Put all your favourite albums on a nice list for me please, it is, er, very important

[Cappuccino]

I am bored of all my music

apart from The Proclaimers (you can never be bored of The Proclaimers)

so I thought I would go to the library and borrow some. As it is a library they will not have many of the albums that you youngsters bought last week

So. Albums that you have had for a while and you still love. And are not sick of. And are not The Proclaimers.

oh yeah, any Nick Drake!

Robbie Williams Swing when youre Winning
Best of Queen I and II
Rock Collections, esp Rock Ballads
Abba Gold
Madonna Ray of Light
80s Collections
Bryan Adams - best of
Crossroad - Bon Jovi - best of

oh dear, I seem to mostly like the "best ofs" as well, plus having probably the saddest choices

oh no, we have just downloaded loads of queen as my boys really like it and i had forgotton how good they were

why lol at the Proclaimers?

I love the Proclaimers but I don't have their album - but they never play my fave on the radio - I think it's called "I'm on my way"

lol @ why lol at the proclaimers

have always lolled at the procliamers and always will. I quite like some of their songs, very... rousing. But there is something just inherently funny about them. Couple of ugly scottish blokes. In var serious manner

Vigil In A Wilderness Of Mirrors - Fish
(good if you like 'wordy' music but a bit on the depressing side emotion wise)

or

Yin and Yang (2 albums, sometimes sold as a double) - equally wordy but a few more upbeat tracks thrown in.

Bob Dylan - Blood on the tracks
Midlake - trials of van occupanther
Martha Wainwright - Martha Wainwright
Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes

Anything by The Beautiful South but particularly Gaze, Blue is The Colour and Miaow.

Absolutely anything by the Divine Comedy - the best of album is very good.

Moloko - Things to Make and Do.

Portishead - Dummy.

Ermmmm...

at iBundle.

3 albums by Beck are on my current fave list

Odelay
Guero
Modern Guilt

Amy Winehouse - Frank (better IMO than Back to Black, although that's not bad either)

Scritti Politti - White Bread Black Beer

Oh - and Tears for Fears, The Hurting/Sowing the Seeds of Love (think that's what it's called?)

Steely Dan - Can't Buy a Thrill

Mick Ronson - Slaughter on 10th Avenue

I'd second beck, odelay

BIWI - I 'd forgotton abouyt how lovely that Tears for fears album is (seeds of love). Is that the one with head over heels on? God that's a fab song

pointydog tell me this is not the loveliest song in the world

admittedly the production values on that clip have something, er, to be desired

Sunshine on leith makes me cry everytime I hear it!

currently listening to a lot of Sigur Ros (Takk) and Adele's 19.

Other all-time favourites would include

Cassandra Wilson - New Moon Daughter
Portishead - Portishead
Anything by Tori Amos or Tracy Chapman

Someone tell me about that Fleet Foxes album, please.

The Finn Brothers - Everyone is Here
David Gray - Life in Slow Motion

They've been in the car for aaaaages, but otherwise I mostly listen to ipod compilations.

Oh you must try Kristen Hersh - Hips and Makers. An album of sheer genius.

Oh, arsing feck, I just typed out a massive list and my stupid stupid keyboard deleted it all...

Anyway, off the top of my head, I could not live without the following oldies-but-goldies:

Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense/True Stories
John Martyn - Solid Air
Gillian Welch - Soul Journey
Liz Phair - Exile in Guyville
Elvis Costello - probably Imperial Bedroom/Blood & Chocolate
XTC - Skylarking (or Fossil Fuel as a great best-of)
Prefab Sprout - Jordan the Comeback
Swell - Too Many Days Without Thinking
King Creosote - KC Rules OK
Sufjan Stevens - probably Seven Swans
Josh Rouse - Country Mouse, City House

God, what an old fart I am

Pet SOunds - Beach Boys or Smile - Brian Wilson
Anything by Elvis Costello but Blood and Chocolate a good one.
The Fratellis album

.....I have surprised myself by the contemporary nature of my chosen list. One is as recent as 1991.....

Born Sandy Devotional by The Triffids

(I put a review of this on iTunes. Still awaiting the inevitable and richly deserved 3am knock by the Pseud Police my opinions merit)

Revolver by The Beatles

(zzzz. I know. Not an original choice. An original album, though. White rock music has changed very little since this benchmark...)

Unknown Pleasures by Joy Division

(teen me discovers misery chic. Bizarrely a much cooler band now than then...)

The Smiths by The Smiths

(NOT miserable... FUNNY.)

Seamonsters by The Wedding Present

(All hail the mighty David Gedge. I Love love love all things Gedge)

...and when Kirsty Young asks me which disc I want to keep along with the complete works of Richard Dawkins and of Shakespeare, I will keep Seamonsters. No! The Triffids..... or maybe both? Please Kirsty??