News, Views and Music Issue 97 (Intro)

April 28:

Yes, it’s finally here! Wahoo! The day of days we thought would never come! There’s going to be street parties and flags and everything, as neighbours turn to their neighbours and say ‘have you heard the news, isn’t it utterly fantastic!’ A chance to get patriotic again, to celebrate what we have and how far we’ve come since the last one. Yes it’s been several decades since the last time it was in the news, but there it actually is in my diary: the date that The Beach Boys’ original ‘Smile’ might be released at last, 20 years after some of the sessions first appeared on the band’s ’30 Years Of Good Vibrations’ box set! (What did you think I meant?!) To celebrate, we’ll be looking at another great and till recently ‘lost’ Beach Boys album by Dennis Wilson and a special extended top 10 featuring the best AAA albums that never quite came out as planned. Oh and in some other news, some posh bird we don’t know is marrying some posh bloke we don’t want to know, as part of an anachronism in this country that somehow seems to have survived the 20^th century for no good reason. Anyway, on with the news...

                                                                         

Before we start our news section proper I just had to make a note of something. Good gracious – after 20 years of waiting for a biopic of the world’s greatest classical composer and the one with the most interesting life to boot (Holst if you didn’t know – and if not why weren’t you reading our top five a couple of issues back?!) Sunday night saw the very first on TV ever – even though Holst died 77 years ago! - and the programme ran for nearly two and a half hours! Hurrah! Holst is even composer of the week on radio 3 this week and very overdue it is too (even if they used all the really good performances up five years ago when they did him the first time!) Wow – and so soon after mentioning him here on this newsletter too. Now then, what else can I mention here and hope to get a programme about soon? Hmm, how about Belle and Sebastian? There hasn’t ever been a prog on them either...

♫ Beach Boys News: Smile sessions: Talking of unexpectedly world-shattering news, get this – The Beach Boys have announced that finally, after 45 years, they are ready to release the ‘Smile’ sessions to the world! Van Dyke Parks was talking about it in Mojo this month and says that even Mike Love has agreed to it’s release (albeit he agreed to the Pet Sounds box set – and then had it cancelled, postponed and re-worked twice!) Details are sketchy as yet, but it looks likely to be released in the summer, will include the album track listing as featured on Brian Wilson’s solo re-recording of 2004 (Classic album no 101 on our list) and various ‘alternate takes’. There is also due to be some extra downloadable-only content and a nice lot of extra packaging. Hurrah again!

♫ Beatles News: A few bits of Beatle news for you this week! First up, there’s a new Arena programme dedicated to Beatles producer George Martin this Easter Monday (April 25^th), together with a repeat of the fab fab four film ‘A Hard Day’s Night’. Arena programmes about the Beatles have been a bit mixed over the years – the Linda McCartney special was generally excellent, but their Brian Epstein tribute came with an awful lot of errors and misunderstandings, so let’s hope this programme - featuring contributions from the producer alongside Paul and Ringo – is closer to the first. Oh and when are we going to get a programme about Ron Richards (not just The Hollies’ long term producer but the man who auditioned The Beatles at EMI and told George Martin they might be ‘worth his while’ to look at).

Secondly, there’s two glossy new Beatles books out this month, each with a rather hefty price tag. ‘Linda McCartney: A Life In Photographs’ features 150 large-size pics taken from all of Linda’s previous books (‘Linda’s Pictures’ being the best, featuring early shots of the Dead, the Stones, the Airplane, Janis Joplin and a ridiculously young CSN as well as lots of Beatles), compiled by Macca and Annie Leibovitz (co-author of Astrid Kircherr’s excellent photo collection last year). Alas a price of £45 puts it out of the reach of most fans at the moment.

Talking of photos, there’s another new book – ‘The Lost Beatles Photographs’ – out this week at the slightly more reasonable price of £20, featuring lots of previously unseen pics of The Beatles during their three American tours from 1964 to 1966. The shots were taken by the band’s US tour manager Bob Bonis and are reprinted with his memories and with text from Larry Marion (most of which is about being beaten by various Beatles at monopoly, we understand!) There’s also some intriguing facsimiles, too, including a pound note signed by the band (with Lennon quoting his initials as ‘LSD’!), Bonin’s travel pass and long forgotten newspaper clippings (including George Harrison getting into trouble for accidentally knocking a drink over a leading actress of the day).

