Alex Burrows

The Pogues’ second album Rum, Sodomy & The Lash remains the late Shane MacGowan’s finest moment

The best albums from producer Robert John ‘Mutt’ Lange, unparalleled audio perfectionist and man with the Midas touch, whose sonics sent the careers of AC/DC and Def Leppard soaring

Composer of prog’s greatest conceptual album – among many, many overshadowed works – recalls cutting the invaders’ language in half, casting Phil Lynott as a vicar and scraping his wife’s best pots for a tension-building sound effect

How hardcore heroes Bad Religion recorded a prog album mid career!

Release the bats! Your essential guide to the best of '80s goth

The collected works of grunge's definitive band, analysed and arranged in order of merit

Pick it up! Pick it up! No, really, pick up any of these ska-punk stormers and you're in for a treat

After Dead Kennedys, Jello Biafra was never going to exit the music business quietly: here's our definitive guide to his very best post-DKs output

The in-demand, classic rock-loving South African Kevin Shirley is arguably the 21st century’s leading rock music producer

From punk and post-punk via psychedelia, avant and art-rock, these are the best Siouxsie And The Banshees albums

Bringing the noise since 1985, Public Enemy revolutionised hip-hop with their radical vision. Here's the Long Island, New York group's catalogue rated and ranked

You might know Altered Images from their cutesy '80's pop hits I Could Be Happy and Happy Birthday, but the Glasgow band have their roots in punk rock, as vocalist Clare Grogan explains

Still burning brightly more than four decades into their career, Bad Religion remain one of US punk's most respected bands. Which isn't to say that everything they've recorded is golden

Punk rock lifer Brian Baker (Bad Religion/Minor Threat/Dag Nasty/Samhain and more) chooses his platters than matter

With seven albums released across an 11-year recording career, Shane MacGowan's London-Irish folk-punks The Pogues worked and played hard. But which album is their crowning glory?

With a slick cover of the rougher original version of Hanging On The Telephone, Blondie made the song their own and an era classic

Garbage’s No Gods No Masters saw the band fully maturing their sound against the divisive backdrop of 2021’s culture wars

With their sharp songwriting and lyrical flair, Blondie took the pop-rock artform to a new, and hugely successful, level. These are their best albums