Kinks

Ex-Wellfed Boys get over losing Zach Shipps to Electric Six with ease

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

Director Tim Burton's father-son fable is his best movie yet

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

Modfather becomes third in celebrity compilation series

New Jersey quartet's 1988 power-pop classic revived

To some, the Captain's 1982 No 1 romp through Rodgers and Hammerstein's "Happy Talk" was the ultimate punk sell-out. Silly beggars! It was, of course, a hilarious act of screwball subversion. Either way, its Goonish novelty was unrepresentative of the two albums that followed. As the best bits collated here show, solo Sensible traded in the same satirical Englishness as The Kinks and Madness ("Croydon", "A Nice Cup Of Tea").

Cult director's comedy-drama with Denis Leary as a messed-up cop

Second album from quirky Belgian star

In most cultures, seven is a magic number. Not in rock'n'roll, where to sustain any degree of originality beyond album three or four is about as rare as a sober Shane MacGowan.