CONTENTS PAGE
1)
The Beatles
“With The Beatles” (11/1963)
2)
The Beatles
“A Hard Day’s Night” (7/1964)
3)
The Beatles
“Help!” (8/1965)
4)
Otis Redding
5)
The Searchers
“Take Me For What I’m Worth” (12/1965)
6)
The Beatles
“Revolver” (8/1966)
7)
Simon and
Garfunkel “Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme” (10/1966)
8)
The Kinks
“Face To Face” (11/1966)
9)
Rolling
Stones “Between The Buttons” (1/1967)
10) The Monkees “Headquarters” (6/1967)
11) The Hollies “Evolution” (6/1967)
12) Small Faces “Small Faces” (1st immediate
album) (7/1967)
13) Pink Floyd “Piper At the Gates Of Dawn” (10/1967)
14) The Hollies “Butterfly” (10/1967)
15) Jefferson Airplane “After Bathing At Baxters” (11/1967)
16) Rolling Stones “Their Satanic Majesties Request” (12/1967)
17) The Who “Sell Out” (12/1967)
18) Buffalo Springfield “Buffalo Springfield
19) The Monkees “Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn and Jones+ Ltd”
(1/1968)
20) The Byrds “The Notorious Byrd Brothers” (1/1968)
21) The Beach Boys “Friends” (6/1968)
22) The Moody Blues “In Search Of The Lost Chord” (7/1968)
23) Grateful Dead “Anthem Of The Sun” (7/1968)
24) Big Brother and the Holding Company featuring Janis
Joplin “Cheap Thrills” (7/1968)
25) The Beatles “The Beatles” aka “The White Album” (11/1968)
26) Rolling Stones “Beggars Banquet” (12/1968)
27) The Monkees “Head” (12/1968)
28) Small Faces “Autumn Stone” (3/1969)
29) Crosby, Stills and Nash “Crosby ,
Stills and Nash” (6/1969)
30) The Kinks “Arthur” (10/1969)
31) Pentangle “Basket Of Light” (10/1969)
32) The Moody Blues “To Our Children’s Children’s Children”
(11/1969)
33) The Who “Live At Leeds ”
(5/1970)
34) Crosby , Stills, Nash and Young “De Ja Vu” (5/1970)
35) Cat Stevens “Mona Bone Jakon” (7/1970)
36) The Beach Boys “Sunflower” (8/1970)
37) Lindisfarne “Nicely Out Of Tune” (9/1970)
38) The Byrds “Untitled” (9/1970)
39) The Hollies “Confessions Of The Mind” (11/1970)
40) Grateful Dead “American Beauty” (11/1970)
41) Cat Stevens “Tea For The Tillerman” (11/1970)
42) George Harrison “All Things Must Pass
43) John Lennon “Plastic Ono Band” (12/1970)
44) Paul Kantner/Jefferson Starship “Blows Against The
Empire” (1/1971)
45) David Crosby “If I Could Only Remember My Name” (2/1971)
46) Graham Nash “Songs For Beginners” (5/1971)
47) Paul and Linda McCartney “Ram” (5/1971)
48) Stephen Stills “Stephen Stills 2” (6/1971)
49) The Moody Blues “Every Good Boy Deserves Favour” (7/1971)
50) Pink Floyd “Meddle” (11/1971)
51) Stephen Stills/Manassas “Manassas
52) The Hollies “Romany” (11/1972)
53) The Moody Blues “Seventh Sojourn” (11/1972)
54) Yoko Ono “Approximately Infinite Universe” (1/1973)
55) The Beach Boys “Holland
56) Paul Simon “There Goes Rhymin’ Simon” (5/1973)
57) Allan Clarke “Headroom” (7/1973)
58) Rolling Stones “Goats Head Soup” (8/1973)
59) Grateful Dead “Wake Of the Flood” (10/1973)
60) The Who “Quadrophenia” (10/1973)
61) Jack The Lad “It’s Jack The Lad” (3/1974)
62) Cat Stevens “Buddha And The Chocolate Box” (3/1974)
63) John Lennon “Walls and Bridges” (10/1974)
64) Paul McCartney and Wings “Venus and Mars” (5/1975)
65) Stephen Stills “Stills” (7/1975)
66) Neil Young “Tonight’s The Night” (7/1975)
67) Crosby and Nash “Wind On The Water” (9/1975)
68)
Art Garfunkel
“Breakaway” (1/1975)
69) The Who “By Numbers” (10/1975)
70) Crosby , Stills and Nash “CSN” (6/1977)
71) Paul McCartney and Wings “London Town
72) The Who “Who Are You?” (8/1978)
73) 10CC “Bloody Tourists” (9/1978)
74) George Harrison “George Harrison” (2/1979)
75) The Beach Boys “L.A.
