#everyalbumIown Lovegod: The Soup Dragons. 1990.
Top 3 tunes: I'm Free, Mother Universe, LoveGod
You can skip this: Beauty Freak
Rating: 8/10

Got this on tape back in 1989 after seeing the video for Mother Universe on BSB. Bit of a time capsule but it still holds up.

#everyalbumIown hours: David Bowie. 1999
Top 3 tunes: Seven, Thursday's Child, The Pretty Things Are Going To Hell
Rating: 10/10

Sometimes I think this is the best David Bowie album. It sounds like Britpop, some of his most melodic and heartfelt stuff.

#everyalbumIown Made in Heaven: Queen. 1995.
Top 3 tunes: Made in Heaven, Heaven for Everyone, I Was Born To Love You
You can skip: Mother Love, You Don't Fool Me
Rating: 8/10

I remember listening to this on my discman for an hour until I realised I had the first song on repeat.

#everyalbumIown Never for Ever. Kate Bush 1980.
Top 3 tunes: Babooshka, Violin, Breathing
You can skip: Egypt
Rating: 9/10

Only got into Kate in 2014-ish. Violin sounds like Lene Lovich covering Sparks. Breathing is terrifying!!! I have butterflies flying out of my frou-frou.

#everyalbumIown Pet Sounds. The Beach Boys. 1966.
Top 3 tunes: God Only Knows, You Still Believe In Me, I'm Waiting For The Day
You can skip this: Let's Go Away For A While
Rating: 10/10

This is just a great pop album. Happy tunes with sad lyrics, sad tunes with happy lyrics.

#everyalbumIown Blue Moves. Elton John. 1976.
Top 3 tunes: Tonight, Someone's Final Song, Bite Your Lip
You can skip this: Idol
Rating: 10/10

Sometimes I think this is EJ's best album. Underrated certainly. Very polished & cohesive with Beach Boys harmonies & the Top Gear theme.

#everyalbumIown Fossil Fuel. XTC. 1996.
Top 3 tunes: Love at First Sight, Great Fire, The Loving
You can skip this: This World Over, The Disappointed
Rating: 9/10

Got this in the 90s, took me ages to get into it. Now I have all the albums. Nigel, No Thugs & Dear God also great.

#everyalbumIown Magical Mystery Tour. The Beatles. 1976.
Top 3 tunes: I Am The Walrus, Strawberry Fields Forever, Penny Lane
You can skip this: Flying, Blue Jay Way
Rating: 7/10

Bought this so many times! I even got the vinyl EP for the comic-strip book. Tape, CD, remastered CD.

#everyalbumIown The Album. ABBA. 1977.
Top 3 tunes: Name of the Game, I Wonder (Departure)
You can skip this: Move On, I'm A Marionette
Rating: 8/10

A "mixed bag" of ABBA; three strong singles, a cover of the Hitch-Hiker's theme, a routine ballad and an unfinished mini-musical.

#everyalbumIown Get Lost. The Magnetic Fields. 1995.
Top 3 tunes: All the Umbrellas in London, Love is Lighter than Air, You and Me and the Moon
You can skip: The Village in the Morning
Rating: 9/10

My first TMF album. Can't remember why I got it. V. strong synthpop songwriting.

#everyalbumIown Hysteria. The Human League. 1985.
Top 3 tunes: I'm Coming Back, Louise, The Lebanon
You can skip: Betrayal
Rating: 7/10

If they'd included the original version of I Love You Too Much that would be top 3. Side 1 is killer, side 2 is filler.

#everyalbumIown Step One. Steps. 1998.
Top 3 tunes: Last Thing On My Abba, One for Abba, Better Best ForgotAbba
You can skip: 5,6,7,8, Experienced (it's a bit icky)
Rating: 8/10

We'd used to play this at Mute for a Friday afternoon treat. Back to You is another great tune.