Finally, a reminder for the rare Wings radio documentary this week (Tuesday and Wednesday) on BBC6 in the middle of the night. But one question – why the hell have BBC6 tried to rope it in on the back of the ridiculous non-event of a fiasco of a ‘Royal Wedding’  (because it features a ‘couple in the spotlight’!) The following two night’s Johnny Cash documentary has an even more tenuous link (June Carter isn’t in the doc, which is called ‘An American’ – ie nothing to do with the supposedly-British-but-really-German Royals and were they really in the spotlight for the same reasons as Wills and Kate? We think not! And while I’m on the subject for a rant, what’s with the gingerbread Royal pair in our local bakery window? They’ve been a bit generous to Kate there – or is Prince William really marrying Katie Price? (I wouldn’t put it past Prince Harry!) OK, rant over now, I promise.  

♫ Pink Floyd News: The good news for Floyd fans – Syd Barrett’s estate have finally agreed to the most lavish book about the troubled Floyd founder yet, full of unreleased drawings, photographs, letters to and from three early admirers/girlfriends and even some early Syd poems, a staggeringly extensive collection that reveals more about Syd in a single sitting since the release of his second and final solo LP in 1970! There’s even a ‘terrapin’ on the front cover! Aaaah! The bad news, though, is that this lavish two-part book comes with a hefty £70 price tag – or in other words the price of seven whole Floyd albums on CD at current prices (or, in my usual terminology, a staggering 140 sausage rolls from Greggs The Bakers!) Let’s hope there’s a cheaper paperback version sometime soon - I can’t see this appearing in a charity shop anytime soon!

               

ANNIVERSARIES: Birthday greetings to AAA members born between April 30^th and May 6^th: Amazingly two CSN girlfriends have their birthdays on May 1^st, Judy Collins (who turns 72 this year) and Rita Cootlidge (who turns 67) and birthday greetings also to Jo Callis (synthesiser with The Human League 1981-85) who turns 56 on May 2^nd. Anniversaries of events include: The Kinks, supported by The Yardbirds, headline their first UK tour (when they actually get it together enough to turn up – cancelled Kinks shows are legendary among fans, April 30^th 1965); Roger Daltrey’s film ‘McVicar’ about the escaped and reformed convict premieres in London – the other members of The Who get a credit for ‘musical supervision’ (April 30^th 1980); A sad day for collectors as The Beach Boys officially scrap ‘Smile’ (May 2^nd 1967); On the same day in 1979 The Who’s film ‘Quadrophenia’ premieres – a mere six years after the double album of the same name came out – and The Who Two debut in concert, with Small Faces drummer Kenny Jones taking over from Keith Moon a year after the latter drummer’s death (May 2^nd); Pink Floyd’s single ‘Another Brick In The Wall’ is famously banned in South America after children take it up as a rallying cry against the poor education and services on offer there (May 2^nd 1980); Happy birthday recorded music! Yes it was this week in 1886 (May 4^th to be exact!) that a patent was awarded to Chichester Bell and Charles Sumner Tainter for their invention of the gramophone; and Happy 45^th Birthday Moody Blues, who were formed a mere 78 years after the gramophone on May 4^th 1964; the Buffalo Springfield disband on May 5^th 1968 after four glorious but frustrated years with a final show at Long Beach, California (please release the soundtrack of this show, Atlantic!); Mick Jagger and Keith Richards buy a new fuzz-box for their guitar and, duly inspired, end up writing their key song ‘Satisfaction’ the same day (May 6^th 1965) and finally, Paul Simon sets out on his first solo tour three years after the break-up of Simon and Garfunkel (May 6^th 1973).

News, Views and Music Issue 97 (Top Ten): Unfinished AAA albums

‘Pacific Ocean Blue’ should not have been the end of the story. The follow-up, ‘Bambu’, came so close to being completed for at least five years that it hurt – or at least it did for the few Beach Boys who’d ‘got’ the brilliance of this album at the time and clamoured for another album like it. And Dennis was hardly alone in the AAA kingdom – there are dozens of other ‘lost’ albums spread across the catalogues that deserve to be finished off with as much care as Dennis’ followers devoted to his albums. So what we’re going to do this week is celebrate ‘Bambu’ and 10 other projects that came close to being released. We’re just including albums that were partly completed, by the way, not those planned (otherwise we’d also have included the album that should have been for The Searchers in 1966 and ended up being a long list of wonderful A and B sides, the Grateful Dead studio album of 1971 that ended up coming out spread across the next two live records and the non-Grace Slick follow-up to ‘Jefferson Airplane Takes Off!’ that was abandoned when Signe Anderson quit the band).