76) Pink Floyd “The Wall” (11/1979)
77) Pete Townshend “Empty Glass” (4/1980)
78) Paul Simon “One-Trick Pony” (8/1980)
79) Gilbert O’Sullivan “Off Centre” (10/1980)
80) 10CC “Ten Out Of Ten” (2/1981)
81) The Kinks “Give The People What They Want” (8/1981)
82) Dire Straits “Love Over Gold” (9/1982)
83) Lindisfarne “Sleepless Nights” (10/1982)
84) Neil Young “Trans” (12/1982)
85) Paul Simon “Hearts and Bones” (10/1983)
86) 10CC “Windows In The Jungle” (10/1983)
87) Jefferson Starship “Nuclear Furniture” (1/1984)
88) Paul McCartney “Press To Play” (9/1986)
89) The Searchers “Play The System” (9/1987)
90) The Human League “Greatest Hits” (11/1988)
91) Lulu “I’m A Tiger” (1989)
92) Neil Young “Freedom” (10/1989)
93) The Kinks “UK
94) Paul Simon “The Rhythm Of The Saints” (10/1990)
95) Neil Young “Weld” (10/1991)
96) Roger Waters “Amused To Death” (9/1992)
97) Nils Lofgren “Damaged Goods” (6/1995)
98) Belle and Sebastian “Tigermilk” (6/1996)
99) Oasis “The Masterplan” (11/1998)
100)
Belle and
Sebastian “Push Barman To Open Old Wounds” (5/2004)
101)
Brian Wilson
“Smile” (9/2004)
Issue One August 25 2008
News: Beach Boys/CSN/Grateful Dead/Jefferson
Airplane/ Oasis/ Visit Jo
in Stafford Market for Bargains/ A Quick Plug
For Southport Fibromyalgia Support Group
Reviews: Crosby , Stills, Nash and Young “Déjà vu Live”
Top Five: Fibromylagia
songs (Byrds/ Lindisfarne/John Lennon/ Graham Nash/ Beatles)
Issue Two
September 1 2008
News: Beatles/Hollies/Oasis/10cc
Reviews: Oasis “Definitely Maybe” (DVD soundtrack)
Top Five: Dr Who and
the Face of Bo (Pete Townshend/ Animals/ The Who/ Travelling Wilburys/ Ford
Timelord)
Issue Three
September 8 2008
News: Art Garfunkel/ Hollies/ Oasis/ Pink Floyd/ 10cc
Reviews: Lindisfarne “Elvis Lives On The
Moon”
Top Five: The credit crunch (10cc/Grateful Dead/Kinks/ Rolling
Stones/ Pink Floyd)
Issue Four
September 15 2008
News: Beatles/ Pink Floyd
Reviews: Janis Joplin
“I Got Dem Ol’ Kozmik Blues Again Mama”
Top Five: Autumn
(Small Faces/ Monkees/ Kinks/ Allan Clarke/ Justin Hayward)
**Special Edition** Issue
4a Rick Wright Tribute
Issue Five September 22
2008
News: Beatles (sort of)
Reviews: Dire Straits
“Makin’ Movies”
Top Five: National
Wombat Week (Helen Reddy/ Lindisfarne / Kinks/
John Lennon/ Wombles)
Issue Six September
29 2008
News: Beatles/ Pink Floyd
Reviews: Lulu “Lulu’s Album”
Top Five: The five best AAA-group related box-sets (John
Lennon/Grateful Dead/Buffalo Springfield / Beach
Boys/ Crosby . Stills and Nash)
**Special Edition**
Issue 6a New release: “Déjà Vu” DVD
by Crosby , Stills, Nash and Young
Issue Seven October 7 2008
News: Jefferson Airplane/Lindisfarne/Oasis
Reviews: Grateful
Dead Built To Last”
Top Five: Computer
virus songs (Beatles/ Neil Young/Kinks/Paul Simon/10cc)
Issue Eight October 13
2008
News: Beatles
Reviews: The Hollies “For Certain, Because”
Top Five: Five really
awful DVDs to avoid (Grateful Dead/ George Harrison/ 10cc/ Rolling Stones/ Pink
Floyd)
**Special Edition** Issue
8a New Release: “Dig Out Your Soul” CD by Oasis
Issue Nine October 20
2008
News: Beatles
Reviews: Jethro Tull “Warchild”
Top Five: Five
self-puncturing superstar classics (Monkees/Oasis/Kinks/Buffalo
Springfield/Hollies)
Issue Ten October
28 2008
News: Beatles/CSNY/Grateful Dead/Kinks/Moody Blues/Oasis/Rolling Stones
Reviews: Grateful
Dead “Grateful Dead”
Top Five: The five
ways you know when you have turned into a collector
Issue Eleven November 10
2008
News: Beatles/CSNY/Kinks/Moody Blues/Oasis/Neil Young
Reviews: Johnny Cash
“American Legends”
Top Five: Songs about
presidents/ politics (Byrds/Kinks/Neil Young x 2/10cc)
Issue Twelve November 17
2008
News: Beatles/Jefferson
Airplane/Paul Simon/The Who/Godspell
Reviews: It’s A
Beautiful Day “Marrying Maidens”
Top Five: Totally
bonkers concept albums (Small Faces/Kinks/Jethro Tull/Cat Stevens/The Who)
Issue Thirteen November 24
2008
News: Beach Boys/Beatles/Belle and
Sebastian/ Byrds/CSNY/Dire Straits/Kinks/Lulu/Oasis/Neil Young
Reviews: Paul
McCartney and Wings “Back To The Egg”
Top Five: Celebrating
40 years of the Beatles’ White Album
**Special Edition** Issue 13A
New Release: The Fireman (AKA Paul McCartney and Youth) “Electric Arguments”
Issue Fourteen December 1
2008
News: Byrds/CSNY/Dire Straits/Hollies/Lulu/Monkees/Oasis/ Pentangle/Neil Young
Reviews: The Who “Who’s Next”
Top Five: Still
celebrating 40 years of the Beatles’ White Album
Issue Fifteen December
8 2008
News: Beatles
Reviews: Lindisfarne “Magic
In The Air”
Top Five: Why are we
here?, where are we going? and why do we never seem to get there at all?
Arguments put forward on AAA albums for the origins of the species
(CSNY/Jefferson Starship/Moody Blues/George Harrison/Dave Davies)
Issue Sixteen December
15 2008
News: Beatles/CSN/Hollies/Yoko Ono
Reviews: Johnny Cash “The Christmas Collection”
Top Five: The top
five AAA-related releases of 2008 (Jefferson Airplane/Moody Blues/CSNY/The
Fireman aka Paul McCartney/Dennis Wilson)
Issue Seventeen December 22
2008
News: Beach Boys/ Moody Blues/TOTP 2
Reviews: The Beach
Boys “Christmas Album”
Top Five: Festive
songs (Beatles/George Harrison/Kinks/John Lennon/Paul McCartney/Monkees/Simon
and Garfunkel)
Issue Eighteen January
19 2009
News: Belle
and Sebastian/ Johnny Cash/ CSNY/Simon and Garfunkel/The Who/Neil Young
Reviews: Pink Floyd “Atom Heart Mother”
Top Five: Bye bye
George!
