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LP FIXD 5 (2383 585) August 1980
deleted 1985 sleeve is blue black and white. Alan and Billy on an athletics track in the dark with a white screen behind them Billy in standing start and Alan in a crouch.
Side one
Side two
Reissued in 1982 on tape and LP in two versions
a drastically reordered, remixed and rerecorded one and the original one. Both versions are great.Both the remix and the reissue have almost identical sleeves in black, grey and purple and a picture of one Associate on each side. The remix has a tracklist on the cover but the reissue does not. The tracks in the remix are in a different playing order.
Side one
Side two
remix: SPELP 33
reissue: FIXD 5 (2383 585)
SPEMC 33 - cassette contains both versions of 'Punch
(Situation Two distributed by WEA) LC 4281 October 1981
BEG K 58373
UK: WX21 (SITU 2)
FRANCE: WE351
GERMANY: U
Side one - Face Up
Side two - Face Down
UK WEA / BEGGARS BANQUET LP ASCL 1 October 1982
LC 4281
1982 Sulk in the UK: UK and US versions on double length tape 240 005 4 or WX 24 C 1982 US LP (US version the only full Associates album currently available on CD 240 005 2).
Sulk US WEA
(# remix)
LC 4281 February 1985
UK WX 9 240 497 - 1 U [France WE 381]
MC 240 497 - 4
Extra instrumentals on the tape version: Breakfast Alone / Thirteen feelings / Perhaps / The stranger in your voice
CD 1990 US [Sire / Warner Bros. 26461-2] CD 1991 UK EastWest 1991 9031 - 72414 -2 FRANCE WE 833 LP
CD and Cassette only #
WEA July 1989
unreleased
LP 244 211-1 Reach The Top
MCwea 244 619-4 Heart of Glass
CD wea244 619-2 Terror Beat
#extra tracks cd & mc
Circa Records 1990
LP MC CD 1990 UK circa circ circd 11
[int 210 631]
7:32 Fever in the shadows CD UK only
4:57 The Glamour Chase CD and LP only
1992
UK:Circa CIRCD 22
Comprises excerpts from Peel, Long, Jensen and Skinner sessions 1994
Released in September 1994
CDNT 006 Nighttracks
Nude 8CD
Boys Keep Swinging DOUBLE HIP [their own label] 7" June 1979
Boys Keep Swinging
Mona Property Girl
Reissued on MCA
The Affectionate Punch
You Were Young
Tell Me Easter's On Friday
Straw Towels
7" Q Quarters
Kissed
12" Q Quarters
Kissed
'A' (original version)
Kitchen Person SIT 7 and SIT 7T July 1981
Kitchen Person
An Even Whiter Car
FICSX 13 12" "A"
Would I......Bounce Back ?
Bounce back not the same as 82 'Punch remix album or '80 version Message Oblique Speech SIT 10 & SIT 10T also issued with sleeve in french October 1981
Message Oblique Speech
Blue Soap
White Car In Germany
The Associate
Kites
A Girl named Property
MacKenzie with Christine Beveridge as '39 Lyon Street'
Party Fears Two March 1982
a.12" WEA ASC 1T Party Fears Two extended mix
It's Better This Way extended mix
b. 7" WEA ASC 1 Party Fears Two
It's Better This Way
c. 7" BEG 18 967 N (German import swimming pool photo)
Party Fears Two
It's Better This Way
Club Country May 1982
WEA ASC 2 7" Club Country
A.G. It's You Again
WEA ASC 2T 12" Club Country
A.G. It's you again
Ulcragyceptemol
Love Hangover / 18 Carat Love Affair July 1982
WEA ASC 3 7" Love Hangover
18 Carat Love Affair
WEA ASC 3T 12" Love Hangover
18 Carat Love Affair
Volantary Wishes
FICTION
Even Dogs In The Wild [From Aff Punch remix] 7"fics 16 August 1982 flexi 12" 1982 Even Dogs In The Wild
A matter of gender
A Matter of Gender [From Aff Punch remix] FICS 16 Nov 1982
12" FICSX 16 A Matter Of Gender ext
Would I....Bounce Back ext
7" A Matter Of Gender
Would I.....Bounce Back?
