7" Singles - L

7" singles - From LCD Soundsystem to Lynyrd Skynyrd.

Lots of LCD Soundsystem. My favourite items have to be Lemon Jelly's Rolled Oats single in a hessian sleeve and Soft Rock in a denim sleeve (with a condom hidden in the jeans pocket).

7" Singles - K

7" singles - the letter K.

From The KLF to Kula Shaker.

Paul King wearing a vest shorts and red DMs, also a beautiful coloured vinyl version of Kraftwerk's Pocket Calculator.

7" Singles - J

From the long forgotten Jack to the Euros Childs/Norman Blake collaboration that was Jonny.

Not TOO many for me to listen to, so I was done with them in a morning. Plenty of singles by The Jam and Paul Jones doing easy listening covers of Sheena Is A Punk Rocker and Pretty Vacant.

There's also this lost classic, which was a massive hit in a parallel universe.

7" Singles - I

From Sheffield's I Monster (featuring a great cover version of Tina Turner's The Best) to It Bites' Prog-pop classic, Calling All The Heroes.

Winners? The 19 INXS singles, including some dodgy artwork that gave very little indication of their future stadium filling potential.

7" Singles - H

Starting and ending with songs that are guaranteed to raise a smile - Haircut 100's Fantastic Day and Humanoid's Stakker Humanoid.

It's probably no real surprise which H artist I have most singles by - as a ten year old growing up in Sheffield in 1981, The Human League were the first bad I truly loved. Current count for number of copies of Being Boiled:l on 7": 4 (2 as a single, 2 on the Holiday 80 EP).

7" Singles - G

Been taking a break from my singles for a couple of months, but now they're back. Back! BACK!

From Ride's Mark Gardiner being remixed by Ulrich Schnauss, to Guns N' Roses getting all soppy.

36 singles of which ⅓ are by the same artist.

This pile also includes the wonderfully obscure Competition by Rabbi Joseph Gordan, AKA Julian Cope.

7" Singles - F

From Joshua Falken (Kieran Hebden's War Games referencing alter ego - for one single anyway) to The Futureheads doing a capella cover versions.

Two artists sharing top place for most singles this time. FGTH and John Foxx.

7" Singles - E

Starting with the brilliant "The SAS And The Glam That Goes With It" by Earl Brutus (great sleeve too) and ending with the Brian Eno goes dance single "Fractal Zoom" (including a Moby remix).

Although not known as a singles artist Eno takes the top spot for most 7" singles starting with E.

7" Singles - D

A relatively small collection (compared to B and C) of about 30 singles. Don't be fooled by the quality or age of the first and last records. There's the usual mixed bag to come.

Highlight so far? Dead Combo's electronic mess of a cover of Bowie's Let's Dance followed by Holiday In Cambodia.

7" Singles - C

Bookended by Cabaret Voltaire and Cut Copy. Not quite the big hitters that I had for the letter B, but still a good place to start and end.

Currently listening to Can doing their bizarre cover version of the Can Can. There'll also be plenty of Julian Cope to work through I would imagine.

7" Singles - B

Bookended by these two new wave classics. In between these there's going to be a lot of Bowie and a bit of Balaam and the Angel.

Like this wonderful Japanese only release...

7" Singles - A

Listening to all my singles. A to Z.

Starting, fittingly, with the single I've owned for the longest: Abba's Chiquitita.

I was clearly very proud of my early records, so wrote my name on the sleeve. God knows why I then thoght it would be a good idea to scribble it out!

This, and the following record (Super Trouper) both play remarkably well, considering they were used as some of the test discs when my brothers and I used to make our own stylus and amplifier out of a sewing needle and a cone of paper.

One thing I've noticed - I don't have as many ABC 7" singles as I expected. Having said that, I still love this Be Near Me double 7" package.