Monday 23 March 2009

News, Views and Music Issue 26 (Intro)





March 23:

Hello and welcome to all our friends, fiends and family members old and new out there in the happy worlds of hyperspace (can spaces really get hyper? Sorry I digress…) There’s a whole bunch of news to deliver this week so let’s update you quicker than a Neil Young discography needs to be updated and get on with things. First up, welcome to all of you who are joining us after seeing our advert in the April 2009 edition of ‘Record Collector’ magazine (on page 127 to be exact). Have a good look around, make yourself feel at home and give us all the feedback you like (where would rock and roll be without feedback, eh?!?) I’ve been an avid reader of Record Collector magazine since before I was born (no hang on, that sounds wrong …I’ve been reading it as long as I can remember and own back issues that date back to years before I was born, there that sounds better) and I’ve always wanted to advertise something in it without having to sell half my collection for the privilege. And before anyone starts asking, no we don’t have any connections at all with the ‘Alan’s Record Shop’ who are listed in the classifieds above us, that’s just a sweet coincidence, so please don’t start e-mailing in and asking us to sell you records (we’ll only have to point you in their direction if you do).



Secondly, there’s a temporal anomaly stasis flow in the air which can only mean one thing – our long awaited April fools’ day edition is here! (See ‘news, views and music’ no 1255, which should be listed somewhere below this current one). Seeing as I’m away next week and won’t be able to add another ‘proper’ issue to the site for a fortnight, my future self in 2034 contacted me via a hyperspatial tele-tranpsorter link and sent me the missing newsletter by time machine. So here as an exclusive: a unique chance to peek at the future and see what all your favourite AAA artists (and some new ones) will be up to in 25 years’ time. I can’t understand much of it myself – there seems to be something about ‘clandusprods’ which means nothing to me - but it obviously means something in the year 2034 so read on and hope all will be revealed when the time comes! Meanwhile, back in 2009, here is our latest round-up of all newsworthy AAA-things this week… 



Beatles news: More on that edition of ‘Beatles – Rock Band’ game we spoke about a couple of newsletters back. Dhani Harrison, George’s son, has delivered a press release about the game and promises that it will include UNRELEASED BEATLES RECORDINGS!!! Naturally enough, Apple don’t want him to say anything more until things are finalised so we don’t yet know if this means something dreary like alternate mixes a la the “Love” album, alternate versions of previously issued recordings a la the better parts of ‘Anthology’ or completely unknown songs (not that there are many of those still unreleased in the Beatles’ archives, but hey we can dream…and if all this hoo-hah means the band are finally releasing Macca’s apparently weird tape-loop filled ‘Carnival Of Light’ which has been much-talked about in recent months then how the hell are we gamers meant to play along with that?!?) The game is still due for release in September and will include ‘at least’ 100 Beatles tracks to play along with, according to the European Gamer site. For those who don’t know, ‘Rock Band’ is a game for the Xbox 360, Playstation 3 and Wii (though I have it on good authority that you really really really won’t want to buy the last-named console as its the Spice Girls of the gaming world, without substance overblown and hyped…) where you try to follow a coloured-note sequence for either a guitar, bass, drum or microphone part. How the makers of the game are going to include the orchestra-based ‘Yesterday’, ‘Eleanor Rigby’ and the middle section of ‘A Day In the Life’ is anybody’s guess – but, suffice to say, the makers of this site are all very excited by the prospect of becoming ‘the fifth Beatle’ and playing along to some old friends!



Secondly, a DVD entitled ‘Composing The Beatles Songbook: Lennon and McCartney 1966-70’ is out this month featuring interviews with Beatles associates Klaus Voorman (the band’s ‘Hamburg’ friend and bassist on many Beatles solo records), Barry Miles (Macca biographer and manager of Apple Record spin-off ‘Zapple’), Peter Doggett (ex-Record Collector editor and one of the best music journalists around), Johnny Rogan (Beatles and CSNY biographer), Paul Gambacini (1960s expert whose had a hand in pretty much everything) and Maureen Cleave (friend of Lennon’s and the journalist whose interview with Lennon led to the ‘bigger than Jesus’ misquote). Expect detailed analysis of several Beatles tracks!      



Thirdly, there’s yet another Beatles book out in April – and its one of the largest yet! Barry Miles’ ‘The Beatles Phenomenon: A Celebration in Words, Pictures and Music’ just about gets away with the title via the ingenious device of including sheet music of several Beatles songs alongside copious words and pictures (many of them new, so I hear). Extensive appendixes include such common ground as a list of every Beatles and Quarryman gig, recording sessions at Abbey Road and TV appearances, although an interview with a cleaning lady at the Hamburg club where the pre-fame Beatles played is a new one on me! Whether all this is enough for the collector to put up with the price-tag remains to be seen – perhaps it would make a decent birthday present for some of you instead?



