 | White Bread Black Beer by Scritti Politti
Buy new: £8.92 / Used from: £4.00 Aged 51, Green Gartside only went and wrote the best songs of his career. The black beer ads had it right: here's to waiting.
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 | Bigger Than America by Heaven 17
Buy new: £12.95 / Used from: £4.93 Their best collection of songs since "The Luxury Gap", all in a 90s acid sauce.
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 | Crossing Muddy Waters by John Hiatt
Buy used from: £8.50 Gnarly 50-something roots singer in best-album-of-career shock.
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 | Have You Seen Me Lately? by Carly Simon
Buy new: £12.49 / Used from: £3.01 She'd been taking her songwriting pills, and no mistake. A tasty bit of older woman in more ways than one.
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 | Ballbreaker by AC/DC
Buy new: £4.26 / Used from: £3.50 A little bit more restrained than of old, but increased musical expertise makes up for that.
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 | Send Away the Tigers by Manic Street Preachers
Buy new: £5.97 / Used from: £2.45 As passionate and melodic as ever, but without the usual self-indulgence.
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 | New Adventures in Hi-Fi by REM
Buy new: £5.98 / Used from: £0.45 Goodbye jangly guitar pop, hello meaty, atmospheric stadium rock.
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 | The Rhythm of the Saints by Paul Simon
Buy new: £9.98 / Used from: £6.60 Simon visits South America and comes back with an album of strange, hypnotic fabness. Like the Amazon rainforest, it's a grower.
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 | Human Touch by Bruce Springsteen
Buy new: £2.98 / Used from: £1.26 This got a lot of flak on its release, but why shouldn't a 42-year-old create adult-oriented rock, especially when he does it so much better than most?
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 | Refugees of the Heart by Steve Winwood
Buy new: £8.47 / Used from: £2.97 Not his best, but the last album of his winning streak. Needs to be owned for the old-school R&B chuggers "Runnin' On" and "One and Only Man".
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