Don't really go for this album masterpiece stuff, prefer each song on it's merit but here goes....



1: Exile on main street - Rolling Stones

2: True - Spandau Ballet

3: London Calling - The Clash

4: Lou Reed - Transformer

5: David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust

6: Blondie - Parellel Lines

7: Kinks - Village Green Preservation Society

8: Small Faces - The Autumn Stone

9: Rolling Stones - Let it Bleed



10: Any 50's, 60's, 70's, 80's compilation, anything easy listening...Neil Diamond, Glen Campbell, Matt Monroe etc. Oh and Soundtrack and Classical compilations

Some albums just have a great feel and build to a crescendo. 'Once upon a time in the West' wouldn't work if it just cut straight to the shoot-out. That said I am a prog/concept man.



1. Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd

2. A Trick of the Tail - Genesis

3. OK Computer - Radiohead

4. The Lamb lies down on Broadway - Genesis

5. Voyage of the Acolyte - Steve Hackett

6. You all look the same to me - Archive

7. Trespass - Genesis

8. Wind and Wuthering - Genesis

9. Atom Heart Mother - Pink Floyd

10. Take my head - Archive

i'm a prog & concept man too so i'm surprised ther is no Kraftwerk or Yes on your list, not to mention Tangerine Dream !

Oasis What's the story (morning glory)

Not going to list my actual top ten. Can only ever get as far as 5 then it becomes a headache. Nor am I going to list my actual treasured albums in terms of rarity, special import and how much I paid.



This is more of a ''before you dismiss the artist or worse still the whole genre, check this out''. You know, when someone comes out with a sweeping statement that all techno is just electrical noise.



Goldie - Timeless

Orbital - In Sides

The Orb - U.F.Orb

Pet Shop Boys - Actually

Chic - C'est Chic

Kraftwerk - The Mix

Bob Dylan - Desire

Prefab Sprout - From Langley Park to Memphis

John Foxx - Metamatic

Robert Miles - 23am

In no order.....



Sex Pistols - NMTB

The Clash - The cLash

Culture - 2 Sevens Clash

Steel Pulse - Handsworth Revolution

Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures

Joy Division - Closer

The Fall - Live at the Witch Trials

The Undertones - The Undertones

Human League - Reproduction

System of a Down - Toxicity

In alphabetical order only & different artists.



Arctic Monkeys – Whatever People Say I Am…

Bruce Springsteen – Born in the USA

Led Zeppelin – Led Zeppelin II

Morrissey – Viva Hate

Pink Floyd – The Dark Side of the Moon

Pulp – This is Hardcore

Radiohead – OK Computer

The Courteeners – St.Jude

The Rolling Stones – Let it Bleed

The Smiths – The Queen is Dead



Don’t know about most treasured, if my house were to burn to the ground, losing my nine vinyl Led Zep albums would be a bitter blow.

No order (and it was hard narrowing it to 10)



Alan Parsons Project - Tales of Mystery and Imagination.

Tangerine Dream - Phaedra

Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here

Deep Purple - Perfect Strangers

Seether - Finding Beauty in Negative Spaces

Suzanne Vega - Solitude Standing

Jean Michel Jarre - Equinoxe

Emerson Lake and Palmer - Tarkus

The Moody Blues - On The Threshold of a Dream

Peter Gabriel - So

ELO - out of the blue

Styx - pieces of eight

Cheap Trick - standing on the edge

Streets - crimes in mind

Icon - night of the crime

Paradise Lost - one second

ELO - on the third day

Pretty Maids - red hot & heavy

Pain - psalms of extinction

Skunk Anansie - black traffic

Def Leppard - Hysteria

Van Halen - Van Halen I

Bryan Adams - Reckless

Survivor - Eye of the tiger

Great White - Twice shy

AC/DC - Back in black

Bon Jovi - Slippery when wet

Thunder - Laughing on judgement day

FM - Rockville I

Heart - Bad animals

Ziggy Stardust - David Bowie

Hunky Dory - David Bowie

Rubber Soul - The Beatles

Never mind the Bol***ks - Sex Pistols

Band on the Run - Wings

Out of the Blue - ELO

Moseley Shoals - Ocean Colour Scene

Songs for Swinging Lovers - Frank Sinatra

Captain Fantastic - Elton John

Sheer Heart Attack - Queen

OK here goes



Setting Sons - The Jam

London Calling - The Clash

The Queen is Dead - The Smiths

The Specials debut

Grand Prix - Teenage Fanclub

Modern Life is Rubbish - Blur

Revolver - The Beatles

Otis Blue - Otis Redding

Rum ,Sodomy and the Lash - The Pogues

Open Season - British Sea Power