Issue Nineteen January 26 2009
News: Beatles/
CSNY/Human
League/ 10cc
Reviews: Abba “The Visitors”
Top Five: Five weird
and wonderful AAA gigs (Isle of Wight
Festival/ Neil Young/ Quarrymen/ Pink Floyd/ Grateful Dead)
Issue Twenty
February 2 2009
News: CSNY
Reviews: Grateful Dead “Aoxomoxoa”
Top
Five: We celebrate our 20th
issue with all AAA things ‘20’ related. (CSNY/ 10cc/ Kinks/ Paul
McCartney/ Beatles)
Issue
Twenty-One February 9 2009
News: Beatles/ Buffalo Springfield
Reviews: David
Crosby and Graham Nash “Crosby *Nash”
(2004)
Top Five: The
best five Abba songs not included on ‘The Visitors’
Issue Twenty-Two February 20
2009
News: Johnny Cash/Lindisfarne
Reviews: Graham
Nash “Reflections” (2009—new release!)
Top Five: (Belated)
romantic odes for Valentine’s Day (Paul Simon/Jefferson Airplane/Beach
Boys/Hollies/Moody Blues)
Issue Twenty-Three March 2 2009
News: The Who
Reviews: Super
Furry Animals “Rings Around The World” (2001)
Top Five: Hollies
B-sides
Issue
Twenty-Four
March 9 2009
News: Beach Boys/Beatles/Lindisfarne/Monkees/The Who
Reviews: The
Beatles “Live At the BBC” (1994)
Top Five: Other
BBC Recordings (Animals/Dire Straits/Moody Blues/Kinks/Who)
Issue
Twenty-Five
March 16 2009
News: Oasis
Reviews: Badfinger “Straight Up” (1972)
Top Five: Beach
Boys rarities that still haven’t made it to CD yet!!! (Get a move on
Capitol/CBS/Caribou/etc!)
Issue Twenty-Six March 23
2009
News: Beatles-Denny
Laine/Byrds/Lindisfarne/Otis Redding
Reviews: Neil
Young
“Hawks And Doves” (1980)
Top Five: Five
classic tracks John, Paul and George wrote for Ringo’s solo albums!
Issue, err, One
Thousand Two Hundred And Fifty-Five
April 1 2034 (special time travel
edition)
News: EVERYBODY!!!
Reviews:
McCartney/Austounders featuring Graham
Nash/ Lindisfarne meets Lulu/ Rolling Stones
feat Roger Daltrey/ Spice Girls Sing Beatles
Top
Five: Reasons to be living in the 2030s!!!
Issue
Twenty-Seven April 13 2009
News: Beatles/Your Questions Part #1
Reviews: Mamas
+ The Papas “If You Can Believe Your Eyes
And Ears” (1966)
Top Five: Five
of the best rock and roll tracks from the pre-Beatles era.
Issue Twenty-Eight
April 20 2009
News: Beatles/Paul Simon
Reviews: The
Beach Boys “Surfin’ Safari” (1962)
Top Five: AAA-related
autobiographies (George Harrison/Ray Davies/David Crosby/Brian Wilson/Dave
Davies)
Issue
Twenty-Nine April
27 2009
News: Beatles/CSN/Kinks/Rolling Stones/Simon and Garfunkel/Cat Stevens/Neil Young
Reviews: Neil
Young “Comes A Time” (1978)
Top Five: Top
five Rolling Stones B-sides
Issue Thirty
May 8 2009
News: CSN/Kinks/Cat Stevens
Reviews: Rolling
Stones “Some Girls” (1978)
Top Five: Top
five Beatles B-sides
Issue Thirty-One May
15 2009
News: Beatles
Reviews: Yusuf aka Cat Stevens “Roadsinger”
(2009 – new release!)
Top Five: The llooonnggeesstttt AAA
songs of all time (Pink Floyd/John Lennon/Neil Young/10cc/Grateful Dead)
Issue
Thirty-Two May
22 2009
News: Beatles
Reviews: 10cc
“The Original Soundtrack” (1974)
Top Five: Top
five Kinks B-sides
Issue
Thirty-Three: CSN anniversary special May
29 2009
News: Beatles/CSN/Kinks/Pentangle/Rolling Stones/Neil
Young
Nelson’s Column: How
CSN changed the definition of being a ‘group’
Reviews: The
Stills-Young Band “Long May You Run”
(1976)
Top Five: Abandoned
CSNY projects ‘wasted on the way’
Issue
Thirty-Four
June 5 2009
News: Woodstock/Johnny Cash/Neil Young
Reviews: The
Monkees “The Birds, The Bees And The
Monkees” (1968)
Top Five: The
best rarities and out-takes sets by AAA groups (Jefferson Airplane/Beach
Boys/The Who/ Hollies/ Monkees)
Issue
Thirty-Five
July 3 2009
Reviews: John
Lennon and Yoko Ono “Sometime In New York City” (1972)
Top Five: News
we’ve missed while we’ve been away
Issue
Thirty-Six
July 17 2009
News:
CSN/Woodstock
Reviews:
Hotlegs aka 10cc “Thinks...School
Stinks” aka “You Didn’t Like It Because You Didn’t Think Of It” (1971)
Top
Five: Birthday Songs (Beach Boys/Yoko Ono/Hollies)
Issue
Thirty-Seven July 24 2009
News:
Beatles/CSN/Jefferson Starship/Rolling
Stones/Neil Young
Reviews:
The Kinks “Think Visual” (1986)
Top
Five: Brightest album covers (Moody Blues/ Hollies/ Kinks/ Beatles/
Rolling Stones)
Issue
Thirty-Eight
July 31 2009
News:
Moody Blues/ Pink
Floyd
Reviews:
The Blue Jays (aka two of the Moody Blues) “Blue Jays” (1975)
Top
Five: The five biggest arguments on record (Beach Boys/The Who/John
Lennon and Phil Spector/The Hollies/The Byrds)
News:
Reviews:
Grace Slick “Dreams” (1980)
Top
Five: AAA songs about super-heroes (David Crosby/Kinks/Who/Allan
Clarke/Paul McCartney and Wings)
News:
Beatles/CSNY/Small Faces/Woodstock
Reviews:
Paul McCartney “Flowers In The
Dirt” (1989)
Top Five: AAA
Television Networks That Should Exist (David Crosby/ CSNY/ Beatles)
News:
Beatles
Reviews:
Crosby, Stills and Nash “Demos”
(2009 – semi-new release)
Top
Five: AAA Woodstock Moments (Grateful Dead/Janis Joplin/The Who/Crosby,
Stills and Nash/Jefferson Airplane)
News:
Beatles/Dire
Straits/Grateful Dead/Jefferson Airplane/ Yoko Ono/Simon and Garfunkel
Reviews:
Simon and Garfunkel “Wednesday
Morning, 3 AM” (1964)
Top
Five: Our top moments of the past year as voted for by readers
News:
Beatles/Oasis/Rolling Stones
Reviews:
Buffalo Springfield “Last Time Around” (1968)
Top
Five: Music segues as offered by our highly intelligent computer
‘Dell-Boy’
News: Beatles/Buffalo Springfield/Neil
Young
Reviews: Oasis
“Standing On The Shoulders Of Giants” (2000)
Top
Five: AAA songs sung in foreign languages (i.e. not ‘American English’)
News:
Beatles/CSN/Yoko Ono/Small
Faces/The Who/Neil Young
Reviews:
The Beatles “Magical Mystery Tour”
(1967)
Top
Five: Five other AAA groups in need of the re-mastering treatment
(Lindisfarne /CSN/ Nils Lofgren/ The Kinks/ Rolling Stones)
News: Beach Boys/Beatles/Human League/Pink Floyd/The Who
Reviews:
Cat Stevens “Numbers” (1976)
Top
Five: The Kinks’ ‘Preservation’ Rock Opera – was it really about the
forthcoming Conservative/Labour Election?