#everyalbumIown The Family Jewels. Marina & the Diamonds. 2010.
Top 3 tunes: I Am Not A Robot, Hermit the Frog, Are You Satisfied?
You can skip: Shampain
Rating: 10/10

Got into M&TD after hearing Mowgli's Road. God I this album. Buzzing with mad ideas. Like Kate Bush but POP!

#everyalbumIown What's The Story (Morning Glory?) Oasis. 1995.
Top 3 tunes: Wonderwall, Don't Look Back In Anger, Some Might Say
You can skip: Hey Now!
Rating: 7/10

The relentless wall-of-noise mastering has dated badly. Also that space before the question mark is annoying.

#everyalbumIown Graceland. Paul Simon. 1986.
Top 3 tunes: Boy in the Bubble, You Can Call Me Al, Graceland
You can skip: That Was Your Mother
Rating: 10/10

Had this on tape back in the day. Still holds up, even the naff synthesizer in YCCMA. Massive drums! Mindblowing basslines!

#everyalbumIown Wild! Erasure. 1989.
Top 3 tunes: Drama, 2,000 Miles, How Many Times?
You can skip: Crown of Thorns (sounds like Depeche Mode)
Rating: 9/10

My sister bought me the tape for Xmas but did me a preview copy so I'd know the songs when we went to see them in concert.

#everyalbumIown Promenade. The Divine Comedy. 1994
Top 3 tunes: Going Downhill Fast, Seafood Song, Tonight We Fly
You can skip: Booklovers is only funny once.
Rating: 6/10

Point deducted for all the Michael Nyman intros. Don't Look Down weirdly preempts the plot of Bottom: Hole.

#everyalbumIown The Man Machine. Kraftwerk. 1978.
Top 3 tunes: Spacelab, The Model, Neon Lights
You can skip: nothing, there's only 6 tracks
Rating: 10/10

So gloriously late 1970s sci-fi, I can picture the Mat Irvine spaceships. Neon Lights is magical. Kraftwerk's best!

#everyalbumIown Parade. Prince. 1986.
Top 3 tunes: Girls & Boys, Anotherlover..., Sometimes it Snows...
You can skip: Life Can Be...
Rating: 8/10

Uncharacteristically short songs so nothing outstays its welcome. Terence Trent D'Arby's entire career is this LP! Saw the film once.

#everyalbumIown Impossible Princess. Kylie. 1997.
Top 3 tunes: Some Kind of Bliss, Did It Again, Breathe
You can skip: Drunk, Jump, Through the Years
Rating: 6/10

Some rather desperate pastiches of Born Slippy, Play Dead, Massive Attack, Portishead etc make side 2 hard work.

#everyalbumIown Bellybutton. Jellyfish. 1990.
Top 3 tunes: That Is Why, She Still Loves Him, Now She Knows She's Wrong
You can skip: All I Want (but even that's great)
Rating: 10/10

Homages all over the place (the first song is basically Let Me Roll It) but such amazing songs.

#everyalbumIown A New Morning. Suede. 2002.
Top 3 tunes: Obsessions, Astrogirl, Beautiful Loser, Attitude*, Golden Gun*
You can skip: Streetlife
Rating: 7/10

Sounded very dated/going through the motions back in 2002. Now we can just pretend it came out in 1997.

* Bonus tracks.

#everyalbumIown Peppermint Radio. Kate Walsh. 2009.
Top 3 tunes: Move Any Mountain, A Little Respect, Beetlebum
You can skip: Monochrome
Rating: 9/10

Piano ballad reworkings of pop tunes sounds like a John Lewis Xmas advert but KW's performances & settings charming & inventive.

#everyalbumIown Essex. Alison Moyet. 1994
Top 3 tunes: Whispering Your Name, Ode To Boy, Getting Into Something
You can skip: Another Living Day
Rating: 8/10

One of Alf's best. Lightning Seeds production! I bought all the CD singles of course.

