Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin III
Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin IV
Vangelis - Heaven & Hell
Vangelis - La Fête Sauvage
Vangelis - Albedo 0.39
Vangelis - Spiral
Vangelis - Beaubourg
David Bowie - Diamond Dogs
David Bowie - The Gouster
David Bowie - Young Americans
Emerson Lake & Palmer - Welcome Back, My Friends, To the Show That Never Ends
Emerson Lake & Palmer - Works (the ultimate in hubris, from the overblown music to the 'tasteful' design of the triple gatefold, and the terribly posed and airbrushed band portraits. Carl Palmer's side is the most listenable).
Emerson Lake & Palmer - Works Vol. 2 (this odds'n'sods collection is far less pretentious and generally more agreeable than volume 1).
Kitchen Cynics & Grey Malkin - We Are All Ghosts
The Moody Blues - To Our Children's Children's Children
The Moody Blues - A Question Of Balance
Robin Gibb - How Old Are You? (played this after reading Bob Stanley's excellent biography of the Bee Gees, as he rates it as one of the best albums of the 80s. Wouldn't go that far, but it's a pretty good synthpop album).
Howard Jones - Human's Lib
Howard Jones - Dream Into Action (speaking of which, a lot of the songs on these 2 albums have aged surprisingly well 40 years on, clunky self-help lyrics aside. Howard's music occasionally has quite an edge to it, something he's not usually remembered for).
Dennis Wilson - Poops
Dennis Wilson - Pacific Ocean Blue
Dennis Wilson - Bambu
Socrates & Vangelis O. Papathanassiou - Phos
The Beatles - Get Back (soniclovenoize version; also rewatched Peter Jackson's TV series - truly remarkable to eavesdrop on a band so closely, going through their various ups and downs. The main thing that struck me is how exaggerated Yoko's supposedly detrimental effect has been. Straight away we see two yogi friends of George's hanging around, and then later Linda, Patti and Maureen turn up, so it's not as if John was the only one introducing outsiders. Love the moment where young Heather starts wailing into the microphone while the band are playing and John looks over to Paul and delightedly shouts 'Yoko!')
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