Recommend a fab album so someone who doesn't know it will maybe try it...

[MargaretMountford]

...inspired b y the current thread about albums you feel you should try/like but can't/don't...
I would suggest Transformer by Lou Reed - I first heard it as a teenager and love every track probably - still like it a lot now.

does it have to be old?

otherwise

Aphex Twin
Selected ambient works vol 2

the sound track of dead man walking is surprisingly good

and has one of my all time favourite tracks on

sorry margaret thought i would kill this thread too lol

Penguin cafe orchestra 'preludes, airs and yodels' very cool background music for dinner parties

It is the kind of album that only gets bought on recommendation - you would never buy it on spec, but everyone will recognise some of the music (it is used in adverts all the time).

YES i used to like penguine cafe orch until all the ads

Squiffy - am sure I've heard that too...
and doesn't have to be old FYIAD but I suppose fewer people will have come across an older album

Ben Folds Whatever and ever, amen
For anyone who thinks he is just an annoying whiny piano-bashing frat boy

Pink Floyd Dark Side of the Moon
For anyone who thinks The Wall was bombastic twaddle

I used have The Dark Side of the Moon and loved it when much younger

The Kinks
The Village Green Preservation Society
for anyone who likes English song. Whether you normally listen to Britten, Lily Allen or Half Man, Half Biscuit, give it a try

I played the whole thing for the first time in ages Margaret and realised it really is a modern classic
I just to loaf around on beanbags necking to it in a previous existence

good suggestion Marina

Coheed and Cambria - Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV, Vol. 1; From Fear Through The Eyes Of Madness

is bleedin brilliant

Sigur ros-ágætis byrjun
Zero 7-The garden

a different class - pulp

songs about being lonely; unrequited love; being dirty; being working class and being clever

still absolutely love it

Oh nice one fyiad!

Goldfrapp Black Cherry
Moloko - Do you like my tight sweater

Orbital - fecking all of them.

Jenny Lewis and the Watson Twins - RabbitFur Coat

Carla Bruni's first album Quelqu'un ma dit is fab.

Also love Infected by The The and Gomez's Bring it On.

Moomin - Pencil Skirt was my best Pulp song ever when I was a slightly slatterny 20 something.

30 Seconds to Mars - A Beautiful Lie, emo can be fun

Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Murder Ballads

If you like Pulp, Jarvis's solo album is superb

Yes, keep meaning to give it a go. I loved the most recent single; it had such a good start.

I remember seeing pulp for the first time in TOTP singing Babies. I couldn;t take my eyes off Jarvis, he was sooo different, and geeky but soo sexy too. What he was singing about was so true-sounding it made me feel all adolescent again. Ah.... them was the days. I saw them live about 5 times in 2 years.

Mice Parade - Mice Parade

Having said that, it's very hard to describe exactly why, cos it's not really music that sounds like anything else. A bit like Four Tet, but actually played by hand rather than built from samples. Listen to this album if you like shadowy lyrics, shuffling polyrhythmic drums, gorgeous guitar-picking infused with African and South American styles, and most of all, great songs. Not for nothing is there a Facebook group called 'Addicted to Mice Parade'; no one else has ever heard of them, but I still keep trying to spread the word.

i SECOND BEN fOLDS Marina.
It's terrific

Van Morrisson Poetic Champions Compose
Elton John Tumbleweed Connection
Let it Be Beatles
Love Child Diana Ross & the Supremes
Atlantic Crossing Rod Stewart
Flesh & Blood Roxy Music

I second poshwellies, I think that Sigur Ros Agaetis Byrjun is possibly the best album ever.

In fact I think I shall listen to it now. Even thinking about it makes me tingle all over.

Blood on the tracks by Bob Dylan is ace.
And Martha Wainwrights first album (new one out next month) is fab.

Oh yes. BOTT essential
I'd say same for 'Desire' and 'Infidels'