Sulk

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Divine Comedy recorded a version of "Party Fears Two" on their album Victory for the Comic Muse in 2006, Parlophone – 00946 365372 2 1 Armond White (22 February 2016). "Remembering the Captain of Gay Pop and His Loveboat". Yahoo.com . Retrieved 20 July 2017. LP, Album, Reissue , Blue; CD, Album, Reissue; 2×CD; CD, Single, Limited Edition, Promo; All Media, Deluxe Edition, Remastered The best Associates songs sound fresh and luminous. Mix Billy's phantasmagoric voice with Rankine's multi-layered instrumentation. OK? Now add tons of amphetamines. Sulk is the result. It seems to me this music will resist the passing of time, for it feels it was made disregarding all critics and musical currents." - Altair82

The Associates are relying on two factors here: 'quirk', which only attracts the mindless or performative; and a very thin veil of 'intellect' over what is, in reality, a total absence of talent or ability when it comes to the creation of music. Outside of the studio, almost not one of these numbers would even be playable. Inside the studio, they amount to a heap of cacophony and obnoxity (not a word). If one is so enamoured with 'difference' that one must sidestep achievement altogether, then one is a vain idiot. The main single is all worth time here, and not much. lush, anxious, dark, atmospheric, cryptic, manic, surreal, nocturnal, passionate, male vocalist, psychedelic, hedonistic, energetic, playful, quirky Having created the blueprint, and set the bar high, with Fourth Drawer Down, the release of Sulk was a revelation. From Fourth Drawer Down to top drawer, Sulk is an album like no other before it, and one of which the likes will never be heard again. Intrigue and DelightRandom Jukebox: the Associates cover Blondie's Heart of Glass". Stevepafford.com. 5 September 2018 . Retrieved 16 June 2021. Waring, Charles (June 2016). "The Associates – The Affectionate Punch, Fourth Drawer Down, Sulk". Record Collector. No.454 . Retrieved 24 June 2017. The Associates are a band which was, and is, hard to define or pigeonhole, dipping a toe in post punk, experimenting with electronics and a variety of weird and wonderful instruments, some of their songs dripping with addictive pop hooks, while others verging on melancholic torch songs and the avant grade. The bands appeal stretched to a wide range of my peers in a variety of subcultures from my youth from punks to goths to pop music fans, their appeal was universal having created a band which intrigued and delighted in equal measure.

Seriously beautiful pressing! For some reason a lot of UK pressed records sounds better than other countries same year pressing....

Plus, released a few months after ‘Sulk’, the original double A Side single ‘18 Carat Love Affair/Love Hangover’ reached #21 in the UK Singles Chart in July 1982. This Limited Edition recreation of the 7” single is available for the first time on Gold Cassette, housed in a card wallet. Our full range of studio equipment from all the leading equipment and software brands. Guaranteed fast delivery and low prices. Twanging bass has you tapping your foot from the off on the addictively alluring Skipping, a song which just increases in intensity the more you listen, with Billy releasing the true depths of his warm brogue. Is it intensity you’re after? Well along comes the dark theatre of it’s Better This Way, a throbbing almost goth like behemoth of a tune, Billy’s vocal histrionics adding the fervent passion. Perfection This deluxe reissue features exclusive sleeve notes from Simon Reynolds with interviews from Alan Rankine, Michael Dempsey, Mike Hedges & Martha Ladly plus previously unseen photography by Derek Reid, Tom Sheehan & Eveline Dröge. Alan Rankine, the Scottish musician and record producer best known as the keyboardist, guitarist and co-founder of influential post-punk outfit The Associates has died.

The US tour had been set up but then Bill announced that he didn’t want to do it and derailed everything. He said, “Man, this whole touring thing, I just don’t like it… but we could just be a studio band.” I said, “No, Bill, you’re perfectly capable of singing live and people come to see us primarily because of you so we can’t be a studio band.” He just couldn’t Reynolds, Simon (2 April 2009). Rip It Up and Start Again: Postpunk 1978–1984. Faber and Faber. ISBN 9780571252275 . Retrieved 15 December 2014. Rankine left the band in 1982 and established himself as a producer, working with artists such as Paul Haig and the Cocteau Twins. In 1986 he started a solo career and recorded three albums.

Hawking, Rom. "10 Bewilderingly Underrated Post-Punk Bands You Need to Hear". Flavorwire . Retrieved 3 March 2017. In 2007, The Guardian’s Alex Petridis wrote of Sulk: “The album’s contents were spellbinding and mysterious, swathed in echo and electronic effects: tortured ballads; strange, skittering pop songs; a spellbinding funk version of “Gloomy Sunday,” the 1933 song that at one stage was fancifully alleged to have inspired hundreds of suicides, including that of its composer. Michael was a very distinctive bass player and the way Bill and I telepathically worked, bouncing off each other, he was very good at just slotting in the middle without interrupting. Murphy was Australian and quite a character. In all the time that we played live together, he never bought a drink and if you went to a party with him, he would start rummaging through the bins looking for something to eat. When we were rehearsing, he would have the NME spread out on his floor tom and he’d be reading it as we were playing. BBC Radio 2 - Sounds of the 80s with Gary Davies, Alan Rankine and Michael Dempsey". BBC . Retrieved 13 August 2021.