Album

Four-CD box and DVD on the story of an extraordinary musical dynasty

Previously unreleased 1974 tribute to a former beau

The last two albums prior to his farewell LP, The Wind, Uncut's Album Of The Year for 2003

Rod Stewart was a better singer than Mick Jagger—and at least as good a bottom-wiggler—but the Faces were always a poor boy's Stones, and this DVD can't rewrite history. Cheaply produced with ugly thumbnail factoids running below it, the fragmentary live footage intermittently captures the band's rootsy swagger but also reminds one of what an old tart Rodney could be. Singing "I'd Rather Go Blind" in a gold jumpsuit, he could be Freddie Mercury.

Tribute to the former Beatle, also available as a DVD

Authentically rootsy Delta blues meets the ancestors

Startlingly inventive poetry&sound outing by two of the brightest boys in the class

Four discs of Top Texan twang in a redneck tin shack box

Two-CD remastered reissue of the infamous pop opera, with unreleased tracks

Best-of for leading lights of the '80s US college rock circuit