What a long strange trip it's been. Again

Debut album plus CD of previously unreleased demos from '70s Scots funkers

Strong best-of bolstered by five unreleased tracks

Those folky solo years of the late Face

Career-spanning best-of for New Jersey's finest offers a generous helping of rarities

Greatest hits from their major-label years

Three individual box sets featuring miniature CD facsimiles of every EC single from 1977 to 1987

Formed around the original Ants, Bow Wow Wow were often dismissed as a cheap and nasty imitation of Adam's tribal formula. If anything, they were bolder, singing about tape piracy ("C30, C60, C90, Go!") and satanism ("Prince Of Darkness") while their Burundi-Drummers-meets-Ennio-Morricone interface often left the Ants trailing.

First dozen replica 45s from "The Prince" to "Cardiac Arrest"

Three lessons in future-beat history