2. The Who – Live at Leeds. Maximum R&B.

3. Led Zeppelin – Led Zeppelin II. Being a teenage boy.

4. Iggy Pop – Raw Power. Yey! The album cover made me buy it, but the music was even better. Took me to The Stooges and Funhouse.

5. Jethro Tull – Thick as a Brick.

6. Talking Heads – More Songs about Buildings and Food. Played back to back for months, day and night, irregularly interspersed with single: Police: Roxanne in a flat in the attic of a Georgian Building on Harcourt Street. Not many albums owned at the time.

7. Sex Pistols – Never Mind the Bollocks

8. Elton John – Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy. Inspired autobiographical songwriting by Bernie and Reg.

9. The Beatles – White Album.

10. Aphrodite’s Child – 666.

11. Joni Mitchell – Blue. Dublin to Berlin and back Xmas ’85.

12. Velvet Underground – Velvet Underground and Nico. With added Warhol. Genius. In face everything ever recorded by VU, released on album or not, is genius. Timeless.

13. kd lang and the reclines – Absolute Torch and Twang. My first cd. Bought it for the cd artwork. The singing is even better. Trish and I went to see her sing in a boxing arena in Dublin. It seemed like we were the only straight people there, though she hadn’t come out officially.

14. Nirvana – Nevermind. Best live concert ever in the Point Depot, Dublin. Came home covered in blood which kinda worked. Between you and I it was a crowd surfer above me in the mosh pit with a bloody nose. Nirvana mosh pits were intense.

15. Minor Threat – Minor Threat. Picked this up on my first trip to US/NY/NY. Along with Circle Jerks, Black Flag and Country Bob and The Blood Farmers.

1 more. Soundtrack – Repo Man. The soundtrack to the first videocassette movie I ever bought – Repo Man by Alex Cox. Outstanding tracks from Iggy Pop, Black Flag, Suicidal Tendencies, Circle Jerks, The Plugz, Burning Sensations, Fear and Juicy Bananas.

i’m afraid this is not going to end until you stop me.

22. XTC – Oranges & Lemons