WEA
Those First Impressions May 1984
YZ? Those First Impressions
Thirteen Feelings [instrumental]
YZ 6 Those First Impressions
Helicopter Helicopter
YZ 6T int 249 393 -0 Those First Impressions ext
Thirteen Feelings ext
Waiting for the Loveboat August 1984
YZ 16T Waiting for the Loveboat ext
Schampout [Peel session version]
YZ 16 Waiting for the Loveboat
Schampout
Breakfast January 1985
YZ 28 Breakfast
Breakfast Alone
YZ 28T Breakfast
Breakfast Alone
Kites
Take Me To The Girl October 1985
Take me to the girl
Perhaps
12"yz47t Take me to the girl
Perhaps
The girl that took me
10" EP Take me to the girl
Perhaps
The boy that Santa Claus forgot [live at Ronnie Scott's] Even dogs in the wild [live]
A Matter of Gender [live]
Heart of Glass March 1989
YZ-310CD Heart of Glass
[has 3D glasses]Her only wish
Those 1st Impressions
Breakfast
YZ-310 7" Heart of Glass
Her only wish
YZ-310T 12" Heart of Glass [Auchterhouse Mix ]
Int: 247 663 - 0Heart of Glass Auchterhouse Instrumental
Her only wish
promoSAM 48412" Heart of Glass [Auchterhouse Mix ]
Heart of Glass Auchterhouse Instrumental
YZ-310TX 12" Heart of Glass [The temperament mix]
Heart of Glass
Her only wish
Heavens Blue
Country Boy [some singles appear to be in circulation] June 1989
CD Warner YZ - 329CD ?
7" Country Boy
Just cant say goodbye
STRANGE FRUIT
Peel Sessions CD (5 Track) 1981 their first Peel session also on 12" 1989
CD SFPSCD075
12" SFP075 3:20 It's Better This Way
4:10 Nude Spoons
3:20 Me, Myself and the Tragic Story
3:24 A Matter of Gender
4:10 Ulcrajiceptimol
WEA
Poperetta Nov 1990
7" Waiting for the loveboat [Extended voyage edit]
Club Country club
12" Waiting for the loveboat [Extended voyage]
Club Country club
Waiting for the loveboat [slight return] Club Country club [time unlimited mix]
5 track CD single Waiting for the Loveboat [slight return]
Breakfast
Club Country Club
?
CIRCA
Just can't say goodbye Jan 1991
YRC 56 Cassingle Just Can't say goodbye
YR 56 7" One Two Three
YRT 56 12" Just can't say Goodbye 7" version
Just can't say goodbye us version
test pressings extant Just Cant say goodbye Time unlimited piano mix
YRTX 56 12" time unlimited instrumental mix
Karma mix
YRCD 56CD Just cant say goodbye 7"mix 3:58
time unlimited mix 6:39
US version 4:57
I'm gonna run away from you 4:18
Fever Spring 1990
7" 4:26 Fever
3:04 Groovin with Mr Bloe
YRT 46 and YRCDT 46 Fever
test press extant Groovin with Mr Bloe
663-102-211 Fever In the shadows
CD promo BILLYCD 1 Fever
picturedisc fire to ice
Ever since that day
wild and lonely
CD promo: Single Minded II - Various Artists Spring 1990 17 tracks inc.
JULZ 1
Fever 7" version
Fire to ice 1990
7" 1990 UK YR49 4:03 fire to ice (radio version)
3:24 Green tambourine
10"1990 UK YRX 49 Fire to Ice (Julian Mendelsohn remix)
The Glamour Chase
Green Tambourine
Groovin' with Mr Bloe
12"YRT49 and YRCD 49 3:24 green tambourine
4:03 fire to ice radio version
4:56 The Glamour Chase
4:35 fire to ice etended remix version
exists as promo
12" US Circa / Charisma 0 - 96448
6:41 fire to ice [house of ice 12" mix] 126 bpm 4:21 [frosty vocal mix] 126 bpm
4:21 [arctic tv mix] 126 bpm
4:44 [late night frozen beats] 121bpm
4:04 [7" mix] 128 bpm
4:20 [frozen keys mix ] 126 bpm
4:23 [chilled instruments mix] 126 bpm
3:24 green tambourine 103 bpm
There is also a 12" promo for the album
BILLY MACKENZIE
Baby [LC 3098 int.115 438] 8 Jun 1992
YRT 86 7" Baby
Sacrifice And Be Sacrificed [CH 8032 mix]
CD single Baby
Sacrifice and be sacrificed [CH 8032 mix] Grooveature [D1000 mix]
Colours will come [US60659 mix]
Colours Will Come EP YRT 91and CD yrcd 91 France PM 212 France PM 515
Germany 615 300 Ger 665 300
Colours will Come
Feels like the Richtergroove
Opal krush
Look what you've done
OTHER PROJECTS
Alan Rankine worked with Paul Haig and put out a solo album 'She Loves Me Not' 1987 Virgin but has refrained from doing anything since 1990 having expressed his distaste for the then current trends in dance music.