#everyalbumIown Switched-on Bach. Wendy Carlos. 1968.
Top 3 tunes: Jesu..., Prelude and Fugue #2 in C Minor, Brandenberg III Part I,
You can skip: Two-Part Invention in D Minor
Rating: 8/10

Occasionally gets a bit squeaky but otherwise classic Bach in style of Paddy Kingsland.

#everyalbumIown Whomp That Sucker. Sparks. 1981.
Top 3 tunes: Funny Face, Where's My Girl, The Willys
You can skip: Don't Shoot Me
Rating: 7/10

A return to the rock-operetta approach of their Island albums. Production a bit cheesey but love the massed choruses of Russels.

#everyalbumIown Tango in the Night (Lilt in the Day). Fleetwood Mac. 1987.
Top 3 tunes: Big Love, Little Lies, Everywhere
You can skip: Welcome...
Rating: 9/10

Music for the middle-aged, but so many hits! Point deducted cos I'm not a fan of Stevie Nicks' voice. Great 12" mixes.

#everyalbumIown Radio Musicola. Nik Kershaw. 1986.
Top 3 tunes: Nobody Knows, What The Papers Say, When A Heart Beats
You can skip: LABATYD
Rating: 8/10

Two years after The Riddle was a long wait. Had this on tape. Kershaw railing against the music industry, not a happy bunny.

#everyalbumIown The Doctor Who 25th Anniversary Album. 1988.
Top 3 tunes: Burton's Escape, The Sting, Guards of Silence
You can skip: 8891 Royale
Rating: 5/10

Not really an overview of 25 years of incidental music. Sounds like a load of Pet Shop Boys backing tracks. Synth stabs!

#everyalbumIown Make A Scene. Sophie Ellis-Bextor. 2011.
Top 3 tunes: Bittersweet, Heartbreak (Make Me A Dancer), Under Your Touch
You can skip: Make A Scene (interesting but it doesn't work)
Rating: 8/10

Non-stop electropop. Surprisingly samey given all the different producers!

#everyalbumIown Tales of Mystery & Imagination. Alan Parsons Project. 1976.
Top 3 tunes: Raven, Cask of Amontillado, Doctor Tarr
You can skip: Fall of House of Usher instrumentals
Rating: 7/10

Some great tunes - if you like Jeff Wayne's War of the Worlds, you might like this.

#everyalbumIown Songs of Faith and Devotion. Depeche Mode. 1993
Top 3 tunes: I Feel You, Judas, One Caress
You can skip: Higher Love
Rating: 10/10

Ooh, my favourite DM album. Hard to choose my top 3, cos Walking in My Shoes, Condemnation, In Your Room, Get Right With Me all !

#everyalbumIown Elegant Machinery. Data. 1985.
Top 3 tunes: Stop, Over 21, Playing
You can skip: In Blue
Rating: 7/10

80s synthpop project by Georg Kajanus of Sailor. Like having a third Yazoo album, a bit Magnetic Fields-y. Not actually available on CD!

#everyalbumIown Mighty Garvey! Manfred Mann. 1968.
Top 3 tunes: Ha! Ha! Said The Clown, No Better No Worse, Each and Every Day
You can skip: Happy Families is only funny once (pre-empts Beatles' YKMN (LUTN)?)
Rating: 8/10

The Manns go baroque pop. Very Odessey and Oracle/VGPS.

#everyalbumIown Sunshine on Leith. The Proclaimers. 1988.
Top 3 tunes: Sunshine on Leith, Then I Met You, I'm On My Way
You can skip: Cap in Hand, a PPB for the SNP.
Rating: 9/10

Had this on tape back in the day. I put one of the songs in a Dr Who novel. The film is also great.

#everyalbumIown Ketevan. Katie Melua. 2013.
Top 3 tunes: Love is a Silent Thief, The Love I'm Frightened Of, Where Does The Ocean Go?
You can skip: Chase Me
Rating: 9/10

KM is far stranger and funnier than her Parky/Radio 2 reputation. Idiot School is like a Two Ronnies number.

