Twenty Years Of Treasures

  1. M83

    If the Never Ending Story was set in a nightclub.

  2. Lucio Battisti

    Sundown on Planet Italy, 1974.

  3. John Cale

    The sound of having it all figured out for 40 minutes.

  4. Lô Borges

    Night markets on a cool night in Brazil.

  5. Linda Perhacs

    Waking up from anaesthesia in a field of daises.

  6. Jane Siberry

    Sublimely eccentric 80s left-field pop, Laurie Anderson meets Kate Bush and Martika.

  7. Sweet Whirl

    You’re discretely in the corner for an hour on discovering your friend at a piano in an empty room in the theatre after the show, playing the finest wistful songs you’ve ever heard.

  8. The Zenmenn, John Moods

    A group grounding in an enormous greenhouse when the temperature breaks and the cool summer afternoon breeze enters.

  9. Todd Rundgren

    A devastating 1979 synth pop masterpiece.

  10. Swervedriver

    A blistering wall of melodic guitar hooks and languid vocals that pull at the heartstrings.

  11. Supergrass

    Don’t sleep on this sublime Supergrass suite.

  12. Goo
    Sonic Youth

    Start here, or try again some other time.

  13. R. Stevie Moore, Kramer, Dave Gregory, Shooby Taylor

    80s demos of the best 60s songs never written.

  14. Roxy Music

    Past beliefs melt at dawn, eagerly awaiting your first espresso and a new day of lighter steps.

  15. The Roches

    Sunday School was weird, now what?

  16. Roger Nichols & The Small Circle of Friends

    The Sgt Pepper of Sunshine Pop.

  17. Robyn Hitchcock & The Egyptians

    If you don’t get early R.E.M. you’ll get this.

  18. Robert Wyatt

    How Did We Get Here? The Documenary Soundtrack.

  19. Richard Wright

    Tropical nervous breakdown revelations.

  20. A soundtrack for surviving suburbia.

  21. my bloody valentine

    Wash away the useless noise you’ve heard before with the beautiful noise you forgot about.

  22. ML Buch

    Making sense of what you can before sunrise.

  23. Processing everything at the top of a lighthouse with digital gear and perfect afternoons.

  24. Karla Bonoff

    Post-Woodstock love in a tidy Southern house.

  25. Jamie Hutchings

    A hard season through a Super 8 camera.

  26. Whiskey that doesn’t leave you wallowing.

  27. Ian McCulloch

    The last great record of the 80s.

  28. Happy Mondays

    Record store hopping on a rainy day.

  29. All your go-to books next to the bed in a record.

  30. Faith No More

    Soundtrack for a storm warning.

  31. The blisteringly beautiful sound of surrendering to the chaos.

  32. Chris Darrow

    Nashville Skyline meets Sweetheart Of The Rodeo.

  33. The Byrds

    The Byrds do country better than country does country.

  34. The strongest Yacht Rock album that exists, if you don’t count Steely Dan’s Aja.

  35. The Beach Boys

    The other Pet Sounds, there I said it.

  36. Belle and Sebastian

    A non-depresso solo espresso.

  37. Antonia Lamb

    Sublime 70s psych folk artefact.

Twenty Years Of Treasures is an album list curated by Dee Colman.

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