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Two-CD, twenty-seven track, best-of from his seven Creation albums, 1987-93

So-so stuff chiefly for Pitney fanatics

Quarter-century of Beeb appearances from the Newhaven rabble-rouser

Eighty-three examples of Stephin Merritt's pop art from 99/2000

Lavish two-CD repackaging for Bowie's 1993 return to form

Greatest and not so great hits from techno pioneers

"Oh, I just don't know where to begin," Elvis Costello swooned in the opening line to his lusciously hummable 1979 hit "Accidents Will Happen". Not strictly true. Elvis Costello has always known precisely where to begin. Knowing when to stop, that's been another kettle of worms. His latest batch of reissues being a case in point. Each has been fattened up for market with a mind-bending welter of bonus tracks, so that Get Happy!!, a 20-track tour de force in the first place, now weighs in at 50 tracks (with Trust at 31 and Punch The Clock at 39, see right).

Reissue of last year's deepest pop record, plus extra disc of remixes

Reissue of underrated '80s LP with bonus disc of rarities, demos etc

After Rio's reissue last year, the first and third albums get digitally remastered