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Wacky send-up pop cleverly put together by early-'70s Manchester four-piece hailed as 'New Beatles'

Lonnie Donegan – Rock Island Line: The Singles Anthology

Retrospective becomes elegy for skiffle king who died in November, aged 71

Isaac Hayes – Groove-A-Thon

Big Ike's disco detour, first time on CD

Various Artists – Elec-Trax

Sixteen shiny "synthpop classics"

Dancing In The Dark

Best-of for uniquely bleak songwriter

Dreams Never End

Four CDs of Mancunian magic from New Order's back pages, including cherry-picked album tracks, B-sides, rarities, remixes and live performances

David Thomas – Monster

Box set of Pere Ubu frontman's five solo albums, plus bonus live material with Two Pale Boys

Carpenters – The Essential Collection 1965-97

Chronological 73-track, four-CD anthology of avant-MOR avatars

David Bowie – Best Of Bowie

Every home should have one. Or possibly two

Sparks – This Album’s Big Enough… The Best Of

Something for the music lover with everything
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