 | Beatles for Sale by The Beatles
Buy new: £10.28 / Used from: £4.08 Great but underrated album with a strong rockabilly flavour and terrific singing and guitar work.
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 | Black Tie White Noise by David Bowie
Buy used from: £1.75 Patchy, but the title track and Don't Let me Down and Down are outstanding.
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 | Black and Blue by The Rolling Stones
Buy used from: £4.37 One of their best from the 70s, especially Hand of Fate.
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 | The Next Hundred Years by Ted Hawkins
Buy new: £5.98 / Used from: £4.29 Charming and often powerful album which falls between soul, blues, country and folk.
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 | A Period of Transition by Van Morrison
Buy used from: £16.20 Great (if short) album of big band R & B with Van in fine voice.
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 | Hoochie Coochie Man by Muddy Waters
Buy used from: £4.99 Superb, visceral re-recordings of Muddy's classics plus a few new classics!
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 | Midnight Stroll by Robert Cray
Buy used from: £3.58 Stinging guitar and wracked vocals on Cray's most powerful recording.
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 | With a Little Help from My Friends by Joe Cocker
Buy used from: £3.00 Probably Cocker's best work with soulful and sensitive singing and a fine choice of songs.
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 | Singles by Alison Moyet
Buy new: £15.67 / Used from: £2.99 In which Moyet canlay claim to being one of our best and most exciting singers. Includes the great and underappreciated single Solid Wood.
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 | The Times They Are A-Changin' by Bob Dylan
Buy used from: £2.15 Sombre but consistently engaging album with some of Dylan's best narrative lyrics.
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 | Into the Purple Valley by Ry Cooder
Buy new: £6.68 / Used from: £4.50 Solidy enjoyable rootsy but inventive album with excellent musicianship.
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 | The Great Twenty-Eight by Chuck Berry
Buy used from: £4.23 Nearly all of Berry's best songs on one CD.
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 | Let Me in Your Life by Aretha Franklin
Buy new: £7.98 / Used from: £8.45 Fine overlooked album from the Queen of Soul.
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 | Absolute Torch and Twang by k.d. lang and the Reclines
Buy new: £6.68 / Used from: £1.25 Rocking, melodic album with great songs and outstanding vocals. She has never been this good since.
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 | The Ultimate Collection: Smokey Robinson & The Miracles by Smokey Robinson & The Miracles
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £3.99 Demonstrates the greatness of Smokey's writing and singing.
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 | The Ultimate Collection: The Temptations by The Temptations
Buy new: £5.18 / Used from: £3.89 Most of the best moments from the group described as the soul Rolling Stones.
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 | Fire and Water by Free
Buy used from: £3.49 The corny but great All Right Now and six other songs you won't have heard of but really should listen to!
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 | Bert Jansch + Jack Orion by Bert Jansch
Buy used from: £3.66 The first two albums from a founding father of folk-blues guitar.
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| The Collection by Ray Charles
Buy used from: £0.45 Whisper it low, but many of these songs are actually better than his classic recordings for Atlantic Records.
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 | The Immortal Otis Redding by Otis Redding
Buy new: £7.98 / Used from: £5.48 A late compilation of lesser know but still very good Redding songs, including the heartbreaking Dreams to Remember.
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 | The Red Shoes by Kate Bush
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £0.88 Late masterpiece by La Bush, albeit featuring terrible duets with Prince and Clapton.
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Buy new: £6.38 / Used from: £0.86 Actually one of his best!
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 | The Man and His Music by Sam Cooke
Buy used from: £7.42 Now out of print, but the best Cooke compilation, containing only songs written by the man himself.
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 | Empty Glass by Pete Townshend
Buy used from: £11.65 Some excellent songs. Though Townshend's singing can be an acquired taste, he is often more sensitive than Daltrey.
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 | Ragged Glory by Neil Young & Crazy Horse
Buy new: £6.88 / Used from: £2.97 I'm not really a Neil Young fan, but this one is mesmerising and has a great live spontaneous feel.
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