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I remember buying my first album. It was ‘Reggatta de Blanc’ by ‘The Police’. My Gran was with me when I handed over £3.99 of loose change in Woolworth’s, Bangor. It was 1980. I bought the album because of the song at number 1 in the list below.

 

I loved my albums. The cover picture; perhaps an inner sleeve with lyrics; dusting the vinyl before placing the needle; and that first ‘click’ followed by that quiet hiss as the first track started.

I chose to buy that 33. It was my music and that, to me, is a powerful thing.

 

These songs are some of my random favourites. If I did this again, and I probably won’t because of all of the copy/paste/deleting etc involved, there would be another set of songs here.

 

Click on a number and you might be pleasantly surprised. Tell me if you are and share one of your own favourites with me.

If you’re not, then keep that to yourself. After all, ‘It’s only Rock ‘n’ Roll!’.

 

If the links are not clickable (especially outside the uk – let me know and I’ll change ‘em)

 

The photo is made up of one picture duplicated three times in elements, one layer converted to mono, and allowed to bleed through the top one with ‘softlight’ blending. Noise applied at 15%

 

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Many thanks to my friend Rovinggirl, who checked all of the Trans-Atlantic links for me :))

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