Also, I’m not entirely sure where to put this piece of news, but The Beat Goes On are issuing the first two Denny Laine 1970s solo LPs on a single CD for the first time and both of them include contributions from his then-current writing partner Paul McCartney. Both 1973’s ‘Aah…Laine’ and 1977’s ‘Hollydays’ are routinely re-issued and quickly deleted again, passing nearly all of his possible fans by. Well, this time Beat Goes On are sticking the two albums out together, a trick first tried in 2007. Both albums include large cameos for various members of Wings; the former with the early Henry Mccullough-era band and the latter album – recorded at the end of Wings’ ‘London Town’ sessions - is a particular rarity; it’s the only record barring the classic ‘Band On The Run’ that includes Paul, Linda and Denny playing everything between them! The first album features several Denny Laine originals including Wings out-takes and the second features several covers selected from Buddy Holly’s back catalogue (the publishing rights of which had just been bought by Paul McCartney, not co-incidentally)  Both albums are flawed masterpieces which sold fairly poorly at the time despite the presence of an ex-Beatles but, to these ears at least, Denny Laine is a deeply under-rated writer and vocalist and the re-issue of these two albums for the first time in decades is highly welcome.



Belle and Sebastian News:  The good news is that main-man Stuart Murdoch has broken the rather uncharacteristically long gap between Belle and Sebastian records by announcing that he is busy recording a new album, due for release in June. The bad news is that it’s a solo record not recorded with the band (who have gone very quiet since Isobel Campbell left in 2006). The album will feature three guest vocalists (all unknowns chosen after an online singing competition; very Belle and Sebastian that) and has a working title of ‘God help The Girl’. More news if and when we hear it!



Byrds News: Under-rated latter-day member Gene Parsons’ under-rated early 70s solo album ‘Kindling’ was re-issued on CD on March 10th. Tracks include Gene’s re-recording of a Little Feat cover (‘Willin’) heard on the expanded CD re-issue of the Byrds’ ‘Untitled’ CD and 10 Gene Parsons originals, but no bonus tracks by the looks of things!  



Jefferson Airplane News: Guitarist Jorma Kaukanen has released his first solo album in a while, ‘River Of Time’, which includes 13 new songs. Ok, so that was as brief a bit of news as I’ve ever written for this site but hardly anybody takes any notice of Airplane/ Starship releases these days, never mind spin-off solo CDs so I haven’t ot any more to tell you, sorry!



Lindisfarne News: Typical – you write a review of the top five AAA-related BBC session albums and then EMI go and release another promising-looking set which might force me to re-write the list! Yes, as that sentence implies, EMI are at long last re-releasing ‘Lindisfarne: At The BBC, The Charisma Years 1971-73’ on April 6th (An earlier CD release covering the years 1971-75 came out in 2000 and disappeared so quickly I didn’t even get to see what the cover looked like!) There are a massive 36 tracks on the double-CD including all the usual suspects (4 versions of ‘Lady Eleanor’, 3 versions of ‘Fog On The Tyne’) plus some unusual songs (a version of obscure early B-side ‘Knacker’s Yard Blues’, plus a lot of tracks from Alan Hull’s first solo ‘Pipedream’ as played by the mark 2 line-up of the band).While you’re digesting that piece of news, here is a final reminder, too, for the long awaited CD re-issue of Jack The Lad’s fourth album ‘Jackpot’ on Monday! 



Otis Redding News: Otis is having a rather busy month considering that he died 41 years ago – with a live CD and live DVD both due for release in March/the beginning of April. The former, ‘Live in London and Paris’ features 19 tracks from two separate concerts and has been available in Australia since February. Many of the songs are taken from our own AAA classic album ‘Otis Blue’ (see review no 4), along with Otis’ explosive cover of The Beatles’ ‘Day Tripper’.  The latter release, a live DVD entitled ‘Respect! Otis Live’ contains archive footage from 1966-1967 including the Monterey Pop Festival and Otis’ ‘Stax Volt Tour’.  





Small Faces News: A new Steve Marriott DVD, ‘All Or Nothing - Live From London’, recorded in 1985, is due in the shops on March 30th. If my copies of the 1980s ‘pub tours’ are anything to go by Steve really wasn’t in good form by this period but, heck, this is a rare example of Marriott on film in his post-Small Faces/ Humble Pie days and worth a quick re-issue for that alone. The concert was recorded live in London’s Camden Palace Theatre and features an hour of Marriott material from all stages of his career (including my favourite Small Faces song ‘Tin Soldier’ I’m pleased to say!)



Also, there’s been yet another DVD release (I make this the 4th  to date, plus at least 3 VHS versions) of the Bo Diddley tribute concert of 1985. Several AAA artists are involved in the set, including Beach Boy Carl Wilson, Moody Blue John Lodge and the Small Faces’ Ronnie Lane in one of the bassist’s last concert appearances before his MS-related death in 1991. On the positive side, this set is dirt cheap – but be warned, you don’t actually get much of a chance to see anyone in great detail apart from Bo Diddley!  



10cc News: Eric Stewart’s pre-10cc band ‘Wayne Fontana and the Mindbenders’ finally get a decent CD-sized best-of – the first in 13 years! Quite alarming when you consider how many hits they had (and how many infuriatingly poor Hollies and Searchers best-ofs are on the market!) Despite the billing, the set includes several post-Fontana Stewart-sung recordings (including the band’s biggest hits ‘A Groovy Kind Of Love’ and ‘The Letter’) so is compelling hearing for all curious 10cc fans. Most interesting of all to the 10cc collector, however, is an Eric Stewart-led cover of Graham Gouldmann’s classic cheeky psychedelia song ‘Schoolgirl’, a song well known to Hollies collectors after their cover appeared on ‘Abbey Road Volume Two’. This is, as far as I know, the first time the Mockingbird and the Mindbender worked together and pre-dates 10cc by quite a long time.