News: Beatles
Reviews: Pink
Floyd “The Division Bell” (1994)
Top Five: The
five AAA albums with the biggest differences between mono and stereo mixes
(Pink Floyd/ Beatles/ Hollies/ Kinks/ Grateful Dead)
News: Beatles
Reviews: Crazy
Horse “Crazy Horse” (1971)
Top Five: The
issue written in rhyme (well most of the time!); this week – the top five
weirdest things to do when a band member leaves (The Byrds/Jefferson
Airplane/Beach Boys/Human League)
News: Belle and Sebastian/Johnny Cash/Oasis/Cat Stevens/Neil Young
Reviews:
The Byrds “5D (Fifth Dimension)”
(1966)
Top
Five: The top five
AAA youtube clips you can’t see anywhere else (Paul McCartney/The
Kinks/Hollies/Grateful Dead/Pink Floyd)
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News:
Beatles/CSN/Jefferson
Starship/Monkees/Oasis/Pink Floyd/Rolling Stones/Cat Stevens/Neil Young
Reviews: Lindisfarne
Mark II “Happy Daze” (1974)
Top
Five: The Top Five AAA-related Releases Of 2009 (Cat
Stevens aka Yusuf/Beatles/Graham Nash/Jefferson Starship/Neil Young) plus the
top 10 releases of the decade (Brian Wilson/Ray Davies/Belle And
Sebastian/Stephen Stills/Cat Stevens/Oasis/George Harrison/Paul McCartney aka
The Fireman/Neil Young).
News: Nils Lofgren/Neil Young
Reviews: Jefferson Starship “Original
Album Classics” (Dragonfly/Red Octopus/Spitfire/Earth/Freedom At Point Zero)
(1974-79) (with the focus on ‘Dragonfly’)
Top Five: Train songs: Simon and
Garfunkel/The Monkees/Lindisfarne/10cc/The Who
News: The Hollies
Reviews: Stephen Stills/Manassas “Pieces”
(semi-new release, 2009)
Top Five: AAA songs celebrating snow and
winter (The Hollies/Dave Davies/Paul McCartney/Jack The Lad/Lindisfarne)
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– Moody Blues Special!
News: CSN/Hollies/Moody Blues (Tony
Clarke Obituary, producer 1967-78)/Pink Floyd
Reviews: The Moody Blues “On The Threshold
Of A Dream” (1969)
Top Five: AAA songs about astrology,
combined with a brief look at each group’s horoscopes (Pink Floyd/Kinks/George
Harrison and Beatles/Beach Boys/Stephen Stills and CSNY)
News:
Neil Young
Reviews:
Nils
Lofgren and Grin “All Out” (1972)
Top
Five: The
worst five groups never in the history of the universe (and no surprises for
guessing that The Spice Girls are in there somewhere...)
News:
CSNY/Jefferson
Airplane
Reviews:
Brian
Wilson “That Lucky Old Sun” (2008)
Top
Five: The
worst AAA albums of all time (Monkees/Moody Blues/Beach Boys/Paul
McCartney/Hollies)
News: Beach Boys/Beatles/Belle
and Sebastian/Johnny
Cash/CSN/Otis
Redding/Neil Young
Reviews:
Neil
Young “Life” (1987)
Top
Five: The
most over-rated AAA albums of all time (Beatles/Beach Boys/Simon and
Garfunkel/The Byrds/Neil Young)
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– April Fool’s Day Special
News:
Pretty much everyone!
Reviews: The
Metrafoundles “dakbckbKSDHFSHDFHKVVKKNFGKNLSDNFLSDMFLSJFLJS
DLFJLJSNV,V
N,VN,NXV”/CSNY “Deja Vu Deja Vu”/Spice Girls “Back From The Dead”
Nelson’s Column: This
week, Nelson is at The Cavern Club in 1960!
