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Classic Welsh artists: Catatonia, Manic Street Preachers and Stereophonics.

The best Welsh bands of all time

Big alternative hits from 1983 featureing The Smiths, Echo. The Bunnymen Depeche Mode and The Cure.

The 25 best Indie songs of 1983

Some of the biggest indie tracks of including tracks by The Cure, Depeche Mode, New Order, Pixies, The Stone Roses and Happy Mondays.

The 25 best Indie Songs of 1989

Great Welsh Classic Rock artists: Badfinger (from Swansea); Bonnie Tyler (from Neath); Tom and Kelly Jones (from Treforest and Cwmaman); and The Alarm (from Rhyl).

The greatest ever Classic Rock songs from Wales

Great TV appearances: Queen on Top Of The Pops; The Stone Roses on The Other Side Of Midnight; The Smiths on The Tube; and David Bowie trying to get into the BBC Television Centre in 1964.

The 10 greatest debut TV appearances

Some fine British debut albums from the wonderful 90s: The Sundays, Suede, PJ Harvey, Massive Attack, Oasis, Elastica, The Charlatans, Portishead, Stereophonics, Mansun, Inspiral Carpets and Muse

The 25 best British debut albums of the 1990s

Classic eponymous albums from Fleetwood Mac, The Stooges, Genesis and Black Sabbath

The best "self-titled" Classic Rock albums

Thom Yorke and Radiohead's 1993 debut album Pablo Honey.

10 debut albums by great artists that aren't their best

Inluential Albums from The Beatles to the Monkeys, via Bowie, The Stooges and more.

25 of the most influential albums in music history

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