Alan's Album Archives: 2011-05-01

In-depth reviews of classic or neglected albums, mainly from the 1960s and 70s, now a 30 volume e-book series.Artists covered include Beach Boys, Beatles,Byrds, CSNY, Dire Straits, Grateful Dead, Hollies, Jefferson Airplane/Starship, Kinks, Monkees, Moody Blues, Pink Floyd, Rolling Stones, Searchers, Simon and Garfunkel, Small Faces, 10cc, The Who+Neil Young.Sister site to https://kindredspiritbooks.blogspot.com/ (scifi novels) and https://alonsyaliensdrwho.blogspot.com/ (Dr Who episode reviews)

Thursday, 5 May 2011

News, Views and Music Issue 98 (Intro)

May 5:

I’m back – and I’m very annoyed! No, not with The Queen for once or even the Spice Girls for once but with this stupid computer. Yes, dear readers, DellBoy Mark III is back home, but with half the hard drive space, no graphics card and a CD/DVD drive that’s worked sensibly for fewer hours than the Coalition. I’m particularly angry that my webcam now seems to be non-existent, just when I’d written a great script for my first online ‘news, views and music’ video for Youtube. Alas, having commissioned him to do it already, I’ll have to keep Max the Singing Dog’s salary of bones and top hats up high until it’s made. At least bingo’s drunk his wages already! Soon I shall be hitting the phones (for a third time in a month!) and complaining – but in the meantime enjoy the (all too brief) return of some decent graphics!

Well, thank goodness the Royal Wedding is out the way – I don’t think I could have stood any more patriotism from a country that’s got nothing to be patriotic about. And although the vote for a new election system isn’t till Thursday, at least the Conservatives have stopped sending me leaflets packed with lies about what will happen if I vote to change a corrupt and pointless voting system (what’s the worst than can happen? We’ll get another betrayal from another Lib Dem leader and another corrupt Conservative Government and – shock horror because that’s all they keep telling me – another coalition? Not for the first or last time on this website, David Cameron should be ashamed of himself and, in the words of John Lennon, how the hell do you sleep at night?’) So that leaves me without anything else to moan about – that can’t be right, surely?! So, anyway, it’s on with the news...

It was going so well too last week. I'd even found my long missing Sims disc so was having fun with that again - talking of which with all that talk of jobcentres and benefit forms and David Cameron being a right gomper (see our tweaked Rolling Stones review out this week) I never did tell you what had happened. John Lennon beat the competition and won the game! (well to be fair, his nearest competition was Ringo, the traitor, who walked out of our house! Just as we'd paid for that drumkit and everything!) What did we win? Why only the big mansion at the top of Sim hill!

Anyway I've moved The Beatles over to the game's 'save' file for safe keeping (though Ringo keeps turning up!) and moved CSNY in!!! To be fair they've been leaving down the end of the street for months now while we've been working on The Beatles, but this time they've got my full attention. Well, as much as anyone's got your attention in these games - I spend more time looking after the sims than I do myself and there's always someone else that needs something doing! (Don't quote me on that benefit people - it's a joke!) Any this time it's Crosby's turn to become a star, which sounds like a challenge. Especially as he keeps falling asleep on the sofa every five minutes! We're back to square one with the money (thankfully Lennon kindly bought the mansion outright before he left but we still have to fill the fridge - and boy can Crosby eat!!!) Thankfully Stills and Nash have given up their jobs so now Stills is a full-time painter and getting rather good (well, I don't know what those pictures are meant to be of, but someone keeps buying them!) while Nash spends most of him time tidying up and sighing. Neil Young, meanwhile, won't do anything and won't come out of his bedroom even though I've spent the last of our money on a guitar. Was Laurel Canyon really like this?!

Erm, despite all this hard work don't worry - the 'other' hard work of running this site will still get done. In fact most of its done already this week, which shows you how much I can achieve when the jobcentre actually leaves me alone!!!! Adiue for now from AAA towers, more newsing musicing and grooving next week!

♫ Beatles News: The second and third CDs in the ‘McCartney Collection’ have been announced for June 13^th. Details are still sketchy at the moment but the albums have been confirmed as 1970s ‘McCartney’ and 1980’s ‘McCartney II’. There will be bonus tracks on each set but we’re not sure what they are as yet (did the home-produced McCartney ever produce any outtakes?! Although presumably A and B sides ‘Another Day’ and ‘Oh Woman Oh Why’ will be included as per the last CD issue) but the 1980 album at least will be re-issued in extended form as per last year’s ‘Band On The Run’ 3 CD/1 DVD set (there are oodles of outtakes and extended versions available for that album, which was originally set to be a double and has long been a favourite of bootleggers – it sounds far better as a two CD set too, especially a nearly six minute version of ‘Coming Up’!) More news if and when we hear more details!

♫ Hollies News: A quick reminder too that the long awaited six CD ‘Clarke-Hicks Nash Years’ box set is due out on May 9^th at the very reasonable rate of £12.99 (on Amazon at least). The set includes every single A and B side, album and EP track the band recorded during the Graham Nash years of 1963-68 and a previously unreleased eight track concert from Nash’s dying days with the band in 1968 (of which only ‘The Times They Are A Changin’ has been released before, on ‘Rarities’) months before he left to form CSN. Alas the only downside seems to be that many of the tracks from ‘Rarities’ and ‘The Abbey Road Years’ are missing – such as the Graham Gouldmann song ‘Schoolgirl’, a French Language version of ‘Look Through Any Window’ and the remarkable Italian Song Contest entry ‘Non Prego Per Me’. Having said that, though, there are two more foreign language songs that have never been released in the UK or US on CD and the three tracks first released on the 1980s compilation ‘The Hollies’ are present and correct for the first time in 20-odd years (‘Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah’ ‘Little Bitty Pretty One’ and ‘Poison Ivy’) and ditto the two EP only oddballs (‘When I’m Not There’ and ‘What Kind Of Love?’), not to mention a few odds and ends tidied up from the ‘Long Road Home’ box set (‘Listen Here To Me’ ‘She Said Yeah!’ and the demo for the majestic ‘So Lonely’). So still a fairly good mopping up job for fans if not a perfect one – and if you don’t already own the first seven amazing Hollies albums with Nash on board then you really have no excuse not to buy at this price!

♫ Rolling Stones News: It’s not 5 x 5 anymore as per an American Stones LP of the 1960s but 6 x 6! Sorry you won’t have a clue what I’m talking about so let me explain...The 1980s six part doc ‘The Rolling Stones Story’ at last gets a repeat on BBC6 this week! The documentary, presented by band friend and early ally Alexis Korner, starts in the early hours of Friday morning (3am-4am) and is set to run up to Thursday next week (although knowing how much BBC6 love changing their minds at the last minute, anything could happen!) If I remember rightly this programme goes up to 1989’s under-rated ‘comeback’ Steel Wheels and was the first real documentary to look back at the long career of the Stones rather than just a specific event.

ANNIVERSARIES: Birthday candles are being lit everywhere for AAA members born between May 7^th and 13^th: Graham Gouldmann (bassist with 10cc 1972-83 plus re-unions) who turns 65 on May 10^th and Ian McLagan (keyboardist with the Small Faces 1966-68) who turns 66 on May 12^th. Anniversaries of events include: An unbeaten record on May 8^th 1965 – no less than nine record in the American top 10 are British (the Beatles’ ‘Ticket To Ride’ and the Stones’ ‘The Last Time’ among them); the Beatles officially sign their contract with EMI and become recording artists, although they won’t actually release anything until October (May 9^th 1962); a year later on the same day, Paul McCartney meets long-term girlfriend Jane Asher for the first time following a prestigious gig for the band at the Albert Hall; The Rolling Stones record debut single ‘C’mon’ (May 10^th 1963); the Beatles officially dissolve Apple Records after eight years (May 10^th 1975); the famous London ‘Games For May’ concert at which Pink Floyd played, among others, debuting their top five single ‘See Emily Play’ (May 12^th 1967) and finally, the first ‘new’ Beatles release in seven years – ‘Live at the Hollywood Bowl’ – is released (May 13^th 1977). Amazingly we’re still waiting for an official CD release even now in 2011!

News, Views and Music Issue 98 (Top Ten): What the heck is going on in these album covers?!

An album’s packaging can be a fans’ first introduction to their new favourite artist and – back in the pre-internet days when you actually had to buy the thing to know what it looked like – packaging was crucial to an album’s success. Just think of the prism on the front of ‘Dark Side Of The Moon’, the band-in-park scenario of ‘Sgt Peppers’ (to be honest, the only reason that awful album’s still iconic these days) and the, err, photo of the Beach Boys feeding the pets in San Diego Zoo for ‘Pet Sounds’. But at least that last shot fits the music and album title, which is more than can be said for some of the covers we’ve selected below. So this week, in honour of the decidedly head-scratching cover for ‘The Present’, here are 10 other curios of AAA packaging that really do have to be seen to be believed....Oh and I’ve temporarily banned 10cc covers from the list because none of them are meant to make any sense, least of all my personal favourite – a sheep on a psychiatrist couch asking ‘Look, Hear, Are You Normal?’ (just beating the deep-sea diver with ‘Deceptive Bends’ into second place!)

10) Belle and Sebastian “The Boy With The Arab Strap” (1998): The title is weird enough (and thankfully, no the cover isn’t a re-creation of the title), but this album’s picture in glorious shades of green is truly weird, albeit it not in the usual B + S type way. We’re used to seeing unknown models and band friends pose as the band in a number of weird and wonderful guises (the acupuncture treatment on the cover of ‘Storytelling’ being particularly odd) – but this one breaks the rules by featuring main songwriter and vocalist Stuart Murdoch. Only, he’s mucking about on a day trip out, looking like he’s re-creating a Monkees romp in the same place The Kinks shot their ‘Village Green’ album cover. A closer inspection reveals that Stuart has just been stabbed and is play-acting pretending to be dead – with a wooden spoon! No mention of this is made on the album’s sleeve-notes, nor is it referred to in any of the song titles or lyrics, nor is it a still from any of the band’s promo videos of the time, nor is the fact reflected in the far more placid shots of the other band members on the inner cover. Hmm, I can just imagine what record company Jeepster thought of that!

9) Buffalo Springfield “Buffalo Springfield Again” (1967): Classic album, tacky cover. What comes to mind when you play the death-defying multitude of psychedelia of this most important of milestones? Probably not an aging fairy reaching out her arms to greet the band while in a wood with some butterflies (what is it with psychedelia and butterflies?!?) and a hummingbird the size of a double-decker bus taking a peck out of Stephen Stills’ head. The band themselves are the size of mount Rushmore, towering over a glacier which seems to have no bearing to the rest of the scene at all (shouldn’t it have melted? The tress around it are big and strong and clearly getting a lot of sunlight!) The one gag that is quite funny is that this collage does feature bassist Bruce Palmer reaching out to the angel uncomprehendingly with arm outstretched (and with a tree hiding the join). The roses on the border of the LP sleeve are also woefully unhip for the time (they still look pretty ghastly now) – if this is what Atlantic think makes for a psychedelic album sleeve then they are badly mistaken and need to sit in a darkened room listening to Jefferson Airplane (who, despite their ongoing war with record company RCA, were themselves pretty decently served by their album covers!)

8) Grateful Dead “From The Mars Hotel” (1974): Funnily enough I’d already planned to review this album next week, so imagine my delight when I realised I could ‘tie’ two articles together and kill two Byrds with one Stones EP (to adapt a phrase). You’d think from the title the hotel on the front would be all space-agey and modern and alien and sophisticated – certainly I did when I used to read about the album on discographies instead of seeing the cover for real. But no – it’s a shabby run down hotel that really did exist in Los Angeles somewhere (and known to the band from touring in the area) which was so run-down it was demolished the following year before it could become a site of special recording history significance. The rear cover, though is much more fitting to our list: all six of the then-current band members are drawn as assorted aliens, somehow still recognisably ‘them’ (how could Jerry Garcia ever look like anybody else?) and yet somehow very different: just dig Bill Kreutzmann’s ‘Donald Duck’ type shoes! I’m still at a loss as to why these characters should be pictured on this record however: by Dead standards it’s a very down-to-earth album (as we’ll be seeing next issue) and the only people really ‘alien’ to us across the album’s lyrics is the president running a ‘ship of fools’ (Darn, why did George W Bush have to go? That sentence would have been a gift for a ribald comment a few years ago!)

