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No.228: “Everything Must Go” by Manic Street Preachers (1996)
The highly prolific Welsh band with their best album IMO, Everything Must Go was one of the biggest ‘indie-rock’ albums to come out of that “Brit Rock” era.

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No.227: “The Scream” by Siouxsie & The Banshees” (1978)
Debut offering from the gothic horror post-punk band led by Bromley’s Susan Janet Ballion. The Scream contained no singles to help it along but was a successful album on the back of their top 10 classic hit ‘Hong Kong Garden’, which I have included here too.

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No.226: “Going For The One” by Yes (1977)
The classic Yes line-up of Jon Anderson, Steve Howe, Rick Wakeman, Alan White and mainstay Chris Squire with their late 70’s masterpiece, which went totally against the grain of the punk movement which was in it’s prime at the time.

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No.225: “Damn The Torpedoes” by Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers (1979)
Third album from Petty and his Heartbreakers, featuring the great single’Refugee’ amongst its highlights.

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No.224: “Frontiers” by Journey (1983)
No part of this list in recent days would be complete without a Journey album it seems. I think we had one every day this past week, which is just the way they came out.
This was the follow-up to the huge success of Escape with its five U.S. Top 10 singles. I rate Frontiers as almost as good and it does feature my favourite Journey song, the amazing ‘Faithfully’ – about life on tour without your girl to keep you company.

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No.223: “Live At Pompeii” by David Gilmour (2017)
The most recent of David Gilmour’s seemingly endless string of live albums and DVDs, Pompeii was of course the setting for Pink Floyd’s original movie in 1971 and which Gilmour decided to revisit in 2016 with his own band. I saw this at a special screening at the cinema to promote the album last year.

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No.222: “The Beatles “The White Album”” by The Beatles (1968)
Hmmm, this will divide watchers of this thread. How can I be so preposterous to only place “The White Album” at this lowly position one may ask? Because I rate the tracks, not the whole shebang. I think it’s half an great album, half a novelty disc. This was undoubtedly down to John Lennon’s new found obsession with peter Sellers and The Goon Show, and coming out with stupid ditties such as Piggies, Polythene Pam, Rocky Racoon and the absolutely hideous ‘Revolution 9’. Only my view of course, but it was saved by George’s tremendous ‘While My Guitar gently Weeps’ and Paul’s ‘Blackbird’, coupled with splendid group compositions such as ‘Revolution’ and ‘Back In The USSR’.
Nope, not one of my favourite Beatles albums but one which deserves a placing due to the nature of the classics it did contain within its grooves.
As usual with The Beatles access to videos, they are pretty non-existent at the best of times though I did find some related clips to this record:

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No.221: "Keys To Ascension" by Yes (1996)
The second Yes album in this instalment today, Keys To Ascension was a double album featuring one disc of new songs and the other performed live. I think this album is notable mainly for the majestic keyboard talents of Rick Wakeman, especially on the intro to 'Time And A Word', shown here alongside a great version of 'Close To The Edge':

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No.220: "Band On The Run" by Wings (1974)
Famous just as much for it's sleeve featuring such popular public figures at the time as Michael Parkinson, John Conteh and so on, Band On The Run was easily Wings' best album. After that they got a little too "Americanised" with their slushy radio-friendly ballads whereas on this album they at least knew how to rock.

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No.219: "Graceland" by Paul Simon (1986)
As famous as a politically-aware statement - his usage of black South African musicians and the Sun City performance was highly controversial at the time (there's an extra clip of Paul Simon's explanation below) - Graceland was a superb album full of Simon's excellent songwriting on a variety of subjects. The video to 'You Can Call Me Al' featuring comedy actor Chevy Chase, on that hilarious spoof of himself, is a classic 80's moment. And Paul Simon's songwriting was never better: "Why am I soft in the middle, when the rest of my life is so hard?" Brilliant.