Alan's Album Archives: 2011-09-18

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)

Friday, 23 September 2011

News, Views and Music Issue 113 (Intro)

September 23^rd:

Hello again my friendly and faithful AAA hordes. As music followers we’re very used to heavy u-turns from our favourite artists, seeing them head down completely unexpected directions and surprise us with just how different they can sound after an unexpected success (see our top five, below)... But even by musical standards our Coalition cabinet’s a bit of a joke isn’t it? You won’t have heard much about it on the news because they keep quiet about that sort of thing but their hideous schemes for the benefits system is back on despite outcries from everyone with a brain that they will cause poverty and homelessness and will actually cost more money. Under new plans (well, old plans rehashed) those on jobseeker’s allowance may yet be forced to work on community projects for more hours and less money than prisoners sentenced to do the same and those on incapacity benefit will have to ask for every little bit of moeny for every little bill, listing what they need and why (what about birthday and xmas presents? Little things like stamps and TV guides and newspapers, food, bills, CDs?!?!?) Who the heck does Cameron think he is? Just because the deal won’t affect anyone he knows he thinks it’s acceptable to ruin the few things our countries’ got right so far. Well, we’re not going to stand for it, so here at the AAA we implore you to keep your eyes peeled to what’s really going on. There’ll be more of that in our next issue. Rant over, we now return you to your usual music-driven newsletter....

♫ Beatles News: Two bits of Beatle-related news for you this week. ‘Living In The Material World’ is the final title for the Martin Scorcese biopic of George Harrison we told you about some time ago in these pages and the release date is set for October 10^th. The two-disc set, coming straight to DVD, has been produced in collaboration with George’s widow Olivia and features lots of pictures of home footage and memorabilia unseen outside George’s close circle of friends till now. The film is set to premiere in Liverpool sometime at the beginning of next month. There’s also a tie-in book with the same title being produced for October 4^th with text by Olivia.

In other news, Paul McCartney’s ballet ‘Ocean’s Kingdom’ is due out sometime in October – not next year as originally posted by new record company Decca (see last week’s newsletter for why the choice of record company is a complete disguise). Macca’s first album release in two years, this is believe it or not the longest gap between projects since ‘Press To Play’ and ‘Flowers In The Dirt’ in 1986-89! In other Macca news, our favourite bassist recently posted his wedding ‘banns’ at the same London registry office where he married wife Linda in 1969. This means that he’s now free to marry new missus Nancy Shivell at short notice – presumably to avoid the media frenzy that was the Heather Mills fiasco. Good luck Macca – and if it happens suddenly before our next issue (unlikely but possible) our very best wishes to you both.

Look out too for a rare documentary on ‘Magical Mystery Tour’ being broadcast on the ‘Yesterday’ channel (formerly The History Channel) half a dozen times over the coming week in various time slots. Promising interviews with most of the remaining cast (barring The Beatles themselves of course) it will also look at how locations used in the TV-movie have changed over the years and just how badly the special was received on broadcast in black and white on Boxing Day 1967 (contrary to popular belief it was a ratings smash when repeated on January 1^st 1968 in colour!) The Yesterday channel has taken a break from programmes about Hitler and Mussolini for a week to show lots of great 1960s programmes, including music compilations Sounds Of The Sixties and Pop Goes The Sixties – and a documentary about The Monkees (see below!) and is, for next week only, our new favourite channel. More of the same, please!

The Beatles also made the news for two other reasons this week. Firstly, an old document by Brian Epstein to concert venues in South America demanding that the Beatles would only play for mixed audiences (segregation was still rife in The Beatles’ early days of touring) came up for auction. Most of the media seemed surprised about the decision, but its actually well known that The Beatles were always heavily against segregation, as Lennon in particular made clear in interviews of the time. Also, a re-mastered version of The Beatles ‘1’ compilation (released in 1999 but now re-mastered using the same technology as on the ‘mono’ and ‘stereo’ boxes released last year made the charts, putting The Bearles at #8. Alas they seem to have dropped out of the charts altogether this week and so our top 10 album chart now looks like a maths exam (what with albums titled ‘19’ ‘21’ and this week’s number #1 ‘+’).