The Who News: At last, the band’s best ever DVD ’30 Years Of Maximum R and B’ gets a re-issue – it comes out today in fact! – and now includes a full second disc’s worth of extras, running to an impressive 7 hours 50 minutes! For those who don’t know, ‘R and B’ is one of the best career retrospectives of any AAA artist out there, covering the band from 1964 right up to their dissolution in 1982 with plenty of famous career landmarks from Woodstock and The Isle of Wight plus rare TV appearances and filmed-from-the-audience footage. The extras added to this disc include a full concert – alas one dating from 1981 without Moony when The Who were slightly past their peak.     



Neil Young News: Those Neil Young CDs just keep on coming! Just in the six months this site has been up and running we’ve already had a live CSNY CD, a Young-directed CSNY documentary, an archive concert from 1968, an abandoned archive box-set and now a new album. ‘Fork In The Road’ is yet another of those modern quirky Young albums with a concept – all about a car. A bit like the last album, 2007’s ‘Chrome Dreams II’ only the car is one of Neil’s own-designed electronically powered vehicles and inspires several ecologically-based pleas (a bit like ‘Greendale’ then possibly. Oh no). The CD is released on April 6th and a limited edition contains a bonus DVD though I’m not too sure what that will contain as yet. More news when we have it!





Anniversaries: Happy Birthday To You if your name happens to be Susanne Sulley (vocalist with The Human League 1981-present). Anniversaries of events this week include: that momentous day in the Beatles’ professional life – the day they first wore gray collarless suits! (at a gig in Barnston, March 23rd 1962), the publication of ‘In His Own Write’, Lennon’s surreal mix of childlike drawings and adult humour which became a best-seller in 1964 (March 23rd), the release of Pink Floyd’s mega-selling ‘Dark Side Of the Moon’ (March 24th 1973), the premiere of Who film ‘Tommy’ (March 26th 1975) and the opening of the Royal Albert Hall by Queen Victoria, site of many a classic AAA live album and features on the cover of Pentangle LP ‘Basket Of Light’ (March 29th 1871).



And for next week (while we’re away): the Birthday Bumps go to Graeme Edge (drummer with The Moody Blues 1965-present) who turns 67 on March 30th, Ronnie Lane (bassist with the Small Faces 1965-68) who would have been 63 on April 1st, Simon Cowe (guitarist with Lindisfarne 1969-93) who turns 61 on the same day and Jeff Barry (Monkees producer/ composer) who turns 70 on April 3rd. Anniversaries of events include: the ‘first’ Mods vs Rockers clash which took place at Clacton on March 30th 1964 (that’s ‘first’ as in the first one big enough to make the local papers!), Pink Floyd release their first single ‘Arnold Layne’ (March 30th 1967), The Who break the record for concert sales at Madison Square Gardens -  all 80,000 seats are sold out in just 60 hours (April 1 1974), the two seminal Beatles compilations ‘red’ (1962-66) and ‘blue’ (1967-70) are released in the UK on April 3rd 1973 and finally the Beatles occupy all five places on the top five American singles chart, a feat never equalled before or since (April 4th 1964: Can’t Buy Me Love/ Twist and Shout/ She Loves You/ I Want To Hold Your Hand/ Please Please Me – a further seven Beatles singles are also registered in the top 100 for that week!)    


News, Views and Music Issue 26 (Top Five): John Paul and George on Ringo's Solo Albums




And now, as a little additive to the eight solo Beatles albums included on our 101 website list, here are the top five Ringo Starr solo tracks written for him by either John Lennon, Paul McCartney or George Harrison and which album to finds them on. Just for the record, Ringo’s not a bad writer himself (his own ‘It Don’t Come Easy’ and the B-sides ‘Early 1970’ and ‘Blindman’ are more than equal to the songs his ex-colleagues wrote for him) so there may well be a Ringo-written top five coming your way soon! General AAA fans might also want to add to this list the Stephen Stills-written ‘Nice Way’ (one of the better tracks off Ringo’s second-best album, 1981’s ‘Stop And Smell The Roses’) and Brian Wilson’s harmony presence on the ‘no good vibrations’ chorus central to the Ringo-written song ‘Without Understanding’ (one of the better tracks off Ringo’s third-best album ‘Vertical Man’):



5) You And Me (Babe) (Harrison/Mal Evans; available on the ‘Ringo’ album, 1973): One of the loveliest ways of saying goodbye on any record, this song By George and the Beatles’ ever-faithful Roadie Mal depicts Ringo as a nightclub crooner a la Mick Jagger on the Stones’ ‘Satanic Majesties’, albeit with less irony. Ringo fondly bids us farewell, telling both band and audience to go home (it’s a bit like Lennon’s Ringo-sung ‘Goodnight’ but far less treacly I’m pleased to add!) before ending the song with a bit of audience patter thanking, among others, ‘John Lennon MBE, Paul McCartney MBE and George Harrison MBE’ – the closest the four Beatles ever came to appearing on the same record until 1995’s hideous travesty ‘Free As A Bird’ (‘Real Love’ was a bit better, thankfully).



