Adam & the Ants - Kings of the Wild Frontier (iconic but then everything went nutse)
The Cramps - Songs the Lord Taught Us (classic)
Diana Ross - Diana (some things should never be allowed)
Joy Division - Closer (i didn't really appreciate it at the time - my loss)
Linton Kwesi Johnson - Bass Culture (can't comment)
AC/DC - Back In Black (let's rock!)
The Specials - More Specials (i preferred the Beat but it was not really my bag baby)
The Jam - Sound Affects (preferred later stuff)
Dead Kennedys - Dead Fruit For Rotting Vegetables (can't say i have heard it in it's entirety)
David Bowie - Scary Monsters (shame that we also had Let's Dance...)
Black Uhuru - Red (not my bag)
Black Flag - Damaged (lead singer was nad still is mental)
The Teardrop Explodes - Kilimanjaro (have the singles...)
OMD - Architecture & Morality (went downhill...)
Brian Eno & David Byrne - My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts (never heard it...)
Japan - Tin Drum (classic - their best LP by a country mile - still played to this very day (well, last week)
Kraftwerk - Computer World (never really got the whole teutonic thing)
The Police - Ghost In The Machine (hate the Police)
Grace Jones - Nightclubbing (barking)
Soft Cell - Non Stop Erotic Cabaret (shame that groups with some credibility have to release nutse covers.)
Siouxsie & the Banshees - Ju-Ju
Motorhead - No Sleep Til Hammersmith
Simple Minds - Sons and Fascination
Iron Maiden - Number of the Beast (my first ever gig was on the NOTB tour - blew me away and been a fan of the live experience ever since)
ABC - The Lexicon of Love (one of the worse LP's of the 80's)
Donald cigaretteen - Nightfly (who?)
Elvis Costello - Imperial Bedroom (overrated)
Richard & Linda Thompson - Shot Out The Lights (Yanks i presume?)
The Clash - Combat Rock (a must have in any serious collection)
Orange Juice - You Can't Hide Your Love Forever (too arty for their own good - see Franz Ferdinand)
The Cure - Pornography (proper grown up goth rock for the kids)
The Birthday Party - Junkyard (the EPs are better - ditto)
The The - Soul Mining (sorely missed - one of the greatest unsung song writers of our generation)
Aztec Camera - High Land Hard Rain (preferred the "pop" years)
King Sunny Ade - Juju Music (who?)
Aswad - Live and Direct (is this one a joke?)
Lloyd Cole & the Commotions - Rattlesnakes (see The The)
Bruce Springsteen - Born in the USA (Oh dear - nutse of the highest order)
Echo & the Bunnymen - Ocean Rain (best of is a far easier and accessible piece of work)
The Smiths - Hatful Of Hollow (including my current CD copy, i have worn out 2 cassettes and a LP)
REM - Reckoning (can't say i have heard it)
Youssou N'Dour - Immigres (can't comment)
Minutemen - Double Nickels On the Dime (can't say i have heard it)
Cocteau Twins - Treasure (beautiful music and vocals)
Dexy's Midnight Runners - Don't Stand Me Down (DMR always sucked)
Husker Du - New Day Rising
Prefab Sprout - Steve McQueen (see Aztec Camera)
The Pogues - Rum, Sodomy & the Lash (dance music for people who can't dance - and are deaf)
Kate Bush - the Hounds of Love (Not my bag)
Jesus & Mary Chain - Psychocandy (Hasn't aged well - i disagree - a classic - Never Mind The Bollocks for the 80's)
The Colourfield - Virgins and Philistines
John Zorn - Spillane (who?)
Tom Waits - Rain Dogs (...and people say Morrissey couldn't sing!)
New Order - Low Life (classic)
Martin Stephenson & the Daintees - Boat To Bolivia (art for the sake of it - all i can remember was that it was boring)
The Fall - This Nation's Saving Grace (can we have Bend Sinister instead?)
Big Black - Atomizer (who?)
Le Mystere Des Voix Bulgares (Every hip mid 80s household had this 4AD atmostastic album. mines lost. want a new one please!!! - been trying to get my hands on this for about 3 years - big Pete Murphy of Bauhaus is credited with discoverng this - haunting pleasures of audio)
Public Image Ltd - Album
Metallica - Master of the Puppets (Oh dear)
Guns N'Roses - Appetite for Destruction (wank)
U2 - the Joshua Tree (my least fave U2 LP)
Prince - Sign O'The Times (one of the finest live LP's of all time)
Happy Mondays - Bummed (just before they disappeared up their own veins)
My Bloody Valentine - Isn't Anything
Steve Earle - Copperhead Road (who?)
Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation (had an Lp but not this one)
The House of Love - the House of Love (Why aren't bands this good any more - because we have Gareth Gates instead!)
Mudhoney - Superfuzz Bigmuff
Public Enemy - It Takes A Nation of Millions To Hold Us Back (If you don't like this, you're whiter than a klansman's hood - oh dear, where's my cross and petrol?)
Luther Vandross - Any Love (Oh dear oh dear - ditto)
Talk Talk - Spirit of Eden
NWA - Straight Outta Compton (see PE)
Spaceman 3 - Playing With Fire (only heard singles but prefer Spiritualized)
De La Soul - Three Feet High & Rising (mate had it - he thought he was black for about 3 months)
Soul II Soul - Club Classics (On the wants list)
Bob Dylan - Oh Mercy (never understood the critical acclaim)
The Stone Roses - the Stone Roses (an album full of classics)
The Pixies - Doolittle (preferred throwing muses)