♫ Monkees News: A second Yesterday documentary is the 2007 Monkees doc ‘Hey Hey We Are The Monkees’, repeated on the Yesterday Channel various times across Monday, September 19th. Slightly disappointing and far too brief, this doc did at least feature several great interviews with the band and some fascinating rare footage, so make sure you watch it if you haven’t seen it already!

♫ Oasis/BeadyEye/Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds News: A rare appearance by an AAA group in the singles chart this week, when Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds’ debut single ‘Aka What A Life’ made it all the way to #20 (outscoring the first posthumous Amy Winehouse track no less!) Cheeky Oasis fans might take note that the single performed all three by brother Liam’s outfit Beady Eye earlier this year! Wow two chart entries for our groups in the same week – that hasn’t happened for years!

♫ Pink Floyd News: I may have had my problems with BBC4 in the past but when it’s good it’s very very good. Their recent Pink Floyd night could have been a disaster – it was designed to cash-in on the recent Floyd re-issue bonanza and had no new material; to spare. But what they had they packaged very well indeed: the so-so ‘Which One’s Pink?’ documentary from 2008, the sterling ‘Live At Pompeii’ in 1972 (the band at the peak of their powers – please see one of the repeats if you have a pair of ears and don’t already know it – you will thank me for life) and best of all a compilation of all those rare music clips fans like me have been scouring YouTube for because we can’t get them officially anywhere else. The sweet early promo for ‘Arnold Layne’ (with tailor’s dummy), the rare-asrocking-horse-droppings promo for ‘Point Me At The Sky’, ‘Cymbalene’ and ‘Grantchester Meadows’ from an American ‘In Concert’ special in 1970, ‘The Fletcher Memorial Home’ from the ‘Final Cut’ Video EP, two weird promos for ‘Learning To Fly’ (it won an award for best video concept? How?!?) and ‘High Hopes’ and ‘Comfortably Numb’ from the band’s Live 8 reunion (plus the usual promos for ‘One Of These Days’ ‘Time’ and ‘Another Brick In The Wall’). A veritable feast for Floyd fanatics, done with taste and care (the tributes to Syd and Rick at the end was a lovely touch) and not the cash-in it first appeared. Well done BBC4 and more of this please! In sadder news, a load of red tape means that David Gilmour faces prosecution if he fails to take down his new bicycle shed by October 1^st. Apparently one of his neighbours reported it as an eyesore (yeah right, like the rest of London isn’t?!)

ANNIVERSARIES: Birthday candles ahoy for AAA members born between September 20^th and 26^th: Linda McCartney (Wings and various McCartney solo projects 1970-97) who would have been 70 on September 24^th and Craig Chaquico (guitarist with Jefferson Starship/Starship 1973-88) who turns 57 on September 26^th. Anniversaries of events include: Paul McCartney is arrested for drug possession for the second time in his career after a passing sniffer dog uncovers cannabis plants in his Mull Of Kintyre greenhouse (September 20^th 1972), the Rolling Stones score their last non-compilation number one with AAA review no 58 ‘Goats Head Soup’ (September 21st 1973), the Stones also become one of the first rock and roll groups ever to play at the Albert Hall (September 22^nd 1966), John Lennon signs an ill-fated contract with new label Geffen Records just three months before his death (September 22^nd 1980 – his ‘replacement’ Neil Young has a horrid time trying to live up to being Geffen’s ‘big star name’ and ends up being sued by his former manager David Geffen), Paul McCartney is dead – or so a writer for the Illinois University declares for the first time on September 23^rd 1969 (the rumours continue to this day - you can see a three-hour documentary about it on Youtube!), 10cc chart for the first time (under that name, anyway) with the release of debut single ‘Donna’ (September 23^rd 1972), ‘He Ain’t Heavy, He’s My Brother’ finally makes number one 29 years after its original release, giving The Hollies the then-record of biggest gap between number one UK records (September 24^th 1988; their only other #1 is ‘I’m Alive’ in 1965); Wings get the European leg of their world tour off to a good start by playing a forgotten charity gig for the restoration of water-damaged art treasures in Venice, raising $50,000 along the way (September 25^th 1976) and finally, it’s now 42 years since the last Beatles LP ‘Abbey Road’ (September 26^th 1969).