Top Five: Reasons to have evolved a third ear and antennae
News:
Beatles/The
Hollies/Pink Floyd
Reviews:
The
Searchers “Sugar And Spice” (1963)
Top
Five: The
top five AAA EP exclusive rarities (Rolling Stones/Hollies/The
Who/Beatles/Kinks)
News:
CSN/Rolling
Stones/Paul
Simon (sort of)/10cc/Traveling Wilburys
Reviews:
George
Harrison “Living In The Material World” (1971)
Top
Five: Random
recent purchases (Johnny Cash/Ringo Starr/Pink Floyd/Paul McCartney/Searchers)
An
in-depth look at all of the good, the bad and the downright ugly compilations
released for AAA artists over the years
News: Beatles/Oasis
Reviews: The Kinks “Preservation Acts One
And Two” (1973/74)
Top Five: AAA party political
slogans (Oasis/Kinks/Grateful Dead/Beach Boys)
News: Rolling
Stones/10cc
Reviews: Rolling Stones “Exile On Main
Street” (1972)
Top Five: AAA songs with
which you could celebrate ‘Rock Sunday’ (John Lennon/Paul McCartney/Jefferson
Airplane/Oasis/Monkees/Small Faces)
News: Beatles/Hollies/Oasis/Rolling Stones
Reviews: The Hollies “Out On The Road”
(1973)
Top Five: Strange but true
(?) ghost stories from the world of the AAA featuring various Beatles and the
restless spirit of Jerry Garcia
News: Hollies/Oasis/Pink Floyd
Reviews: Alan Hull “Pipedream” (1973)
Top Five: AAA albums with
art or references to artists (and we mean artists famous for art not featured
on record covers!) (Alan Hull/Paul Simon/Neil Young/Beach Boys/The Who)
News: Beatles/Hollies/Oasis/Pink Floyd
Reviews: The Monkees “Instant Replay”
(1969)
Top Five: AAA artwork
re-made in lego! (Lots of Beatles/Pink Floyd/Oasis/Simon and Garfunkel/Belle
and Sebastian)
News: Beatles/CSN-The Hollies/The
Who
Reviews: The Beach Boys “Summer Days (And
Summer Nights!!!)” (1965)
Top Five: Has gone to the
dogs this week with the top five AAA songs about canines
News: Beatles
– ‘Lennon Naked’ Review/Kinks/Oasis
Review/Top Five: A tribute
special featuring obituary and top five for original Kinks bassist Pete Quaife.
News: Beatles – Nowhere Boy Review
Review: The Who “A Quick One
While He’s Away” (1966)
Top Five: Sunshiney songs (Moody
Blues/Grateful Dead/Kinks/Pink Floyd/Beatles)
News: Beatles/Pink Floyd/Rolling
Stones/Small Faces/Cat Stevens
Review: The Byrds “Dr Byrds and
Mr Hyde” (1969)
Top Five: In which the AAA staff
play their own music-induced version of Monopoly/Mornington Crescent
News: Beatles/Moody Blues/Otis Redding/Rolling Stones
Review: The Small Faces
“Ogden’s Nut Gone Flake” (1968)
Top Five: What ‘other’ British
Invasion’ DVDs we want to see on our shelves sometime soon – and what footage
still exists (Beatles/Rolling Stones/Hollies/Kinks/Who)
News: Beatles/Byrds-CSNY-Monkees (Laurel Canyon Doc)
Review: Neil Young “American
Stars ‘n’ Bars” (1977)
Top Five: What we want to place
in our AAA time capsule to remind ourselves of life in 2010 when we open it
again in 2040 (just like the John Lennon one!)
An in-depth look at the wonderful, woeful and
downright wacky solo albums by AAA groups
News: Kinks
Review: Grateful Dead “Terrapin
Station” (1977)
Top Five: AAA conspiracy theories
featuring The Beatles, Rolling Stones, Grateful Dead and Pink Floyd
News: Beatles/Belle and Sebastian
Reviews: Paul McCartney
“McCartney” (1970)
Top Five: Weirdest things to do
before and after becoming a star (Beatles/Dire Straits/Jefferson
Airplane/Lindisfarne/Monkees/Rolling Stones/Cat Stevens/10cc/The Who/Neil
Young)
News: Beatles/Byrds/Janis Joplin/Pentangle/Neil Young
Reviews: The Kinks “Part One –
Lola Versus Powerman And The Money-Go-Round” (1970)
Top Five: Songs to tweet to
(Beatles/Lennon/McCartney/Travelling Wilburys/Beach Boys)
News: Beatles/Belle and
Sebastian/CSNY/Janis Joplin
Reviews: Graham
Nash “Wild Tales” (1974)
Top Five/Ten: The
greatest ever AAA solos (Beatles/10cc/Byrds/Rolling Stones/Kinks/Pink Floyd/The
Who/Hollies/Pentangle/Neil Young)
An in-depth look at live albums by each of the AAA
artists, the ones with ‘Magic In The Air’, the ones where you had to be there
and the ones you can’t find nowadays anywhere...
News: Beatles/Buffalo Springfield/Janis Joplin/Pink Floyd/The
Who/Neil Young (John Lennon 70th
birthday special)
Review: John Lennon “Mind
Games” (1973)
Top Five: John Lennon tributes
(Nils Lofgren/Yoko Ono/George Harrison/Paul Simon/Paul McCartney)
News: Beatles/Byrds/Hollies/Kinks/Oasis/Pentangle/10cc/The Who
Review: Simon and Garfunkel
“Bookends” (1968)
Top Five: AAA songs for Halloween
(Allan Clarke/Hollies/Lindisfarne/Cat Stevens/Kinks)
News: Beatles/Human League/Hollies/Kinks/Oasis/Pentangle/Rolling Stones
Review: Dire Straits “On Every
Street” (1991)
Top Five: Earliest examples of
AAA psychedelia up to two years before the ‘Summer Of Love’ (Who/Beatles/Beach
Boys/Kinks/Searchers)
News: Lots of radio programme
repeats this week: Beach Boys/Beatles/Lulu/ Oasis/
Pink Floyd/Rolling
Stones/Small Faces/The Who
Review: 10cc “10cc” (1973)
Top Five: Fully instrumental
albums
(Mike
Nesmith/Beach Boys/Paul McCartney/Human League/Neil Young)
News: Lulu
Review: The Who “Lifehouse”
(‘Who’s Next’ with extra bits, 1971)
Top Five: Utopias (Art
Garfunkel/Otis Redding/Nils Lofgren/Crosby, Stills and Nash/Jefferson
Airplane/John Lennon/Moody Blues)
News: Beatles/Neil Young
Review: Belle and Sebastian “If
You’re Feeling Sinister” (1996)
Top Five: Imaginary bands (Rutles/Grateful
Dead/Pink Floyd/Monkees/Beatles)
News: Beatles/CSN/Pink Floyd/Rolling Stones/Neil
Young
Review: The Hollies “The
Hollies” (1965)
Top Five: Unlikely cover versions
(Byrds/Wings/Ray Davies/Hollies/Neil Young)
News: Beatles/Kinks/Rolling Stones/The Who
Review: The
Beach
Boys “20/20” (1969)
Top Five: Releases of 2010 (Moody
Blues/Otis Redding/Rolling Stones/Oasis/John Lennon)
News: Beatles/Pink Floyd
Review: The Beatles “Christmas
Fanclub Flexi-discs” (1963-69)
Top Five: Songs about snow
(Pentangle/Yoko Ono/Belle and Sebastian/Grateful Dead/Paul McCartney)
News: Kinks/Rolling Stones – Keith Richards’ book/The Who
Review: Belle and Sebastian
“Write About Love” (2010)
Top Five: Our predictions for the
year
News: Beatles/Rolling Stones – more on Keith Richards’ book
Review: Paul McCartney and
Wings “Band On The Run” (1973/2010)
Top Five: More AAA fugitives
(Stephen Stills/Jefferson Starship/Simon and Garfunkel/Grateful Dead/Rolling
Stones)
News: Beach Boys/CSN/Human League/Monkees/Oasis/Rolling Stones/The Who/Neil Young
Review:
Lindisfarne “Fog On The Tyne” (1971)
Top Five:
Home Towns in song (Liverpool/Manchester/London/Cambridge/California)
News: CSN/Monkees – Don Kirshner obituary/Gilbert O’Sullivan/Pink
Floyd/Paul Simon
Review: Yoko Ono “A Story”
(recorded 1974, released 1998)
Top Five: The five biggest
non-musical influences on the 1960s (Marx Brothers/Tony Hancock/James
Dean/JFK/Hitler)
News: Troll A Tory Day/Beatles/Dire Straits
Review: Pink Floyd “Ummagumma”
(1969)
Top Five: A bit more than a top
five this week: every single instance of one AAA band covering songs made
famous by another
News: None!
