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.