no order

REM - Automatic for the people
Spiritualized - Ladies and Gentlemen, we are floating in space
Bob Dylan - Blood on the tracks
Belle and Sebastian - If your feeling sinister
Belle and sebastian - The boy with the Arab Strap
Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
Nirvana - Bleach
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - The Boatman's Call
Radiohead - OK Computer
Johnny Cash - The Legend of Johnny Cash (best of album)

To be honest, I see Oceanlab as a very distinct project from Above & Beyond.
It being centred around Justine, soundwise it doesnt feel like Above & Beyond to me
Oceanlab is for me much more like Motorcycle or Andain for Gabriel & Dresden or Velvetine for Myon & Shane 54.

The Decemberists - The Hazards Of Love
The Velvet Underground - Velvet Underground & Nico
Yes - Going For The One
Shearwater - Animal Joy
Elliott Smith - Figure 8
Kevin Tihista's Red Terror - Don't Breathe A Word
Talk Talk - Spirit of Eden
REM - Murmur
Gorky's Zygotic Mynci - Bwyd Time
Uncle Tupelo - No Depression

God that took some time, I could have done it another time and I would have come up with 6 or 7 different albums.

That's what I meant! It was a good way to get away from making a "pressured" 2nd album in making the Oceanlab album

Do love Paavo hints at new stuff with Justine. Cant wait to hear it

Ah yeh, I am interested to hear some of that too

Radiohead- the bends
Queen-sheer heart attack
Pink floyd-dark side of the moon
Human league- travelogue
Iron maiden- number of the beast
Muse-origin of symmetry
The blue nile-a walk across the rooftops
David bowie-hunky dory
Heaven 17- the luxury gap
Deep purple- in rock

All in no particular order

In no order:

Arctic Monkeys - Whatever you say I am...
Oasis - What's the story
Gaslight Anthem - Handwritten
The Courteeners - St Jude
R.E.M. - Life's Rich Pageant
Editors - The Back Room
Muse - Black Holes and Revelations
The King Blues - Save the World, Get the Girl
Everything Everything - Man Alive
The Enemy - We'll Live and Die in These Towns

In no particular order:

Love - Forever Changes
Beach House - Teen Dream / Bloom (can't decide which)
Cocteau Twins - Heaven Or Las Vegas
Laura Nyro - Eli And The Thirteenth Confession
Judee Sill - Heart Food
Stereolab - Dots And Loops
Tortoise - TNT
Suzanne Vega - Suzanne Vega
Todd Rundgren - A Wizard, A True Star
Bjork - Vespertine

Random Order

Bottlesucker - Nigel Burch & Fleapit Orchestra
Matching Head And Feet - Kevin Coyne
The Image Has Cracked - Alternative Tv
Punishing Kiss - Ute Lemper
Dark Side Of The Moon - Pink Floyd
Black Album - The Damned
Freak 0ut - Frank Zappa
Safe As Milk - Cpt Beefheart
Womans Got To Have It - Cornershop
Thoughts Of An Emerlist Davjack - The Nice

good to see the decemberists get the nod mate. much unknown over here, but fab band.

I could have easily plumped for there more commercial albums but to me stuff like The Tain and Hazards Of Love are a bit out there and a kind of concept album, and that sort of thing, when a band thinks outside the box appeals to me massively.

They are my favourite band at present. Though they are 'hibernating' at present what with their lead singer concentrating on his childrens books, The Wildwood Chronicles. There is a kind of spin off bluegrass ensemble featuring the other members of the band entitled Black Pirarieif that is anyones sort of thing.

Sigur Ros - ()
Six by Seven - The Things We Make
ABC - The Lexicon Of Love
Radiohead - OK Computer
Rufus Wainwright - Want Two
A House - I Am The Greatest
The Divine Comedy - Casanova
Teenage Fanclub - Grand Prix
Arcade Fire - Funeral
Pulp - Different Class

In no particular order


The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway - Genesis
Seconds Out - Genesis
Selling England By The Pound - Genesis
Third album (melt) - Peter Gabriel
Hats - The Blue Nile
Led Zep - IV
Van Halen - Van Halen
The Police - Synchronicity
Queen - Greatest Hits I
Pink Floyd - The Dark Side Of The Moon