The Top 10 Reissues of 2007

5 Sandy Denny
Live at the BBC (Island Remasters)
Sandy Denny was a star of British folk and one of its songwriting treasures even when she wasn't in Fairport Convention. In this four-disc set of her solo BBC sessions — three CDs of radio performances and a DVD with a short, stunning 1971 TV appearance — the alehouse purity of the public-domain ballads in 1966 and '67 blooms, after her first Fairport stint, into the signature blend of modernized tradition, acute introspection and bold, vulnerable voice in "Late November" and the literal, lonely "Solo."

6 Young Marble Giants
Colossal Youth (Domino)
The only studio album by the Welsh trio Young Marble Giants, released in 1980 amid the rude noise of British punk, was masterful, defiantly quiet, searing romanticism built from bone-treble guitar, deserted-circus organ and Alison Statton's pure-as-rainwater alto. Colossal Youth's impact long outlived the band (Hole covered "Credit in the Straight World" on 1994's Live Through This) — until this year, when the Giants reunited for a U.K. gig in honor of this maximum-joy reissue fattened with EP tracks, demos and a John Peel radio session.