Recommended Scottish Albums

Here’s the complete list of Scottish rock ‘n’ pop albums as recommended by men and women of taste and judgement. (The Top 30 - as judged by most frequently mentioned - can be found here.) Big thanks to all contributors.

If you’re ever in the mood to buy music, and can’t quite decide what to spend your cash on, simply invest in any album from this list that you don’t already own. You won’t be wasting a cent, and you’ll be supporting some of the greatest artists this country, nay the world, has ever seen.

Love on y’all.

Armoury Show    Waiting For The Floods
Associates    Sulk
Aztec Camera    High Land, Hard Rain
Aztec Camera    Love
Bathers    Pandemonium
Belle and Sebastian    Tigermilk
Biffy Clyro    Blackened Sky
Big Country    The Crossing
Billy MacKenzie    Beyond The Sun
Blue Nile    Hats
Blue Nile.    Walk across the Rooftops
Cado Belle    Cado Belle
Clanadonia    Keepin’ it Tribal
Cocteau Twins     Head Over Heels
Danny Wilson    Bebop Moptop
Danny Wilson.    Meet Danny Wilson
Deacon Blue    Raintown
Del Amitri    Twisted
Del Amitri    Waking Hours
Eddi Reader  Mirmama
Edwyn Collins    Hope & Despair
Frankie Miller    Full House
Franz Ferdinand    Franz Ferdinand
Friends Again    Trapped & Unwrapped
Gerry Rafferty    City to City
Glasvegas    Glasvegas
Goodbye MrMackenzie    Good Deeds & Dirty Rags
Hipsway    Hipsway
Hobotalk    Notes On Sunset
Hue & Cry    Bittersuite
Idlewild    Hope is Important
Ivor Cutler    Dandruff
Ivor Cutler     Life In A Scotch Living Room Part 2
James Grant    Holy Love
James Grant    My Thrawn Glory
James Grant    Sawdust in My Veins
James Grant    Strange Flowers
James Yorkston    When the Haar Rolls
Jerry Burns    Jerry Burns
Jesus & Mary Chain    Psychocandy
Ricahrd Jobson    Badman
Karen Matheson    Dreaming Sea
Karen Mathieson    Downriver
Kevin McDermott Orchestra    Bedazzled
King Creosote    KC Rules OK
King L (Gary Clark)    Great Day for Gravity
KMO    Mother Nature’s Kitcken
Kris Drever    Black Water
Lau    Lightweights & Gentlemen
Liberties    Distracted
Lloyd Cole    Rattlesnakes
Lloyd Cole & Commotions    Mainstream
Love & Money    All you need is…
Love & Money    Dogs in the Traffic
Love & Money    Little Death
Love & Money    Strange Kind of Love
McCusker, Woomble, and Drever    Before the Ruin
Michael Marra    Poster Sober
Mull Historical Society   Loss
Nazareth    Hair of the Dog
Orange Juice    You Can’t Hide Your Love Forever
Paul Quinn & Independent Group    Phantoms & Archetypes
Pearlfishers    Across the Milky Way.
Pearlfishers    Za Za’s Garden
River Detectives    Saturday Night, Sunday Morning
Roddy Frame    Surf
Roddy Hart.    Bookmarks
Roddy Woobble    My Secret Is My Silence
Runrig    The Cutter & the Clan
Sensational Alex Harvey Band    SAHB Stories
Silly Wizard    So Many Partings
Simple Minds    Celebrate
Simple Minds    Empires & Dance
Simple Minds    Life In A Day
Simple Minds    New Gold Dream
Skids    Days In Europa
Skids    Scared To Dance
Stephen Lindsay    Exit Music
Teenage Fanclub    Bandwagonesque
Teenage Fanclub    Grand Prix
Teenage Fanclub    Howdy
Teenage Fanclub.    Songs From Northern Britain
Texas    Southside
Texas    White on Blond
The Bathers    Unusual Places to Die
The Beta Band    The Three E.P.s
The Big Dish    Swimmer
The Big Dish    Creeping up on Jesus
The Big       Dish & Satellites
The Fortunate Sons    The Fortunate Sons
The Pearlfishers    Za Za’s Garden
The Proclaimers    This is The Story
The Silencers    A Blues For Buddha
Trashcan Sinatras    Weightlifting
Uncle Devil Show    A Terrible Beauty
Waterboys    Fisherman’s Blues
Whiteout    Bite it

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