The Kooks

2009 five CD set. 101 Dinner Party Songs is the perfect collection for those intimate parties with family and friends. Featuring a wide array of genres and artists, there's something for almost everybody on this four disc set. Includes cuts from Julie London, UB40, Ann Peebles, Johnny Mercer, Bobby Womack, Eva Cassidy, Willie Nelson, Richard Thompson, The Beach Boys, Sigur Ros and many others. EMI.

David Bowie - Bowie At The Beeb. The Best Of The BBC Radio Sessions 68-72 (2000) [2CD+Bonus CD] {EMI}
EAC rip (secure mode) | FLAC+CUE+LOG -> 1.13 Gb | MP3 @320 -> 508 Mb
Full Artwork @ 300 dpi (jpg) -> 60 Mb
© 2000 EMI / BBC / Jones/Tintoretto | 7243 528629 2 4
Rock / Contemporary Pop / Glam Rock / Experimental Rock / Blue-Eyed Soul

Comprehensiveness isn't always a virtue, as this three-CD set proves. It gathers together everything David Bowie recorded for the BBC between the years referenced in its title, plus a third disc taken from a June 2000 London concert for the famed British radio broadcasting company. Head first to disc two, which focuses on Bowie's in-studio recreations of material from Hunky Dory and Ziggy Stardust, and marvel at the glam-rockabilly heat generated by Bowie's Spiders from Mars band.

Fathers Day is quickly approaching, struggling for ideas NOW Thats What I Call Dad Rock is the perfect gift for a rockin Dad. The definitive list of manthems, this compilation features of the biggest rock and indie anthems. Its time to turn that stereo up!

David Bowie - Bowie At The Beeb, The Best Of The BBC Radio Sessions 68-72 (2000) {2CD+bonus CD, EMI 7243 5 28958 2 3}
EAC rip (secure mode) | FLAC (tracks)+CUE+LOG -> 1.13 Gb | MP3 @320 -> 512 Mb
Full Artwork @ 300 dpi (jpg) -> 101 Mb | 5% repair rar
© 1968-72, 2000 EMI / BBC / Jones–Tintoretto | 7243 5 28958 2 3
Rock / Contemporary Pop / Glam Rock / Experimental Rock / Blue-Eyed Soul

Comprehensiveness isn't always a virtue, as this three-CD set proves. It gathers together everything David Bowie recorded for the BBC between the years referenced in its title, plus a third disc taken from a June 2000 London concert for the famed British radio broadcasting company. Head first to disc two, which focuses on Bowie's in-studio recreations of material from Hunky Dory and Ziggy Stardust, and marvel at the glam-rockabilly heat generated by Bowie's Spiders from Mars band.

A compilation boasting 101 songs and proclaiming them all as ''classics'' is always leaving itself open to ridicule, and it's human nature to be sceptical, but I have to say that this bumper five CD box from EMI in 2009 really is fantastic set. What's rare for a compilation offering so many tracks is just how very few of them are filler. In fact, I don't think that there are any, their all 'indie'' more or less, and the majority of them were big hits.

Who would've thought Tubular Bells, a 49-minute prog symphony, could kickstart the career of a famous billionaire? This 40th birthday celebration of Richard Branson's baby spans two discs (plus a six-track bonus disc), and at its very heart there is, as the liner notes state, "a desire to challenge conceptions and be risk-takers". Post-1977, the danger appears to have petered out – in fact there's something a little Jeremy Clarkson about this drivetime-pop pick'n'mix. But there is always that lustrous Virgin sheen, a cinematic ostentation to the music – from Phil Collins' In the Air Tonight through Massive Attack's Unfinished Sympathy to Air's Sexy Boy. Its latter half – the economy-saving Emeli Sandé, the new EDM overlords – does prompt the question: will we be listening to Deadmau5 in 40 years? Probably not. But will Virgin still be releasing hit records? Absolutely yes.