Album

The Cole Porter of the Lower East Side adrift in his own wake

Startling label debut for Bay Area singer/harpist

Originally released in September 1969, left Beck's second album read like a superstar summit meeting, but for the guitarist it was just another day at the office. He'd already replaced Eric Clapton in The Yardbirds, supported The Beatles in Paris, and appeared in Antonioni's movie Blow-Up, livening up the psychedelic club scene with some extreme axe-mangling GBH.

Forty songs extracted from records found in the Beatle's portable jukebox

Recorded for MTV's acoustic strand in 1994, this catches the Mighty Zimm midway between the raw-boned graverobbing of World Gone Wrong and Time Out Of Mind's resurrection shuffle. A respectable, if slightly sterile flick through his back pages—"The Times They Are A-Changin'", "Knockin' On Heaven's Door" and "Like A Rolling Stone"—though he seems most fired up by newer material like "Shooting Star" and "Dignity". Not the stuff of legend, but not to be sniffed at.

Dizzee Rascal associate's musically excellent, lyrically moribund debut

Near-concept album about US '80s new wave bop-pop from electroclash prime mover

Doyens of orchestral disco celebrate 35th birthday with best album for aeons

New York punk goes classical. Or vice versa

First 'solo' album appended with Beserkley Chartbusters tracks including "Roadrunner (Once)", and the one with "Egyptian Reggae" on it