Uncut

Reissue of rarities, live stuff, Peel sessions, plus unreleased 1993 album

New Hope, PA nutters started out with a Casio and then bled rock's corpse dry

Late, great Lone Star songwriter, often covered, seldom bettered

Southern boy recalls homesick-in-the-city salad days

Long-lost pub rock albums finally resurface

Definitive 52-track compilation spanning 1958-1972

Overdue collectors' B-sides bonanza

Retro techno par excellence

Groundbreaking proto-rap at white heat

Romantic tunes played a big part in British reggae charts in the late '70s and early '80s as a new generation of aspirational, British-born black kids abandoned roots reggae in favour of our first indigenous black pop style—lover's rock. Many of the tunes were nothing more than insipid cover versions of UK pop or US soul hits, but the movement yielded a clutch of genuinely moving songs such as Sharon Forrester's "Silly, Wasn't It?" (incidentally, Melody Maker's reggae single of 1974) and Janet Kay's 1979 Top 3 hit "Silly Games", both featured here. More recent