 | Paranoid by Black Sabbath
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $2.90 The best metal album ever. Contains classics like Iron Man, War Pigs and of course the title track.
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 | Live at Leeds by The Who
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $3.99 The worlds greatest live rock band make the worlds greatest live rock album. Need I say any more?
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 | Moondance by Van Morrison
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $0.98 Van does R&B; after Astral Weeks mysticsl, hypnotic beauty he changes to a more earthy, sensual vibe that is still just as beautiful.
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 | After the Gold Rush by Neil Young
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $2.39 Not as laid back as Harvest yet not as hard egded as Everybody knows this is Nowhere, Young manages to bring the best of both to this truly seminal 70's album.
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 | Bridge Over Troubled Water by Simon & Garfunkel
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $3.38 One of the biggest selling albums of all time, find out why.
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 | Deep Purple in Rock by Deep Purple
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $3.48 The second line up of Deep Purple was one of the most talented and underated ever; there's far more to them than just Smoke on the Water, especially the moody epic Child in Time.
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 | John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band by John Lennon
Buy new: $11.99 / Used from: $9.59 One of the most raw emotional albums ever. The intensity of this makes it sometimes uncomfortable but always fascinating.
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![All Things Must Pass [BOXED EDITION]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41NGHT0452L._SL75_.jpg) | All Things Must Pass [BOXED EDITION] by George Harrison
Buy new: $20.99 / Used from: $19.40 Harrison was always in the songwriting shadow of those other two. After hitting songwriting brilliance on Abbey Road he now expandes on his solo debut
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 | Abraxas by Santana
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $3.49 Rock meets psychedelia meets blues meets jazz meets samba.
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 | Sweet Baby James by James Taylor
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $3.84 The album that popularised all those one man and a guitar singer-songwriter types. Don't hold that against it, it's actualy very good.
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 | Workingman's Dead by Grateful Dead
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $6.47 The dead finely achieve the same brilliance in studio as they did on stage with their first consistently brilliamt album.
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 | American Beauty by Grateful Dead
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $5.70 You wait years for them to make one good album and then they make an even better one in just a couple of months, also not quite as austere as Workingman's Dead.
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 | What's Going On by Marvin Gaye
Buy new: $7.97 / Used from: $4.38 Soul music grows up and gains a social conscience. This could have ended up with a disaster of self-righteous preaching but with the genius of Gaye at the helm there was no chance of that; truly astonishing.
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 | Sticky Fingers by The Rolling Stones
Buy used from: $5.33 The inclusion of Ry Cooder on some songs and the full debut of Mick Taylor makes this their bluesiest album since their debut, contains the classic Brown Sugar.
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 | Who's Next by The Who
Buy new: $11.99 / Used from: $3.20 The rock-operas don't represent the true essence of The Who, this album does. Excellent from start to end; Baba O'Reilly, Going Mobile, Behind Blue Eyes and Won't Get Fooled again the highlights.
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 | Led Zeppelin IV (aka ZOSO) by Led Zeppelin
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $3.79 Very few albums have every song on them being near-perfect; this is one of them, oh and there's also the small matter of Stairway to Heaven.
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 | Blue by Joni Mitchell
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $5.57 Quite simply the best album by any singer-songwriter and also one of the best of the decade.
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 | There's a Riot Goin' On by Sly & the Family Stone
Buy new: $11.98 / Used from: $51.60 Dark, drugged masterpiece.
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 | The Allman Brothers at Fillmore East by The Allman Brothers Band
Buy new: $12.99 / Used from: $6.99 If most live albums are about energy than this is similar to a great live jazz album where the pleasure comes from the ensemble improvisation, one of the greatest live albums.
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 | Maggot Brain by Funkadelic
Buy used from: $10.99 The title track alone is worth the cost, one of the greatest guitar solos ever.
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 | Imagine by John Lennon
Buy new: $11.99 / Used from: $9.05 Ditto this one, without the guitar solo reference obviously.
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 | Tapestry by Carole King
Buy new: $11.98 / Used from: $8.00 |
 | Pearl by Janis Joplin
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $3.35 Joplin is without doubt the greatest female rock singer and this is her greatest hour.
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 | Exile on Main St. by The Rolling Stones
Buy used from: $29.95 Don't let the lack of any instantly recogniseable Stone's classics but you of, this is their magnum opus. A lesson on what to do with four sides of an lp.
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 | The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust by David Bowie
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $6.78 |
 | Harvest by Neil Young
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $1.07 Has two of youngs best songs: Heart of Gold and Needle and the Damage Done.
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 | Machine Head by Deep Purple
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $2.95 Yes it has Smoke on the Water but theirs so much more to it than that. One of the holy trinity of British hard rock along with Paranoid and Led Zep IV.
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 | Déjà Vu by Crosby Stills Nash & Young
Buy new: $11.99 / Used from: $5.74 |
 | Talking Book by Stevie Wonder
Buy new: $11.99 / Used from: $5.79 |
 | Superfly (1972 Film)
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $5.93 |
 | Innervisions by Stevie Wonder
Buy new: $11.99 / Used from: $6.32 |
 | Goodbye Yellow Brick Road by Elton John
Buy new: $11.99 / Used from: $4.17 |
 | Dark Side Of The Moon by Pink Floyd
Buy new: $12.99 / Used from: $5.99 |
 | Aqualung by Jethro Tull
Buy new: $11.99 / Used from: $6.09 |
 | Thick as a Brick by Jethro Tull
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $5.95 |
 | Foxtrot by Genesis
Buy new: $12.98 / Used from: $4.03 |
 | Selling England by the Pound by Genesis
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $6.62 |
 | Fragile by Yes
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $7.33 |
 | Close to the Edge by Yes
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $5.71 |
 | Catch a Fire by Bob Marley & The Wailers
Buy new: $11.99 / Used from: $4.94 Bob Marley's best. Nuff said.
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