The Comprehensive Music collection -- the A's

would "A Place to Bury Strangers" be filed under "a", or "p"? ("Place to Bury Strangers, A")

Originally posted by snailhook:
astrud gilberto goes under "g", alejandro escovedo goes under "e"…

not in itunes they don't

itunes are what's wrong with music formatting these days! whatever happened to good old used record store alphabetizing?

for instance, david ackles - s/t (an elvis costello favorite), would go under "a", not "d".

is gets confusing when you have fictitious names like alice cooper and marshall tucker.

and i would put "a minor forest" and "a certain ration" and "a place to bury strangers" under "a" because the "a" is an important part of the name. however, you don't count "the", so the "the stooges" goes under "s", "the animals" under "a", and so on…

This is all awesome. Exactly what i had hoped for. Really glad the various genre corners of you chimed in (snailhook, twangirl) A lot of this i had on my list, and I even have a fair amount, but seriously, i needed to know which Adam and the Ants album to get.

And i am going with A's in the non-itunes sense, with Gilberto and Escovedo coming down the line. Give me a couple months, and we can come back to the B's.

The Aquarium

I also second and third the motion for those who recommended ABBA and Air Miami.

Ashra-Blackouts, Correlations, Belle Alliance, and the Private Tapes Vol. 1-6 if you can find them.

Ace Of Base - The Sign

End thread.

A - Monkey Kong

Beginning thread.

How bout a little new wave:
Altered Images - Best of

Originally posted by twangirl:


Alejandro Escovedo â?¢ .

I caught the Austin City Limits performance. Excellent!

The AQUABATS
Animal Collective
Arctic Monkeys
A.C. Newman/His work with New Pornographers

And Most importantly..

ARCADE FIRE

Originally posted by vansmack:
Seriously. ABBA

i 100% agree

i guess this died?

No, i am still busy collecting A's… Look for a request for B's sometime in the next 3 weeks or so…

Don't feel like reading through this thread again so sorry if there are any repeats.

Airiel
Air Formation
Astral
Aspen Woods
Allison's Halo
A Shoreline Dream
Adorable
Asteroid #4
Astrobrite
Afraid Of Stairs
Apollo Heights
Au Pairs
Acid Mothers Temple
A Place To Bury Strangers (you know that one)
Auburn Lull
Amp (really sleepy)
April March
Alcian Blue (you know that one too)
Audreys (or maybe it's just Audrey)
The Audreys (2 different bands)
Amusement Parks On Fire
All Natural Lemon And Lime Flavors
Antennas From Heaven
Album Leaf
Appliance
Antartica
Airfields
Archers Of Loaf
Alien Sex Fiend
Art Of Noise
Aberfeldy
Aztec Camera
Audience
A.R. Kane
Aberdeen
Ad Astra Per Aspera
Arab Strap (try Googling that one! :D )
Absinthe Blind
Acid House Kings
Alaska!
Alaska (again, 2 different bands)
Aloha
American Analog Set
Aereogramme
Avec
Ariel Love Feed
Amon Duul ii
A Northern Chorus
Azure Ray
Arco
Atombombpocketknife
Amor Belhom Duo
Autumn's Grey Solace
American Dollar, The

No, i am still busy collecting A's… Look for a request for B's sometime in the next 3 weeks or so…

Your timing matches the guy on the Popdose blog who's going through A-Z every song that charted between 41-100 in the 1980s. So far nothing I've wanted to hear again

Gulp, hey jag, any album recommendations here? And Guy Chadwick, I'm also afraid to ask, but would you include in the A's that hasn't already been said? Trying to wrap this up…

Originally posted by Jaguar:
Don't feel like reading through this thread again so sorry if there are any repeats.

Airiel
Air Formation
Astral
Aspen Woods
Allison's Halo
A Shoreline Dream
Adorable
Asteroid #4
Astrobrite
Afraid Of Stairs
Apollo Heights
Au Pairs
Acid Mothers Temple
A Place To Bury Strangers (you know that one)
Auburn Lull
Amp (really sleepy)
April March
Alcian Blue (you know that one too)
Audreys (or maybe it's just Audrey)
The Audreys (2 different bands)
Amusement Parks On Fire
All Natural Lemon And Lime Flavors
Antennas From Heaven
Album Leaf
Appliance
Antartica
Airfields
Archers Of Loaf
Alien Sex Fiend
Art Of Noise
Aberfeldy
Aztec Camera
Audience
A.R. Kane
Aberdeen
Ad Astra Per Aspera
Arab Strap (try Googling that one! :D )
Absinthe Blind
Acid House Kings
Alaska!
Alaska (again, 2 different bands)
Aloha
American Analog Set
Aereogramme
Avec
Ariel Love Feed
Amon Duul ii
A Northern Chorus
Azure Ray
Arco
Atombombpocketknife
Amor Belhom Duo
Autumn's Grey Solace
American Dollar, The

High Land, Hard Rain is the seminal Aztec Camera album.

Any of the first four American Analog Set albums are solid. From Our Living Room to Yours might be the stand out. I also thoroughly enjoy Know By Heart.

soundtrack to Akira. the only problem is that underage girls who are obsessed with anime and dressing up like video game/manga characters (yeah, like they won't make it to stripping or porn somehow down the road) seem to like this kind of music as well. to hell with them. japanese crazy music is the best.

i can't believe that what's his/her face said that i would know good 'ole albert in the dropping like flies thread. he did always make me smile, though; that's all i know.

Originally posted by redsock:
Gulp, hey jag, any album recommendations here? And Guy Chadwick, I'm also afraid to ask, but would you include in the A's that hasn't already been said? Trying to wrap this up…

A few suggestions here:

Air Formation
57 Octaves EP
For starters to see if you like their sound, get this EP just for the song "For The Hours" which is one of my very favorite all time songs. "For The Hours" is not on any other release.

:D