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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