 | The Pirate's Gospel by Alela Diane
Buy new: $17.49 / Used from: $9.83 Rich, soulful, great songs and easily my most played and best loved of 2007.
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 | Ys by Joanna Newsom
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $9.38 2006: I'm still recovering from the impact of this one. Seems to have reinvented musical possibilities. Effortlessly lovable.
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 | Martha Wainwright by Martha Wainwright
Buy new: $13.98 / Used from: $3.99 2005: Great emotional range, very touching personal music.
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 | Funeral by Arcade Fire
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $5.80 2004: Great full debut from these guys who have gone, deservedly, from strength to strength.
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 | Frank by Amy Winehouse
Buy new: $10.97 / Used from: $8.46 2003: Her first and, despite the huge success of 'Back to Black', still her best. Hard to believe the artist responsible for this album could have hit such troubles but that's how it goes...
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 | Geogaddi by Boards of Canada
Buy new: $17.98 / Used from: $6.99 2002: Not just great electronic music but truly great music regardless of genre.
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 | Time (The Revelator) by Gillian Welch
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $5.89 2001: Listening to this is like entering a universe with a whole different way of thinking. An album out of time.
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 | Oh, Inverted World by The Shins
Buy new: $43.98 2001(alternate): I promised myself I wouldn't do it but here's an extra one for this year.
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 | Felt Mountain by Goldfrapp
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $6.95 2000: Has there ever been a more apt title for an album, 'The soundtrack to a movie yet to be made', I want to see that movie.
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 | I See a Darkness by Bonnie Prince Billy
Buy used from: $11.69 1999: It was a tough call but I decided on this one.
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 | Moon Safari by Air
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $3.96 1998: This album has it all, even a hit single, one of the most gorgeous things ever applied to ear drums.
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 | OK Computer by Radiohead
Buy new: $10.97 / Used from: $4.19 1997: This album features their best songs.
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 | Trailer Park by Beth Orton
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $1.50 1996: Her first and best. Still sounds great.
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 | The Bends by Radiohead
Buy new: $10.97 / Used from: $1.95 1995: If OK Computer has their best songs, I still think this edges it as a whole album.
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 | Crooked Rain Crooked Rain: L.A.'s Desert Origins by Pavement
Buy new: $18.98 / Used from: $9.83 1994: Indie-americana(!)'s greatest achievement? Hmm, well its a great album whatever you want to call it and this new version is the icing on the cake.
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 | Debut by Björk
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $2.50 1993: And what a stunning debut it is. '93 was an incredible year for music and I could probably put three or four in, but this is top.
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 | Last Splash by The Breeders
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $0.02 1993(alternate): This is such a personal favourite that I just couldn't bring myself to leave it off. Kim Deal is a goddess.
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 | Automatic for the People by R.E.M.
Buy new: $12.99 / Used from: $0.01 1992: This is another hot year but I selected this for sheer consistency. Not a duff song on the album.
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 | Copper Blue by Sugar
Buy new: $11.98 / Used from: $0.01 1992(alternate): OK so I broke the rule again. No apologies.
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 | Bandwagonesque by Teenage Fanclub
Buy new: $6.98 / Used from: $1.19 1991: These guys made the perfect pop/rock record. Everything is just sublime about this.
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 | Goo by Sonic Youth
Buy new: $8.49 / Used from: $3.45 1990: First album for a major label but no 'sell-out'. My favorite of theirs.
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 | Doolittle by Pixies
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $6.99 1989: Great album and very influential heading into the '90s.
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 | Spirit of Eden by Talk Talk
Buy new: $10.97 / Used from: $8.85 1988:A definite alternate-reality experience, '80s power-poppers produce album of life-changing beauty: shock!'
This would be a great album from any era but it was like fresh water in a desert at the time. Read the reviews for this one. Buy it!
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 | California by American Music Club
Buy used from: $44.50 1988(alternate 1): I actually only discovered this album quite recently. It is astonishing that it is not still available. In most of the years covered here it would be my first choice, it is THAT good.
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 | The Trinity Session by Cowboy Junkies
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $1.99 1988(alternate 2): Just couldn't leave this out.
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 | In My Tribe by 10,000 Maniacs
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.10 1987: I actually prefer the first album but I must have played this as much as its predecessor.
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 | The Queen Is Dead by The Smiths
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $5.89 1986: Their second best album(!)is still justifiably considered an all time classic. Great from start to finish.
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 | Rum Sodomy & the Lash by The Pogues
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $9.16 1985: Another personal fave. Their best album but an excellent album by any standards.
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 | Hatful of Hollow by The Smiths
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $5.29 1984: Don't listen to anyone who tells you otherwise this is a 'proper' Smiths album and their best.
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 | Murmur by R.E.M.
Buy new: $8.49 / Used from: $2.83 1983: Their first and the equal of anything they have done since, still sounds perfect today.
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 | Big Science by Laurie Anderson
Buy new: $15.98 / Used from: $8.25 1982: Stunningly different then and still sounds like nothing else. Having said that, this is not 'difficult' music, its very lovable, very accessible.
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