1) Dennis Wilson: ‘Bambu’ (album recorded 1978-1979, finally released in unfinished form in 2006): As anyone whose seen the long list of Dennis Wilson tributes to coincide with this finally finished album will know, Dennis’ life towards the end was a catalogue of disasters and unfortunate events. ‘Pacific Ocean Blue’ sold quite well – better than the Beach Boys albums either side of it anyway – and Caribou were eager for a follow-up. Music was certainly flowing through Dennis’ veins freely at the time and he put one heck of a lot of work into this follow-up, which by the sound of the session tapes would have been looser and wilder than ‘Blue’ but more or less up to the same high standard. Alas, Dennis’ money troubles caught up with him and he had to sell his home recording studio fractionally short of releasing this album (which might well have given his finances enough of a boost to keep him going for many more years). The whole thing is frustratingly like ‘Smile’, a genius forward-looking album that might have changed the world lost to something as everyday and humdrum as a bill that needed collecting. Beacuse even in an unfinished state ‘Bambu’ sounds fabulous – and parts of it are among the best, most moving pieces Dennis ever wrote. If ‘Pacific Ocean Blue’ is Dennis’ lyrical, thoughtful and moody album with strings (shades of ‘Pet Sounds’ there), then ‘Bambu is Dennis’ ‘Smile’, other-worldly, alien and yet so sympathetic and accessible. And like Brian, Dennis sounds as if he knows he’s sinking and the project will never be finished (‘It’s Not Too Late’, with brother Carl offering hope to Dennis’ weary yawn, is actually saying the complete opposite of its title).  Highlights include the moody ballad ‘Love Remember Me’ as Dennis realises he won’t get love in his present or future like he did in his past, the punchy power rock of ‘Wild Situation’ and the low-down funky autobiography of ‘He’s A Bum’ that manages to be sad and self-deprecating all at the same time. It would have been a similar 9/10 classic.

2) The Beach Boys “Smile” (album recorded 1966/67, finally released in a re-recording by Brian Wilson 2004): We’ve already talked about the completed version of ‘Smile’ millions of times on this site so let me instead reiterate how exciting the news is that The Beach Boys’ original might be coming out at last. Contrary to popular belief, the original sessions saw a good 90% of the album completed – all the backing tracks and all but three pieces with vocals – and even though Brian and collaborator Van Dye Parks didn’t get their final completed sequence down on paper till the 21^st century, you can still hear that Brian came blooming close. Smile is magical, music still so far ahead of it’s time that we haven’t caught up with it yet, so imagine how mesmerising all this stuff must have sounded in 1966. Hopefully the world will be able to hear that soon (if one or other of the band doesn’t cancel the project at the 11^th hour – like one or other of the band always has done traditionally in the past 20 years) and will know, like me, that this is a 10/10 album. They’re all highlights really but give ‘Cabinessence’ a go to understand the concept of this album: the song casually breaks so many rules along the way and still manages to pack in a thousand years of American history in under four minutes on a song that manages to be both accessible and alien. 

3) The Beatles “Untitled” (‘Childhood’ album, recorded 1966, abandoned 1967): Moving on from Beach Boys, few Beatles fans know that during it’s first official sessions the album that came to be known as ‘Sgt Pepper’ once looked very different. The first songs recorded, ‘Penny Lane’ and ‘Strawberry Fields Forever’ were intended to be the backbone of the band’s follow-up to ‘Revolver’ and were written completely independently by Lennon and McCartney. When the pair realised their synchronicity they decided to base a whole album around the themes of their childhood (‘Strawberry Fields’ being a Salvation Army Home where a schoolboy Lennon used to play; ‘Penny Lane’ being a district of Liverpool where a teenage McCartney used to get the bus into town) and even added a third song, ‘When I’m 64’, first written by Macca during his childhood (at aged 14, to be precise). Alas EMI needed a single for the Christmas 1966 market and only ‘Fields’ and ‘Lane’ were ready. Meeting in the new year, the band decided to start their album from scratch and came up with the very weird idea for Peppers – how better could it have been with a series of songs on the lines of ‘In My Life’?! 

