I have been considering my favourite LPs and in some cases getting new copies of the vinyl. Unlike NME I don't claim that these are the 'best', just that I like them and that they have some meaning to me. I will write a few notes on each LP here and at 98wounds.com. LPs have particular characteristics which may be unknown to the CD or download generations. They have two sides, generally it is too much trouble to skip tracks so one or two great tracks does not make a great LP. A record with one great side is not enough either. I will write some more general points about artists that don't feature when all ten have been revealed, but I can tell you that I have regarded this as something akin to 'Desert Island Discs' so have pretty much decided not to include more than one album from the same artist.

No. 10 - A Secret Wish - Propaganda released July 1985

By 1985 CDs were quickly replacing vinyl as a preferred format for new purchases, but at this time record companies were trying to maintain sales (it was home taping that was 'killing music' or the record companies profits, at the time) and different formats were popular. The LP of A Secret Wish is different to the CD. There are an enormous number of 12" singles variants made from songs on the album. The album contains a version of the bands first single Dr Mabuse but does not include the cover of Velvet Underground's Femme Fatale which is the B-Side of Dr Mabuse. I saw Propaganda on two nights of 'The Value Of Entertainment' at the Ambassadors Theatre in May 1985 and photographed them at Hammersmith Palais in November 1985.