems to be to keep it simple and just make as big a noise as possible.
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 | The Great Unwanted (Ruffa Lane) by Lucky Soul
Buy new: £9.79 / Used from: £5.13 A modern take on 60s soul music with some crunchy, noisy music to back up the singing. Probably better than Duffy & Adele.
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 | The Back Room by Editors
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £1.27 Patchy album but the good songs are brilliant.
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 | The Cure by The Cure
Buy new: £6.18 / Used from: £1.64 I think this is their best album. Takes a few listens for the songs to appear out of the noise but well worth the effort.
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 | Hail to the Thief by Radiohead
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £1.94 It might not be as heavy as The Bends, proggy as OK Computer and as arty as Kid A, but it's by far their most melodically appealing & easily digested album.
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 | Super Extra Gravity by Cardigans
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £1.96 Imaginatively icy pop music.
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 | American III: Solitary Man by Johnny Cash
Buy new: £6.18 / Used from: £5.18 The most consistent of the five American albums. The covers of One (originally by U2) & The Mercy Seat (Nick Cave) are amazing.
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 | Can'tneverdidnothin' by Nikka Costa
Buy new: £10.98 / Used from: £3.37 Very funky pop music, and she has a great voice.
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 | At War with the Mystics by The Flaming Lips
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £2.49 The way its produced with the guitars and bass being digitised in strange ways sounds amazing. Some great songs and a few thrashing rockers.
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 | How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb by U2
Buy new: £6.48 / Used from: £0.89 I know U2 through their Best Ofs. I find the albums to be hard going but I like this one. Fairly consistent & enjoyable enough.
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 | Show Your Bones by Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Buy new: £3.48 / Used from: £2.68 Not as good as Fever To Tell and disappoints on the first few listens. Stick with it & youll find its a very good solid album.
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 | This Is the Life by Amy MacDonald
Buy new: £4.48 / Used from: £1.86 Sounds good though the lyrics can be a bit twee on some songs.
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 | Supernature by Goldfrapp
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £0.97 Very good perverted electro-disco pop music. Ive heard it way too many times & it has to be said there is a fair amount of, if not filler, then weaker tracks on it. Black Cherry is also good.
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 | Absolution by Muse
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £2.46 Loud pompous music that rarely slows down to take a breath. Sounds great and rocks out with conviction. "Black Holes & Revelations" album is almost as good.
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 | I Know You're Married But I've Got Feelings Too by Martha Wainwright
Buy new: £6.98 / Used from: £6.48 Up-tempo singer-songwriter. Good solid songs. "See Emily Play" by Pink Floyd is covered. See also Bat For Lashes and My Brightest Diamond for good Goth style female singer-songwriters.
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 | Get the Gore by Gore Gore Girls
Buy new: £4.98 Retro girl-group garage band. Very energetic and really rocks out.
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 | Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
Buy new: £9.28 / Used from: £3.99 Annoys me as he rarely ever rocks out, instead preferring slow piano ballads.This is a whole album of HEAVY ROCK with a mass of backing vocals & another album of HEAVY urgent ballads. His best release
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 | eMOTIVe by A Perfect Circle
Buy new: £10.78 / Used from: £4.96 Tricky prog-metal-pop band doing cover versions of songs about the human cost of war & conflict. I enjoy it & I listen to it on a regular basis.
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 | Waiting For The Sirens' Call by New Order
Buy new: £8.98 / Used from: £0.99 Their fans have issues with this but I think its one of their strongest albums. Rocks out a bit more than usual. Get Ready is also a solid album.
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 | Strays by Jane's Addiction
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £1.60 Very strong, powerful album that is almost as good as their two previous masterpieces of eccentric funky heavy metal.
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 | Beauty & Crime by Suzanne Vega
Buy new: £10.78 / Used from: £3.34 Big disappointments: Beauty and Crime by Suzanne Vega, Year Zero by Nine Inch Nails & Endless Wire by The Who.
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