Up until a couple of weeks back, I only had this as a 7" single. Have now picked up a reasonable quality copy in a second-hand shop for £2
mp3 : Associates - 18 Carat Love Affair
mp3 : Associates - Voluntary Wishes, Swapit Productions
mp3 : Associates - Love Hangover
The version of 18 Carat Love Affair is identical to that on the 7". The instrumental middle track isn't available anywhere else. The 12" of Love Hangover is about 90 seconds longer than that on the 7" and about 25 seconds shorter than a version made available on a re-released CD of Sulk.
Oh and while I'm on:-
mp3 : Associates - 18 Carat Love Affair (early version)
As made available on the CD Double Hipness. Rather different you'll find.....(and whisper it, rather awful and little hint of how great a single it would become)
Can't believe its March already.....and I've still not been to a live gig in 2013.
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I've not been to a gig either, JC and nothing on the horizon which is worrying
Meanwhile the last live performance I saw was a Cajun country thing at a folk festival last spring. Oh and morris dancers. Free festival by the way.
I think I'd rather have seen nothing at all. The cajun thing was pretty good, a rather fetching young lady playing fiddle and singing harmonies, but the morris dancers...
I could never understand why the bands I liked when I was young weren't huge in the States. The Jam, Smiths, XTC, Elvis Costello etc. etc. I was even a little embarrassed about it.
But not the Associates. Didn't get them back in the day and still don't. What's the big deal? Vocal range? Drama-heavy lyrics? I must be missing something.
And what or who are 'morris dancers'?
Don't ever YouTube it. Just don't!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_dance
Ha! You're joking -- us Yanks eat that stuff up!
Still don't get the Associates...
the associates - the greatest band ever scotland formed! but it's great that we all feel different - a uniform world would be oh so boring!
Two pounds well spent!
I went to my first gig of the year last night. Momus at Cafe Oto in London - 1hr 45mins on stage, no stopping for anything (but to introduce Maf in the audience - see Stars Forever) - and he sang to videos from his iPod - just brilliant.
Don't get Associates? Poor thing. I think it IS the dramatics, the soaring vocals, the interesting instrumentation - all soooooo British.
And Voluntary Wishes, Swapit Productions IS the best best instrumentation on an Associates track ever! Do not understand how it has never made the CD releases. Conrad
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