News, Views and Music Issue 113 (Top Ten): Biggest AAA Stylistic Leaps Between Albums

A lot of artists soar through their musical career in perfect chronological order, with a smooth journey from r and b star/folk prophet/beat poet to psychedelic guru/singer-songwriter/rock god that makes perfect sense, taking small steps between each album so as not to scare the fans away. Others are so brief and bright in their way up and down the ladder of fame (The Small Faces, Janis Joplin Buffalo Springfield) that they don’t really have time to truly re-mould their style anyway (although all three had good goes). Others, like Neil Young, thrive on change and fans love the fact that they can’t possibly guess what they’re going to do next (who would have guessed the last run of NY albums – a concept album about an imaginary town suffering a ecological disaster, a sequel to an album from 1977 that was never released and an album about a ‘green’ car!) Others, however, find forks in the road and suddenly blossom in whole new unexpected directions, whether because of changes in society and music, changes in the band line-up or changes in themselves. Here, then, are 10 of the biggest inter-album jumps in the AAA discography:

1) The Monkees “More Of The Monkees” (1967) > “Headquarters” (1967): A fairly obvious one to start. By the time of this band’s second album they were very much the producers’ pets, with only two writing credits between the four band members, no musical input (barring two guitar parts and vocals) and no choice over what songs ended up on album, in the TV series and on the cutting room floor. In fact the band actually had to buy ‘More Of The Monkees’ from a record store while out on tour to discover what was on it! However Monkees a combination of ‘musical supervisor’ Don Kirshner getting cocky and pushing his luck with a single made by Davy Jones without the input of the other group members or Monkee originators Schneider and Rafelson and the backlash to the revelation that the band didn’t always play on their records lead to a revolution. By the time of ‘Headquarters’ the band are doing everything, picking their own songs and writing others and playing every single note on the album bar the orchestral parts (which they notated). The result is a sudden switch from immaculate but empty teenyboppery pop songs to 14 slices of mature pop about the world as it was in 1967, while the Monkees go from cameoing on their own records to controlling their own destiny.

2) Cat Stevens “New Masters” (1968) > “Mona Bone Jakon” (1970): The teenage Cat Stevens of 1967/8 was one of Britain’s brightest hopes, writing quirky songs about all sorts of subjects (on the singles alone covering dogs, guns and workaholics) to the accompaniment of frantic orchestral arrangements and a clean-cut new-kid-on-the-block image. But too many nights partying and enjoying his new rich lifestyle led to Cat contracting TB (that’s how he saw it anyway) and watching his career and his record contract fall apart from his hospital bed. Unable to promote ‘New Masters’ (actually an under-rated record of impressive maturity – just not as mature or as impressive as what’s coming next!), Cat changed his image, grew a beard and rented an acoustic guitar (its hard to fit a whole orchestra into your hospital room!) The change in style from deep but often funny and laidback quirky pop to the desperate heartfelt howl of ‘Lady D’arbanville’ ‘I Think I See The Light’, etc, is possibly the biggest leap of all on this list. Thankfully Cat recovered, but he kept the beard and the acoustic guitar and the lessons he learnt about what life really meanings have never left him the rest of his life.

3) Grateful Dead “Live/Dead” (1969) > “Workingman’s Dead” (1970):In 1969 the Grateful Dead were the live band of the age, taking off into exploratory wonder, with the band never quite knowing if they’d all end up in the same place by the end of the song. The live recordings on this eagerly awaited first concert recording are staggering: 20 minute versions of some of the band’s best loved songs all joined together as one long extended medley that takes them from the outer space of ‘Dark Star’ to the R and B workover ‘Turn Off Your Lovelight’. However a combination of hanging out with new friends CSN and the need to make cheaper albums after running up a whole load of debt with record label Warner Brothers meant the band turned instead to writing (comparatively) short, snappy folky songs about Americana old and new. Jerry Garcia in particular blossomed in this new direction, which filtered down to the Dead sound as late as their last tour in 1995, adding a whole new depth and tightness to a band that already had the improvisatory bases covered. Some fans prefer the ‘old’ sound, some the ‘newer’ – me, I love them both, especially the follow-up record ‘American Beauty’ which manages to sound nothing like the early Dead except for raw honesty, power and sincerity.

