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I need cheering up, ' cos just as I was uploading The Hitchhikers guide - series 3 from tape onto computer, my aged Revox goes and makes like a burnt offering and fills the room with smoke.
So for a bit of fun I thought, let's have a Desert Island Discs and share our all time favourite top 20 albums.
So here's kicking off with mine, and yes most of them are vinyl:

Jon & Vangelis - The friends of Mr Cairo.
Beach Boys - Keepin' the summer alive.
Camel - The Snow Goose.
Dire Straits - Telegraph Road.
ELO - Out of the blue.
Fairport Convention - Fiddlestix.
Genesis - Trick of the tail.
Elton John - Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy.
Joni Mitchell - Blue.
Moody Blues - Every Good Boy Deserves Favour.
Alan Parsons Project - The turn of a friendly card.
Pink Floyd - Dark side of the Moon.
Rennaissance - Song of Scheherazade.
Judie Tzuke - Left hand talking.
T'Pau - Bridge of spies.
Rick Wakeman - Journey to the centre of the Earth.
Corrs - Forgiven not forgotten.
Iona - Iona.
Fleetwood Mac - Tango in the night.
Jeff Wayne - War of the worlds.

Narrowly missing the top 20 were works by Mike Oldfield, Queen, Mabon, Carmina, Cathy Burton, Cara Dillon, Yes and Beethoven.
My tastes are predominantly prog rock, but with some influence from folk & classical. Who's next?

In no particular order...

Jethro Tull - Heavy Horses
Queen - Queen II
The Eagles - Desperado
Vangelis - Heaven & Hell
Jean-Michel Jarre - Oxygene
Elvis Costello & The Attractions - Armed Forces
The Dead Kennedys - Fresh Fruit & Rotting Vegetables
Blondie - Parallel Lines
Various Military Bands - Glorious Victory
Various Welsh Male Voice Choirs - The Sound of Wales
Jeff Wayne - The War of the Worlds (SNAP!)
The Moody Blues - Days of Future Passed
Emil Gilels & Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra - Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No 1
Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band - Born In The USA
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
David Bowie - Hunky Dory
Mike Oldfield - Five Miles Out
The Men They Couldn't Hang - Night of a Thousand Candles
Richard Wagner - Der Ring des Nibelungen (All 14 discs!)
The Pogues - Red Roses For Me

With apologies to: Dire Straits, Spear of Destiny, Jennifer Rush, Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden, Kirsty McColl, Eddie Cochran, The Black Dyke Mills Band and many many more.

Well, here goes! (Again, in no particular order)
Division Bell - Pink Floyd
Arc of a Diver - Steve Winwood
Duke - Genesis
Golden Heart - Mark Knopfler
Wired - Jeff Beck
Jeff - Jeff Beck
Blow By Blow - Jeff Beck
Who Else! - Jeff Beck
Pilgrim - Eric Clapton
Layla - Derek and the Dominoes
Only By The Night - Kings of Leon
Tusk - Fleetwood Mac
Salute - Gordon Lightfoot
Home - Dixie Chicks
Ogden's Nut Gone Flake - Small Faces
Stanley Road - Paul; Weller
New Day At Midnight - David Gray
Alchemy Live - Dire Straits
All Things Must Pass - George Harrison
Let it Roll - George Harrison
Tubular Bells - Mike Oldfield

and about 50 more I've forgotten!

Again, no particular order:-

Jazz Funk Mastercuts - Various Artists
Dennis Coffey - Back Home
Rare Earth - Get Ready
We Live Here - Pat Metheney
Stolen Moments - Mark Murphy
Ad Nauseum - Derek & Clive
Deep House of Acid Jazz - Mark Farina
Anything by Moby
Anything by Monty Alexander
Themes - Vangelis
Complete soundtrack - Disney's Fantasia
Complete soundtrack - Lord of the Rings
The Complete Works - Ralph Vaughan-Williams
The Planets - Gustav Holst
Concerto for Group & Orchestra - Deep Purple and R P O with Malcolm Arnold
Diamond Life - Sade
Day of the Jackal - Frederick Forsyth (audio book)
Ambient 1 / 2 / 3 - Brian Eno
....plus two others by anyone :-
How to survive on berries and coconuts
How to build a boat from trees!

