![]() | Treasure by Cocteau Twins
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $9.96 Lorelei: What all of 20th century western popular music was pointing to. Unspeakable abstract beauty, rising from degradation and discordance. Mesmerising sound that doesn't seem to have a single identifiable instrument.
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![]() | Brotherhood by New Order
Buy new: $9.98 / Used from: $1.60 Bizarre Love Triangle: A clattering confused cataclysm of sound and emotion. Beautiful lyrics, breathlessly brilliant singing, the band at their musically most catastrophic. Album version is the best, in all its overwhelmed glory.
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![]() | Greatest Hits by The Divinyls
Buy new: $38.99 / Used from: $58.75 Boys In Town: Speaking of cataclysm, a relentless escalation of desperation, underpinned by the strongest rhythm power in rock.
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![]() | Triple J Archive Range: Enter the 80's by Various Artists
Buy new: $41.49 Cicada (That Ate Five Dock): Completely stupid, and completely compulsive. Hilarious, consuming, transforming pop rock, with a rhythm that kills.
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![]() | ABBA by ABBA
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $3.98 Mamma Mia: Absolutely perfectly constructed pop, killer hook, monster production, compulsive and heady. Both completely throwaway and completely overwhelming.
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![]() | Hunters & Collectors by Hunters & Collectors
Buy used from: $15.62 Talking To A Stranger: Otherworldly, fragmented song built over a hypnotic rhythm and propelled by vocals both disconnected and desperate. Digs the knife in and twists it over and over.
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![]() | Reel to Reel: 1978-1992 by Reels
Buy new: $22.98 / Used from: $59.26 Love Will Find A Way: Dinky, crazy, supernova bright, cheap as chips and absolutely and entirely brilliant upbeat pop.
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![]() | Crime of the Century by Supertramp
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $4.11 Dreamer: Expansive cinematic pop, constructed over a relentless but ever plastic rhythm, seamlessly moving through various modes and ending up exploding into space.
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![]() | Anywayawanna by The Beatmasters
Buy new: $21.99 / Used from: $51.59 Hey DJ (I Can't Dance To That Music You're Playing): Unfortunately the best (12") version not on CD, but the Good Vibrations of dance music - a brash flicked-out rap over constantly shifting stylistic ground, and always effervescent and funky as funk.
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![]() | Twin Hype by Twin Hype
Buy used from: $17.97 Do It To The Crowd: Thumpin chunkin massive asteroid of sound and rhythm, with the coolest deepest funkiest rap, scratching that can remove your skin and bass that will explode every bodily appendage.
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![]() | Themes from S'Express: The Best of S'Express by S'Express
Buy new: $14.98 / Used from: $5.95 Mantra For A State Of Mind: An unstoppable juggernaut of sound and rhythm recursively illustrating the repeated sung phrase "elevate me". You can't get off this express.
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![]() | It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back by Public Enemy
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $2.35 Bring The Noise: Collapsing cacophony of sound and vocals that burrows deep into your brain, leaving the listener utterly concussed.
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![]() | Born This Way by Cookie Crew
Buy used from: $5.33 Born This Way: truncated album version doesn't detract from the fissile rap over a looped stolen drum fragment that gallops onto the dance floor, with a subterranean bass that swallows you whole.
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![]() | The Best of Wham!: If You Were There... by Wham!
Buy used from: $63.44 Everything She Wants: A hit, but not well remembered now, doesn't diminish Michael's deliciously withheld pop vocals and the slyest funky pop production that refuses to lie down, and builds almost to the point of abstraction. A big pop sensation that sparkles brighter with every listen.
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![]() | Sounds Of Summer - The Very Best Of The Beach Boys by The Beach Boys
Buy new: $9.49 / Used from: $2.95 Good Vibrations: Symphonic harmonic pop with organic responsive production that burns a long fuse for such a short song. Sits above and below us, but is never of this world.
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![]() | The Best of KC & the Sunshine Band by KC & the Sunshine Band
Buy new: $8.97 / Used from: $2.99 That's The Way (I Like It): The original apocalyptic dance song. Dance and fornicate till there's nothing left. Relentless intestinal rhythm overlaid by beatific horns and female vocals.
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![]() | Searching for Gold by Motiv 8
Buy used from: $19.01 Break The Chain: Of course, cheating, as BTC isn't on CD these days. Fast, relentless, packed tighter than a stick of dynamite, totally desperate, a vocal that dominates and shatters the space, and with some of the most urgently corny chord changes in pop - irresistible!
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