Review: Jefferson Airplane
“Bark” (1971)
Top Five: Strange censorship
decisions – the top five songs banned for no apparent reason and the top five
that amazingly slipped through the net (Jefferson Airplane/Buffalo
Springfield/Kinks/Rolling Stones/Beatles/Pink Floyd/Hollies/Small Faces)
News: Beatles/Lindisfarne
Review: The Beatles “Please
Please Me” (1963)
Top Five: AAA albums that still
haven’t been released on CD yet! (Monkees/Beatles/Jefferson Airplane/10cc/Neil
Young)
News: Beatles/CSNY/Dire Straits/Monkees/Pink Floyd/Rolling Stones
Review: Beady Eye “Different
Gear, Still Speeding” (2011)
Top Five: Random recent purchases
(Stephen Stills/The Who/Rolling Stones/Beatles/Holst)
news
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Day Time Travel Special!
News: Pretty much everyone!
Reviews: Beatles/CSNY/Dire Straits/Rolling Stones/Spice Girls
Top Five: Mini-biographies of the
five beings who made the fall of the Coalition after 15 tyrannical years
possible!
News: Hollies/Kinks/Rolling Stones/Simon and Garfunkel
Review: Neil Young “Le Noise”
(2010)
Top Five: AAA music videos
(Neil
Young/Rolling Stones/Monkees/Kinks/CSN/Grateful Dead/Moody Blues/Godley and
Creme/Oasis/Paul McCartney)
News: Oasis/Rolling Stones
Review: The Monkees “Changes”
(1970)
Top Thirty (!): This week I’ve been
challenged to come up with my own ’30 day Facebook song challenge’ – here are
my complete results!
News: Beatles/The Who
Review: The Kinks “Word Of
Mouth” (1984)
Top Five: AAA Documentaries
(Wings/Beatles/Beach Boys/Grateful Dead/Paul Simon)
News: Beach Boys/Beatles/Pink Floyd/Holst!!!
Review: Dennis Wilson “Pacific
Ocean Blue” (1977)
Top Ten: Unfinished AAA albums
(Dennis Wilson/Beach Boys/Beatles/Buffalo
Springfield/CSNY/Lennon/McCartney/Moody Blues/Pink Floyd/Neil Young)
News: Beatles/Hollies/Rolling Stones
Review: The Moody Blues “The
Present” (1983)
Top Ten: Strangest album covers
(Belle and Sebastian/Buffalo Springfield/Grateful
Dead/Byrds/Wings/CSN/Oasis/Cat Stevens/Pink Floyd/Moody Blues)
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Earth’ 1974!
News: Beach Boys/Beatles/Hollies
Review: Grateful Dead “From The
Mars Hotel” (1974)
Top Ten: Performances at the
Live Solar System Benefit Concert for Earth! (Neil Young/Beach Boys/Nils Lofgren/Oasis/Paul
McCartney and Wings/John Lennon/Dave Davies/The Byrds/Pink Floyd/Jefferson
Airplane-Starship)
News: Hollies/Human League/Pink
Floyd
Review: The Rolling Stones “The
Rolling Stones” (1964)
Top Five: Songs with the word
‘100’ in them (Byrds/Rolling Stones/Moody Blues/Cat Stevens/The Beatles)
News: Hollies/Pink Floyd/Paul Simon
Review: Syd Barrett “The Madcap
Laughs” (1970)
Top Five: The most recorded AAA
songs in a single day (Hollies/Kinks/Beach Boys/Beatles/Searchers)
News: Beach Boys/Beatles/CSNY/Monkees/Oasis/Pink Floyd/Otis Redding/Rolling
Stones/Simon
and Garfunkel/10cc/Neil Young
Review: Janis Joplin “Pearl”
(1970)
Top Five: Most revealing AAA
interviews (Cat Stevens/David Crosby/Janis Joplin/The Who/John Lennon)
News: Beatles/Oasis/Simon and Garfunkel
Review: Neil Young “Mirror
Ball” (1995)
Top Five: Best pre-fame AAA
recordings (Beach Boys/Beatles/Byrds/Grateful Dead/Janis
Joplin/Kinks/Searchers/Simon and Garfunkel/The Who/Neil Young)
News: Buffalo Springfield/Kinks/Oasis/Rolling Stones/Simon and Garfunkel
Review: Crosby,
Stills and Nash “Live It Up!” (1990)
Top Five: The shortest and
longest AAA albums (Beatles/Simon and Garfunkel/Hollies/Neil Young/Beach
Boys/Pink Floyd/Who/Godley and Crème)
News: Beatles/Pentangle
Review: Oasis “Definitely
Maybe” (1994)
Top Five: The ultimate line-up
for the ultimate AAA band (featuring members from the Beach
Boys/Beatles/CSNY/Grateful Dead/Hollies/Monkees/Pink Floyd/Simon and
Garfunkel/The Who/Neil Young)
News: Beatles/CSNY/Kinks/Simon and Garfunkel
Review: The original ‘McCartney
II’ (1980/2011)
Top Ten: AAA sports songs (Beach
Boys/Belle and Sebastian/George Harrison/The Kinks/Simon and Garfunkel/10cc)
News: Beatles/Janis Joplin
Review: Paul Simon “So
Beautiful, Or So What?” (2011)
Top Ten: Conversations with our
‘maker’ (Hollies/Kinks/Moody Blues/Janis Joplin/Lindisfarne/John
Lennon/Jefferson Airplane/Dennis Wilson/Neil Young)
News: Beatles/Jefferson Airplane/Oasis
Review: The Byrds “Younger Than
Yesterday” (1967)
Top Ten: AAA managers (the good,
the bad and the financially ugly!)
