0021 - A Weather

I don't know much about A Weather, other than that they're from Portland, Oregon.  Portland is cool - not that I've ever been there, but their football team is called the Timbers, it's where Clark Gable, Stephen Malkmus and Chuck Palahniuk are from, Linus Torvalds lives there and the city flag is awesome.  That's cool enough for me.

Portland's excellent flag.

0019 - A Smile And A Ribbon

Swedish popstrels A Smile And A Ribbon are the first band on the blog I've actually had some personal dealings with - I offered to loan them a tent in the summer of 2007 when they were playing the first Indie Tracks festival at the Midland Railway Center in Derbyshire, a scenario that could perhaps have led to amusing tales of rock & roll camping excess had they not declined the offer.

0018 - A Silver Mt. Zion

Ever since I bought Spiritualized's Medication EP some time in the early 90s, I've been, if not quite obsessed, then certainly very enthusiastic about big build-ups in songs. I didn't realise at the time I first heard Angel Sigh and Feel So Sad that I was discovering post-rock (even if Spiritualized aren't really a post-rock band, what are genres for if not bending?), but they were songs that changed my tastes in music.

0013 - The 6ths

Another band of whom I have only the one song [actually, I have two - see update below].  The song is As You Turn To Go and it's not, as I thought before today, by the Magnetic Fields, but by the 6ths.

0010 - 50 Foot Wave

Around 8 or 9 years ago, I worked as a freelance IT guy.  I'm not sure I was particularly well cut out for the life of a freelancer - I didn't put enough time into finding new work, so while I was happy with having lots of time to do "my own thing", I also never really had quite enough money to be comfortable.

Part of my problem was one specific website: epitonic.com.  It looked a bit different back then - a lot less web 2.0 (god, how I hate that term) than it does today.  On days when I wasn't working, and a lot of days when I ought to have been, I'd go to Epitonic, pick a band I liked and then just spend the day clicking on links they suggested to similar bands and downloading whatever mp3s were offered for free, to burn them to CD and listen to them at my leisure.  It was a great way to find new music and all legal and above board, which was nice.

What's all this then?

A while back, I was attempting to reformat a flash drive and I accidentally wiped the external hard drive containing all my digital music files.I was able to recover most of the files, but some are incomplete, some are corrupted, some are simply not there. The only way I can find out what needs replacing is to listen to it all, so that's what I'm going to do, in alphabetical order, artist by artist, and I'm going to blog about it.

Acid House Kings

So there's been a bit of a hiatus on the blog on account of me moving house and not having internet access, or even access to all my music, for a while.  And I still haven't got anywhere near listening to all of the AC/DC albums I have, so rather than waiting weeks to post again, I may as well get on with a few other bands.  It goes entirely against my male alphabetic OCD, but what the hell, here we go with Swedish day-of-the-week enthusiasts, Acid House Kings.

Aberfeldy

So I had this plan - one post per day, or more, if I had time and I was writing about artists I had little music by.  After all, I have a lot to get through.  But the real world has intervened and I'm falling way behind on my plan.  At this rate, I'll be lucky to get through A by the new year.

Aberfeldy then.  One song - result!