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Waring, Charles (June 2016). "The Associates – The Affectionate Punch, Fourth Drawer Down, Sulk". Record Collector. No.454 . Retrieved 24 June 2017. I’ve often struggled with the oft asked question about naming your top 10 albums of all time, as this can change by the day depending on my mood. However, on listening to this extraordinarily unique and arresting album time and again over the last few weeks, I decided that not only should this album always be in that top ten, but in fact, if I was to choose only one album that I had to listen to for the rest of my life, it would be hard to see past Sulk.

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. In July, BMG will issue a special large format 3CD+vinyl LP 40th anniversary deluxe edition of The Associates‘ 1982 album Sulk. Spitz, Marc (27 October 2009). Bowie: A Biography. Crown/Archetype. p. 296– via Internet Archive. The Associates new wave band.

Seriously beautiful pressing! For some reason a lot of UK pressed records sounds better than other countries same year pressing.... RANKINE: Bill liked the good things in life. I just think he wanted it on his terms. But there were aspects of it that didn’t sit well with him. Like having to do the things you have to do.

Random Jukebox: the Associates cover Blondie's Heart of Glass". Stevepafford.com. 5 September 2018 . Retrieved 16 June 2021.

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. Hawking, Rom. "10 Bewilderingly Underrated Post-Punk Bands You Need to Hear". Flavorwire . Retrieved 3 March 2017. Also features exclusive sleevenotes from journalist Simon Reynolds with interviews from Alan Rankine, Michael Dempsey, Mike Hedges & Martha Ludley plus previously unseen photography by Derek Reid, Tom Sheehan & Eveline Dröge.

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. 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. a b c d Petridis, Alexis (27 April 2007). " 'If You're Brave, Do It Like We Did' ". The Guardian . Retrieved 8 May 2013. Robert Dimery; Michael Lydon (7 February 2006). 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die: Revised and Updated Edition. Universe. ISBN 0-7893-1371-5. ABOUT USLouder Than War is a music, culture and media publication headed by The Membranes & Goldblade frontman John Robb. Online since 2010 it is one of the fastest-growing and most respected music-related publications on the net.

The Associates: Perhaps, 2CD Expanded Digipak Collection". Cherryred.co.uk . Retrieved 16 June 2021. Note: the versions of "And Then I Read a Book" and "Australia" are different on the 2000 and 2016 releases.

We wanted other textures in there and that was always going to be an awful lot of analogue keyboards, which I never played on tour. I remember one night everyone said they were going to a club The Associate: An Interview with MICHAEL DEMPSEY". Electricityclub.co.uk. 21 May 2016 . Retrieved 13 August 2021. Armond White (22 February 2016). "Remembering the Captain of Gay Pop and His Loveboat". Yahoo.com . Retrieved 20 July 2017. a b c Roberts, David, ed. (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums (19thed.). London, England: Guinness World Records Ltd. p.31. ISBN 978-1-904994-10-7.

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 a b "ASSOCIATES | full Official Chart History | Official Charts Company". Officialcharts.com . Retrieved 16 June 2021. A pre-release promo cassette was released on 15 September 1988, [8] but the album was rejected for release by WEA