Armed Forces/Elvis Costello and the Attractions: I knew someone who fit each one of these songs when I needed to.
Mezzanine/Massive Attack: The apotheosis of trip hop.
The Tired Sounds of Stars of the Lid/Stars of the Lid: Recently heard masters of the drone and the patient ambient groove.
The Man Who Sold The World/David Bowie: It's not the metal aspects of this one for me as much as the dark sci-fi of it which still makes me feel like I've read something really really good.
Blondie/Plastic Letters: More consistent than the debut and a better blend of humour and teen pathos.
Lust in the Dust/Xero: Like a travelogue of dark red noir. Still have my vinyl copy as it's never appeared in the superior digital format.
Boodle Boodle Boodle/The Clean: From the knockabout acoustic shouts to the epic Point That Thing Somewhere Else this will never not work.
Earth Cry - Kakadu - Mangrove/ Peter Sculthorpe: Australian orchestral music in a lonely place after dark. Beautiful and scary. One of my first cds.
Between the Buttons/The Rolling Stones: Everyone forgets this one as it's hard to place in the canon but there's really no dud among these songs and plenty of colour. With its tales of after hours Swinging London that dare to invoke pathos as much as machismo it wins with me.
Beauty and the Beat/The Go Gos: Nothing projects me back to summer 1981 so quickly. It's a pleasant memory but even if it weren't these rocking but bittersweet post punk anthems would win me over again.
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