Album

Second from Nick Cave drummer's side project

First two albums from late-'60s Frisco proto-grungesters notorious for being "loudest band on the planet"

Grammy-winning songwriter reveals his roots

Clever but irritating one-man band from Chicago

Drug-induced jams from Californian rockers

...lies an even gruffer bunch of songs

Brilliant minimalist NYC hip hop

This legendary album, the centrepiece of the so-called "Doom Trilogy", has waited nearly 30 years to be issued on CD, such has been its author's reputed disenchantment with it. Over that time, On The Beach has become a sort of Holy Grail to Neil Young CD buyers, its continuing unavailability adding to a notoriety which began with the first round of reviews the album received in summer 1974. Early reaction to On The Beach was almost entirely negative and it was only after a certain amount of hindsight had set in that it was accorded any respect, let alone admiration.

Cardiff indie fusioneers' sixth album has all the usual humour and beauty

Confident reworking of historical protest songs by anarcho-punksters