My Favourite Album: Best of the Guardian blog ebook

How do you choose your favourite album? It seems that the answer is: you don't, they choose you. "For a boy growing up in Bible-black Wales, it was the perfect escape. It took me on a booze-soaked, smack-addled, over-sexed tour of the LA underground, a world peopled with pimps and prostitutes, dealers and dope fiends." - Dafydd Goff on Appetite for Destruction by Guns N' Roses Some of the Guardian's most respected writers explain how they came to discover and love their favourite albums. From Jon Wilde 's moving piece on Louis Armstrong's Hot Five and Hot Seven, to Laura Barton 's delicate description of Van Morrison's Astral Weeks, there's something in here for lovers of all genres and decades. There's even an ode from Peter Robinson to that classic collection of chart-topping hits: Now that's what I call music! "On Mama's Gun Badu represented the woman I wanted to be – a woman with something to say who could be weird and funny and clever and sexy at the same time." - Kieran Yates on Mama's Gun by Erykah Badu My Favourite Album: Best of the Guardian blog is edited by Tim Jonze , and is available on Kindle for £1.44 and as an iBook for 99p .