Bob Dylan -- Blood On The Tracks

  Drenched in divorce sad bastardom, Dylan's Blood On The Tracks gives us a look at Zimmy's all too beautifully real  bitterness, and if you've ever been in a similar situation, you'd get every single word ... too!

Tangerine Dream -- Rubycon

  Tangerine Dream's Rubycon is an ambiently meditative classic synth album, it moves like a soundtrack to an alien oceanographic documentary, weaving your mind through the vast waters of space, while still being made from earth!

Nico -- Chelsea Girl

  With the help of many rock luminaries like, Lou Reed, Bob Dylan, Jackson Browne, just to name a few, Nico, the ultimate chanteuse femme fatale made her chamber style baroque folk debut album, which to me is her best and most accessible, compared to her usual existential death records.

Tom Waits -- The Heart Of Saturday Night

  The Heart Of Saturday Night is like a beat poet meets Frank Sinatra mixed with Bruce Springsteen, this album marks where Waits starts to find his persona.

The Beach Boys -- Holland

  Holland is a strangely brilliant Beach Boys version of 1970's Laurel canyonesque Americana.

Harry Nilsson -- Nilsson Schmilsson

  An eclectic pastiche of classic little ditties, the album's sound is all over the place, but has a strange brilliance that Nilsson was never able capture ever again.

Marvin Gaye -- Here, My Dear

  In the midst of personal and financial strife, dealing with the divorce of motown's label owner's sister, being forced to record an album where, as part of the settlement, all the profits go straight to his ex-wife.  Marvin at first was going to make a complete piece of crap but his loyalty to his public and strange fascination with the idea cohersed him into making a smooth, bitter, inventive, minimalsitic but complex, mellow soul album, filled with the emotional platitudes of love and marriage mixed with pain and divorce while cleverly naming it Here, My Dear ... the final fuck you to his old lady!