Listen out too for George’s country hoe-down ‘Sail Away Raymond (Sunshine Life For Me)’ from the same album; a song thematically similar to ‘Here Comes The Sun’ with George dreaming of being anywhere except in a noisy Apple Office doing business with an angry lawyer named Raymond. This song would definitely have made this list at no six if only I’d started writing top sixes instead of top fives (Macca’s ‘Six O’Clock’ comes a close 7th - curses! Is it too late to change my newsletter tradition and make this a top 10?!?)



4) I’m The Greatest (Lennon; available on the ‘Ringo’ album, 1973): Lennon wrote three songs for Ringo but the others are pretty dire - the nauseating boogie-woogie nonsense song ‘Goodnight Vienna’ sounds like Jools Holland or Jamie Callum (though on a particularly good day, admittedly) while last-song-published-before-his-house-husband-phase ‘Cookin’ In The Kitchen Of Love’ quite possibly is the worst song Lennon wrote in his life (thank goodness he didn’t record it himself). ‘Greatest’, however, is a treat – written by Lennon in an egotistical mood for his royal walrus-ness to sing, he sensibly decided in a stronger moment that it would be better for Ringo to sing. Ringo’s mix of humility and all-round niceness just about allows him to get away with this song (the lyrics tell us how great the narrator’s friends, family and fans thought he was in teenage days, adult days and stardom respectively) in a way that Lennon probably never could (though his harmony on Ringo’s version is superb). Lennon’s own version (a warm-up vocal at Ringo’s session to show the drummer what the vocals were supposed to sound like) was later released on the 4CD ‘Lennon Anthology’ (2000) and for all of the bum notes and poor production values sounds even better.  Listen out too for the heart-warming mention of ‘Billy Shears’ and adjacent applause in the song (Lennon’s tip of the hat/satire of McCartney’s for the song ‘With A Little Help From My Friends’).      



3) Private Property (Paul and Linda McCartney; available on the ‘Stop And Smell The Roses’ album, 1981): cascading horns, a driving almost-reggae-ish beat – hey, this is ‘Got To get You Into My Life’ without the clever lyrics! Well, actually, that’s a bit unfair – this set of Macca lyrics is still very clever, rhyming ‘property’ monopoly’ and ‘run of with me’ in a way that only Macca can. The whole track is a lot of fun and the McCartney’s backing vocals add a touch of class to the whole thing. Ringo sounds right at home on foot-stompers like this one too – so which idiot kept suggesting he stick to mangling ballads for most of the 70s and 80s?!



2) I’ll Still Love You (Harrison; available on the ‘Ringo’s Rotogravure’ album, 1976):  This doesn’t sound like George or Ringo – this moody ballad full of flashy guitar spikes a la Eric Clapton and an orchestral choir sounds more like Meatloaf than the Beatles. But the chance to hear George’s uncharacteristic guitar work (for it is he) and Ringo’s uncharacteristically strong grasp of the deep and complex tone is a decided treat for curious Beatles fans. Well, it’s better than the ‘Spooky Weirdness’ track on the same LP anyway. This is what Ringo might have sounded like had he been given deep and intellectual songs to sing on the first few Beatles record instead of obscure Motown and Country and Western covers and McCartney-written novelties. 



1) Photograph (Harrison/Starr, available on the ‘Ringo’ album, 1973): The only song on this list that casual (not fellow monkeynuts Beatles collectors) might know is this #8 single. The only official George and Ringo collaboration ever (though the two unofficially co-wrote the Cream B-side ‘Badge’ with Eric Clapton, despite the lack of a credit for the drummer) is a memorable mix of both solo Beatles’ sounds circa 1973. Ringo provides the poppy complexity and clear production of his early solo singles the under-rated ‘It Don’t Come Easy’ and the over-rated ‘Back Off Boogaloo’ while George adds the choral feel and laidback melancholy heard on his concurrent solo albums ‘Dark Horse’ and ‘Extra Texture’. Neither Beatle ever said much about this song but I for one have always assumed the lyrics are about Pattie (George’s first wife who left him for Eric Clapton about this period), which were possibly too close to the bone for George to sing alone. Either way, its mix of upbeat power pop melody and yearning lyrics of loss make for one of the greatest Ringo Starr records to date. Ringo sang a memorable version of this song at the George Harrison memorial concert in 2002 and, what with the track’s images of loneliness after losing someone dear, brought the house down. 





That’s all for another issue, there’s just time for a few words from our resident addled rocker Philosophy Phil: ‘The ocean, however deep it is, can never be as deep as a Brian Wilson song’. Goodbye for the next fortnight, dear readers – Keep Rocking! Keep Reading! Keep Collecting! And most of all, Keep Being You! See you in April!



