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Pete Paphides is a lifelong record collector, music journalist (writing for Mojo, Q, The Times, The Guardian, among others), broadcaster (with two series of Lost Albums, one series of Follow-Up albums, two series of Vinyl Revival and now the weekly Soho Radio show 12pm-2pm).

About a year ago, Liz Buckley at Ace asked me if I would be up for compiling a list of my favourite songs from the Ace catalogue. It was hard to know where to begin. After a while, I figured that a good way to narrow down the infinite choices available to me might be to go through my own collection and put together a continuous vinyl mix of songs that can be found in Ace’s vast inventory. So that’s exactly what I did. Twenty-eight years have elapsed since I bought the first record on this playlist (3 Mustaphas 3, Birmingham HMV, 99p). The most recent purchase happened two days ago in a Crouch End record shop. With its scarcely-seen red-and-white Brit label, The Anglos’ ‘Incense’ looked intriguing enough to play on the shop turntable. Then, not for the first time and probably not the last, I smashed through the budget I had set for myself. Hopefully, when you hear it, you’ll see why leaving it behind was not an option. And if you want to own a copy too, then hats off to the good folk at Ace, who have ensured you won’t have to shell out silly record collector money for it.

Pete's Ace Playlist by Pete Paphides on Mixcloud

Barney is the former U.S. Editor of Mojo and author of, among other books, Say It One Time for the Brokenhearted (about country soul), Across the Great Divide (about The Band) and Waiting for the Sun (about L.A.). He is now Editorial Director of ROCK'S BACKPAGES, the Online Library of Rock & Roll, featuring thousands of classic articles and interviews by hundreds of the best rock writers of the last 40 years. JOIN TODAY at www.rocksbackpages.com

Arthur Mathews has written for television since the early 1990s. Among the shows he has created and/or written (many with co-writer Graham Linehan) are Toast of London, Paris, Father Ted, Hippies, Big Train, The All New Alexei Sayle Show, Brass Eye, Harry Enfield and Chums, The Fast Show, Black Books and The Eejits. He has written a ‘bogus memoir’, Well Remembered Days, as well as The Craggy Island Parish Newsletters, Father Ted - The Complete Scripts (with Graham Linehan) and The Book Of Poor Ould Fellas (with Declan Lynch). As a cartoonist he contributed Doctor Crawshaft's World Of Pop to the New Musical Express and The Chairman to the Observer Sport Monthly. In the theatre, he created the long-running musical I, Keano. His film Wide Open Spaces was released in 2009 and he has recently cowritten (with Paul Woodful) the sitcom Val Falvey starring Ardal O'Hanlon.