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Grunge kings' best-of is sanitised yet magnificent. Includes previously unreleased track

Music of unfeasibly large variety of style

Brilliant comic pastiche which has been crowned Uncut's film of 2002

IMPERIAL BEDROOM MIGHTY LIKE A ROSE ALL DEMON Two ideas seem to connect these albums: production and fascism, emotional or otherwise.

Strong debut from sensitive Lancashire singer-songwriter, with Boo Hewerdine providing the backing

R&B/psychedelic/rock odyssey charted in 45s

Seven-track mini album from UK alt.country act

The Beatles, The Doors, The Bee Gees, Curtis, Kris and Willie etc, are treated to a first-class passage to heaven thanks to Green's matchless ability to inhabit his material. Buy it for yourself, soul brothers and sisters. The Prisoners IN FROM THE COLD BIG BEAT The Prisoners spearheaded an early '80s Medway garage scene that spat in the eye of synth-pop ubiquity. Their fourth LP was released just as their parent label, Stiff, went bust in 1986.

Noise, basically. Catalogue number 666

Three-CD, 64-track compilation of unsung '70s soul visionaries