4) Buffalo Springfield “Stampede” (recorded 1966 into 1967): Fans still argue about how close this album came to being the Springfield’s second album and how much is just hearsay, but one fact remains: the record company thought they were close enough to getting a record to commission the artwork (featuring Dickie Davis in a big hat filling in for absentee Neil Young) and there are enough outtakes and originally unreleased songs from this period to fill up a triple record. Whilst it’s clear this second album wouldn’t have been as impressive as the one we got (the delightful psychedelic collage ‘Buffalo Springfield Again’), ‘Stampede’ would nevertheless have been a great album. Whilst no selection of tracks was ever agreed it would probably have included the elliptical Young song ‘Whatever Happened To Saturday Night?’, Neil’s ‘Down To The Wire’ (released on his ‘Decade’ compilation, although a version exists with Stills on lead too), Stills’ delightfully Beatlesy ‘We’ll See’ and ‘Neighbour Don’t You Worry’, Richie Furay’s ‘My Kind Of Love’ and a lovely first version of Poco’s ‘Nobody’s Fool’, a thumping cover of pop song ‘No Sun Today’ and an otherwise unknown song given the nickname ‘Telephone Pole’, in honour of the obstacle that got in Stills’ way and caused his car to crash on the way to the session! No masterpiece, but far too good to languish in the vaults (until much of it appears on the 2000 ‘Buffalo Springfield’ box set anyway). 6/10.

5) Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young “Human Highway” (recorded 1974): There have been so many abandoned and unreleased CSN/Y albums down the years they even got their own top five a few issues ago (‘news and views’ no 33 to be exact). This one came the closest and should have been the long awaited follow-up to ‘Deja Vu’. The project started well enough, with all four men meeting up in Hawaii (‘by accident’ according to some reports), enjoying each other’s company and digging each other’s songs. The quartet even agreed to tour again – a well received, sell out stadium tour the likes of which had never been seen before that nevertheless caused tensions and splits between the four. The tensions grew bigger during recordings and so another CSNY project bit the dust –astonishingly it wasn’t until 1988 that the true four-way follow-up to ‘Deja Vu’ came out. Only a handful of recordings were finished, sprinkled across various solo albums and retrospectives and rarities sets and included a first version of Stills’ poppy ‘See The Changes’ (which appeared as a moody ballad on 1977’s ‘CSN’), a startling take of Crosby’s ‘Homeward Through The Haze’ (as heard on the CSN box set) and Young’s ‘Through My Sails’  (a slight ballad which appeared on Neil’s ‘Zuma’). Other songs attempted and re-recorded in different versions include Nash’s ‘Prison Song’ and ‘Grave Concern’ (re-recorded for ‘Wild Tales’), Stills’ ‘Myth of Sisyphus’ (re-recorded for ‘Stills’) and Young’s ‘Human Highway’ (re-recorded for ‘Comes A Time’), as well as an unreleased-except-on-Youtube Crosby song ‘Little Blind Fish’, the only time you’ll hear all four members of CSNY trading lines on a song. It might not have measured up to the first CSN album or Deja Vu, but it still would have been great. 8/10. 

6) John Lennon and Yoko Ono “Milk and Honey” (recorded 1980, finally released in 1983): There is a ‘Milk and Honey’ in the record shelves of all good retailers, of course, and a darn fine album it is too – Lennon heard raw, the way he was meant to be and the way he annoyingly isn’t on his ‘proper’ comeback record ‘Double Fantasy’. But how true to life would this follow-up have been had Lennon lived? Certainly John was on a roll in late 1980, recording myriad versions of dozens of songs – many still unreleased, at least in demo form, despite a cornucopia of archive and rarities sets in the years since his death. I’d like to think that he’d have seen the worth in these songs, especially masterpieces like ‘Steppin’ Out’ ‘Nobody Told Me’ and ‘Borrowed Time’ and left them roughly as they sound on the finished project. But I’m intrigued what Lennon would have done to the two ‘demos’ that did make it out on the record: the funky reggae-ish ‘Forgive Me, My Little Flower Princess’ which sounds slight on record but could have been another ‘Jealous Guy’ with more work and ‘Grow Old Along With Me’, which sounds delightful even in half-baked, piano-with-a-drum-track backing as it is on album (I really hope he wouldn’t have added the awful string arrangement that George Martin overdubs in 2000 for the ‘Lennon Anthology’). And Yoko? All of her songs allegedly come from after Lennon’s death, during those desperately sad months of early 1981 when she threw herself into her music and came out with one of her better albums ‘Season Of Glass’. Swap some of her weaker songs from the finished ‘Milk and Honey’ for that album’s ‘Mindweaver’ ‘No One Can See Me Like You Do’ and the gorgeous then-unreleased ‘Winter Friend’ (like many of those songs taken from the abandoned 1974 album ‘A Story’) and you’d have the best John Lennon album of all, with or without Yoko. A potential 9/10, lowering to 4/10 depending whether Lennon would have made his new songs sound ‘soppy’ or not as he did on ‘Double Fantasy’.     