4) Paul McCartney “McCartney” (1970) > “Ram” (1971): If you’ve been keeping up with our AAA reviews then you’ll know that ‘McCartney’, the first solo Beatle album after the split (in fact the album that largely announced the split) is a home-spun affair. Macca, afraid of adverse publicity and too angry at Apple to use one of their recording studios, recorded it by himself at home, overdubbing bits and pieces as the mood took him (guitar, drums, bass, piano, even wine glasses!) The result is a home-made album, full of mistakes and children chatting in the background and a downbeat, melancholic feel caused by the fall-out between the four Beatles and a near-nervous breakdown. ‘Ram’ is, by contrast, the first of Macca’s really glossy albums, full of dense layers of texture and overdubs by the brightest and best session musicians around in the day on an equally bitty piecemeal album that nevertheless sounds huge. The album also has a much more upbeat we’ll-show-them feel that veers from wild anger and jealousy to determination and hope.

5) The Hollies “Distant Light” (1971) > “Romany” (1972): In 1971 The Hollies were exploring whole new territories unusual to them: under Allan Clarke’s lead the band were embracing swamp rock (‘Long Cool Woman In A Black Dress’, originally an album track till DJs made it something of a radio hit) and protest songs (has there ever been a song more damning about the Vietnam war than ‘You Know The Score’ and ‘Promised Land’. The band sound also dispensed with the usual sunny harmonies in favour of bluesy guitar and organ for an album largely unique to their canon. On the surface follow-up ‘Romany’ is much more traditional Hollies territory: swamped with harmonies and much closer to quiet sadness than raw anger. Only Allan Clarke has left the band for an ill-fated solo career (ill-fated commercially, that is, not artistically...both ‘My Real Name Is ‘Arold’ and ‘Headroom’ carry on ‘Distant Light’s harsher sound) and in his place is the under-rated deep-voiced Mickael Rickfors, a singer with more soft edges than a DFS sofa. The gap between these two albums is huge (it certainly put many fans off at the time) but then neither of them really sound like The Hollies of old, with only their covers (the same person in the same woodland area in Summer and Winter) and the band name to link them at all.

6) The Kinks “Schoolboys In Disgrace” (1975) > “Sleepwalker” (1977):In 1975 The Kinks were the best touring musical ‘troupe’ around, offering slabs of various musicals/concept albums about everything from a world in political chaos to Norman becoming a ‘star’ (see two issues back!) and, erm, this song about a schoolboy. Based loosely on the expulsion of Dave Davies for getting an under-age girl from a local school pregnant, it’s the last great gasp of Ray Davies’ theatricality, with the elder brother revelling in his roles as headmaster, schoolboy and narrator. Along the way we get a seven minute discussion as to whether education frees or enslaves the masses (the answer is that good education does the former and bad the latter), a dance song about the school idiot and nostalgia for the final school assembly. All terribly terribly Kinks and very much made for a minority English audience. All things change in 1977, though, when the band re-launch themselves for the American market with ‘universal’ songs about travelling musicians, big ugly bosses, insomnia, werewolves and love of music! The horns and backing singers have gone and The Kinks are now a streamlined five-piece, propelled again by Dave’s guitar and an electric fury not heard from the band since 1965!

7) Jefferson Starship “Earth” (1978) > “Freedom At Point Zero” (1979): In 1978 Jefferson Starship were a leading prog rock band, full of nonsense songs about whether the love, fires and on one memorable track skateboarding (!) with a penchant for harmonies and criss-crossing acoustic guitars. By 1979 Jefferson Starship were a leading new wave band, full of nonsense songs about love, freedom and on one memorable song nuclear war, with a penchant for angry righteous lead vocals and jagged, stabbing lead guitar. The two bands share only the slightest DNA despite Paul Kantner being the ‘boss’ of both of them, taking the opportunity of lead singers Grace Slick and Marty Balin’s departures to re-invent the band with a new lead vocalist, Mickey Thomas, and a much tougher, more contemporary sound. ‘Been too long in the green fields of rapture’ goes one Kantner track about moving on from past successes to find greater challenges elsewhere, ‘Been too long without being on the run’.

