hate to say it but ‘Solid Air’, I got totally stuck on ‘Sunday’s Child’, and then moved on to ‘Bless the Weather’, bits of ‘Inside Out’, ‘One World’, and then moved out of JM orbit (at least for now).
others would be:
Surrealistic Pillow (GET THEE TO BAXTER’S!)
Sign O’ The Times (never heard it as an album as such: already knew singles too well, then skipped thru for quirky album tracks like ‘ballad of dorothy parker’ and ‘starfish and coffee’, & think the party-up funk workouts make a lot more sense on the film version)
Working Man’s Dead / American Beauty (GET THEE TO THE LIVE!)
Enter the Wu-Tang. (couldn’t really get into it working back from the first wave solo-Wu classics. I mean I like it well enough now, but had far more fun properly delving into ‘wu-tang forever’ more recently)
The GoBetween’s back cat got punched full of holes of over-familiarity cos I got into excellent comp Bellavista Terrace in late 90s.
Blonde on Blonde (the boomers own that one to such an extend I can’t get anywhere near it, there’s a sort of psychic forcefield around it repelling even the more intrepid x-ers. developing my own relat with the mighty Bawb via the post-motorcycle crash stuff tho)
Ziggy Stardust (a true bypass, have no opinion on it musically whatsoever, I think it’s for other kids, other scenes, other threads, other stuffy brightly lit pavilions. there’s just such a strong sense of communion between star and fans with that one that I feel I can’t break in. I’m left outside the big top only catching shadows, but maybe that’s ok.)