A NOW COMPLETE List Of Top Five/Top Ten/TOP TWENTY  Entries 2008-2019
1) Chronic Fatigue songs http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2008/08/news-views-and-music-issue-1-top-five.html

2) Songs For The Face Of Bo
http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2008/09/news-views-and-music-issue-2-top-five.html

3) Credit Crunch Songs
http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2008/09/news-views-and-music-issue-3-top-five.html

4) Songs For The Autumn
http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2008/09/news-views-and-music-issue-4-top-five.html

5) National Wombat Week
http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2008/09/news-views-and-music-top-five-national.html

6) AAA Box Sets
http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2008/09/news-views-and-music-issue-6-top-five.html

7) Virus Songs
http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2008/10/news-views-and-music-issue-7-top-five.html

8) Worst AAA-Related DVDs
http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2008/10/news-views-and-music-issu-8-top-five.html

9) Self-Punctuating Superstar Classics
http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2008/10/news-views-and-music-issue-9-top-five.html

10) Ways To Know You Have Turned Into A Collector
http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2008/10/news-views-and-music-issue-9-top-five.html

11) Political Songs
http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2008/11/news-views-and-music-issue-11-top-five.html

12) Totally Bonkers Concept Albums
http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2008/11/news-views-and-music-top-five-totally.html

13) Celebrating 40 Years Of The Beatles' White Album
http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2009/11/top-five-issue-13-40-years-of-beatles.html

14) Still Celebrating 40 Years Of The Beatles' White Album
http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2008/12/news-views-and-music-issue-14-top-five.html

15) AAA Existential Questions
http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2008/12/news-views-and-music-issue-15-top-five.html

16) Releases Of The Year 2008
http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2008/12/news-views-and-music-issue-16-top-five.html

17) Top AAA Xmas Songs
http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2008/12/news-views-and-music-issue-17-top-five.html

18) Notable AAA Gigs
http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2009/01/news-views-and-music-issue-19-top-five.html

19) All things '20' related for our 20th issue
http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2009/02/news-views-and-music-issue-20-aaa-songs.html

20) Romantic odes for Valentine's Day
http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2009/02/news-views-and-music-issue-22-top-five.html

21) Hollies B sides
http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2009/03/news-views-and-music-issue-23-top-five.html

22) 'Other' BBC Session Albums
http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2009/03/news-views-and-music-issue-24-top-five.html

23) Beach Boys Rarities Still Not Available On CD
http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2009/03/news-views-and-music-issue-25-top-five.html

24) Songs John, Paul and George wrote for Ringo's solo albums
http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2009/03/news-views-and-music-issue-26-top-five.html

25) 5 of the Best Rock 'n' Roll Tracks From The Pre-Beatles Era
http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2009/04/news-views-and-music-issue-27-top-five.html

26) AAA Autobiographies
http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2009/04/news-views-and-music-issue-28-top-five.html

27) Rolling Stones B-sides
http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2009/04/news-views-and-music-issue-29-top-five.html

28) Beatles B-Sides
http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2009/05/news-views-and-music-issue-30-top-five.html

29) The lllloooonnngggeesssttt AAA songs of all time
http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2009/05/news-views-and-music-issue-31-top-five.html

30) Kinks B-Sides
http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2009/05/news-views-and-music-issue-32-top-five.html

31) Abandoned CSNY projects 'wasted on the way'
http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2009/05/news-views-and-music-issue-33-top-five.html

32) Best AAA Rarities and Outtakes Sets
http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2009/06/news-views-and-music-issue-34-top-five.html

33) News We've Missed While We've Been Away
http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2009/07/news-views-and-music-issue-35-top-five.html

34) Birthday Songs for our 1st Anniversary
http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2009/07/news-views-and-music-issue-37-top-five.html

35) Brightest Album Covers
http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2009/07/news-views-and-music-issue-37-top-five.html

36) Biggest Recorded Arguments
http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2009/07/news-views-and-music-issue-38-top-five.html

37) Songs About Superheroes
http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2009/08/news-views-and-music-issue-39-top-five.html

38) AAA TV Networks That Should Exist
http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2009/08/news-views-and-music-issue-40-top-five.html

39) AAA Woodtsock Moments
http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2009/08/news-views-and-music-issue-41-top-five.html

40) Top Moments Of The Past Year As Voted For By Readers
http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2009/08/news-views-and-music-issue-42-top-five.html

41) Music Segues
http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2009/09/news-views-and-music-issue-43-top-five.html

42) AAA Foreign Language Songs
http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2009/09/news-views-and-music-issue-44-top-five.html

43) 'Other' Groups In Need Of Re-Mastering
http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2009/10/news-views-and-music-issue-45-top-five.html

44) The Kinks Preservation Rock Opera - Was It Really About The Forthcoming UK General Election?
http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2009/11/news-views-and-music-issue-46-top-five.html

45) Mono and Stereo Mixes - Biggest Differences
http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2009/11/news-views-and-music-issue-47-top-five.html

46) Weirdest Things To Do When A Band Member Leaves
http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2009/11/nerws-views-and-music-issue-48-top-five.html

47) Video Clips Exclusive To Youtube (#1)
http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2009/11/news-views-and-music-issue-49-top-five.html

48) Top AAA Releases Of 2009
http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2009/12/news-views-and-music-issue-50-top-five.html

49) Songs About Trains
http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2010/01/news-views-and-music-issue-51-top-five.html

50) Songs about Winter
http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2010/01/news-views-and-music-issue-52-top-five.html

51) Songs about astrology plus horoscopes for selected AAA members
http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2010/02/news-views-and-music-issue-53-top-five.html

52) The Worst Five Groups Ever!
http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2010/02/news-views-and-music-issue-54-top-five.html

53) The Most Over-Rated AAA Albums
http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2010/03/news-views-and-music-issue-56-top-five.html

54) Top AAA Rarities Exclusive To EPs
http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2010/03/news-views-and-music-issue-57-top-five.html

55) Random Recent Purchases (#1)
http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2010/04/news-views-and-music-issue-58-top-five.html

