50 top albums

A top 50 you say? Well, before I embark on a double-sixer of a response, I feel I must don my cravat and offer a couplet of caveats.
- I have broken McKenzie’s law of giving each entry a thorough one-year road test. A couple of feisty newcomers have slipped through the net. I make no apologies.
- Like the stars in the sky, this list will always change. With a fiery last-gasp flourish, or subtle aging? Who can say? Certainly not me. Let the fun begin.

Captain Beefheart – Safe As Milk
The Jam - Sound Affects
The Velvet Underground and Nico
The Stone Roses – eponymous
Can - Cannibalism 2
The Rolling Stones – Exile on Main Street
Bob Dylan – Bringing it all back home
Bob Dylan – Highway 61
Bob Dylan – The Free wheelin’
Bob Dylan – Blone on Blonde
Guns ‘n’ Roses – Appetite for Destruction
The Black Crowes – The Southern Harmony and Musical Companion
Primal Scream – Screamadelica
Pink Floyd – The Piper at the Gates of Dawn
Pink Floyd – Dark Side of the Moon
Pink Floyd – Wish You Were Here
Syd Barratt – The Madcap Laughs
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
Herbie Hancock – Headhunters
The Stone Roses – The Second Coming
Nick Drake – Pink Moon
The Doors – Morrison Hotel
The Who – Tommy
The Who Sell Out
The Who - Quadrophenia
The Small Faces – Ogden’s Nut Gone Flake
The Kinks – We Are The Village Green Preservation Society
AC DC – Back in Black
Led Zeppelin II
Stevie Wonder – Inner Visions
Blur – Modern Life is Rubbish
Brian Wilson – Smile
Spiritualised – Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space
Charlie Mingus – The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady
Joy Division – Substance
The Beach Boys – Pet Sounds
The Beatles – Help
The Beatles – The White Album
The Beatles – Revolver
Graham Coxon – Happiness and Magazines
Five Thirty – Bed
Nuggets – Original Artyfacts from the First US Psychedelic Era 1965 – 1968
The Super Furry Animals – Rings Around the World
Cream – Disraeli Gears
Television – Marquee Moon
Pavement – Crocked Rain Crocked Rain
The Happy Mondays – Thrills ‘n’ Pills ‘n’ Bellyaches
Belle and Sebastian – The Boy with the Arab Strap
Donovan – Sunshine Superman
George Harrison – All Things Must Pass