Grateful Dead – The Very Best Of

What a long strange trip it's been. Again

Average White Band – AWB

Debut album plus CD of previously unreleased demos from '70s Scots funkers

Jacques Brel – Infiniment

Strong best-of bolstered by five unreleased tracks

Ronnie Lane – Ain’T No One Like

Those folky solo years of the late Face

Reasons To Believe

Career-spanning best-of for New Jersey's finest offers a generous helping of rarities

The Ones We Love

Greatest hits from their major-label years

Elvis Costello – Singles: Volumes 1,2 & 3

Three individual box sets featuring miniature CD facsimiles of every EC single from 1977 to 1987

Bow Wow Wow – I Want Candy: The Anthology

Formed around the original Ants, Bow Wow Wow were often dismissed as a cheap and nasty imitation of Adam's tribal formula. If anything, they were bolder, singing about tape piracy ("C30, C60, C90, Go!") and satanism ("Prince Of Darkness") while their Burundi-Drummers-meets-Ennio-Morricone interface often left the Ants trailing.

Madness – The Singles Box Vol 1

First dozen replica 45s from "The Prince" to "Cardiac Arrest"

Liaisons Dangereuses

Three lessons in future-beat history
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