56) AAA Party Political Slogans
http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2010/05/news-views-and-music-issue-60-top-five.html

57) Songs To Celebrate 'Rock Sunday'
http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2010/05/news-views-and-music-issue-61-top-five_21.html

58) Strange But True (?) AAA Ghost Stories
http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2010/05/news-views-and-music-issue-61-top-five.html

59) AAA Artists In Song
http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2010/06/news-views-and-music-issue-63-top-five.html

60) Songs About Dogs
http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2010/06/news-views-and-music-issue-65-top-five.html

61) Sunshiney Songs
http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2010/07/news-views-and-music-issue-67-top-five.html

62) The AAA Staff Play Their Own Version Of Monoploy/Mornington Crescent!
http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2010/07/news-views-and-music-issue-68-top-forty.html

63) What 'Other' British Invasion DVDs We'd Like To See
http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2010/07/news-views-and-music-issue-69-top-five.html

64) What We Want To Place In Our AAA Time Capsule
http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2010/08/news-views-and-music-issue-70-top-five.html

65) AAA Conspiracy Theroies
http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2010/08/news-views-and-music-issue-72-top-ten.html

66) Weirdest Things To Do Before - And After - Becoming A Star
http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2010/08/news-views-and-music-top-ten-aaa-stars.html

67) Songs To Tweet To
http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2010/09/news-views-and-music-issue-74-top-five.html

68) Greatest Ever AAA Solos
http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2010/09/news-views-and-music-issue-75-top-ten.html

69) John Lennon Musical Tributes
http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2010/10/news-views-and-music-issue-77-top-five.html

70) Songs For Halloween
http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2010/10/news-views-and-music-issue-78-top-five.html

71) Earliest Examples Of Psychedelia
http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2010/11/news-views-and-music-issue-79-top-five.html

72) Purely Instrumental Albums
http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2010/11/news-views-and-music-issue-81-top-five.html

73) AAA Utopias

74) AAA Imaginary Bands
http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2010/11/news-views-and-music-issue-82-top-five.html

75) Unexpected AAA Cover Versions
http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2010/12/news-views-and-music-issue-83-top-five.html

76) Top Releases of 2010
http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2010/12/news-views-and-music-issue-84-top-five.html

77) Songs About Snow
http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2010/12/news-views-and-music-issue-85-top-five.html

78) Predictions For 2011
http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2011_01_02_archive.html

79) AAA Fugitives

80) AAA Home Towns
http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2011/01/news-views-and-music-issue-88-home.html

81) The Biggest Non-Musical Influences On The 1960s
http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2011/01/news-views-and-music-issue-89-top-five.html

82) AAA Groups Covering Other AAA Groups
http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2011/02/news-views-and-music-issue-90-top.html

83) Strange Censorship Decisions
http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2011/02/news-views-and-music-issue-91-top-ten.html

84) AAA Albums Still Unreleased on CD
http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2011/02/news-views-and-music-issue-92-top-five.html

85) Random Recent Purchases (#2)
http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2011/03/news-views-and-music-issue-93-top-ten.html

86) Top AAA Music Videos
http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2011/04/news-views-and-music-issue-94-top-ten.html

87) 30 Day Facebook Music Challenge
http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2011/04/news-views-and-music-issue-95-top.html

88) AAA Documentaries
http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2011/04/news-views-and-music-top-five-aaa.html

89) Unfinished and 'Lost' AAA Albums
http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2011/04/news-views-and-music-issue-97-top-ten.html

90) Strangest AAA Album Covers
http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2011/05/newsa-views-and-music-issue-98-top-ten.html

91) AAA Performers Live From Mars (!)
http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2011/05/news-views-and-music-issue-99-top-ten.html

92) Songs Including The Number '100' for our 100th Issue
http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2011/05/news-views-and-music-issue-100-top-five.html

93) Most Songs Recorded In A Single Day
http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2011/05/news-views-and-music-issue-101-top-five.html

94) Most Revealing AAA Interviews
http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2011/06/news-views-and-music-issue-102-top-five.html

95) Top 10 Pre-Fame Recordings
http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2011/06/news-views-and-music-issue-103-top-ten.html

96) The Shortest And Longest AAA Albums
http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2011/07/news-views-and-music-issue-104-top-ten.html


97) The AAA Allstars Ultimate Band Line-Up
http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2011/07/news-views-and-music-issue-105-top.html

98) Top Songs About Sports
http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2011/07/news-views-and-music-issue-106-top-ten.html

99) AAA Conversations With God
http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2011/07/news-views-and-music-issue-107-top-ten.html

100) AAA Managers: The Good, The Bad and the Financially Ugly
http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2011/08/news-views-and-music-issue-108-top-ten.html

101) Unexpected AAA Cameos
http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2011/08/news-views-and-music-issue-109-top-ten.html

102) AAA Words You can Type Into A Caluclator
http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2011/08/news-views-and-music-issue-110-top-five.html

103) AAA Court Cases
http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2011/09/news-views-and-music-issue-111-top-five.html

104) Postmodern Songs About Songwriting
http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2011/09/news-views-and-music-issue-112-top-five.html

105) Biggest Stylistic Leaps Between Albums
http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2011/09/news-views-and-music-issue-113-top-ten.html

106) 20 Reasons Why Cameron Should Go!
http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2011/09/news-views-and-music-issue-114-top.html

107) The AAA Pun-Filled Cookbook
http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2011/10/news-views-and-music-issue-115-top-five.html

108) Classic Debut Releases
http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2011/10/news-views-and-music-issue-116-top-five.html

109) Five Uses Of Bird Sound Effects
http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2011/10/news-views-and-music-issue-118-top-five.html

110) AAA Classic Youtube Clips Part #1
http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2011/10/news-views-and-music-issue-119-top.html

111) Part #2
http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2011/11/news-views-and-music-issue-120-top.html

112) Part #3
http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2011/11/news-views-and-music-issue-121-top.html

113) AAA Facts You Might Not Know
http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2011/11/news-views-and-music-issue-122-top-ten.html

114) The 20 Rarest AAA Records
http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2011/11/news-views-and-music-issue-123-top.html

115) AAA Instrumental Songs
http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2011_12_04_archive.html

116) Musical Tarot
http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2011/12/news-views-and-music-issue-125-top-23-i.html

117) Christmas Carols
http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2011_12_18_archive.html

118) Top AAA Releases Of 2011
http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2011_12_25_archive.html

119) AAA Bands In The Beano/The Dandy
http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2012/01/news-views-and-music-issue-128-top-five.html

120) Top 20 Guitarists #1
http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2012/01/news-views-and-music-issue-129-top-ten.html

121) #2
http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2012_01_15_archive.html

122) 'Shorty' Nomination Award Questionairre
http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2012_01_22_archive.html

123) Top Best-Selling AAA Albums
http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2012_01_29_archive.html

124) AAA Songs Featuring Bagpipes

125) A (Hopefully) Complete List Of AAA Musicians On Twitter
http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2012_02_19_archive.html

126) Beatles Albums That Might Have Been 1970-74 and 1980
http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2012_02_26_archive.html

127) DVD/Computer Games We've Just Invented
http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2012_03_11_archive.html

128) The AAA Albums With The Most Weeks At #1 in the UK
http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2012_03_18_archive.html

129) The AAA Singles With The Most Weeks At #1 in the UK
http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2012_03_25_archive.html

130) Lyric Competition (Questions)
http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2012_04_15_archive.html

131) Top Crooning Classics
http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2012_04_22_archive.html

132) Funeral Songs
http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/news-views-and-music-issue-142-top-five.html

133) AAA Songs For When Your Phone Is On Hold
http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/news-views-and-music-issue-143-top-five.html

134) Random Recent Purchases (#3)
http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/news-views-and-music-issue-144-top-five.html

135) Lyric Competition (Answers)
http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/news-views-and-music-issue-146-top.html http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/news-views-and-music-issue-145-top-five.html

136) Bee Gees Songs/AAA Goes Disco!
http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/news-views-and-music-issue-147-top-five.html

137) The Best AAA Sleevenotes (And Worst)
http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/news-views-and-music-issue-148-top-ten.html

138) A Short Precise Of The Years 1962-70
http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/news-views-and-music-149-top-eight.html

139) More Wacky AAA-Related Films And Their Soundtracks
http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/top-five-for-news-views-and-music-150.html

140) AAA Appearances On Desert Island Discs
http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/top-eight-aaa-desert-island-discs.html

141) Songs Exclusive To Live Albums
http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/news-views-and-music-issue-153-top-10.html

142) More AAA Songs About Armageddon
http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/aaa-armageddon-songsalbums-top-5-for.html

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159) A (Not That) Short Guide To The 15 Best Non-AAA Bands http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2012/11/a-not-that-short-guide-to-15-of-best.html%20%0d160

160) The Greatest AAA Drum Solos (Or Near Solos!) http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2012/11/the-greatest-aaa-drum-solos-or-near.html%20%0d161

161) AAA Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall Of Fame Acceptance Speeches http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2012/11/aaa-rock-and-roll-hall-of-fame.html%20%0d162

162) AAA Re-Recordings Of Past Songs http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2012/12/aaa-re-recordings-of-past-songs-news.html%20%0d163

163) A Coalition Christmas (A Fairy Tale) http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2012/12/a-coalition-christmas-news-views-and.html%20%0d164

164) AAA Songs About Islands http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2012/12/aaa-songs-about-islands-news-views-and.html%20%0d165

165) The AAA Review Of The Year 2012 http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2012/12/the-aaa-review-of-year-2012-news-views.html



166) The Best AAA Concerts I Attended
http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/the-best-aaa-concerts-i-attended-news.html

167) Tributes To The 10 AAA Stars Who Died The Youngest http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/tributes-to-10-aaa-stars-who-died.html



168) The First 10 AAA Songs Listed Alphabetically
http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/the-first-10-aaa-songs-if-listed.html


171) The 10 Best Songs From The Psychedelia Box-Sets ‘Nuggets’ and ‘Nuggets Two’ http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/the-best-of-two-nuggets-psychedelia.html%20%0d172

172) The 20 Most Common Girl’s Names In AAA Song Titles (With Definitions) http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/girls-names-in-aaa-song-titles-from.html 








180) First Recordings By Future AAA Stars http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/first-





185) A Tribute To Storm Thorgerson Via The Five AAA Bands He Worked With http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/a-tribute-to-hipgnosis-via-five-aaa.html



188) Surprise! Celebrating 300 Album Reviews With The Biggest 'Surprises' Of The Past Five Years Of Alan's Album Archives! http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/celebrating-300-album-reviews-10.html


