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The Associates (band)

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The Associates (also just Associates) were a Scottish rock band, formed in Dundee in 1979 by singer Billy Mackenzie and guitarist Alan Rankine. [1]

79 relations: A-side and B-side, Alan Rankine, AllMusic, Art rock, Ballad, BBC Radio 1, Beggars Banquet Records, Belle and Sebastian, Billy Mackenzie, Björk, Bono, Boris Blank (musician), Boys Keep Swinging, Cabaret, Compilation album, Dan Bryk, David Bowie, Disco, Dundee, East West Records, Experimental pop, Faber and Faber, Fiction Records, Flexipop, Fourth Drawer Down, Glam rock, Glasgow, Heaven 17, Ian Rankin, John Murphy (musician), John Peel, King Creosote, Kites (song), Major depressive disorder, Martha and the Muffins, Martha Ladly, MCA Records, Michael Dempsey, Minimal music, Moritz von Oswald, New Pop, New wave music, NME, Nude Records, One Second (Yello album), Parlophone, Party Fears Two, Perhaps (album), Pitchfork (website), Post-punk, ..., Record Mirror, Recording studio, RSO Records, Seymour Stein, Shirley Bassey, Simon Reynolds, Sire Records, Situation Two, Stephen Betts, Steve Goulding, Stow College, Strange Fruit Records, Sulk, Switzerland, Synth-pop, The Affectionate Punch, The Divine Comedy (band), Tigermilk, Top 40, U2, UK Albums Chart, UK Singles Chart, V2 Records, Victory for the Comic Muse, Virgin Records, Warner Music Group, Warner Strategic Marketing, Wild and Lonely, Yello. Expand index (29 more) »

A-side and B-side

The terms A-side and B-side refer to the two sides of 78, 45, and 33 1/3 rpm phonograph records, or cassettes, whether singles, extended plays (EPs), or long-playing (LP) records.

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Alan Rankine

Alan Rankine (born 17 May 1958) is a Scottish musician and record producer best known as keyboardist/guitarist for the rock band Associates, which he co-founded with Billy Mackenzie in the late 1970s.

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AllMusic

AllMusic (previously known as All Music Guide or AMG) is an online music guide.

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Art rock

Art rock is a subgenre of rock music that generally reflects a challenging or avant-garde approach to rock, or which makes use of modernist, experimental, or unconventional elements.

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Ballad

A ballad is a form of verse, often a narrative set to music.

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BBC Radio 1

BBC Radio 1 is a British radio station operated by the British Broadcasting Corporation which also broadcasts internationally, specialising in modern and current popular music and chart hits throughout the day. Radio 1 provides alternative genres after 7pm, including electronic dance, hip hop, rock, indie or interviews. It was launched in 1967 to meet the demand for music generated by pirate radio stations, when the average age of the UK population was 27. The BBC claim that they target the 1529 age group, and the average age of its UK audience since 2009 is 30. BBC Radio 1 started 24-hour broadcasting on 1 May 1991.

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Beggars Banquet Records

Beggars Banquet is a British independent record label that began as a chain of record shops owned by Martin Mills and Nick Austin, and is part of the Beggars Group of labels.

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Belle and Sebastian

Belle and Sebastian are a Scottish band formed in Glasgow in January 1996.

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Billy Mackenzie

William MacArthur MacKenzie (27 March 1957 – 22 January 1997) was a Scottish singer, with a high tenor voice.

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Björk

Björk Guðmundsdóttir (born 21 November 1965) is an Icelandic singer, songwriter, actress, record producer, and DJ.

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Bono

Paul David Hewson, KBE OL (born 10 May 1960), known by his stage name Bono, is an Irish singer-songwriter, musician, venture capitalist, businessman, and philanthropist.

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Boris Blank (musician)

Boris Blank (born 15 January 1952, in Zurich) is a Swiss artist and musician known for his work in the musical duo Yello with Dieter Meier.

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Boys Keep Swinging

"Boys Keep Swinging" is a song by David Bowie.

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Cabaret

Cabaret is a form of theatrical entertainment featuring music, song, dance, recitation, or drama.

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Compilation album

A compilation album comprises tracks, either previously released or unreleased, usually from several separate recordings by either one or several performers.

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Dan Bryk

Dan Waldemar Bryk (born September 23, 1970) is a Canadian-born singer-songwriter and recording artist.