7) The Byrds “Dr Byrds and Mr Hyde” (1968): OK, I get this much – the Byrds are changing. They were folk-rock, then psychedelic, then country and, on this new LP, a bit of everything. They’re also a similar-sounding but in DNA terms very different beast from what we had before – whereas in the past we had Gene Clark, David Crosby, Chris Hillman and Roger McGuinn taking turns in the spotlight, from now on this is very much a McGuinn and his McMagical McNuggets show. So much for the ‘Hyde’ aspect of the title. But what on earth does this cover (and more so the back cover) really mean? Schizophrenia? (The band are – literally – beside themselves here). And on the back The Byrds are dressed as spacemen. On horseback. Before taking off their sci-fi gear and riding off, with Stetson cowboy hats, into the distance. Which ‘Byrd’ genre is the nice one and which one is the mad scientist? And why, then, for the first time since ‘Turn! Turn! Turn!’, is there not one space-age sci-fi-ish anthem on the record for us to savour? I’m confused...

6) Paul McCartney and Wings “Back To The Egg” (1979): OK, I’m not a big fan of this album’s overall concept but I kind of get it – inspired by punk and new wave, this is Macca and co with a new line-up, trying to get back to where they once belonged, with a rockier and less polished set than normal. But why, then, issue said album with such a futuristic and space-agey cover? (not unlike ‘The Present’ it has to be said!) For those who haven’t see it, the band are dressed in sci-fi garb in a rocketship, looking out of the rescue hatch to the Earth that they’ve just escaped (and where, presumably, they’d have been sucked down the hole while the ship was in flight?) Surely this cover would have been more fitting for Wings’ ‘space-age’ album ‘Venus and Mars’ but here, accompanying a series of grungy and not that well thought out rockers plus a few exquisite ballads in ‘Eleanor Rigby’ mould, it just seems plain wrong and weird. A bit like some of the album tracks it has to be said – what on earth are ‘Reception’ ‘The Broadcast’ ‘Old Siam, Sir’ and the ‘Rockestra’ theme really about? Answers on an intergalactic postcard...

5) Crosby, Stills and Nash “Live It Up” (1989): Talking of space-age, what the heck was this album collage of workmen building giant cocktail sausages on the moon all about? I’ve heard that it’s meant to be some kind of attack on capitalism, imperialism, MTV (it’s very similar to their logo of the day with Neil Armstrong planting a psychedelic flag onto the moon’s surface) or simply a dig at American commerce of the day. I wouldn’t put that past CSN either – being anti-money and pro-freedom is a theme of many of their songs. But not, it has to be said, a theme of any of their songs from this album, none of which mention the moon or even space (surprisingly they don’t mention the word ‘sausages’ anywhere either). The result is a woefully tacky cover to an actually pretty nifty and under-rated album, which is all the more frustrating given that the background picture (a neat image of the Earth from the space –far more convincing than the Jefferson Starship’s ‘Earth’ cover – and thus representing a bigger picture Earthlings sometimes forget) would have fitted the contents superbly.

4) Oasis “Be Here Now” (1997): This one puzzled me hugely at the time, although everyone else seemed to lap it up. Following on from their out-of-focus pics of the band at home and out on the streets of Manchester for the first two CDs, here’s the band in world-domination rockstar mode, having driven a Rolls Royce into a swimming pool (a la Keith Moon). However, what’s the significance of all the other gubbins here – a giant clock, a giant dice, a giant calendar, a Mod motorbike, a spinning globe and a 1950s gramophone? Even the title doesn’t help – it didn’t mean a lot as a George Harrison song title and here, meaning ‘being here at the moment’, it doesn’t explain why there are so many un-1990s things in the picture (what’s wrong with using a CD player and a giant digital watch if Oasis are ‘being here ie 1997 now’?) Perhaps this weird cover does sum up this occasionally weird album well in one respect though – everything is very big big big, stretched out much further than normal so that even the smallest riffs and understated lyrics sound epic, a bit like this album’s oversized props.

