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Listed below are my top albums, the ones that have enriched my life through the years. As to what my favourite ever album is, I just can't decide between Pink Floyd's Wish You Were Here or Dire Strait's Brothers in Arms .
ABBA
Gold: Greatest Hits Well can't argue with that. Perfect, melodic, timeless Swedish pop. I recall when they were around and still in the charts, towards the end of their career. I remember thinking then that they didn't seem as highly regarded as they should have been. Thankfully that has now been rectified.
Barrett, Syd
Barrett I'm a big Pink Floyd fan and the two original Syd Barrett albums are pretty unique in the pantheon of pop. His descent into LSD induced madness is the stuff of rock'n'roll legend. This is a tuneful, quirky, accessible album and there isn't a bad song on it. Take a 'trip' to the land of Barrett whimsy. Syd passed away in 2006.
The Madcap Laughs If you've ever wanted to paint your floorboards orange and purple you'll love this album. Barrett's debut solo album, released in 1970, is a work of melodic, whimsical, madcap genius.
Blur
Parklife To me, this is the definitive Britpop album. A perfect disc containing some of my favourite nineties tunes such as Parklife , Girls & Boys , Clover Over Dover , and the sublime This Is a Low . Reminds me of my youth.
Clapton, Eric
461 Ocean Boulevard Clapton's comeback album after overcoming heroin addiction. Released in 1974, and perhaps his finest. A great collection of songs with Clapton and his band on top form. For me the stand out tracks are the rockers Motherless Children , Mainline Florida , and the poignant, gentle Please Be with Me . Let It Grow , with its haunting melody and rock-out coda, is one of my favourite songs of all time.
Another Ticket This 1981 album I think is underrated. Perhaps my favourite Clapton album after 461 Ocean Boulevard . A nice mix of songs with I Can't Stand It , Hold Me Lord , Catch Me If You Can & Rita Mae being the standouts for me. These four just rock, so catchy.
Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs Eric formed Derek and the Dominos in 1970 and released just this one double album with the band. A catalogue of classic rock songs with ace guitar work, my favourite tracks are Keep on Growing , Why Does Love Got to Be So Sad? and, of course, Clapton's most famous song, Layla .
No Reason to Cry
Cream
The Very Best of Cream
Croce, Jim
Collection
Dire Straits
Brothers in Arms
Communiqué
On Every Street
Dylan, Bob
Another Side of Bob Dylan
Blonde on Blonde
Bringing It All Back Home
Desire
Nashville Skyline
New Morning
EMF
Stigma
Fleetwood Mac
Fleetwood Mac
Greatest Hits (1971)
Rumours
Tango in the Night
Guns N' Roses
Appetite for Destruction
G N' R Lies
Iron Maiden
Best of the Beast
Iron Maiden
Live After Death
Seventh Son of a Seventh Son
Madness
Divine Madness
Manic Street Preachers
This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours
Metallica
Master of Puppets
Metallica
Nirvana
MTV Unplugged in New York
Nevermind
Pink Floyd
A Saucerful of Secrets
Meddle
Relics
The Dark Side of the Moon
Ummagumma
Wish You Were Here
Pulp
Different Class
Pulp Goes to the Disco
Radiohead
Pablo Honey
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Stadium Arcadium
R.E.M.
Automatic for the People
Out of Time
The Best of R.E.M.
Sex Pistols
Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols
Simon, Paul
Graceland
There Goes Rhymin' Simon
Suede
Coming Up
Suede
The Beatles
Revolver
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
The Doors
An American Prayer
L.A. Woman
The Doors
Waiting for the Sun
The Jacksons
Victory
Therapy?
Babyteeth
The Sisters of Mercy
Vision Thing
The Velvet Underground
Loaded
The Velvet Underground & Nico
Wayne, Jeff
Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds