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The Room We Sat in Before" is a demo version of "It's Better This Way" featuring just electric guitars and vocals, and produced by Chris Parry, owner of Associates' previous record label Fiction Records. Within two days, Bill was sleeping on the couch in the lounge, and we were listening to Giorgio Moroder and the Munich Machine. Bill and I used to warm up in the studio and we’d do “Let’s Spend The Night Together” by the Stones, or “Brown Sugar”, and Bill would be camping it up, and suddenly we’d just shift and we’d be doing “The Look Of Love” and Bill would be imitating Dusty Springfield. I had a flat I was sharing with my girlfriend – and Bill had to stay where the rest of the band was staying. Radiohead (1) Rain Parade (11) Raincoats (2) Ramona Falls (2) Ramones (2) Ray Davies (1) Red Lorry Yellow Lorry (1) Reggae (8) Retribution Gospel Choir (3) Richard Ashcroft (1) Richard Hawley (2) Richard Thompson (1) Ride (2) Robert Forster (4) Robert Fripp (1) Robert Smith (3) Robin Pecknold (4) Robyn Hitchcock (3) Rock City (5) Roky Erickson (2) Rolling Stones (1) Rowland S.

That said, i felt the Sulk remaster i found elsewhere sounded really awful, maybe I will try yours, its always possible some sexually frustrated git felt the need to express his emotions by raping good music, its not that hard come to think of it. A stunning otherworldly masterpiece, as has been said a million times before; _Sulk_ is a listening experience like no other. The albums are expanded to double CDs, too, though all but a handful of the extras have been released previously. However, both Rankine and Dempsey said that despite the heavy spending and antics in the studio, the band worked long hours and were completely focused on the record they were making. It was released on 14 May 1982 on their own Associates imprint of Beggars Banquet Records for the UK and throughout the rest of Europe on WEA Records [2] [3] and in the US on 4 October by Sire Records.It was October 1980 and The Associates were performing at the Fan Club, a squalid dive bar in Leeds. just imagine, their magnum opus, Sulk (which was Melody Maker's album of the year in 1982, by the way) was so beyond its time, transcending anything ever heard, that its unique sound production had to be compared to the imagined sonic world from inside an aquarium. After his fourth album was rejected and "Country Boy" single scrapped, Mackenzie signed to AVL/Virgin subsidiary Circa Records, to release the fifth Associates album Wild and Lonely (the fourth studio album to be released during Billy Mackenzie's lifetime). scurfie, I think the first version of "Affectionate Punch,""Fourth Drawer Down," and "Sulk" will also be of interest to you.

Rankine's rapid guitar has to be heard to be believed, a post-amphetamine/post-punk take on Nile Rodgers. Emerging from the bizarre deep end of new wave (think more Klaus Nomi than Duran Duran), The Associates were the brainchild of Alan Rankine (he of the spidery arrangements) and Billy MacKenzie (he of the awe-inspiring voice), sounding like a cross between a Berlin cabaret and a vocal Eno album gone haywire, gloomy and desperate.

After a straightforward instrumental opening which comes across as more than slightly reminiscent of Bowie’s “Speed Of Life” with it’s wonderfully dated synth overload sounding like an over stimulated Open University theme, the album latches on to the early eighties synth pop staple of Americanised over-production and takes it to such extremes that it warps into something surreal and alien sounding while Billy Mackenzie’s haunted voice sounds like a spectre lingering over every track with his often impenetrably oblique lyrics. Those aspirations may account for the Associates’ ambivalence towards their first album, The Affectionate Punch, which they made twice, somewhat pointlessly.