3) Cat Stevens “Mona Bone Jakon” (1970): When you’re busy releasing your big ‘comeback album’ after a period of illness and it’s meant to relaunch your new image as an adult solo star, there are a few rules you have to follow. Cat broke them all with this cover, which he drew himself, with Stevens summing up his new worldly wise outlook with a picture of...a dustbin. To be fair, it’s a very good dustbin and it does make some thematic sense (ie Cat is throwing his past away and getting rid of all the old pop star trappings that caused him harm) but of all the things I never expected to see on an LP cover I think a dustbin would be near the top. Oh and the album name doesn’t help very much either – in case you’re wondering it’s a supposedly sexy name a groupie once gave to a certain part of Cat’s anatomy when he got, umm, ‘excited’ to see her (no prizes for guessing which part!)

2) Pink Floyd “A Momentary Lapse Of Reason” (1987): There are beds everywhere. They stretch along the seashore (!) for a good three miles and took so long for cover artists Hipognosis to put into place that they actually had to do it twice when the tide came in unexpectedly first time out. There’s a man sitting on a bed (first seen rowing a boat for the album’s tie-in single promo video) while a nurse looks on and a dog sniffs around. Now, I’m used to having to work out Pink Floyd covers and enjoy working out the puzzles therein (especially the cow on ‘Atom Heart Mother’ – which is such a great idea at sending up packaging that I’ve missed it out of the list – read news and views no 18 for an interview with the cover star!), but this one’s got me confused. I love the title by the way – in the context of the lyrics it means falling in love but can also be read as Pink Floyd getting back on track now Roger Waters is no longer in the band – but that too bears no resemblance to the album. Or the hospital beds. Or the dogs. Or the nurse. Help, my brain’s just exploded!

1) The Moody Blues “On The Threshold Of A Dream” (1969): The Moody Blues, though, are the real mothers of them all when it comes to confusing covers. There are many many Moodies candidates for this list, from cavemen scrawling line drawings to a foetus rising out of a corpse to smoke blowing out of the ears of Albert Einstein, but third album ‘On The Threshold Of A Dream’ wins the award by a whisker. There’s an ear and eyes painted onto a tree while a space alien that happens to look a lot like a vacuum cleaner looks on and a witch casts a spell over everything. I get the magical things to look at and listen to concept and the witch ties in neatly to the story of Camelot on album track ‘Are You Sitting Comfortably’ but, honestly, what’s with the vacuuming alien? Just when I’m on the threshold of comprehension....

Right, that’s enough of that – who needs drugs when you’ve got albums covers like this lot to look at, eh? We’ll see you next week for a much more normal issue where everything is far more boring and ordinary and when, erm, The Grateful Dead will be playing at the Mars Hotel. See you then!

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208) AAA Song Titles That Are The Same As Other AAA Songs http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/aaa-songs-with-same-titles-as-other-aaa.html

209) Updates to Our 'Special Editions' #1 http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/updates-to-our-special-editions-on.html

210) Most Parodied AAA Albums http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2013/11/the-most-parodied-aaa-album-covers-news.html

211) Longest Average AAA Songs Per Album http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2013/11/the-longest-average-aaa-songs-per-album.html

212) Shortest Average AAA Songs Per Album http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2013/11/the-shortest-average-aaa-songs-per.html

213) An AAA Guide To The Twenty Best Dr Who Stories http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2013/11/the-20-best-doctor-who-stories-aaa.html

214) AAA Songs and Albums Based On Books http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2013/12/aaa-songsalbums-based-on-books-and.html

215) Top Ten AAA Concert Quotes http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2013/12/top-aaa-quotes-from-concerts-top.html

216) Top Ten Surrealist AAA Lyrics http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2013/12/top-ten-sureallist-aaa-song-lyrics-news.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

218) Review Of The Year 2013 http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2013/12/review-of-year-2013-news-views-and.html

219) Nominate This Site For A Shorty Award 2014 http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2014/01/nominate-this-site-for-shorty-award-2014.html

220) A Tribute To Phil Everly http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2014/01/a-tribute-to-phil-everly-everly.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

250) AAA Review Of The Year 2016 http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.com/2016/12/the-aaa-review-of-year-2016.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

253) AAA Review Of The Year 2017 https://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2017/12/the-aaa-review-of-year-2017.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

Thursday, 5 May 2011

News, Views and Music Issue 98 (Intro)

News, Views and Music Issue 98 (Top Ten): What the heck is going on in these album covers?!

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