‘Hit Me: The Best of Ian Dury’ is pure nostalgia, but curated in such a way that you get a real insight into his musical persona.

Phil Ochs’ trenchant, evocative and sometimes amusing insights into corruption and hypocrisy are even more relevant now than they were in the ’60s.

If you weren’t aware of the copyright date of ‘Diamond Hands,’ you could easily be hoodwinked into thinking it is a long lost George Harrison project.

Returning to Sylvester’s ‘Step II’ is a perfect way to not only celebrate Gay Pride Month, but to relive great music from the height of the disco era.

There was still a market for the kind of solid playing and production being made by Bad Company, even amid the rise of punk and new wave.

Out of print for years, the Grip Weeds’ ‘Giant On the Beach’ has been resurrected with a generous dosage of new goodies.

Sporting matching suits and short hair, the Dave Clark Five may have looked wholesome, but their music boomed with force and aggression.

The definitive ‘Songs For Groovy Children’ features all 43 songs performed by Jimi Hendrix and the Band of Gypsys during the Fillmore East concerts in their original sequence.

King Crimson’s ‘In the Court of the Crimson King’ was a product of a time when creating new styles with no boundaries was not only welcomed but expected.

This Best of 2019 list includes both Yes and their former drummer Bill Bruford, and Toto and their former drummer Simon Phillips, among others.