190) Comparatively Obscure First Compositions By AAA Stars http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/comparatively-obscure-debut.html



193) Evolution Of A Band: Comparing First Lyric With Last Lyric: http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/evolution-of-band-comparing-1st-lyric.html







200) The Monkees In Relation To Postmodernism (University Dissertation) http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/university-dissertation-monkees-in.html


202) Carly Simon's 'You're So Vain': Was It About One Of The AAA Crew? http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/carly-simons-youre-so-vain-was-it-about.html















217) AAA 'Christmas Presents' we'd most like to have next year http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2013/12/aaa-christmas-presents-wed-most-like-to.html




221) Dr Who and the AAA (Five Musical Links) http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.com/2014/01/dr-who-and-five-musical-links-to-alans.html

222) Five Random Recent Purchases http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.com/2014/01/five-random-recent-purchases-news-views.html

223) AAA Grammy Nominees http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.com/2014/02/aaa-grammy-nominees-top-twelve-news.html

224) Ten AAA songs that are better heard unedited and in full http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.com/2014/02/ten-aaa-songs-that-are-better-unedited.html

225) The shortest gaps between AAA albums http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.com/2014/01/the-shortest-gaps-between-aaa-albums.html

226) The longest gaps between AAA albums http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.com/2014/02/the-longest-gaps-between-aaa-albums.html

227) Top ten AAA drummers http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.com/2014/03/top-ten-aaa-drummers-news-views-and.html

228) Top Ten AAA Singles (In Terms of 'A' and 'B' Sides) http://www.alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2014/03/top-ten-aaa-singles-and-b-sides-news.html

229) The Stories Behind Six AAA Logos http://www.alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2014/03/the-stories-behind-six-aaa-logos.html

230) AAAAAHHHHHH!!!!!!! The Best Ten AAA Screams http://www.alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2014/04/the-best-aaa-screams-top-ten-news-views.html

231) An AAA Pack Of Horses http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2014/04/aaa-songs-about-horses-top-ten-news.html

232) AAA Granamas - Sorry, Anagrams! http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2014/04/aaa-anagrams-news-views-and-music-issue.html

233) AAA Surnames and Their Meanings http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2014/04/aaa-surnames-and-their-meanings-news.html

234) 20 Erroneous AAA Album Titles http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2014/05/twenty-erroneous-aaa-album-titles-news.html

235) The Best AAA Orchestral Arrangements http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2014/05/fifteen-great-aaa-string-parts-news.html

236) Top 30 Hilariously Misheard Album Titles/Lyrics http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2014/05/top-thirty-hilariously-misheard-aaa.html

237) Ten controversial AAA sackings - and whether they were right http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2014/05/ten-controversial-aaa-sackings-news.html

238) A Critique On Critiquing - In Response To Brian Wilson http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2014/06/a-critique-on-critiquing-in-response-to.html

239) The Ten MusicianS Who've Played On The Most AAA Albums http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2014/08/the-ten-musicians-whove-played-on-most.html

240) Thoughts on #CameronMustGo http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2014/11/thoughts-on-cameronmustgo.html

241) Random Recent Purchases (Kinks/Grateful Dead/Nils Lofgren/Rolling Stones/Hollies) http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2014/12/six-random-recent-purchases-kinksg.html 

242) AAA Christmas Number Ones http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2014/12/aaa-christmas-number-ones.html 

243) AAA Review Of The Year 2014 (Top Releases/Re-issues/Documentaries/DVDs/Books/Songs/ Articles  plus worst releases of the year) http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2014/12/aaa-review-of-year-2014.html

244) Me/CFS Awareness Week 2015 http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2015/05/mecfs-awareness-week-at-alans-album.html

245) Why The Tory 2015 Victory Seems A Little...Suspicious http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2015/05/why-tory-victory-seems-deeply.html

246) A Plea For Peace and Tolerance After The Attacks on Paris - and Syria http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2015/11/a-plea-for-peace-and-toleration.html

247) AAA Review Of The Year 2015 http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2015/12/the-aaa-review-of-year-2015.html

248) The Fifty Most Read AAA Articles (as of December 31st 2015) http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2016/01/the-fifty-most-read-aaa-posts-2008-2015.html

249) The Revised AAA Crossword! http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.com/2016_07_10_archive.html


251) Half-A-Dozen Berries Plus One (An AAA Tribute To Chuck Berry) http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2017/03/an-aaa-covers-tribute-to-chuck-berry.html

252) Guest Post: ‘The Skids – Joy’ (1981) by Kenny Brown  https://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2017/06/guest-post-skids-joy-1981.html


254) Guest Post: ‘Supertramp – Some Things Never Change’ by Kenny Brown https://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.com/2018/06/guest-review-supertramp-some-things.html

255) AAA Review Of The Year 2018 https://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.com/2018/12/the-aaa-review-of-year-2018.html

256) AAA Review Of The Year 2019 plus Review Of The Decade 2010-2019 https://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.com/2019/12/the-alans-album-archives-review-of-year.html



257) Tiermaker https://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.com/2019/06/alans-album-archives-on-tiermaker.html

258) #Coronastock https://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.com/2020/04/coronastock.html

259) #Coronadocstock https://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.com/2020/05/coronadocstock.html