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David Bowie

David Robert Jones (8 January 1947 – 10 January 2016), known professionally as David Bowie, was an English singer-songwriter and actor.

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Disco

Disco is a musical style that emerged in the mid 1960s and early 1970s from America's urban nightlife scene, where it originated in house parties and makeshift discothèques, reaching its peak popularity between the mid-1970s and early 1980s.

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Dundee

Dundee (Dùn Dè) is Scotland's fourth-largest city and the 51st-most-populous built-up area in the United Kingdom.

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East West Records

East West Records (stylized as eastwest from 1990 to 2001) is a record label formed in 1955, distributed and owned by Warner Music Group, headquartered in London, United Kingdom.

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Experimental pop

Experimental pop is pop music that cannot be categorized within traditional musical boundaries or which attempts to push elements of existing popular forms into new areas.

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Faber and Faber

Faber and Faber Limited, often abbreviated to Faber, is an independent publishing house in the United Kingdom.

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Fiction Records

Fiction Records is a British record label founded by Chris Parry in 1978, owned by Universal Music Group and based in the United Kingdom.

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Flexipop

Flexipop (stylized as Flexipop!) was a British pop music magazine that ran from 1980 to 1983, which featured a flexidisc in each issue.

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Fourth Drawer Down

Fourth Drawer Down is a compilation album by Scottish band Associates, released in October 1981 by record label Situation Two.

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Glam rock

Glam rock is a style of rock that developed in the United Kingdom in the early 1970s performed by musicians who wore outrageous costumes, makeup, and hairstyles, particularly platform shoes and glitter.

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Glasgow

Glasgow (Glesga; Glaschu) is the largest city in Scotland, and third most populous in the United Kingdom.

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Heaven 17

Heaven 17 are an English new wave and synth-pop band that formed in Sheffield in 1980.

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Ian Rankin

Ian James Rankin, (born 28 April 1960) is a Scottish crime writer, best known for his Inspector Rebus novels.

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John Murphy (musician)

John Russell Murphy (11 July 1959 – 11 October 2015) was an Australian drummer, percussionist and multi-instrumental session musician who played in Australian and British post-punk, ambient and industrial music groups.

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John Peel

John Robert Parker Ravenscroft, (30 August 1939 – 25 October 2004), known professionally as John Peel, was an English disc jockey, radio presenter, record producer and journalist.

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King Creosote

Kenny Anderson (born January 1967), known primarily by his stage name King Creosote, is an independent singer-songwriter from Fife, Scotland.

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Kites (song)

"Kites" is a ballad written by Hal Hackady and Lee Pockriss.

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Major depressive disorder

Major depressive disorder (MDD), also known simply as depression, is a mental disorder characterized by at least two weeks of low mood that is present across most situations.

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Martha and the Muffins

Martha and the Muffins are a Canadian rock band, active from 1977 to the present.

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Martha Ladly

Martha Jane Ladly is a Canadian academic, designer and musician.

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MCA Records

MCA Records was an American record label owned by MCA Inc., which later gave way to the larger MCA Music Entertainment Group (now Universal Music Group), which the label was part of until its dissolution in 2003.

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Michael Dempsey

Michael Stephen Dempsey (born 29 November 1958) is a British bassist from England, who has performed as a member of several post-punk and new wave bands including The Cure and Associates.

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Minimal music

Minimal music is a form of art music that employs limited or minimal musical materials.

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Moritz von Oswald

Moritz von Oswald (born 1962) is a German multi-instrumentalist who went on to become one of the most influential record producers of dub techno in the 1990s.

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New Pop

New Pop was a British-centric pop music movement consisting of ambitious, DIY-minded artists who achieved commercial success in the early 1980s through sources such as MTV.

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New wave music

New wave is a genre of rock music popular in the late 1970s and the 1980s with ties to mid-1970s punk rock.

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NME

New Musical Express (NME) is a British music journalism website and former magazine that has been published since 1952.

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Nude Records

Nude Records is an independent record label, established in August 1991 in London.

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One Second (Yello album)

One Second is Yello's fifth original studio album, having been preceded by a 'new mix' compilation the previous year.

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Parlophone

Parlophone Records Limited (also known as Parlophone Records and Parlophone) is a German-British major record label founded in Germany in 1896 by the Carl Lindström Company as Parlophon.

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Party Fears Two

"Party Fears Two" is a 1982 single by Scottish band Associates, released from their second studio (and third album in total) Sulk.

