Album

The Blades Of Grass ARE NOT FOR SMOKING REV-OLA West Coast ex-folksters The Sunshine Company just missed stardom when their version of newcomer Jimmy Webb's "Up, Up And Away" was beaten into the charts by the Fifth Dimension's in 1967.

Remastered 24-CD box set of live performances by establishment-baiting avant-noise terrorists

The Boss' "Rambo" period on three CDs

Remastered CD reissues of Lancastrian rockers

Piano eccentricities from jazz maverick

Surprisingly enjoyable album from Greenwich Village folk veteran

Vaguely upsetting Toronto electronica

Business as usual for newly slimmed-down genius

Another day, another Bond movie. Forgive me if I can't get worked up about the McConcept, although David Arnold is, by any standards, a slick operator who does as much as anyone could to keep the formula fresh. Paul Oakenfold has a stab at remixing the James Bond theme, and, of course, Madonna and Mirwais concoct that title song. Here Madge contrives to sound like a tracheotomy victim rattling through an outtake from the Music album. "Sigmund Freud," she croaks. We wonder why. Then we realise she's simply trying to tell us she read a book once.

Solo debut by 'NSync frontman with production by Timbaland and the Neptunes