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

No mate, not allowed. Though I do have a little speaker and mp3 player that I can carry around.
Keeps me sane.

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

Taking my wife in to work before I get to bed this morning, so found myself with half an hour to spare. Hence...
(sorry my reviews are a little brief on some selections).

No.176: “Marchin’ Already” by Ocean Colour Scene (1997)
The third album from Birmingham’s mod-rock export.

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No.175: “Definitely Maybe” by Oasis (1994)
The storming debut album from the Mancunian terrible twins made way for a whole host of swaggering, football-chanting roughneck musicians to come forth with their own brand of laddish indie rock. This is still the best Oasis album in my book, a great rock album.

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No.174: “Auberge” by Chris Rea (1991)
Big news coming a couple of years after the massive Road To Hell album, Auberge was more of the same classy music and solid guitar from Chris Rea, a guitar great in my opinion who has been unfairly left on the sidelines too much when it comes to those best guitarist polls.

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No.173: “Love” by The Beatles (2006)
A segued mix of all The Beatles songs in one form or another which was produced by George Martin and his son, Giles. It’s a remarkably good recording and was adapted for a live ‘Circe du Soleil’ event to coincide with its release. Videos are hard to come by, so here’s a couple of random clips:

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No.172: “More” (soundtrack) by Pink Floyd (1969)
The soundtrack of a little-know French movie (I’ve never seen it!) which comprised i9nstrumental and some vocal themes set to sequence the film’s score. Some great original Floyd tracks on this.

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No.171: “Physical Graffiti” by Led Zeppelin (1975)
The monster double album from the Gods of Rock. Page, Plant, Jones and Bonham at their best.

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No.170: “Like A Rock” by Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band (1986)
Mid-80’s class from this legendary Detroit singer-songwriter. Check out these three superb ballads from the album.

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No.169: “Astra” by Asia (1985)
The third album from the supergroup was pretty much a Wetton-Downes affair, since the departure of guitarist Steve Howe from the band and replaced by somebody called Mandy Myers(?) (Howe did return in later years). Radio-friendly AOR and two more of their albums are still to come in the list.

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No.168: “Vulture Culture” by The Alan Parsons Project (1985)
’85 again, and it’s more melancholic, high class songwriting from Parsons and his sidekick Eric Woolfson.