7) Paul McCartney “Return To Pepperland” (recorded 1987): Most Beatles fans know about ‘Milk and Honey’ and ponder what it could have been had Lennon lived. Paul McCartney did live, however, and yet fell so out of favour in the late 1980s that few if anybody care for his unreleased songs from the era. That’s a shame because, while not up to his best work, there’s some interesting experiments on this forgotten project (some of which made its way to B-sides down the years, such as the under-rated minor gem ‘Keep Coming Back To Love’,  and the sessions’ best track ‘Rough Ride’ – left unchanged for the 1989 ‘Flowers In The Dirt’ album). There are stories that Paul didn’t like his new producer Phil Ramone or that he felt his material in the period was ‘lacking’. Both are probably true – the 1980s synthesiser quagmire on these recordings is worse even than ‘Pipes Of Peace’ and some of these songs truly are Paul’s worst, especially the annoyingly twee title track that’s as far removed from 1967’s adventurism as possible (’20 years later, who would have guessed? Nelson Mandela still under arrest!’) and the hideous ‘Beautiful Night’ (a 1997 re-recording makes n awful song sound even worse!) But with a little bit of work this could have been a fine album – apart from the delightfully funky ‘Rough Ride’ there’s LIndiana, one of Paul’s better love songs for his wife and the hypnotic instrumental ‘Squid’ which proves Paul was keeping up with musical trends some of the time. Unchanged this album would have sunk Paul’s stock even lower – but there is potential to this album so we give it a cautious 4/10. A word too for the original double album version of ‘McCartney II’, which makes so much more sense than as a watered down single LP, and will hopefully see the light of day once more when the ‘McCartney Collection’ release it as their follow-up to ‘Band On The Run’ later on in the year.

8) Moody Blues “Untitled” (The missing ‘8^th album’ started and abandoned in 1973): I never realised until the latest Moodies ‘deluxe’ CD re-issues how close the band came to making a ‘final’ final album after the difficult ‘Seventh Sojourn’ sessions. The Moodies never did have a grand falling out, just a general setting in of ennui and disillusion, so they cautiously did start an eighth untitled album before calling it a day. Only one song from the sessions exists – Justin Hayward’s ‘Island’ – but oh what a starting point it could have been! Now unlike a lot of fans I love ‘Seventh Sojourn’ – its, pardon the term, moody soundscape and downcast weariness really suits the Moodies’ songs in this period and the band have never sounded maturer. ‘Island’ would have been the perfect starting point for a follow-up, a song every bit as good as the best on ‘Sojourn’, with a melancholy mellotron lick and an impressive set of lyrics about isolation and trying to overcome misery. Goodness knows what the other songs from the sessions would have been like (judging from the solo records the Ray Thomas ones would have been great, the Mike Pinder ones so-so and the Graeme Edge and John Lodge ones a mess) but judging by the one song that does exist it could have been the best Moodies album of all.

9) Pink Floyd “Household Objects” (recorded 1974 into 1975): By far the weirdest album on this list is the Floyd’s aborted follow-up to ‘Dark Side Of The Moon’. Looking for another overall concept they could use to ‘tag’ their songs with (ie like ‘Dark Side’s loose concept about the pressures of life and causes of madness) they turned to an album about ‘everyday life’, played on a variety of ‘everyday’ instruments’ (including wine glasses, rubber bands and cutlery). The album would have taken forever to record, snapping already strained relations past breaking point, and the few bits that did make it to record have never been released to date. It does still exist though – it’s all ‘unusable’ apparently, but that didn’t stop the Beatles’ Anthology projects – and would make for interesting listening, even in condensed form, although nobody really knows what songs would have been used for the project (the resulting album, ‘Wish You Were Here’, is pretty much started from scratch). We can’t really give this album a rating as we’ve never heard it, but let’s hope the Floyd give us the chance sometime soon!

