OK, it's another Top 10 list.

This music is VERY personal. It's the stuff you literally could not live without. This music would have to be very special indeed.

My own selection -

1. Melt Banana/Fantomas - 'Animali In Calore Surriscaldati Con Ipertermia Genitale/Cat In Red' (CD)
I found this CD at a record fair. It's very rare and I ordered it from a retail shop once, but could not find a copy that worked on account of the CD being square. This one works and I will not part with it.

2. Daisy Chainsaw - 'Eleventeen' (CD)
It's deleted and not easy to get hold of. It also features one of the best songs ever written with the track Love Your Money. I would miss that song a lot.

3. David Devant & His Spirit Wife - 'Work, Lovelife, Miscellaneous' (CD)
The greatest Britpop album of all time. Cruelly ignored and sadly deleted. Every single track is genius.

4. Duncan Black - 'Studio Compositions 95-96' (Cassette)
Various bits and pieces I recorded when I was studying music at University, including my piano stuff. I never got round to mixing it onto CD and if this went up I would never find another copy.

5. Fudge Tunnel - 'In a Word' (CD)
Deleted. Underrated. Classic. The UK had a band that sounded like Nirvana well before Nirvana, but no-one cottoned on. True underdogs of the UK metal scene.

6. Ozric Tentacles - 'Pungent Effulgent' (original CD release on Dovetail Records)
Strangeitude may be the best Ozrics album, but this is the original release and harks back to a time when hippies weren't quite so horrid.

7. Lawnmower Deth - 'Mower Liberation Front' (Vinyl)
Only 400 copies in existence. Features the LD classics 'Watch out grandma here comes a lawnmower' and 'Nasal Infection'

8. Star Wars Original Soundtrack album (Vinyl)
The first record I ever owned. Gatefold edition. The Cantina Band sounds great on vinyl.

9. Metallica - The Good, The Bad and the Live (6 1/2 year anniversary boxset)(Vinyl)
OK, they're shit now, but this boxset features every 12 inch single up until the Black Album, plus a rare live EP. Harks back to a time when acne ridden kids got to play thrash metal in front of arena size audiences.

10. Loveage - 'Music to make love to your old lady by' (CD)
Sadly deleted album in the vein of Barry White. Features guest appearances by Africa Bambaataa, Mike Patton, Damon Albarn and Jennifer Charles. Think Portishead but much dirtier.

My favourite album is California by Mr Bungle and my favourite song is 'Jesus Built My Hotrod' by Ministry, but I could get hold of those again fairly easily. The releases above would be hard to replace.

I respect your effort in trying to inject the forums with new threads and topics but we already have too many similar threads. Especially this thread which is almost exactly what you ask for: "10 CDs that you absolutely cannot live without."

Feel free to re-post your list there.