A house

Third album from erstwhile Weather Prophet Pete Astor and pal

Mr Cooper's attempt to teach the garage-rock whipper-snappers a thing or two

Based on a John Cheever story, this 1968 movie stars Burt Lancaster as a seemingly prosperous and urbane middle-aged man who decides to swim back to his suburban house via all the pools in the neighbourhood. But his journey turns out to be an exposé of his personal downfall. An enigmatic meditation on the American Dream, marred only by a couple of hazy, slo-mo scenes that radiate '60s naffness.

Six years and three albums later, FQ is still one big enigma

Roots-based album of covers from poor man's Springsteen

"Thirteen big, salty tears," blurbs Black. "Like 13 little black dogs just born... ready to howl at the world"

First album in four years from many-aliased Michael Paradinas

Quarter-century of Beeb appearances from the Newhaven rabble-rouser

Eclectic New Yorkers triumph over the punk-funk hype

"Oh, I just don't know where to begin," Elvis Costello swooned in the opening line to his lusciously hummable 1979 hit "Accidents Will Happen". Not strictly true. Elvis Costello has always known precisely where to begin. Knowing when to stop, that's been another kettle of worms. His latest batch of reissues being a case in point. Each has been fattened up for market with a mind-bending welter of bonus tracks, so that Get Happy!!, a 20-track tour de force in the first place, now weighs in at 50 tracks (with Trust at 31 and Punch The Clock at 39, see right).