#everyalbumIown Glory Days. Little Mix. 2016.
Top 3 tunes: Shout Out to my Ex, You Gotta Not, Your Love
You can skip: Down and Dirty, Private Show
Rating: 9/10

Mostly excellent POP with a couple of dull 'r & b' tracks. AVOID the 'Platinum' version. Not got any other LM albums.

#everyalbumIown Carry On Up The Charts. The Beautiful South. 1994.
Top 3 tunes: I'll Sail This Ship..., Old Red Eyes..., Prettiest Eyes
You can skip: 36D has its knockers
Rating: 10/10

Apparently everyone in the UK owns 2.4 copies of this album. Paul Heaton, songwriting genius!

#everyalbumIown Carry On Up The Charts BONUS DISC. The Beautiful South. 1994.
Top 3 tunes: You Just Can't Smile It Away, Frank and Delores, His Time Ran Out
You can skip: But Til Then.
Rating: 8/10

Some but not all of the b-sides, plus an album track due to tracklisting cock-up.

#everyalbumIown The Kinks are the Village Green Preservation Society. 1968.
Top 3 tunes: Picture Book, All of My Friends Were There, Mr Songbird
You can skip: Big Sky
Rating: 10/10

Housemate at university had this. I must've bought it half a dozen times since. Pastoral psych!

#everyalbumIown Make It Bettter. Dubstar. 2000.
Top 3 tunes: I (Friday Night), When the World..., I'm Conscious of Myself
You can skip: Arc of Fire
Rating: 5/10

I feel bad about the low rating but it just sounds so... lethargic. IIRC my mate Neil was responsible for the title!

#everyalbumIown Eat to the Beat. Blondie. 1979.
Top 3 tunes: The Hardest Part, Union City Blue, Shayla.
You can skip: Eat to the Beat, live bonus tracks
Rating: 9/10

Underrated follow-up to PL. Solid pop, except Victor which is fcking weird. Sound-a-Sleep should be last track!

#everyalbumIown Parklife. Blur. 1994.
Top 3 tunes: To the End, Badhead, This is a Low.
You can skip: the instrumentals.
Rating: 9/10

"Today's the day for a little ride in the countryside." The Empire Strikes Back of Blur's 'Chas'n'Dave Sing Bowie' Trilogy. Dated badly! Love it!

#everyalbumIown Catch Bull At Four. Cat Stevens. 1972.
Top 3 tunes: Sitting, Can't Keep It In, Sweet Scarlet
You can skip: O Caritas
Rating: 9/10

Gorgeous songwriting from the erstwhile Cat. Surprisingly diverse and experimental - there's a very fruity MOOG all over Angelsea.

#everyalbumIown Light Years. Electric Light Orchestra. 1997.
Top 3 tunes: Livin' Thing, Mr Blue Sky, Wild West Hero
You can skip: Illusions in G Major. Not a hit!
Rating: 9/10

My first ELO album. Reminds me of the bus journey to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, I was temping there.

#EveryAlbumIOwn Finisterre. St Etienne. 2002.
Top 3 tunes: Amateur, Soft Like Me, New Thing
You can skip: More You Know
Rating: 9/10

"The perverse possibilities of the Barbican..." My favourite SE album! Reminds me of #18 bus journey to Mute through Kilburn. Stars Valeyard.

#EveryAlbumIOwn Change. Sugababes. 2007.
Top 3 tunes: About You Now, Back When (should've been a single), Surprise
You can skip: Back Down
Rating: 8/10

Classic pop from the third incarnation of Trigger's broom. Reminds me of walking along Albert Embankment with a blocked ear.

