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If you had Mötley Crüe down as vacuous poodle-rockers who never stumbled across an original idea in two decades, Nicky Sixx and Tommy Lee are here to put you straight on the interview section of this 21-track retrospective. What do you know? Turns out they were always punk visionaries who pushed the envelope of rock. Yeah, right. It should be funny, but the relentless sexism and homophobia eventually grates. Witless pricks.

Debut from London post-rockers named after H-bomb test island

The former Mrs Cobain emerges from rehab to release her debut solo album

Delicious ambient funk from slippery former Japan bassist

Nico steals the show at Velvets' short-lived reunion

Archive radio sessions and between song interview chat, 1964-1968.

The diabolical face of punk

Rod Stewart was a better singer than Mick Jagger—and at least as good a bottom-wiggler—but the Faces were always a poor boy's Stones, and this DVD can't rewrite history. Cheaply produced with ugly thumbnail factoids running below it, the fragmentary live footage intermittently captures the band's rootsy swagger but also reminds one of what an old tart Rodney could be. Singing "I'd Rather Go Blind" in a gold jumpsuit, he could be Freddie Mercury.

Tribute to the former Beatle, also available as a DVD

Authentically rootsy Delta blues meets the ancestors