Black country, new road

Previously: 50-35, 34-17

Their legendary album, plus 10 tracks of outtakes and ‘refreshed’ material...

Southern rockers' angry 10th gets back to basics and "blows the fucking roof off"...

A few bits and pieces to mop up today, beginning with one last thankyou to everyone who has posted on the end of year blogs – or, come to that, who's commented on any of the things I’ve written in the past 12 months. It’s been a genuine pleasure to hear from almost all of you; and of course heartening to discover other people interested in the same music.

Find out what we think the greatest records of the Noughties are here

We count down from 100 to 51...

We count down from 150 to 101...see our choices here

Guitar pioneer has died aged 94

The biggest surprise of the day isn’t the weather, which is what you might call glorious, apart from a late afternoon cloudburst that at least gives me the excuse I’ve been looking for to hide under a table, perhaps the only sensible response to an appropriately thundery set by Ben Harper and the aptly-named Relentless7.

See the legends perform A Day In The Life at Hard Rock Calling!