OMD were always the most reasonable of electropoppers, and much of their eponymous 1980 debut album resembles a sixth-form music project with songs ranging from the endearingly daft ("Red Frame/White Light") to the accidentally profound ("Messages"). Organisation, released six months later, is what they turned into after they had listened to Joy Division; few hit singles have been as darkly ironic as "Enola Gay".

Full-length debut from Australia's acclaimed dreampop/nu-country combo

Compilation of London trip hoppers' four albums to date, plus two new cuts

Latest volume of 20 full-length 12-inch classics from '70s and '80s

Double CD featuring Velvet Underground chanteuse's solo comeback material from early '80s

Three-disc overview of Billy Idol's brigade

Today's New York rockers, posturing Gotham dance music and yesterday's post-punkers from Blighty

Sixties group and session work from Britain's first truly 'modern' guitarist

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

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.