Album

Forty songs extracted from records found in the Beatle's portable jukebox

Recorded for MTV's acoustic strand in 1994, this catches the Mighty Zimm midway between the raw-boned graverobbing of World Gone Wrong and Time Out Of Mind's resurrection shuffle. A respectable, if slightly sterile flick through his back pages—"The Times They Are A-Changin'", "Knockin' On Heaven's Door" and "Like A Rolling Stone"—though he seems most fired up by newer material like "Shooting Star" and "Dignity". Not the stuff of legend, but not to be sniffed at.

Dizzee Rascal associate's musically excellent, lyrically moribund debut

Near-concept album about US '80s new wave bop-pop from electroclash prime mover

Doyens of orchestral disco celebrate 35th birthday with best album for aeons

New York punk goes classical. Or vice versa

First 'solo' album appended with Beserkley Chartbusters tracks including "Roadrunner (Once)", and the one with "Egyptian Reggae" on it

And the "friends" include Ringo Starr, George Harrison and Eric Clapton. Recorded in front of a studio audience in London in 1985, Perkins never needed six guitarists back at Sun Studios in the '50s, and producer Dave Edmunds should have booted out half of them. But Perkins is in vigorous voice, a quiffed-up George turns out to be a total rockabilly king, and when the Teds start jiving in the aisles, it's irresistible.

Second album from US producer, remixer and DJ takes a song-based approach

Unusual album of cover versions from idiosyncratic not-quite folkie