0028 - Paula Abdul

I was expecting Paula Abdul - or to give her full name, My Homegirl Paula Abdul - to be the first entry on this blog that I was a bit embarrassed about.  There will be plenty of music I write about in the future that I'd rather not admit to owning, but write about it I will.  It turns out, though, that I actually quite like my Paula Abdul song.

0027 - ABC

In my previous posting on A Flock Of Seagulls, much of what I had to say was gushing praise for two of their three singles released in 1982.  ABC also released 3 singles in 1982, but go one better than A Flock Of Seagulls - they're all excellent.

0026 - ABBA

Come on now, I don't have to tell you about ABBA, do I? I am glad of having a whole album to listen to here though (even if it is just greatest hits compilation ABBA Gold and not Arrival, or something), after so many bands where I have just one or two songs.

0025 - A.P.P.L.E.

I suppose I'm something of a musical magpie - I'm always buying, downloading, listening, but I've never really been part of a scene and I'm not really an expert on any particular music. I've been reflecting on this because until now, A.P.P.L.E. have been to me just a band with a song on a compilation that I might not even have ever listened to when I should be perhaps revering them as anarcho-punk trailblazers. I suppose that's why we have Google...

0024 - A-Heads

Another one-song wonder, No Rule is some absolutely textbook punk from A-Heads. It starts out sounding like it's going to be a bad school band cover of the Jam's That's Entertainment, but quickly gets the ironic intro done before clattering to the end with a sound that, were it recorded in 2002 and not 1982, would be uncomfortably close to Elastica's.

0023 - a-ha

Let me take you back to an earlier, simpler time.  Sunday 22 May, 2005, to be exact. 

It was the last day of the Scottish football season and I went to the pub with two friends - we'll call them Andy and Ronan, since that's their names - to watch the exciting, pulsating climax to another entirely predictable two-horse race in the SPL.

0022 - A-Gen 53

Another band I have just one track by are Austrian punks A-Gen 53. I know next to nothing about them and I'm indebted to YouTube member MikeyRemembers for what little I do know about the band and the song, Stalingrad-Stumpfsinn: