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Looking for your favourite albums to build up my collection

Some great suggestions so far. A few other random albums that I play a lot, in no particular order:

Anais Mitchell - Hymns for the Exiled
Gillian Welch - The Revelator
Joni Mitchell - For The Roses (my favourite Joni album for some time now)
Abdullah Ibrahim - Sotho Blue
Björk - Debut
Bruce Springsteen - The Ghost of Tom Joad
Curtis Mayfield - Superfly
Herbie Hancock - Fat Albert Rotunda
Frank Sinatra - In the Wee Small Hours
Tom Waits - Swordfishtrombones
 
Michael Brook - Cobalt Blue (and also Bellcurve)
Durutti Column - The Guitar And Other Machines
Frank Zappa - Lumpy Gravy
Kraftwerk - The Mix
Carbon Based Lifeforms - World Of Sleepers
Asura - Life2
Banco de Gaia - Big Men Cry
Can - Can
Bill Nelson - The Summer Of Gods Piano
Fanger & Schönwälder (featuring Lutz Ülbrich) - Analog Overdose 5
 
Alan Silva and the Celestrial Communication Orchestra - Seasons
Black Star - Mos Def & Talib Kweli Are Black Star
Jessy Lanza - Pull My Hair Back
Joni Mitchell - Hejira
Actress - Hazyville
Skee Mask - Compro
DJ Rashad - Double Cup
Kraftwerk - Computerwelt
Sly and the Family Stone - There’s a Riot Goin’ On
Geoff Love & His Orchestra - Big Western Movie Themes

(Cheating a little, as most are ones I have off the shelves at the moment.)
 
A few from the top of my head:

Richard Hawley - Coles Corner
Public Service Broadcasting - Inform, Educate, Entertain.
Paul Weller - At the BBC or Other Aspects Live at the Royal Festival Hall
Bombay Bicycle Club - I had the blues but I shook them loose
Johnny Cash - American Recordings but IV if only picking one
Michael Kiwanuka - any but Love & Hate if picking one
Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan - Ballad Of The Broken Seas

Cheers BB
 
Violator - Depeche Mode
Tread - Ross from Friends
III - Moderat
Rumours - Fleetwood Mac
Pills n thrills and bellyaches - Happy Mondays
Disintegration - The Cure
Planet Suite - Holst
Standing in the light - Level 42
Hotter than July - Stevie Wonder
Heaven or Las Vegas - Cocteau Twins
 
uncl_nigel said:
According to Roon these are the ones I play most:

1 - Chaleur Humaine, Christine and the Queens
2 - Tear the Roots, Kaleida
3 - Hundreds, Hundreds
4 - Widma, Ols
5 - Family Jewels, Marina and the Diamonds
6 - Folksange, Myrkur
7 - Froot, Marina and the Diamonds
8 - Midgard, Faun
9 - I Vølven's Vev, Eliwagar
10 - Från Tidernas Begynnelse, Hindarfjall
11 - Elecra Heart, Marina and the Diamonds
12 - Lover, Taylor Swift
13 - The Current, Hundreds
14 - Dead Waters, Nebelhexë
15 - Love + Fear, Marina (and the Diamonds)
16 - The Dance of the Wood Spirits, Veden Kolod

Also quite high in the list

Shabrang, Sevdaliza
Pain is Beauty, Chelsea Wolfe
Hell-On, Neko Case
Spiral, Vangelis
Metamorph, EUZEN
Ices, Lia Ices
WYWH,Pnk Floyd
Bursting at the Seams, The Strawbs
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Never heard of Hundreds, it's a lovely album (Hundreds), thanks for recommending.

Cheers BB
 
Richard Thomson: Amnesia
Vusi Mahlasela: Guiding Star
Love: Forever changes
Roxy Music: First
Arne Domnerus: Antiphone Blues
Nicky Hopkins: The Tin Man was a Dreamer
Tracy Chapman: First
JJ Cale: Naturally
Steely Dan: Can't buy a thrill
Ry Cooder and U.M Bhat: A Meeting by the River
Bonzo Dog: Gorilla
Planxty: The Well Below the Valley
Jackson Browne: Late for the Sky/ The Pretender
10 CC: Sheet Music
Procul Harem: A Salty Dog
Les Troubadors Du Roi Baudouin : Missa Luba
Incredible string band: Wee Tam and the Big Huge
 
Trying not to duplicate other listings:
Miles Davis - Jack Johnson
The Byrds - Younger than Yesterday
The Beatles - Revolver
Bob Dylan - Bringing It All Back Home
Neil Young - On The Beach
KLF - The White Room
Lee Perry - SuperApe
Bennie Maupin - The Jewel In The Lotus
Kenny Burrell - Midnight Blue
Santana - Caravanserai
Fleetwood Mac - Then Play On
The Rolling Stones - Beggars Banquet
 
Many good suggestions already. I don't have time to really think, but off the top of my head:
Dire Straits - Making Movies (Communique a close second)
Paul Weller - Wildwood
Black Crowes - The Southern Harmony and Musical Companion
Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti
 
Some from the following?,

Leftfield - Leftism
Alexander Skip Spence - Oar
Aerosmith - Rocks
Goldfrapp - Felt Mountain
The Cars - The Cars
Mott The Hoople - Mott
John Hiatt - Bring The Family
Supertramp - Breakfast In America
Royksopp - Melody A.M.
Dalek I - Compass/Kum’pass
Randy Newman - Twelve Songs or Sail Away
Devo - Freedom Of Choice
Air - Moon Safari
Yello - Toy
Culture - Two Sevens Clash
Cheap Trick - In Color
Jeff Beck - Blow By Blow
Japan - Quiet Life
Bill Withers - Greatest Hits
J. Geils - Monkey Island
Alice Cooper - Killer
Eno/Wobble - Spinner
Liz Phair - Exile In Guyville
Jellyfish - Bellybutton
Los Lobos - Kiko
ZZ Top - Tres Hombres
Run DMC - Raising Hell
Beck - Mutations
The Black Crowes - The Southern Harmony & Musical Companion
 
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A few of my faves. I guess you won't mind about E.Ps

Black Sabbath - Master Of Reality
Boards Of Canada - Music Has The Right To Children
Can - Ege Bamyasi
Discharge - Why
The Fall - Slates
Linton Kwesi Johnson - Forces Of Victory
Martha And The Muffins - This Is The Ice Age
Rudimentary Peni - Cacophony
The slits - Cut
The vaselines - All The Stuff And More...
Young Marble Giants - Colossal Youth
 
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