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Associates - Sulk (1982)

Posted By: gribovar
Associates - Sulk (1982)

Associates - Sulk (1982)
EAC Rip | FLAC (image+.cue+log) - 315 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 109 MB | Covers - 28 MB
Genre: Post-Punk, New Wave, Synth-Pop | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: WEA Records (240 005-2)

A defining 80s album that still sounds as fresh today as it did in 1982. From the excited insanity of Party Fears Two to the adrenaline rush of Club Country to the drug addled paranoia of No, Sulk is a multi dimensioned album that desperately needs a wider audience in this very one dimensional world. Billy sounds great, Alan is able to keep up (just!) and Sulk is defiant and definite. Gloomy Sunday is sumptuous, sultry and even the tatty version of Love Hangover literally bursts with energy, ideas and excitement.
All changes and switches aside, it's still very much the Associates at probably the best period of their career. Mackenzie's impossibly piercing cabaret falsetto rivals that of obvious role model Russell Mael from Sparks, while Rankine's ear for unexpected hooks and sweeping arrangements turns the stereotypes of early-'80s synth music on their heads…

The Associates - Perhaps (1985) [2CD Reissue 2020]

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The Associates - Perhaps (1985) [2CD Reissue 2020]

The Associates - Perhaps (1985) [2CD Reissue 2020]
EAC Rip | FLAC (image+.cue+log) - 1 GB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 350 MB | Covers - 117 MB
Genre: Post-Punk, New Wave, Synth-Pop | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Cherry Red Records (QCDBRED 794)

35 years after its original release comes this 2 CD digipak edition of the band’s third studio album “Perhaps” plus related bonus tracks.
The Associates were leading lights of the New Pop movement from the early 1980’s. Hailing from Dundee on the east coast of Scotland, the band signed to Fiction Records before spells working with and recording for both Situation Two and WEA Records. Originally released in February 1985 after exhaustive recording sessions, Billy Mackenzie finally followed up the 1982 Associates album Sulk with this 10 track offering. The album was a long time in the making and featured four different producers, Heaven 17’s Martyn Ware, Martin Rushent, Dave Allen and Greg Walsh…

The Associates - The Very Best Of (Remastered) (2016)

Posted By: Rtax
The Associates - The Very Best Of (Remastered) (2016)

The Associates - The Very Best Of (Remastered) (2016)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks, cue, log) - 714 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 242 MB
1:45:35 | New Wave, Synth-pop | Label: Metro Select

2016 two CD collection. Formed in Dundee and Edinburgh, Scotland in 1976 by Billy MacKenzie and Alan Rankine, The Associates made some of the most esoteric and lavish 'pop' music of their time while gleefully wreaking havoc with industry expectations - refusing to play by any rules. This anthology features their biggest hits 'Party Fears Two' and 'Club Country', three previously unreleased tracks, their cover versions of David Bowie's 'Boys Keep Swinging', 'Love Hangover' and the fateful 'Gloomy Sunday', plus 21 other songs showcasing their musical inventiveness and MacKenzie's incredible voice.