8) The Moody Blues “Octave” (1978) > “Long Distance Voyager” (1981):When The Moodies reunited in 1978 after a six year absence fans feared that their favourite mystical band might have changed, especially when ‘Octave’ (the band’s eighth album) came out in the middle of punk. They needn’t have worried – despite the presence of a couple of up-tempo rockers ‘Octave’ pretty much carries on where the band left off, still trying to understand the universe, love and our inner selves and they even get the mellotron out the loft for a couple of songs, too. Three years later, though, Mike Pinder has gone, taking his mellotron with him and the band have brought in a bank of synthesisers played by Patrick Moraz. There’s never been anyone more of the 1960s than Pinder: mystical, magical, deep-thinking and with a mind so open its on hinges; by contrast no one could be more 1980s than Moraz: big hair, a love of electronics and a style of dancing that could never come into fashion again, no matter how many series Strictly Come Dancing runs for. The songs, too, have changed – they’re now shorter, poppier, tighter (with one or two exceptions) and have a much more ‘new wave’ rock type energy than before. Surprisingly, instead of running for the hills, most Moodies fans lapped it up making ‘Voyager’ the band’s biggest selling album in the US – no wonder every album since has been a variation on it rather than their first glorious eight albums!

9) The Human League “Travelogue (1979) > “Dare” (1981): In 1979 The Human League are a real underground act, so hip it’s a wonder their trousers don’t fall down, with three arty art students delivering sarcastic songs about the world we leave in, fronted by a bloke with two haircuts (half prog, half punk) on the same bit of head. By 1981 the band have split, with two thirds going off to form ‘Heaven 17’ and Phil Oakey (still with two haircuts) decides to form a poppier band with some new synthesiser players and two cocktail waitresses that can sing. The difference between ‘Travelogue’ and ‘Dare’ is like that between night and day: the former record is totally un-commercial, full of shadows and things out to get you, is full of parables about how life can get you down and anger at middle eastern practices; the latter is full of pop singles (released and unreleased) about the glories of being in love, being part of a crowd and only really calms down for songs about death-by-speed (pun definitely intended) and law-breaking. Both albums have only tenuous links with each other, presumably in part because of the line-up change, but the much-loved ‘Holiday ‘80’ EP and the under-rated ‘Cruel’ (both heard as bonus cuts on the ‘Travelogue’ CD) are both pretty good attempts at bridging the gaps between the two styles.

10) Neil Young “Trans” (1982) > “Everybody’s Rockin’ (1983): Neil Young changes every record of course, so we’ve banned any artists from having more than one entry on this list (otherwise with Neil we’d be here all night!) Possibly the biggest gap, though, comes from his early days on Geffen, with a jump between the futuristic electronic Kraftwerk-like ‘Trans’ and the retro rockabilly of ‘Everybody’s Rockin’. Both albums have come in for stick from fans (unfairly, I think, in the case of the former) and certainly both are as far off the beaten track as its possible to go without being committed in an asylum somewhere. Bizarrely, though, despite the different instrumentation, styles, performers, cover art and themes (robots versus good old rock and roll), there are some similarities: you can’t hear Neil Properly at all (deliberately on the former, an album all about how Neil’s child Ben finds it hard to communicate – so we can’t hear Neil on this vocoder-filled album either; accidentally on the latter, due to a haphazard mix), love and life are still unfathomable mysteries on each album and finally you have to suspend your disbelief about the often clumsy backing. Still, perhaps the biggest difference is Tran’s ambition – 50 minutes of almost continual assault on the senses, on some of Neil’s best ever songs about life, family and robots verses 25 minutes of tired rock and roll covers designed on purpose to annoy the record company.

And that’s it yet again. Be sure to join us next time for more news, views and music!

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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

Friday, 23 September 2011

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News, Views and Music Issue 113 (Top Ten): Biggest AAA Stylistic Leaps Between Albums

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