News: Byrds/Monkees
Review: Jack The Lad “The Old
Straight Track” (1974)
Top Ten: Unexpected AAA cameos
(Beatles/David Crosby/Grateful Dead/Hollies/Lulu/Monkees/Moody Blues/Graham
Nash/Pink Floyd/Rolling Stones/Paul Simon/Small Faces/The Who/Neil Young)
News: Monkees/Rolling Stones
Review: The Hollies “5317704”
(1979)
Top Five: Five other AAA related
words than can be spelt on a calculator! (Monkees/Manassas/Kinks/Crazy
Horse/Nils Lofgren)
News: Beach
Boys/Beatles/Belle
and Sebastian/Byrds/CSN/Kinks/Lulu/
Oasis/Gilbert O’Sullivan/Pentangle/Pink Floyd/Rolling Stones/The Who/Neil Young
Review:
The Kinks “A Soap
Opera” (1975)
Top
Five: AAA Court cases (Beatles/Gilbert O’Sullivan/Pink
Floyd/Who/Neil Young)
News: Lulu/Oasis
Review: Justin Hayward
“Songwriter” (1977)
Top Five: Postmodern songs all
about the art of songwriting (Paul McCartney/Stephen Stills/Neil Young/The
Who/Paul Simon)
News: Beatles/Monkees/Oasis etc/Pink Floyd
Review: The Rolling Stones
“Steel Wheels” (1989)
Top Ten: Biggest stylistic leaps
on AAA albums (Monkees/Cat Stevens/Grateful Dead/Paul McCartney/Hollies/Kinks/Jefferson
Starship/Moody Blues/Human League/Neil Young)
News: Beatles/Byrds/CSN/Grateful
Dead/Hollies/Kinks/Lindisfarne/ Monkees/Moody Blues/Pink
Floyd/Rolling Stones/Small Faces/The Who
Review: Cat Stevens “New
Masters” (1968)
Top Twenty: The biggest reasons why
David Cameron just has to go!
Review: The Beach Boys “Wild
Honey” (1967)
Top Seven: The AAA Cookbook, full
of mouthwatering (and eyewatering) recipes! (featuring lots of bad puns based
on Beach Boys/Beatles/CSN/Dire Straits/Grateful Dead/Moody Blues/Otis
Redding/Rolling Stones)
News: Grateful Dead/Pink
Floyd
Review: Jefferson Airplane
“Takes Off!” (1966)
Top Five: Debut singles that sum
up an artist’s oeuvre from the outset (The Who/Grateful
Dead/Oasis/Monkees/Small Faces)
A special dedicated to Pentangle guitarist Bert
Jansch who died this week at the age of 67, including the top five Jansch
–Pentangle classics
News: Beach Boys/Beatles/Lulu/Pink FloydRolling Stones/Paul Simon
Review: Pink Floyd “A Saucerful
Of Secrets” (1968)
Top Five: That same bird sound
effect as featured on albums by The Kinks, The Hollies, The Beatles and Pink
Floyd
News: Beach Boys/Byrds/CSN/Dire Straits/Hollies/Oasis/Pentangle/ Paul Simon/The Who/Neil Young
Review: Noel Gallagher’s High
Flying Birds “Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds” (2011)
Top Twenty: The first in a
three-part series of classic AAA YouTube clips: 60-41 (Kinks/Hollies/CSN/Moody
Blues/George Harrison/The Who/Paul McCartney/Dire Straits/Nils
Lofgren/Oasis/Monkees/Small Faces/10cc/Cat Stevens/Yoko Ono)
News: Beatles/Nils Lofgren/Monkees/Oasis/The Who
Review: Nils Lofgren “Flip!”
(1985)
Top Twenty: The second in a
three-part series of classic AAA Youtube clips: 40-21 (CSN/Pink Floyd/Jefferson
Airplane/Neil Young/Pentangle/Lindisfarne/Beach Boys/ Searchers/Kinks/Buffalo Springfield/Dire
Straits/Monkees/Small Faces/Hollies)
News: Beatles/CSN/Monkees/Simon and Garfunkel/The Who
Review: Neil Young “Sleeps
With Angels” (1994)
Top Twenty: The third in a
three-part series of classic AAA Youtube clips: 20-1 (George Harrison/CSNY/Jack
The Lad/Ringo/Monkees/Paul McCartney/Paul Simon/Byrds/Kinks/ Hollies/Grateful
Dead/Pink Floyd/Neil Young)
News: Lulu/Simon and Garfunkel
Review: Paul McCartney “Tug Of
War” (1982)
Top Ten: Things I never knew
about AAA artists before working on this site! (Beach Boys/Beatles/CSN/Dire
Straits/Grateful Dead/Hollies/Jefferson Airplane/Monkees/Rolling Stones/The
Who)
News: Beatles/CSN/Hollies/Rolling Stones/The Who
Review: Denny Laine “Reborn”
(1996)
Top Twenty: The priciest AAA
recordings, with a top 10 dedicated to The Beatles and another dedicated to
everyone else... (Beatles/Kinks/Pink Floyd/Rolling Stones/The Who)
News: Rolling Stones
Review: Paul Simon “Paul Simon”
(1972)
Top Ten: AAA
Instrumentals
(Beach Boys/Beatles/Grateful Dead/Pink Floyd/10cc/The Who)
News: Beatles/Bee Gees/The
Who
Review: 10cc
“Sheet Music” (1974)
Top, Erm, Whatever: Musical Tarot –
let your Ipod/MP3 player shuffle button decide your destiny!
