I could easily pick The Bends or, of course, OK Computer but if I am really honest I'm on the sick side of both of these superb albums by this stage. One or two listens a year would be plenty and that wouldn't be much use if I was, quite literally, stranded on an island.
(As indeed I am for the purposes of this self indulgent exercise I've decided to bore you with).
After OK Computer came the abstract, genre-bending Kid A which just sounded plain weird. This was quickly followed by Amnesiac which, largely due to relentless exposure to Kid A, sounded only a bit weird. Now it doesn't sound any weirder than strictly necessary. It's an utterly inspiring album and it blasted joyously from Wiltshire into Somerset out the wee Citroën thing I'm driving this week.
(If it must be a ladies car then let it be a Citroën C1.)
Anyway Amnesiac is in. At a push, but not that much of a push, it would serve as my 2nd jazz choice.
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