 | Hotel California by Eagles
Buy new: £6.28 / Used from: £0.65 Describing the demise of the west coast hippy ideal. They became everything they despised.....
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 | Blue by Joni Mitchell
Buy new: £3.98 / Used from: £2.74 There are more melancholy albums than this but again this shows less wide eyed wonder and the beginnings of a less optimistic mood (possibly).....
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 | The Singles Collection by The Specials
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £3.42 Ghost town, such a bleak song. At that time the loss of whole communities and their jobs thanks to Thatcher.
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 | After Everything Now This by The Church
Buy new: £8.79 / Used from: £4.99 Radiance is a fantastic tale of the loss of innocence wrapped in religious images, but the whole album is full of melancholy.
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 | Rhinestone Cowboy: The Best of Glen Campbell by Glen Campbell
Buy used from: £5.99 Wichita Lineman is my favourite, written by Jimmy Webb, a great writer. Glen Campbell performed the definitive versions of By The Time I get to Phoenix and Galveston too. So full of longing.
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 | Faith by The Cure
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £4.90 The biggest comedown ever. It has a hypnotic, narcotic effect.
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 | Brilliant Trees by David Sylvian
Buy new: £2.98 / Used from: £7.88 Nostalgia, the song on this album that tugs at you and drags me in. A bit cerebral for some,but it is lovely
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 | Decency by Diesel Park West
Buy used from: £1.37 Clutching at Love isn't many peoples favourite track but the line about the coat gets me every time........
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 | From a Basement on the Hill by Elliott Smith
Buy new: £7.98 / Used from: £3.49 Inevitably linked to his death, this is a dark and strange album, but compelling too.
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 | Sweet Baby James by James Taylor
Buy new: £6.78 / Used from: £4.20 Fire and Rain...apparently related to his time in a Psychiatric hospital, but beautiful and sad.
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 | Grace And Danger by John Martyn
Buy used from: £3.99 A broken marriage on record. So sad, so dark, but beautiful.
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