#EveryAlbumIOwn Intensive Care. Robbie Williams. 2005.
Top 3 tunes: Make Me Pure, Advertising Space, Sin Sin Sin
You can skip: Ghosts, The Trouble With Me
Rating: 7/10

50p at Cex! Side 2 is a bit going-through-the-motions. Sin Sin Sin sounds like Are We Human Or Are We Dancer.

#EveryAlbumIOwn Wax. KT Tunstall. 2018.
Top 3 tunes: Human Being, The River, Tiny Love
You can skip: The Mountain
Rating: 10/10

Another classic from the 21st century's answer to Lulu. Rifftastic rock. Tiny Love has even reduced me to tears while running through Oliver's Battery.

#EveryAlbumIOwn Something to Remember. Madonna. 1995.
Top 3 tunes: I'll Remember, Take A Bow, Crazy For You
You can skip: I Want You
Rating: 6/10

An odds-and-sods collection bought out of sheer completism. A "mixed bag" of hits and 'well, I wouldn't have chosen that' LP tracks.

#EveryAlbumIOwn Singles Collection. Kim Wilde. 1993.
Top 3 tunes: Kids in America, Chequered Love, Cambodia
You can skip: In My Life
Rating: 7/10

Game of two halves. Love new wave Kim. Not keen on SAW-style Kim. Pop fact: She is the daughter of 60s skiffle star Lonnie Donnegan.

#EveryAlbumIOwn Innervisions. Stevie Wonder. 1973.
Top 3 tunes: Living for the City, Higher Ground, Don't Worry 'Bout A Thing
You can skip: Golden Girl
Rating: 9/10

Missives from the pop front line courtesy of our ghetto correspondent, Stevie Wonder. Lots of FRUITY synthesizers.

#EveryAlbumIOwn The Sea. Mel C. 2011.
Top 3 tunes: The Sea, Stupid Game, Burn
You can skip: Think About It
Rating: 9/10

Great songs and HUGE voice from "Indie Spice", the best of the Spices. Burn would fit into Buffy musical. Get Out Of Here sounds like Muse doing All Cried Out.

#EveryAlbumIOwn Chess. Tim, Benny & Bjorn. 1984.
Top 3 tunes: Nobody's Side, One Night In Bangkok, Heaven Help My Heart
You can skip: the opera bits
Rating: 10/10

"Some are set up in the Somerset Maugham suite." I saw the 1000th performance of the show. Benny & Bjorn on stage!!!

#EveryAlbumIOwn More of the Monkees. The Monkees. 1967.
Top 3 tunes: Mary Mary, Steppin' Stone, I'm A Believer
You can skip: Hold On Girl, Day We Fall In Love
Rating: 6/10

A 2nd album mostly consisting of tracks rejected for the 1st album. But Nesmith is already writing songs...

#EveryAlbumIOwn In Your Mind. Bryan Ferry. 1977.
Top 3 tunes: This is Tomorrow, Love Me Madly..., Tokyo You
You can skip: In Your Mind
Rating: 9/10

I prefer Bryan's solo stuff to Roxy. Heresy! All Night Operator is also Bry's wall of glam rock sound is great music to run to.

#EveryAlbumIOwn Nilsson Schmilsson. Harry Nilsson. 1971.
Top 3 tunes: Gotta Get Up, Without You, Jump Into The Fire
You can skip: I'll Never Leave you
Rating: 8/10

Yeah, the Russian Doll song. If the Beatles had kept going into the 1970s, they would've produced albums like this.

#EveryAlbumIOwn Kingsize. Boo Radleys. 1998.
Top 3 tunes: Kingsize, High as Monkeys, Adieu Clo Clo
You can skip: She is Everywhere (sounds like early 90s BRs)
Rating: 10/10

God, I loved the Do Badlys. The perfect balance between weird and melodic. Final album... one last hurrah.

#EveryAlbumIOwn Play. Moby. 1999.
Top 3 tunes: Run On, Porcelain, Find My Baby
You can skip: Machete, the last 7 tracks (goes on a bit!)
Rating: 8/10

We had this 6 months before release and played it every day. So when it went EVERYWHERE in 2000 I was sick to death of it!

