 | White Album - The Beatles by The Beatles
Buy used from: £8.99 I love all the Beatles stuff, but this for me is their high point. Amazing off-kilter pop. Most of this was written during their infamous India stay and I love the resulting vibe.
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 | Fox Confessor Brings the Flood by Neko Case
Buy new: £8.98 / Used from: £6.20 Neko Case is without a doubt my favourite female singer/song writer. She has one of the most powerful voices you'll ever hear.
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 | Beyond by Dinosaur Jr.
Buy new: £6.48 / Used from: £4.48 Written about 15 years after their heyday, this album had every right to be average as hell... instead it is one of the best things they've ever done. Fans of Crazy Horse era Neil Young have a listen.
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 | Everybody Knows This is Nowhere by Neil Young & Crazy Horse
Buy new: £5.68 / Used from: £3.98 ...speaking of which. This was the album where I finally got what all the fuss was about: the man was a guitar genius. Still my favourite NY to this day. A great hazy summers afternoon album.
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 | Sunflower/Surf's Up by The Beach Boys
Buy new: £6.48 / Used from: £2.35 Two amazing Beach Boys albums on one CD. Some beautiful Dennis Wilson numbers on here like 'Forever', plus one of THE most amazing pieces of psychedelia ever in the shape of 'Feel Flows'.
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 | Low by David Bowie
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £3.49 My favourite Bowie. Kind of the polar opposite to the Beach Boys stuff. Very much a winter album. Peerless production by Brian Eno, written and recorded in Bowie's Berlin period.
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 | Tigermilk by Belle & Sebastian
Buy new: £8.98 / Used from: £4.87 One of the best albums to ever come out of Scotland. My teenage rock self would have been disgusted with this addition but B&S were punk rock in their own way!
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 | Cowboy in Sweden by Lee Hazlewood
Buy used from: £35.00 Really you want to track down the two seminal albums Lee put out with Nancy Sinatra, but this is much easier to track down. About as weird as the album title sounds. No Train To Stockholm is a fav.
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 | The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn by Pink Floyd
Buy new: £6.98 / Used from: £4.30 Took me years to figure out the Syd Barrett days were the best things they put out. See Emily Play is the greatest single of the 60s!
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 | Let It Be by The Replacements
Buy used from: £4.74 This is a great album that sort of passed most people by. I might put my neck on the line and say I Will Dare is the greatest single of the 80s.
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 | #1 Record/Radio City by Big Star
Buy used from: £8.16 I love this band. 2 of their best albums on one disc. Classic power pop. I love driving to this stuff.
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 | The Velvet Underground by The Velvet Underground
Buy new: £6.08 / Used from: £3.47 My favourite velvets album. Just one beautiful song after another. A great Sunday morning album. No Nico either (I was never a big fan).
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 | Ogdens' Nut Gone Flake by The Small Faces
Buy new: £7.98 / Used from: £4.70 Love this album to bits. Side B / the second half gets a bit bizzarre but stick with it. Definately one of the best albums from the 60s, and what a record sleeve!
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 | Dusty In Memphis (Expanded Version) by Dusty Springfield
Buy new: £3.48 / Used from: £2.42 Another Sunday morning album, maybe when you're having Breakfast In Bed (bad pun, sorry).
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 | The Reminder by Feist
Buy new: £3.98 / Used from: £2.84 Feist's voice is up there with Neko Case. An amazing album that got a huge audience thanks to an ipod advert.
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 | Songs of Leonard Cohen by Leonard Cohen
Buy new: £6.98 / Used from: £3.92 This one is maybe more Sunday afternoon, than Sunday morning. You could get lost in songs like Suzzanne. Amazing.
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 | The Concretes by The Concretes
Buy new: £7.98 / Used from: £2.00 A great pop record. Swede's doing what they do best: summery indie. Nice 60s Velvet Underground / Phil Spector vibe.
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 | Yes, I'm A Witch by Yoko Ono
Buy new: £10.88 / Used from: £3.87 I though this album was really under apreciated. Reworkings of her old stuff by modern bands like The Flming Lips and Polyphonic Spree.
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 | Vampire Weekend by Vampire Weekend
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £2.78 More amazing summer music.
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 | Bubblegum by Mark Lanegan Band
Buy new: £8.38 / Used from: £4.74 My favourite male singer/song writer around today. Hard to pick his best as he's done so much but this is certainly up there and a good starting point.
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 | Loveless by My Bloody Valentine
Buy used from: £5.99 An early 90s classic. Often imitated but never bettered.
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 | Surfer Rosa & Come on Pilgrim by Pixies
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £3.03 Another 90s classic. I put this album on again the other day and I was reminded just how amazing this was.
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 | Rabbit Fur Coat by Jenny Lewis with the Watson Twins
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £2.99 Great modern country/indie stuff. Also up there with Neko Case and Feist.
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 | Beauty and the Beat by Edan
Buy new: £7.98 / Used from: £6.50 That's right hip hop! What hip hop would sound like if it was around in the 60s. Promised Land will make you smile from ear to ear.
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 | Sunrise on the Sufferbus by Masters of Reality
Buy used from: £22.06 A nice little secret gem. Amazing lazy summer blues with Ginger Baker (Cream) on drums. Take a chance on this one!
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