Buying Guides

Buying guide W.A.S.P's infamy as leading shock metallers of the 1980s belies a back catalogue full of serious classic rock-influenced songwriting

Buying guide The six-decade career of Meat Loaf was a carnival of excess, full of theatre, motorcycles, teen lust, and soaring, roaring guitars. Here's Meat's albums from disappointing worst to dizzying best

Buying guide These MP3 players from FiiO, Sony and Actico are at the forefront of a digital-library revival - here's my top choices

Buying guide Canada's prog rock heroes have amassed an immense discography over a 50-year career... and now they're hitting the road again

Buying guide From the late 60s through to the late 80s, some of the greatest and most influential albums ever made were doubles

Buying guide Iron Maiden are the undisputed heavy metal daddies of live albums. Here's every one they've released so far, in reverse order of excellence

Buying guide For a brief period in the late eighties, White Lion were genuine contenders for Bon Jovi’s hair metal crown

Buying guide David Bowie’s back catalogue is one of the boldest in rock'n'roll, fizzing with reinvention and renewal - and these are his best albums

Buying guide One of the great American heartland rock'n'rollers, Detroit's favourite son Bob Seger mixed high octane rockers with the most magical of ballads for 50 years

Buying guide Proof that there's much more to Boston and the man who almost single-handedly created their sound than More Than A Feeling