10) Neil Young “Chrome Dreams” (recorded 1976 into 1977): We’ve already covered this fascinating unfinished album in ‘News and Views’ no 70, but this most intriguing of all unfinished Young albums is well worth discussing again. Nobody really knows what changed Neil’s mind about releasing this album and replacing over half of it with a largely unlistenable collection of half-baked country songs – but then, it’s Neil we’re talking about here so this kind of mind-change isn’t entirely unexpected. What’s frustrating is that pretty much the best songs from the next three Young projects (‘American Stars ‘n’ Bars’ ‘Comes A Time’ and the much-lauded ‘Rust Never Sleeps’) almost entirely come from this album’s abandoned sessions. Alternate early versions of songs like ‘Powderfinger’ ‘Pocahontas’ and ‘Sedan Delivery’ exist that I think are even better than the finished version, there’s much-heralded classics such as ‘Like A Hurricane’ ‘Star Of Bethlehem’ and the under-rated Fan Favourite ‘Will To Love’ plus the title and best track from ‘Comes A Time’. Add in ‘Love Is A Rose’ and ‘Campaigner’ from greatest hits/rarities package ‘Decade’ and you have possibly the best Neil Young album of all. So well regarded is this set by fans (who either own it on bootleg, heard bits via YouTube or have reconstructed it themselves) that it’s almost counted as a ‘proper’ album nowadays (to the point where Neil named his 2008 album ‘Chrome Dreams II’). A definite 9/10 had Neil actually released it that way.

And so ends another newsletter – let’s hope that some of these classics really do see the light of day for a wider audience sometime soon! (Especially ‘Smile’!) Till then, happy listening and see you next week (when the Royal Wedding should be all over, thank Goodness!)

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

143) How Every AAA Band Got Their Name (News, Views and Music 155...

What difference does a name make? Arguably not much if you’re already a collector of a certain group, for whom the names on the album sleeves just...

144) AAA Top 10: The Motor Car (News, Views and Music 156)

This week’s top ten honours the humble motor car. The death trap on wheels, the metaphor for freedom, the put-down of capitalism, a source of...

145) AAA Singles With The Most Weeks On The US Billboard Charts (...

This week we’re going to have a look at the 10 AAA singles that spent the most weeks at number on the American chart ‘Billboard’ – and it makes for...

146) AAA Albums With The Most Weeks On The USA Billboard Charts (...

Following on from last issue’s study of the American Billboard charts, here’s a look at which AAA albums spent the most weeks on the chart. The...

147) AAA Songs Featuring Whistling (News, Views and Music Issue 1...

There are many dying arts in our modern world: incorruptible politicians, faith that things are going to get better and the ability to make decent...

148) The Session Musicians Who've Played On The Most AAA Albums (...

This week we’ve decided to dedicate our top ten to those unsung heroes of music, the session musicians, whose playing often brings AAA artists (and...

149) Top 10 Silliest AAA Album Titles (News, Views and Music Issu...

Naturally we hold our AAA bands in high esteem in these articles: after all, without their good taste, intelligence and humanity we’d have nothing to...

150) A Short Guide To 10 AAA Spin-Off Bands (News, Views and Musi...

What do you do when you’ve left a multi-million selling band and yet you still feel the pull of the road and the tours and the playing to audiences...

151) Martin Kitcher "The ATOS Song (You're Not Fit To Live)"

‘The ATOS Song’ (You’re Not Fit To Live)’ (Mini-Review) Dear readers, we don’t often feature reviews of singles over albums or musicians who aren’t...

152) AAA Songs (More Or Less) Exclusive To Film Soundtracks (News...

In honour of this week’s review of an album released to cash in on a movie soundtrack (only one of these songs actually appears in ‘Easy Rider’...and...

153) AAA Alcohilic-hic! Songs (Top 10 News, Views and Music 164)

Hic! Everyone raise a glass to the rock stars of the past and to this week’s feature...songs about alcolholic beverages! Yes that’s right, everything...

Spoken Word Passages On AAA Songs (News, Views and Music Top...

154) The human singing voice carries with it a vast array of emotions, thoughts that cannot be expressed in any other way except opening the lungs and...

156) AAA Songs About Carlisle (News, Views and Music Top Five Iss...

Everyone has a spiritual home, even if they don’t actually live there. Mine is in a windy, rainy city where the weather is always awful but the...

157) AAA Songs About Children Being Born (News, Views and Music I...

Having a family does funny things to some musicians, as we’ve already seen in this week’s review (surely the only AAA album actually written around...

158) The Best AAA Outtakes (News, Views and Music Issue 168)

Some artists just have no idea what their best work really is. One thing that amazes me as a collector is how consistently excellent many of the...

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

169) The Last 10 AAA Songs Listed Alphabetically http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/the-last-10-aaa-songs-listed.html%20%0d170

170) Tributes To The 10 AAA Stars Who Died The Youngest http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/the-10-youngest-aaa-stars-at-time-of.html%20%0d171

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 

17 3) NME/Melody Maker Questionairres Filled Out By AAA Bands http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/nmemelody-maker-questionairres-filled.html

174) Top Ten AAA Bootlegs http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/top-10-aaa-bootlegs-news-views-and.html

175) Days Of The Week AAA Style http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/days-of-week-aaa-style-news-views-and.html

176) AAA Musicals http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/aaa-musicals-news-views-and-music-issue.html

177) Interesting AAA Line-Ups That Were Or Nearly Were http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/ten-interesting-aaa-line-ups-that-were.html

178) The 101 Greatest AAA Songs Of All Time (Maybe?!) http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/the-greatest-101-aaa-songs-well-ish-see.html

179) Mrs Thatcher Meets The Devil http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/mrs-thatcher-meets-devil-plus-intro-for.html

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

songsrecordings-by-aaa-stars-news.html

181) The Ten Oldest AAA Songs http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/the-ten-oldest-aaa-songs-news-views-and.html

182) AAA Artists (Books Of Paintings) http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/aaa-artists-books-of-paintings-news.html

183) AAA Appearances on TV Show 'Colour Me Pop' http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/aaa-appearances-on-colour-me-pop-tv.html

184) AAA Years In Song http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/aaa-years-in-song-news-views-and-music.html

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

186) Five Top AAA Apps http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/top-five-aaa-apps-news-views-and-music.html

187) The Ultimate Grateful Dead Concert Setlist http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/the-ultimate-grateful-dead-concert-top.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

189) Top Ten Dave Davies Songs http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/top-ten-dave-davies-songs-news-views.html

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

191) Famous AAA Fathers: http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/famous-aaa-fathers-news-views-and-music.html

192) The Best Five AAA Re-Issue CD Series http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/the-best-five-aaa-re-issues-series-news.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

194) Ten Of The Best AAA Riffs http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/ten-of-best-aaa-riffs-news-views-and.html

195) Twenty AAA Milestone Moments Part One 1956-66 http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2013/08/twenty-aaa-milestone-events-part-one.html

196) Twenty AAA Milestone Moments Part Two 1967-80 http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2013/08/twenty-aaa-milestone-events-part-two.html

197) Eleven Random Recent Purchases http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2013/08/eleven-random-recent-purchases.html

198) Five AAA Outcasts Who Know More Than They Let Onhttp://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2013/08/five-aaa-outcast-characters-who-know.html

199) That's Why They Call It The (Top Ten) Blues! http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/thats-why-they-call-it-bluesaaa-top-ten.html

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

201) The Music Never Stopped: AAA Youtube Video #5 http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/the-music-never-stopped-alans-album.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

203) Ten AAA Stars In Further Education http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/aaa-stars-in-further-education-top-five.html

204) AAA Dramas and Plays http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/aaa-dramas-and-plays-news-views-and.html

205) Abandoned AAA Album Covers http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/abandoned-aaa-album-covers-top-ten-news.html

206) Chinese Horoscopes AAA Style http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/chinese-horoscopes-aaa-style-top-twelve.html

207) Top Ten Songs The Beatles 'Gave Away' http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/top-ten-songs-beatles-gave-away-news.html

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