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Featuring formative versions of classic songs, the super-deluxe edition of ‘Talking Heads: 77’ offers rare insight into NYC’s art-rock heroes.

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The best reissues of 2024 are bringing classic albums back to life in ways fans have never seen nor heard before.

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Rich, rowdy and thoroughly rewarding, The Pogues’ debut album, ‘Red Roses For Me’, remains a landmark work of folk-punk fury.

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From waves of neo-psychedelia to lashings of pop-punk ire, the best albums of 2024 prove this year has been packed with watershed moments.

A mid-80s classic, ‘Too Tough To Die’ was a hard-hitting album that found punk pioneers Ramones fighting for their legacy.

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Keen to throw off punk’s straitjacket, Green Day made ‘American Idiot’ an epic concept album. It’s arguably the best record of their career.

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Think learning’s for nerds? These best songs about school will teach you a thing or two about scoring top marks in rock’n’roll rebellion.

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Although they were still developing their style in 1974, Ramones had found a unique sound by the time they debuted at New York’s CBGB club.

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Combining the anger of punk with pop nous and thrilling ambition, ‘21st Century Breakdown’ found Green Day leading the field yet again.

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Loud, politically-charged and ready to stick it to the man, Wayne Kramer and MC5 all but invented punk music in the late 60s.

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