#EveryAlbumIOwn Ram. Mr & Mrs Macca. 1971
Top 3 tunes: Dear Boy, Monkberry..., Back Seat...
You can skip: Long Haired...
Rating: 9/10

Macca still in Beatles mode - immacultely produced whimsy.
Too Many People also a corker. A Love For You & Little Lamb should've made the cut!

#EveryAlbumIOwn Different Class. Pulp. 1995
Top 3 tunes: Pencil Skirt, Live Bed Show, Something Changed
You can skip: F.E.E.L.I.N.G.C.A.L.L.E.D.L.O.V.E.
Rating: 10/10

So many great tunes, almost every song could have been a single. The zenith of Britpop, probably.

#EveryAlbumIOwn Second Class. Pulp. 1995
Top 3 tunes: Mile End, Ansaphone, P.T.A.
You can skip: Deep Fried in Kelvin
Rating: 6/10

Of course I have the version with the second disc. The Different Class b-sides are great. The His'n'Hers b-sides are not so great and go on a bit.

#EveryAlbumIOwn Lessons to be Learned. Gabriella Cilmi. 2008.
Top 3 tunes: Sweet About Me, Save The lies, Sanctuary
You can skip: Messy is duff Britpop
Rating: 7/10

Even with the 'Winehouse' production I can't help suspecting that all these songs were turned down by Girls Aloud!

#EveryAlbumIOwn War of the Worlds. Jeff Wayne. 1978.
Top 3 tunes: The Eve..., Horsell... (sounds like Head Games Suede), Forever Autumn
You can skip: Disc 2
Rating: 8/10

Like most adaptors, Jeff is unable to overcome the problem that the second half of the novel is really dull!

#EveryAlbumIOwn Music for Parties. Silicon Teens. 1980.
Top 3 tunes: Just Like Eddie, Red River Rock, Let's Dance
You can skip: Oh Boy!
Rating: 4/10

Daniel Miller sings the hits from the 60s with a clothes peg on his nose. Mute's 2nd ever LP. Amazing they kept going, really!

#EveryAlbumIOwn Electro-Shock Blues. Eels. 1998.
Top 3 tunes: Cancer for the Cure, Last Stop This Town, Climbing to the Moon
You can skip: Electro-Shock Blues
Rating: 7/10

A pretty raw album about bereavement, grief and mental illness. Good, but not one I go back to very often!

#EveryAlbumIOwn Walls and Bridges. John Lennon. 1974.
Top 3 tunes: What You Got, #9 Dream, Steel and Glass
You can skip: Scared
Rating: 8/10

Lennon's best post-Beatles album? His last contemporary one - sounds like Young Americans. Surprise, Surprise sounds like George Harrison.

#EveryAlbumIOwn The Boy Who Knew Too Much. Mika. 2009.
Top 3 tunes: We are Golden, Good Gone Girl, Lover Boy
You can skip: Toy Boy (bit too twee)
Rating: 10/10

Mika. Saw him perform this live, he was . And, yes, I put one of the songs in a DWM comic strip.

#EveryAlbumIOwn The Record. The Bee Gees. 2001.
Top 3 tunes: Words, 1st of May, You Win Again
You can skip: Jumbo, Love You Inside Out (not hits!)
Rating: 9/10 (too many tracks!)

Bubbling under: all their 60s stuff, Run to Me, their Disco Songs For Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation.

#EveryAlbumIOwn Secret Dreams & Forbidden Fire. Bonnie Tyler. 1986
Top 3 tunes: If You Were A Woman (And I Was A Man), Band Of Gold, Holding Out For A Hero
You can skip: Lovers Again
Rating: 7/10

Great running music but it pales in comparison to Faster Than The Speed of Night.

