SC - there is no such thing as 'spare' vinyl! (Although if anyone's in the market for a mixed lot of 90s electronica 12"s which I keep meaning to put up on eBay...)

There are a bazillion albums listed on Reinhard's amazing site (and that's an imperial bazillion, too). But that's why I was looking for personal recommendations - just to give me a way in.

Some good names on that list. Dave Burland is someone I keep meaning to investigate - I could listen to him singing the phone book, he's one of those lucky bastahemindividuals with a naturally beautiful voice. Ray Fisher and John Goodluck are new names to me, which is rather exciting.

The two albums that sparked this off were Landfall (when I finally heard it) and one other which I still haven't heard & which nobody's mentioned yet, slightly to my surprise - although on checking it turns out it was released in 1964, which is stretching the 1970s to breaking point.