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It's possible to argue that there are better Beatles albums, yet no album is as historically important as this.

The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

£32.99

While the Beatles still largely stuck to love songs on Rubber Soul, the lyrics represented a quantum leap in terms of thoughtfulness, maturity, and complex ambiguities.

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The Beatles - Rubber Soul

£27.99

Miles ahead of the growing raft of trip-hop making the rounds in the mid-'90s.

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Massive Attack - Protection

£27.99

An album that reveals more with each listen and becomes more captivating and haunting each time it's played.

Portishead - Portishead

£23.99

With this release, Kiwanuka has delivered a dark, graceful, and affecting artistic statement that is worth the patience it takes to experience it.

Michael Kiwanuka - Love & Hate

£31.99

Flaunting both their range and their tremendously evocative productions, Massive Attack recorded one of the best dance albums of all time.

Massive Attack - Blue Lines

£27.99

Few records make such an instant impression as Home Again, the debut album by Michael Kiwanuka, winner of the prestigious BBC Sound of 2012 prize.

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Michael Kiwanuka - Home Again

£19.99

Better than any album before it, Dummy merged the pinpoint-precise productions of the dance world with pop hallmarks like great songwriting and excellent vocal performances.

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Portishead - Dummy

£27.99

Its psychedelic trappings tie it forever to 1967, but the imagination of the arrangements, the strength of the compositions, and especially the force of the musicianship make this album transcend its time as well.

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Cream - Disraeli Gears

£27.99

The juxtaposition of such honest and at times harrowing imagery to Nico's inherently bleak delivery is nothing short of an inspired artistic statement which has since long outlasted its initial socially relevant context.

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Nico - Chelsea Girl

£27.99

Artistically, Swordfishtrombones marked an evolution of which Waits had not seemed capable (though there were hints of this sound on his last two Asylum albums), and in career terms it reinvented him.

Tom Waits - Swordfishtrombones

£19.99

For all the sorrow and heartbreak that runs beneath the surface, this is an invigorating record, with Townshend laying his soul bare in ways that are funny, painful, and utterly life-affirming.

The Who - Who's Next

£19.99

The last record by the original line up of The Who with Keith Moon on drums.

The Who - Who Are You

£19.99

A rich album that revitalizes rock traditions without ever seeming less than contemporary.

The Verve - Urban Hymns

£25.99

Though shorn of the more overtly shoegazer-styled elements of their debut A Storm in Heaven, the Verve's sophomore effort A Northern Soul is no less epic in scope.

The Verve - A Northern Soul

£26.99

A fine debut, A Storm in Heaven proved to be the important connection between the Verve's expansive early work (1992's self-titled EP) and their later worldwide pop hits.

The Verve - A Storm In Heaven

£19.99

Universal The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground

This album sounds less like the Velvet Underground than any of their studio albums, but it's as personal, honest, and moving as anything Lou Reed ever committed to tape.

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The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground

£27.99

If you loved the band's seminal debut album, there's a handful of gems you'll dig in this one.

The Stone Roses - Second Coming

£19.99

Few other albums, let alone double albums, have been so rich and masterful as Exile on Main St., and it stands not only as one of the Stones' best records, but sets a remarkably high standard for all of hard rock.

The Rolling Stones - Exile On Main Street

£31.99

The lyrical bite of most of the material ensured Beggars Banquet's place as one of the top blues-based rock records of all time.

The Rolling Stones - Beggars Banquet

£23.99

In the City is a remarkable debut and stands as one of the landmark punk albums.

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The Jam - In The City

£19.99

Unhappy with the slicker approach of Setting Sons, the Jam got back to basics, using the direct, economic playing of All Mod Cons and "Going Underground."

The Jam - Sound Affects

£19.99

Universal The Beatles - A Hard Day's Night

This album found the Beatles truly coming into their own as a band by performing a uniformly excellent set of songs.

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The Beatles - A Hard Day's Night

£27.99

The best Beach Boys album, and one of the best of the 1960s.

The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds (Mono)

£19.99