The Pop Alphabet : A

is for ...

Amateur Night In the Big Top, Appliance, Arab Strap, The Auteurs, Appendix Out.

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The Pop Alphabet is a trawl through my cd collection in alphabetical order (ok, I'm just showing off since I've finally managed to get the stacks of discs into some kind of order after years of neglect). Starting today with the letter 'A'.

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Amateur Night In The Big Top : Introducing the return of the legendary front man of Happy Mondays & Black Grape - Shaun Ryder - an original and icon of his age. He represented the voice and the attitude of a generation. [read_more]

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Appliance : Appliance are a three piece who have to date released 4 albums on Mute Records. Guitar/vocals and keys- James Brooks, bassist and keys -Michael Parker, Drum kit and keys -David Ireland. Their sound is a hybrid of: Television, The Velvet Underground, Spiritualised, and Neu. [read_more]

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Arab Strap : Arab Strap were a post-folk indie band from Scotland, signed for the majority of their albums to independent record label Chemikal Underground. The duo had a short lived flirtation with a major label at the peak of their critical acclaim (post-Philophobia) when they signed to Go!Beat records (a former independent label now owned by Universal). Vocalist Aidan Moffat and multi-instrumentalist Malcolm Middleton met in Falkirk, Scotland, bonded over their mutual love for Drag City recording artists such as Smog and Will Oldham, and began a collaboration in 1995. [read_more]

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The Auteurs : Unfairly dismissed as the egotrip of acclaimed songwriter Luke Haines, the Auteurs were one of the unsung bands of the mid-nineties britpop movement. Releasing their first record, New Wave, in 1993, the Auteurs were compared to Suede, and the resurgent glam-rock movement, and began to amass a reasonable cult following. [read_more]

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Appendix Out : Alasdair Roberts is a Scottish folk musician. He released a number of albums under the name Appendix Out, and following the 2001 album The Night is Advancing, under his own name. [read_more]

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Tracks:

01 Amateur Night In The Big Top - Northern Soul Brother (Shapeshifter)

02 Appliance - Bruises

03 Arab Strap - The Shy Retirer [Dirty Hospital Remix]

04 The Auteurs - Lenny Valentino

05 Appendix Out - Lassie Lie Near Me

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