Music

  INTRODUCTION Lists are bloody lists and about as useful as a retired teacher with nothing much to do. But I’m sufficiently compulsive enough to peg a few albums that I’ve really liked over the decades in anticipation of someone asserting that I’m a clown so that an argument will break out and a few more minutes will be gainfully occupied here in the departure lounge. As you’ll soon see, I’ve cheated in limiting ‘the ten’ to ten but I hope you’ll understand. Any sort of plagiarism has either been carefully concealed or is unintentional. I’ve also been thoroughly destroyed in the process of articulating my ten. Upon completion of the task, I asked my wife if she could nominate any of my picks, sight unseen. After she successfully tagged six of my first seven choices, I immediately called a halt to the proceedings, went to the bathroom, looked at my image in the mirror and came to the uncomfortable conclusion that I wasn’t the brooding, opaque and complex perso...