#EveryAlbumIOwn Nobody Else. Take That. 1995.
Top 3 tunes: Sure, Back for Good, Lady Tonight
You can skip: Hanging Onto Your Love
Rating: 6/10

Back for Good is a classic. Never Forget is both ghastly and amazing. But too many generic Backstreet Boys songs that go on too long.

#EveryAlbumIOwn Behaviour. Pet Shop Boys. 1990.
Top 3 tunes: How Can You..., So Hard, Jealousy
You can skip: This Must Be...
Rating: 8/10

Analogue synths make this their most Erasure-ish album (if that's a good thing). So Hard and Jealousy are inarguably their two best songs.

#EveryAlbumIOwn Further Listening 1990-1991. Pet Shop Boys. 1990-1991.
Top 3 tunes: Miserablism, So Hard (Extended Dance Mix), Jealousy (Extended Mix)
You can skip: Music For Boys (Ambient Mix)
Rating: 7/10

Bet She's Not Your Girlfriend sounds like SAW tribute. I expect it was.

#EveryAlbumIOwn Soap. Younger Younger 28s. 2000.
Top 3 tunes: Next Big Thing, We're Going Out, Teenage Mum
You can skip: Inbetween Days
Rating: 9/10

The YY28s should've been huge but I guess their working class humour didn't meet the approval of the Radio 1 playlist gods.

#EveryAlbumIOwn Like You Do. Lightning Seeds. 1997.
Top 3 tunes: Pure, Perfect, Waiting For Today...
You can skip: intro of Marvellous
Rating: 9/10

Bought this for the bonus tracks. Point deducted for including album versions of Marvellous, Lucky You, Ready or Not & All I Want!

#EveryAlbumIOwn Chemistry. Girls Aloud. 2005.
Top 3 tunes: Biology, Long Hot Summer, Waiting
You can skip: Swinging London Town
Rating: 7/10

Doesn't quite reach the giddy heights of What Will The Neighbours Say but still solid pop from the Xenomania boffins.

#EveryAlbumIOwn Chemistry bonus disc. Girls Aloud. 2005.
Top 3 tunes: I Wanna Kiss You So, Not Tonight Santa, Christmas Round At Ours
You can skip: White Christmas
Rating: 9/10

One of the best Chrismas albums ever made. Should've been released on its own. Check it out!

#EveryAlbumIOwn Genuine Imitation Life Gazette. Four Seasons. 1969.
Top 3 tunes: Mrs Stately's Garden, Wall Street Village Day, Wonder What...
You can skip: Soul of...
Rating: 9/10

Close-harmony social-conscience pop-psych released 2 years too late. A bit like Forever Changes!

#EveryAlbumIOwn Supernature. Goldfrapp. 2005.
Top 3 tunes: Ooh La La, Lovely 2CU, Fly Me Away
You can skip: Let It Take You
Rating: 9/10

The Frapps go glam, more Bolan than Glitter thankfully. Satin Chic sounds like Old Siam Sir. Point deducted for not opening with Lovely 2CU.

#EveryAlbumIOwn 12 Stops and Home. The Feeling. 2007.
Top 3 tunes: Never Be Lonely, Fill My Little World, Love It When...
You can skip: Strange
Rating: 8/10

I wrote a spoof of The Feeling for DeadRingers. Richie Webb did the music. It was quite funny but didn't get shown. Boo!

#EveryAlbumIOwn Elton John. Elton John. 1970.
Top 3 tunes: Take Me..., Border Song, Greatest Discovery
You can skip: First Episode...
Rating: 10/10

So good that Your Song & King Must Die don't even make the top 3. Greatest D usually reduces me to tears - Taupin's best lyric.

#EveryAlbumIOwn Oui Oui Si Si Ja Ja Da Da. Madness. 2012.
Top 3 tunes: How Can I Tell You, Misery, So Alive
You can skip: Circus Freaks
Rating: 10/10

One of the few bands to be better after reforming. This is their apogee. My Girl 2 and Leon nearly top 3. Out Britpopping Blur!

