 | Welcome to My Nightmare: Expanded Edition by Alice Cooper
Buy new: £9.98 / Used from: £8.15 The first, and pretty much only, time I've been into a "concept album". The songs are genius and the concept has enough humour for him to get away with it. "Only Women Bleed" is a classic.
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 | A Walk Across the Rooftops by Blue Nile
Buy new: £3.98 / Used from: £2.96 I first heard tracks from this album in the bath. It had such an impact that I had to get out and write its name down. The production was so fresh and different but relatively simplistic.
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 | Peter Gabriel Vol.3 by Peter Gabriel
Buy new: £5.01 / Used from: £4.98 The first time that I really got into listening to albums on headphones - the production was so complex that I listened to it over and over again for weeks just trying to work out how he did it.
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 | I'm With Stupid by Aimee Mann
Buy new: £8.48 / Used from: £3.66 Love this record primarily for the songwriting. Aimee Mann has always been so underrated. "Amateur" is songwriting at it's best and the production is amazingly clean and personal.
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 | Hunky Dory: Remastered by David Bowie
Buy new: £4.01 / Used from: £3.85 I could have picked 3 or 4 Bowie albums, but this one wins out purely because of "Life On Mars". You will never find a more complete song and production combined.
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 | Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots by Flaming Lips
Buy new: £7.97 / Used from: £0.92 This album has to have the most original production I've heard in years. It's always refreshing when people dare to step outside the box. Stand out track - "Do You Realize?"
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 | Wilder by The Teardrop Explodes
Buy new: £3.97 / Used from: £2.67 For "Tiny Children" and "Great Diminions". One of those songs on an album would be great, two makes it a classic.
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 | XO by Elliott Smith
Buy new: £2.98 / Used from: £2.21 For me this album contains some of the best vocals ever recorded. Intimate yet vulnerable combined with some of the best songwriting you'll ever hear. He is sadly missed.
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 | Beautiful Freak by Eels
Buy new: £4.01 / Used from: £1.23 The production on this album contains only a few elements yet seems so big, something I've strived to accomplish but have failed abysmally at :)
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 | Sign 'O' the Times by Prince
Buy new: £5.98 / Used from: £3.74 Again someone whom I could pick 3 or 4 albums by. I think "Sign 'O The Times" wins out because I loved "Parade" so much that I thought he could never top it, a year later along came this.
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