Exploring my vinyl collection, one letter at a time...

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. So let's begin...

A is for...

Adam and the Ants - Kings of the Wild Frontier

Released in 1980, Kings of the Wild Frontier is the second album by Adam and the Ants, a new wave band formed in London a few years earlier. It wasn't the first Adam and the Ants album I bought, that was prince Charming, but it's maybe my favourite.

I first heard of Adam and the Ants watching Stand and Deliver and Prince Charming on music shows like Top of the Pops, later buying a few 7" singles at a music fair. It was really the start of my music buying habit, which I haven't found a cure for yet, so this seems like a great place to start!

Here's some photos of my copy of Kings of the Wild Frontier, which also includes a 'catalogue', really a short magazine about the band...

And now for some music, here's Dog Eat Dog, the opener from the album, with a great percussion section creating a pounding beat...

And here's the second single released from the album. So unplug the jukebox, and do us all a favour. That music's lost its taste, So try another flavour, Antmusic...