#EveryAlbumIOwn The Rutles. 1978.
Top 3 tunes: Doubleback Alley, Piggy in the Middle, Let's Be Natural
You can skip: Blue Suede Schubert
Rating: 10/10

Sublime songwriting by Neil Innes. Love the film - I think it has something to do with their trousers. They were very... tight.

#EveryAlbumIOwn Radio One Sound City Leeds. Various. 1996.
Top 3 tunes: Sale of the Century, Carnival, You and me Song
You can skip: Rollercoaster, Bankrobber Sensi
Rating: 5/10

A rather charming time capsule of Britpop, but everything is so badly recorded it's a tough listen!

#EveryAlbumIOwn Very Best. Elvis Costello. 1999.
Top 3 tunes: Oliver's Army, Pump It Up, Veronica
You can skip: Radio, Radio
Rating: 7/10

My only Elvis album. Never quite got into him cos I can never make out a word he is singing! Still, 42 tracks is enough to be going on with!

#EveryAlbumIOwn Dazzle Ships. OMD. 1983.
Top 3 tunes: Genetic Engineering, Dazzle Ships, Romance of the Telescope
You can skip: Of All The Things...
Rating: 8/10

OMD's weirdest album. A Kraftwerkian sound collage. But it sounds immense and has a uniquely haunting atmosphere.

#EveryAlbumIOwn The Magic Treehouse. Ooberman. 1999.
Top 3 tunes: Blossoms Falling, Shorley Wall, Amazing in Bed
You can skip: Roro Blue
Rating: 8/10

One of those upbeat bands like Octopus & Supernaturals that came along just as Britpop was going out of fashion. A bit SFA/GZM.

#EveryAlbumIOwn To Sir With Love. Lulu. 2005.
Top 3 tunes: Love Loves to Love Love, Show Me, Gimme Some Lovin'
You can skip: The Next Door, Why Did I Choose...
Rating: 10/10

The essential Lulu collection. Half of Led Zeppelin were her backing band. The best work they ever did.

#EveryAlbumIOwn Funky Dory. Rachel Stevens. 2004.
Top 3 tunes: Some Girls, Sweet Dreams My LA Ex, Fools
You can skip: More More More
Rating: 7/10

The first half is killer, the second half is filler save for Little Secret. Covering More More More was a bad record company idea.

#EveryAlbumIOwn Pop & Wave Vol 1. Various. 1992.
Top 3 tunes: Hey Little Girl. Smalltown Boy. Cars.
You can skip: Shout to the Top
Rating: 8/10

Rescued this from a 'returns' bin at Mute cos it's a good compilation - hits with forgotten classics like 25 Years & Send Me An Angel.

#EveryAlbumIOwn Lovesexy. Prince. 1988.
Top 3 tunes: Alphabet St, When 2 R in Love, I Wish U Heaven
You can skip: Positivity
Rating: 8/10

Ridiculsouly busy production cluttered with musical ideas means there's always something new to listen to. But who is Spooky Electric?

#EveryAlbumIOwn Twentieth Century Blues. Various. 1998.
Top 3 tunes: Marvellous Party, Someday I'll Find You, There Are Bad Times
You can skip: London Pride
Rating: 8/10

A very strong tribute album (great tracks from the PSBs & Suede too) let down by Damon Albarn arsing about.

#EveryAlbumIOwn Deceptive Bends. 10cc. 1977.
Top 3 tunes: Things We For Love, Honeymoon, You've Got A Cold
You can skip: Flat Guitar Tuner (only funny once, LOL)
Rating: 8/10

You need to listen to 10cc to get that what Macca was doing with Wings was mainstream pop for the 70s.

Whenever I pitched a romantic comedy sitcom (and I pitched a lot) this was my suggestion for the theme tune.

All 70s pop videos had to be set in a white void. It was something to do with the Musicians' Union.