Cockney Rebel - The Human Menagerie
The Moody Blues - In Search of the Lost Chord (possibly only cos DOFP is already taken)
Paul Simon - self titled (or Graceland)
Anne McCue - Broken Promise Land
Porcupine Tree - Fear of a Blank Planet
Katkhuda - A Long Way from Somewhere
King Creosote - KC Rules OK
The Tallest Man on Earth - The Wild Hunt
Tori Amos - Little Earthquakes
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
Sinéad O'Connor - I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got
Paolo Nutini - Sunny Side Up
Dido - No Angel
The Waterboys - Fisherman's Blues
David Gray - A Century Ends
The Burns Unit - Side Show

plus Best ofs from
Simon & Garfunkel
Leonard Cohen
Bob Dylan
Gerry Rafferty

Nice one Alan..just been reading the public sector pension thread..so needed cheering up! Here goes

Revolver (Beatles)
Hard days night (ditto)
Every picture tells a story (Rod Stewart)
A nod's as good as a wink to a blind horse (Faces)
Led Zeppelin 3 (you know who)
Idlewild (Everything but the girl)
Dark side of the moon (Pink Floyd)
Duke (Genesis)
Anymore for anymore (Ronnie Lane/Slim chance)
Blood on the tracks (Bob Dylan)
Nicely out of tune (Lindisfarne)
Mona Bone Jakon (Cat Stevens)
School's out (Alice Cooper)
Bad Company (Bad Company)
Fire and Water (Free)
Hotel California (Eagles)
Five Leaves left (Nick Drake)
Daisies of the Galaxy (Eels)
Tunnel of Love (Springsteen)
Ten Summoners Tales (Sting)

oops..may have put 21..am I forgiven? OH!! There's that Rumer album as well...................ok..I'll shut up

Dave (AKA old **se)

In alphabetical order...

Terry Allen/Lubbock on everything
Louis Armstrong/The Genius of...
Beer parlor jive (1930s Western swing)
The Bhundu Boys/The Shed sessions
The Bonzo Dog Band/The Doughnut in Granny's greenhouse
James Brown/Live at the Apollo
Ry Cooder/Chicken skin music
Culture/Two sevens clash
Dirty laundry:the soul of black country
Billie Holiday/The BH story vol.1
Robert Johnson/King of the Delta blues singers
Muddy Waters:at Newport 1960
The Nevilles/Tell it like it is
Django Reinhardt/Django Story
The Rezillos/Can't stand the...
Scottish Tradition 4:Shetland fiddle music
Bessie Smith/The Empress
Tex Mex Pioneers (Conjunto music 1920s-40s)
Young Flamencos (Flamenco meets punk)
Frank Zappa/Hot rats

With apologies to Cristina Branco, Commander Cody and the Lost Planet Airmen, Ian Dury and the Blockheads, Freddy Fender, Slim Gaillard, Howling Wolf, Memphis Minnie, and Toots and the Maytals, who didn't quite make the cut.

I never really got over the death of Roy Plomley in the 80s, and gave up listening soon after that.

The man was a genius.

Well this is a fun one folks, so I just had to come up with my 'B' list.
In no particular order:

Mabon - Live at the Grand Pavillion.
Deacon Blue - Raintown.
After the Fire - Lazer Love.
Beatles - Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band.
Cockney Rebel - The Human Menagerie (Snap Benethi)
ELO - Discovery.
Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road.
Enid - Touch me.
Fairport Convention - Live Convention.
Genesis - Wind & Wauthering.
Jethro Tull - Live.
Jon & Vangelis - Page of life.
Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells.
Joni Mitchell - For the roses.
Manfred Manns Earth Band - The good Earth.
Meat Loaf - Bat out of hell.
Moody Blues (a very popular band) - Long Distance Voyager.
Pink Floyd - Wish you were here.
Rainbow Chasers - Fortune never sleeps.
Rennaissance - Live at Carnegie Hall.
Rick Wakeman - The myths and legends of King Arthur and the knights of the round table (possibly the longest title yet)
Simon & Garfunkel - Bridge over troubled waters.
Yes - Tormato.
Eagles - Hotel California (snap Burnsie)
Doobie Brothers - Duelling Daltons (I think thats what its called)
Sailor - Trouble.
Supertramp - Crime of the century.
(oops, that's 27)

There's also Queen, 10cc, Rod Steward and Tangerine Dream lurking in the background.