You were right John. This session was a blinder. I was blown away when I was listening that night and it still sounds amazing even now. RIP John and Billy McKenzie.
wow so amazing his voice i agree some of his best work and a massive thankyou for our wonderful John Peel without johns platform we would never get to hear these amazing bands miss them both R.i.P billy and john
Thanks a lot for sharing possibly the finest example of The Associates available on the Internet. Hitting peak creativity here! Still sounds like it comes from another planet after 35 years.
Awww...heady days..!I was the same age as Billy,and the band I was in also did the Peel sessions in 1980..I loved The associates from the first time I laid eyes on them..and I love them still...So sad to hear of Alans passing..Thanks for putting this up-never heard it before..Brilliant! XX
My god, the instrumental genius of Me, Myself and the Tragic Story, decorated with Billy's atmospherics, is a wonderful way to remember the modest and outrageously talented Alan Rankine. What they could have done with a bit more love and respect for their idiosyncrasies. How sad they are both gone now.
🎧📻🎸🎤 GLAD TO HEAR JOHN PEELS'S MUSIC AGAIN...👤 HIS VOICE ... Lent his bio 📓 to a friend who never gave it back... 🗣R.I.P. He was digging successfully for unknown treasures.
Not one album version nearly comes close to what happens here. In fact i dont know many postpunk/new wave bands who can mess with these 5 songs! Maniac, hypermelodic, dancy, rough, intense...not of this world. Listen to Nude Spoons and A Matter of Gender....breathtaking!
'Set me up' from the catastrophically-produced Glamour Chase album was a revelation when I finally found it. It was painful to think of what a shambles the producer had made of it ( a fact he readily admitted to in the documentary ).
Now I know where the Sugarcubes got their manic genius- There is quite a lot of the early Cure sound here too but thats no surprise they were on fiction and used ex- cure bassist micheal dempsey , Billy's Vox however is unique....
Nah nothing like the cure, even Dempsey bass playing is so different as he plays really high, twangy and melodic all the time, it’s so manic, fast, punky and crazy sounding, lots of falsetto too and talking in vocals which bob never does. More like Siouxsue guitaring.
Absolutely marvellous. I miss Billy and Alan. That voice was something else.
People have forgotten this. So vibrant and complex
You were right John. This session was a blinder. I was blown away when I was listening that night and it still sounds amazing even now. RIP John and Billy McKenzie.
is john murphy dead...
John Murphy passed away in 2015.
RIP Billy McKenzie, Alan Rankine, John Murphy and John Peel.
Unbelievable...If they had released this stuff on an album, as in 'Hatful of Hollow', it would be an undisputed classic. This band is on fire....
wow so amazing his voice i agree some of his best work and a massive thankyou for our wonderful John Peel without johns platform we would never get to hear these amazing bands miss them both R.i.P billy and john
Personally I think J P was an arse wipe, but agre he did a lot to promote bands
and now alan...
Listened to john peel on my transistor radio... discovered bands like the associates.
Thanks a lot for sharing possibly the finest example of The Associates available on the Internet. Hitting peak creativity here! Still sounds like it comes from another planet after 35 years.
RIP Alan.
50 per cent of the finest band ever.
@@simonrice5741 25%, surely.
Clucking bell, these versions are astonishingly good.
Awww...heady days..!I was the same age as Billy,and the band I was in also did the Peel sessions in 1980..I loved The associates from the first time I laid eyes on them..and I love them still...So sad to hear of Alans passing..Thanks for putting this up-never heard it before..Brilliant! XX
My god, the instrumental genius of Me, Myself and the Tragic Story, decorated with Billy's atmospherics, is a wonderful way to remember the modest and outrageously talented Alan Rankine. What they could have done with a bit more love and respect for their idiosyncrasies. How sad they are both gone now.
Beautiful chaos!
🎧📻🎸🎤 GLAD TO HEAR JOHN PEELS'S MUSIC AGAIN...👤
HIS VOICE ... Lent his bio 📓 to a friend who never gave it back...
🗣R.I.P. He was digging successfully for unknown treasures.
Guy in my work introduced me to The Associates just the other day, what a recommendation, I can’t get enough of this Peel session..
I just love how much John Peel genuinely cared for all the bands he featured on his sessions
Excellent, very good indeed!
Not one album version nearly comes close to what happens here. In fact i dont know many postpunk/new wave bands who can mess with these 5 songs! Maniac, hypermelodic, dancy, rough, intense...not of this world. Listen to Nude Spoons and A Matter of Gender....breathtaking!
you summed it up perfectly
So true.
I cannot thank you enough. I never found this. On hard repeat
Thanks so much for uploading this, fairly difficult to get hold off. This is an excellent session. Loved Nude Spoons!
Amazing voice... great band!
JOYUS, MAGNIFICENT, GENIUS.
THE BEST
What a voice,
Marvelous
Fabuleux
Thank you Vibracobra23 for this upload and may of your others too. What words can adequately describe the majesty and uniqueness of The Associates?
This band mature over time. I remember people going "Associates! Pah". Well. Check this. Peel even mentions Preston's finest: The Blank Students!
Thanks, this is miles better than Party Fears.
Legendary
Good-bye mister mac Kenzie!.💞💛👍💋💙💜👽👼😿😭Goôooooodbye!⛲⛲⛪🗿see you in heaven Dear Billy with your beloved Mother🎹🙏👻👼
Holy shit
'Set me up' from the catastrophically-produced Glamour Chase album was a revelation when I finally found it. It was painful to think of what a shambles the producer had made of it ( a fact he readily admitted to in the documentary ).
good stuff
Now I know where the Sugarcubes got their manic genius- There is quite a lot of the early Cure sound here too but thats no surprise they were on fiction and used ex- cure bassist micheal dempsey , Billy's Vox however is unique....
Craig Brown Robert Smith did backing vocals on the affectionate punch and wrote cut here in tribute after his death.
Nah nothing like the cure, even Dempsey bass playing is so different as he plays really high, twangy and melodic all the time, it’s so manic, fast, punky and crazy sounding, lots of falsetto too and talking in vocals which bob never does. More like Siouxsue guitaring.
Unbelievable!
never heard this band. I hope vinyl comes close to this. this session has the intensity, abandon and precision of Ultavox' HA HA HA masterwork.
I'm not sure The Associates ever sounded better than this...just drenched in reverb and amphetamines.
😂😂😂
I hope the Italian Greyhound was ok 💜
Wow! :0)
Amazing! Glorious ... and slightly hoarse ;)
wow excellent. sounds similar to The Smiths. I wonder if The Smiths are influenced by the Associate's
Of course they were. Just look up the story behind ‘William, It Was Really Nothing’ and Associates’ ’Stephen, You're Really Something’.
Johnny Marr namechecks them in his autobiography and says how cool he thinks they were.
SUBBED! Excellent collection! Thank you!
Where can i find some of their live video session. Honestly an amazing band. Love it
f*kk !! RIP Alan ;-(
John Murphy on drums...
What a drummer
OK. William to quote a famous MORRISSEY song lyric via Alastian Cousin.. 'We're you and he Lovers' . 😏 👌
love cats^^ bonne soirée^^ à tres bientot
À bientôt :-)
They have recycled Me , myself and the tragic story and renamed it "arrogance gave him up" for the Sulk album.
Nude Spoons.
Some of the worst music to come of Scotland. Confused and a mess.
He killed himself because he went bald, brilliant.
No he didn't kill himself because he was bald don't be so disrespectful
He committed suicide because depression and also he missed his mother badly