The Associates - Q Quarters

Taken from the 1981 album "Fourth Drawer Down".

One of my favorite Associates tunes (well, it's in my top ten).

Images collected from beinart.org and through sporadic google-ing at 3 AM.

FUN!

Category:

Music

Tags:

• the associates
• billy mackenzie
• alan rankine
• associates
• fourth drawer down
• 1981
• q quarters
• scottish post-punk
• post-punk
• new wave
• dundee
• situation two

[Clematisian]

……. kymm00, thank you, thank you, THANK you for this treatment of Billy MacKenzie's otherworldly music. You're clearly an avid fan of The Associates, too. What a loss his passing was. I often visit the Be In Art site my(s)elf. Instant Facebook re-post. Cheers ~ (•8-o

[kymm00]

@Clematisian Thank you for watching and sharing + for being one of the few appreciative fans of a band that deserved so much more!

[mrguillemot]

still sounds as wonderfully disturbing as it did when i first heard it all those years ago.

[ignoranttwat]

Coughcoughcough...

[egebamyasigodbluff]

this is the song that brought the Associates to my attention and to my mind

never bettered or equaled

[ronaldvanderkleij]

Brilliant song and the question if Sulk was better. It was more entrancely.

[MDJarv]

This song is pure drugs.

[HeadlandRoad]

@chrisnoaro1 I'm listening to this today precisely because of those pages.

[jmvirgfb]

@emberglance

It is actually the standard Fourth Drawer Down version, the same as the A side of the 12".

"Q Quarters (Original)" is the version on the b-side. It's a lot more empty, just the bass, drums, that submarine sound and the freaky high pitched distortion, barely any vocal harmonies and no double tracking, the guitar intro is barely audible, however, the coughing is there.

The guitar and synths over the verses is missing. It's a great mix, well worth trying to get hold of a copy.