Adeva

It would be fair to say that I'm not really a fan of house music - I find it rather bland and mechanical - so I was expecting to hate Adeva.  And while I wouldn't go so far as to say I actually like the one song I have by her, I do have a little, er... respect for it.

The Ad Libs

Another group with just the one song in my collection, New Jersey's Ad Libs were genuine one-hit wonders with that one song, The Boy From New York City.

Faye Adams

Another day, another Adams, another artist I've only one song by.  I'm glad to say that Faye Adams is a bit of a change from what I've had on the blog before - a 1950s gospel and blues singer, I have her first hit, Shake A Hand, which spent nine weeks at the top of the US R&B charts back in 1953 and is utterly fantastic.

Bryan Adams

Good old Bryan Adams - everything he does, he does it for you and you and you and you...

I'm a bit surprised, given my substantial collection of compilation albums, that I have only one Bryan Adams song.  More surprising is that it's not Everything I Do, or Run To You - it's not even Summer Of 69.  It's a song I'd completely forgotten existed, but that lives on unremembered, track 6 of Now That's What I Call Music! volume 6: It's Only Love.

Adam & The Ants

Ah, the early 80s.  As far as I'm concerned the period from maybe 1981, possibly a year or two earlier, to 1984 was the absolute peak of popular music in my lifetime.  Post-punk, New Wave, The New Pop, the New Wave Of British Heavy Metal, the rise of electronica - there was just so much exciting musical stuff going on that was both interesting and commercially viable, and this was just in the UK.  I've already eulogised over A Flock Of Seagulls and ABC on the blog, so let's add Adam & The Ants to that list.

Action Painting!

While I suppose it's possible that someone reading this blog might think I have a pulsating, gigantic brain stuffed to bursting with pop and rock Facts, most of you probably realise that I do a wee bit of research for each post - not simply to supplement what I already know about each band, but also to check that what I think I know is actually true.  Although given that my research usually starts (and sometimes ends) at Wikipedia, I may be stretching the definitions of the words 'facts' and 'true'.

Action Painting! are the first challenge to my casual approach to research, as they're the first band in my collection not to have a Wikipedia entry.  How will I manage?

AC/DC: The Bon Scott Years

I have a strange kind of love for AC/DC.  I've never been fanatical about them, but I've liked their music ever since my older brother bought a copy of their live album If You Want Blood, You've Got It in the early 80s.  I've always, though, been more of a fan of the band, rather than their music.  I mean, I'd have no trouble reeling off a top-10 of great AC/DC tracks, but even though I have eleven albums by them (and the '74 Jailbreak EP), aside from Highway To Hell and Back In Black, I haven't listened to any of them all the way through since some time in the 80s.  Some of them I've never listened to before now.