ALAN'S
ALBUM
ARCHIVES
The place to find essays about the best recordings by: The Beach Boys (and solo), The Beatles (and solo), Belle and Sebastian, Buffalo Springfield, The Byrds, Crosby Stills Nash and Young (and various spin-off groups), Dire Straits, The Grateful Dead, The Hollies (and solo), The Human League, Janis Joplin, Jefferson Airplane/ Starship, The Kinks, Lindisfarne, Nils Lofgren, Lulu, The Monkees, The Moody Blues, Oasis, Yoko Ono, Gilbert O’Sullivan, Pentangle, Pink Floyd (and solo), Otis Redding, The Rolling Stones, The Searchers, Simon and Garfunkel (together and apart), The Small Faces, Cat Stevens, 10cc, The Who (and solo) and Neil Young (with and without Crazy Horse).
Please note: this website is a work in progress and so we will have to re-direct you to our old site for the forseeable future. You can access the following reviews by using the search engine on this site's 'review' or 'news and views' pages (click on the 'globe' to read each review once you've found the one you're looking for!):
Plus... discuss your favourite or least favourite albums in our forum!
While you're on this site you can...
Ask our resident musical canine a burning musical question!
Read our 101 recommended under-rated albums by the above groups reviewed in-depth (see the 'Reviews' page and click on the 'globe)
Watch our five YouTube adverts starring Max and his friends!
Read our guides to the best AAA compilations, solo spin-offs and live albums (see the 'News, Views and Music' page)
Read our ever-growing list of newsletters 'News, Views and Music updated each week (barring accidents!)...
Read our growing number of 'April 1st' pastiches set in the future!
Each one featuring a 6000 word review, relevent news items and a top five dedicated to a particular topic (see the 'News, Views and Music' page)
Follow us on Twitter, join our Facebook group or visit our 'Listmania' lists on Amazon!
Latest issue of News, Views and Music: 131 - January 27th 2012
The Review: Crosby, Stills and Nash "Daylight Again" (1982)
The News:
Review of Paul Simon night on BBC4
The Top Five: Nominate our website for a shorty award - this week you can read the promo questionaiires by Maxd, Bingo, Ewokninja and me
For great music that's not to be missed, check out our 101 albums list!
Plus a weekly newsletter featuring News, Views and Music!
A sample of the album reviews you can read on this site...
Beatles
(and solo)
Beach Boys
(and solo)
Belle and Sebastian
Alan's Album Archives (AAA) - the emergency service when you don't know which album to play!
Buffalo Springfield
And unlike Europe, we have a triple A rating!
Over two hundred reviews and counting with an average of 8000 words each!
How many do you own?!
Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young (together and solo!)
Byrds
Dire Straits
Grateful Dead
Hollies
(and solo!)
Jefferson Airplane/Starship
Human League
Janis Joplin
Nils Lofgren
The Kinks
Lindisfarne
Pentangle
Pink Floyd (and solo!)
Moody Blues
Yoko Ono
Monkees
Oasis/Beady Eye
Rolling Stones
Simon and Garfunkel (together and apart!)
The Searchers
Small Faces
10cc
The Who
Cat Stevens
Neil Young
See the past come alive with...Alan's Album Archives!
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