Hello, Mark from Sound Matters here. This week’s video is a bit of a change of pace (and a bit more off the cuff than usual) because life threw a curveball with a family emergency, so I pushed my planned Fluance Ri71 powered speaker review to next week. But it actually felt like the perfect moment to make good on something I said earlier in the year: as fun as the gear is, at the end of the day it’s all about the music. So I sat down and picked three albums that mean a lot to me—fully admitting that picking “top three” is borderline impossible and could change tomorrow. I talk through why Genesis’ Selling England by the Pound is such a rewarding concept listen, especially the way it’s bookended by that old-English-chamber-music-like motif and how “Cinema Show” morphs back into it. Then I go into the sheer scale and ambition of The Smashing Pumpkins’ Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness—its depth, its range, and how it feels like a complete body of work rather than a playlist. Finally, I land on T-Rex’s Electric Warrior, an album that shaped me as a guitarist and songwriter, with Mark Bolan’s touch and tone (that “Monolith” moment) being the kind of thing you can’t fake. As a bonus, I share why Alt-J’s An Awesome Wave matters to me personally, and I hand it over to you: what would you pick, and why?