I've been collecting records for as long as I can remember, and sometimes it's easy to skip over things, and forget what you've got. I'm going to start listening to things in alphabetical order, it give me a chance to look through my collection again, and give me an opportunity to share things with other music lovers, and vinyl collectors.
The rules are simple, I will start at A, and choose an artist from my collection beginning with that letter, next day I move on to B, then C, etc.
The story so far...
- A is for... Adam and the Ants - Kings of the Wild Frontier
- B is for... The Beatles - Abbey Road
- C is for... The Chemical Brothers - Exit Planet Dust
- D is for... Nick Drake - Bryter Layter
- E is for... Brian Eno - Ambient 1: Music for Airports
- F is for... Mark Fry - Dreaming With Alice
- G is for... Gong - Flying Teapot
- H is for... Richie Havens - Alarm Clock
- I is for... Incredible String Band - Wee Tam
- J is for... Jean Michel Jarre - Oxygene
- K is for... The KLF - The White Room
- L is for... The Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin II
- M is for... John Martyn - Solid Air
- N is for... The Nice - Autumn '67 And Spring '68
- O is for... Oneohtrix Point Never - Russian Mind
- P is for... Pink Floyd - A Saucerful of Secrets
- Q is for... Queen - Queen II
- R is for... Steve Reich - Different Trains
- S is for Squarepusher - Feed Me Weird Things
- T is for Tonto's Expanding Head Band - Zero Time
- U is for Underworld - Second Toughest In The Infants
- V is for Van der Graaf Generator - H to He, Who Am the Only One
- W is for... Steve Wonder - Innervisions
- X is for Iannis Xenakis - Electronic Music
- Y is for Yes - Time and a Word
Z is for...
Frank Zappa - Hot Rats
We've made it! 26 albums, 26 vinyl records, one for each letter of the alphabet, it's been fun exploring my collection to find these, and to listen to them again and share them with you.
Hot Rats is a great place to finish, it's one of my favourite albums, I'm a big fan and have a lot of his records, but this was my first love, so to speak, a great record with great arrangement, brilliant performances and a bonus appearance from Captain Beefheart!