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No.242: “Live And Dangerous” by Thin Lizzy (1978)
One of the most famous live albums of all time, always in those best of lists for concert performances Thin Lizzy released this exceptional record after finally breaking through after years of moderate success. Check out their sublime version of Bob Seger's 'Rosalie' here.

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No.241: “Lodger” by David Bowie (1979)
The final album in the "Berlin Trilogy" of releases (Low and Heroes were the others), this was decidedly the least popular. It was helped along in a major way though with the gloriously high camp, cross dressing video which preceded it, the brilliantly cool 'Boys Keep Swinging'.

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No.240: “Glass Houses” by Billy Joel (1980)
On the strength of Joel's instant classic album The Stranger, plus the rather less good 52nd Street a year later, Billy Joel was now a megastar and put out his first record of the 1980's, fitting in perfectly with that decade with the great single 'It's Still Rock 'n' Roll To Me'.

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No.239: “Ammonia Avenue” by The Alan Parsons Project (1984)
Former Abbey Road errand boy and junior engineer Parsons moved onto great things with Pink Floyd - more of that later - and formed his own studio-based project in 1975 having incredible worldwide success, though very little in his homeland. Ammonia Avenue was a lesser album than its massive predecessor Eye In The Sky, but had some classy music on it and even ventured into Phil Spector territory with it's first single:

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No.238: “Beatles For Sale” by The Beatles (1964)
Second time so far in the list for The Beatles, this time with their album which was named "Yesterday And Today" in the U.S., adding recent singles . To me, this album seemed to be filling a gap between the initial Beatlemania of 'I Want To Hold Your Hand' and 'She Loves You' and the following 'A Hard Day's Night'. Contained some future classics though all the same.

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No.237: “Hatful Of Hollow” by The Smiths (1984)
Yes, true it's a compilation and I've been deliberately abstaining from including any (except The Amazing Darts! earlier for personal reasons), but this has been allowed as most of the tracks were either b-sides or were unreleased previous to this record. Their only other album so far was their debut in any case, so there we go.

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No.236: “The Way It Is” by Bruce Hornsby & The Range (1986)
One of the most played songs in America (and indeed universally) in the 1980's was Bruce Hornsby's breakthrough single 'The Way It Is' with its socio-political images of poverty and depravation on the streets of America.The parent album contained many more similar and very well-written songs and made Hornsby briefly a big name attraction.

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Last one today and no list would be complete without some more Gary Numan would it?

No.235: “Tubeway Army” by Tubeway Army (1978)
The first album by this fledgling new-wave synth band featuring the soon-to-be massive Gary Numan. This record is very different from the more polished Moog music we would see shortly after, in fact it's very post-punk indeed in places. A shortage of clips, so we have the first single in audio format, plus a more recent version of one of the early songs from the album performed live a few years ago.





More tomorrow night.

Re: Floydy's All-Time Top 1000 Favourite Albums

Superb album. I played this to death in the early eighties.

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Reel Around The Fountain is one of my favourite Smiths songs.