News: Beach Boys/Kinks/Monkees (Bert Schneider obit)
Review: The Beach Boys “Merry
Christmas From The Beach Boys” (Unreleased, 1977)
Top Five: Christmas Carols
News: Beach Boys/Beatles/Janis Joplin/Kinks/Oasis/Yoko Ono/Otis Redding/Rolling Stones
Review: George Harrison “Dark
Horse” (1974)
Top Five/Three: The best five album
releases of the year (Paul McCartney/The Who/Beady Eye/Beach Boys/Hollies), the
three best documentaries (Simon and Garfunkel/Kinks/Pink Floyd), the three best
DVDs (John Lennon/George Harrison/Hollies) and the three best songs of the year
(Paul Simon/Noel Gallagher/Beady Eye)
News: Beatles/Lulu/Pentangle
Review: “The Great Otis Redding
Sings Soul Ballads” (1965)
Top Five: AAA appearances in ‘The
Beano’ (Beach Boys/Beatles)
News: Vote for us at the ‘Shorty’ Awards!/Politics
and Music
Review: Gilbert O’Sullivan “A
Stranger In My Own Back Yard” (1974)
Top Ten: AAA guitarists part
one: #20-11
News: Beatles/Paul Simon
Review: The Beatles “Let It
Be” (1970)
Top Ten: AAA guitarists part
two: #10-1
News: Paul Simon
Review: Crosby, Stills and Nash
“Daylight Again” (1982)
Top Five: The Alan’s Album
Archives’ ‘Shorty’ nomination promotional interview
News: Beatles/Byrds/CSNY/Kinks/Monkees/Rolling Stones/Neil Young
Review: The Kinks “Sleepwalker”
(1977)
Top Five: The top 10 best selling
AAA albums (featuring Pink Floyd/Beatles/Dire Straits/Simon and
Garfunkel/Oasis/Monkees)
News: Moody Blues/Oasis
Review: The Searchers “Meet The
Searchers” (1963)
Top Five: Songs featuring bagpipes
(Hollies/Grace Slick and Jefferson Starship/Paul McCartney and Wings/Grateful
Dead/Belle and Sebastian)
News: Beatles/Kinks/Lulu/Rolling
Stones/Paul Simon/Small
Faces/Cat Stevens
Review: The Byrds “Mr
Tambourine Man” (1965)
Top Fifty-Six: A (hopefully) complete
list of
AAA
musicians on Twitter (featuring pretty much every AAA band!)
News: Byrds/Hollies/Jefferson
Airplane
Review: John Lennon and Yoko
Ono “Milk and Honey” (1982)
Top Six: The Beatles albums that
could have been 1970-74 and 1980
A special dedicated to Monkee Davy Jones, who died
this week at the age of 66, including the top ten Davy Jones-penned songs
News: Beatles/Belle and
Sebastian
Review: The Who “Face Dances”
(1981)
Top Five: AAA Computer/DVD games
we’ve invented (Beatles/Grateful Dead/Monkees/Rolling Stones/The Who)
News: The Beach Boys/The Who
Review: Grateful Dead
“Workingman’s Dead” (1970)
Top Ten: The AAA albums that
spent the most weeks at #1 in the UK chart (Simon and Garfunkel/Beatles/Rolling
Stones/Oasis)
News: Pretty much everyone!
Reviews: The Byrds “Sing Byrd”/“The Madrigal Moody Blues”/The Rolling Stones and the Caveman “Let’s Rock”/Spice
Girls “The Opera”
Top Ten: Interviews with special
guests King Urrg, Noah, Cleopatra, Julius Caesar, Captain Kidd, Sir Walter
Raliegh, Napoleon, George Washington, Queen Victoria and Capt. Buzz Blackhole,
all talking about their record collections!!!
News: Beatles/Belle and Sebastian/Hollies/Monkees/Oasis/Neil Young
Review: Belle and Sebastian
“Dear Catastrophe Waitress” (2003)
Top Ten: The AAA Singles that
spent the most weeks at #1 in the UK chart (Paul McCartney and Wings/Art
Garfunkel/Beatles/Human League/Pink Floyd/George Harrison)
News: Grateful Dead/Small
Faces
Review: Cat Stevens “Izitso?”
(1977)
Top Twenty: Lyric competition –
guess the group to win a prize!
News: Beatles/Hollies/Pentangle
Review: Paul McCartney “Kisses
On The Bottom” (2012)
Top Ten: AAA Crooner Classics
(Beach Boys/Beatles/Belle and Sebastian/Hollies/Kinks/Paul McCartney/Pink
Floyd/Ringo/Small Faces/10cc)
News: Beatles/Hollies/Paul Simon/10cc/The Who
Review: The Beach Boys “The
Smile Sessions” (Box Set 2011)
Top Five: Funeral songs (Beach
Boys/Lindisfarne/Jerry Garcia/Crosby, Stills and Nash/Beatles)
News: Crosby-Nash/The
Kinks/Yoko Ono/The Searchers/Paul Simon/The Who
Review: The Who “Quadrophenia”
(Box Set 2011)
Top Five: Telephone songs for
when you’re stuck on ‘hold’ (Allan Clarke/The Kinks/Grateful Dead/10cc/Rolling
Stones)
News: Lindisfarne/Lulu/Paul Simon
Review: Pink Floyd “Dark Side
Of The Moon” “Wish You Were Here” and “The Wall” (Experience/Immersion Box Sets
2011)
Top Five: Random recent purchases
(Crosby-Nash/Stevie Jackson/Art Garfunkel/Hot Tuna/Julian Lennon)
News: CSN/Pentangle/Pink Floyd/Otis Redding/Rolling Stones/The Who
Review: The Hollies “Radio Fun”
(2012)
Top Five: Six more random recent
purchases (Ian Anderson/Henry McCullough/Mick Jagger/Rolling Stones/The
Kinks/The Monkees via Harry Nilsson)
News: Hollies/Lulu/Rolling Stones
Review: Lindisfarne “Dingly
Dell” (1972)
Top Twenty: The results of our
lyric competition (as printed in issue 140)
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