VST 1003 1987
12" The Sandman Remix
The Sandman 7"mix
Can You...
1987
Japan CD
JVC Victor VDP - 1142 The world begins to look her age
12" VS 971 The world begins to look her age
?
?
She loves me not 1987
LP UK V2450
CD West Germany 258 724
CD UK CDV 2450 4:14 Beat Fit
4:24 Days and days
6:57 Loaded
4:34 Last Bullet
2:07 Your Very Last Day
4:42 Sandman
4:55 Lose Control
5:46 Break for me
6:35 The World begins to look her age
Single 1989
The Big Picture Sucks
Rough Trade West Germany CD 3 321
Japan JVC Victor VDP 1409
Both worked on Paul Haig 'Chain' Album (Circa), 1989
Billy writing one song 'Chained' and Alan producing the album and playing 'instruments' as is his wont.
John Murphy has worked with Brian Lustmord.
Mike Dempsey obviously has had his Cure years and my Cure obsessed friend tells me he is 'Currently pursuing various hobbies.........'. All right for some, eh?
OTHER PROJECTS (MacKenzie)
Yello material has backing vocal credits to Billy MacKenzie, also full vocal on:
One Second Moon On Ice
Mercury 830 956 2
? Capri Calling
Orbidoig SIT 15 1981
Nocturnal Operations
Down Periscopes
MacKenzie with Steve Reid and Christine Beveridge.
MacKenzie sings Orbidoig
WEA 1983 249978 - 0 Feb 1983
Ice Cream Factory / Cream of Ice Cream Factory 12" MAK 1T action man in ice on cover
Ice Cream Factory / Excursion Ecosse en Route Koblenz 7" MAK 1
song and lyrics by Steve Reid produced frothily by MacKenzie / Arthurworrey ironically much sought after these days.
39 Lyon St with Steve Reid see above. 1981
British Electric Foundation 'Music of quality and distinction volume one' 1982
Virgin OVEDC 86. Reissue CD Ten records 1991 CDBEF 1 [int 262 390]
The Secret life of Arabia
It's Over
'It's Over' was released as a single
British Electric Foundation 'Music of quality and distinction volume two'1991
Free
Holger Hiller (feat Billy MacKenzie) 12" (Mute - 12 Mute 55) March 1987
Whippets
Waltz
Industrial dance with Mackenzie doing wordless vocals
Barry Adamson album 'Oedipus Schmoedipus' (Mute) End July 1996
'Acheived in the Valley of the Dolls'
MacKenzie responsible for lyrics and vocal.
Loom feat. Billy MacKenzie July 1996
Anacostia Bay
Millennium 1996 4 mixes Mill 022 CD
There is a website for this with a picture of his nibs dressed like a refugee from Underworld as they currently dress. COMPILATIONS
The Associates have appeared on the following UK compilations. In the 1980s:
"Chart Busters '82 Volume Two" Ronco RTL 2074 - B tape and vinyl
?
"Chart Beat" NE 1180
?
In the 1990s:
1995 Our Friends Electric - Party Fears Two New Romantic and Electro classics:
H17, Human League, G. Numan, Japan, Spandau Ballet, Furniture, Classix Nouveaux etc.
1995 A Strange Kind Of Love - Party Fears Two Some typically off - kilter or perverse songs of the 1980s inc. The Cure, The Passions, Wah
A resource for New Wave music and genres it encompasses.