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Pop Will Eat Itself – Pwei Product: Pop Will Eat Itself Anthology 86-94

Comprehensive compendium from indie-rap-rock Midlanders

The Cowboy Junkies – The Best Of The Cowboy

17-track retrospective proves mildly addictive

Baby Bird – The Original Lo-Fi

Remastered replicas of original five self-released LPs plus a sixth of previously unavailable material

Short Cuts

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 Rating Star 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.

Waterson: Carthy – Eliza Carthy

Famous family digs deep for folk roots

Xzibit – Man Vs Machine

Fourth album from Eminem chum

Masami Akita & Russell Haswell – Satanstornade

Noise, basically. Catalogue number 666

Snoop Dogg – Paid Da Cost To Be Da Boss

Original gangsta reforms

Die Another Day

James Bond returns in an unconvincing digital makeover

Ed Wood

Tim Burton's splendid tribute to hapless director Wood, whose incompetence has become part of movie legend. Johnny Depp as Wood looks entirely fetching in a variety of angora sweaters, and there's terrific support from Martin Landau as Bela Lugosi, Bill Murray and Sarah Jessica Parker.
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