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Perhaps (album)

Perhaps is the third studio album by Scottish post-punk/new wave band The Associates, released on 9 February 1985 by record label WEA.

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Pitchfork (website)

Pitchfork is an American online magazine launched in 1995 by Ryan Schreiber, based in Chicago, Illinois and owned by Condé Nast.

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Post-punk

Post-punk (originally called new musick) is a broad type of rock music that emerged from the punk movement of the 1970s, in which artists departed from the simplicity and traditionalism of punk rock to adopt a variety of avant-garde sensibilities.

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Record Mirror

Record Mirror was a British weekly music newspaper between 1954 and 1991 for pop fans and record collectors.

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Recording studio

A recording studio is a specialized facility for sound recording, mixing, and audio production of instrumental or vocal musical performances, spoken words, and other sounds.

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RSO Records

RSO Records was a record label formed by rock and roll and musical theatre impresario Robert Stigwood and record executive Al Coury in 1973.

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Seymour Stein

Seymour Stein (born 18 April 1942) is an entrepreneur in the music industry.

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Shirley Bassey

Dame Shirley Veronica Bassey, (born 8 January 1937) is a Welsh singer whose career began in the mid-1950s, best known both for her powerful voice and for recording the theme songs to the James Bond films Goldfinger (1964), Diamonds Are Forever (1971), and Moonraker (1979).

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Simon Reynolds

Simon Reynolds (born 19 June 1963) is an English music journalist, critic, and author.

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Sire Records

Sire Records is an American record label that is owned by Warner Music Group and distributed by Warner Bros. Records.

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Situation Two

Situation Two (a.k.a. Situation 2) was a British independent record label founded in 1981 by Peter Kent as an offshoot of the Beggars Banquet label.

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Stephen Betts

Steve Betts, also known as L. Howard Hughes, is a composer, songwriter and session musician.

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Steve Goulding

Steve Goulding (born 1954, South London, England) is an English drummer, who has played as a member of Graham Parker and The Rumour, The Associates, Poi Dog Pondering, The Waco Brothers and The Mekons.

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Stow College

Stow College was a college in Glasgow in Scotland.

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Strange Fruit Records

Strange Fruit Records was an independent record label in the United Kingdom.

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Sulk

Sulk is the second studio album by Scottish pop band The Associates.

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Switzerland

Switzerland, officially the Swiss Confederation, is a sovereign state in Europe.

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Synth-pop

Synth-pop (short for synthesizer pop; also called techno-pop) is a subgenre of new wave music that first became prominent in the late 1970s and features the synthesizer as the dominant musical instrument.

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The Affectionate Punch

The Affectionate Punch is the debut studio album by Scottish new wave band The Associates.

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The Divine Comedy (band)

The Divine Comedy are an orchestral pop band from Northern Ireland formed in 1989 and fronted by Neil Hannon.

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Tigermilk

Tigermilk is the 1996 début album from Scottish pop group Belle and Sebastian.

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Top 40

In the music industry, the top 40 is the current, 40 most-popular songs in a particular genre.

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U2

U2 are an Irish rock band from Dublin formed in 1976.

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UK Albums Chart

The Official Albums Chart is a list of albums ranked by physical and digital sales and (from March 2015) audio streaming in the United Kingdom.

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UK Singles Chart

The UK Singles Chart (currently entitled Official Singles Chart) is compiled by the Official Charts Company (OCC), on behalf of the British record industry, listing the top-selling singles in the United Kingdom, based upon physical sales, paid-for downloads and streaming.

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V2 Records

V2 Records (or V2 Music) is a record label that was purchased by Universal Music Group in 2007.

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Victory for the Comic Muse

Victory for the Comic Muse is the ninth studio album by The Divine Comedy.

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Virgin Records

Virgin Records Ltd. was a British record label founded by entrepreneurs Richard Branson, Simon Draper, Nik Powell, and musician Tom Newman in 1972.

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Warner Music Group

Warner Music Group (WMG, also referred to as Warner Music or WEA International) is an American multinational entertainment and record label conglomerate headquartered in New York City.

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Warner Strategic Marketing

Warner Strategic Marketing is a record label that is part of the Warner Music Group.

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Wild and Lonely

Wild and Lonely is the fourth studio album by Scottish post-punk/new wave band The Associates, released in 1990 by record label Circa.

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Yello

Yello is a Swiss electronic duo band consisting of Dieter Meier and Boris Blank.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Associates_(band)

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