The Associates - Those First Impressions

Promo video from 1984.

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Music

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• Associates
• Billy
• MacKenzie
• Those
• First
• Impressions

[Elvycards]

Can anyone tell me whether the high pitched singing at the end is Billy or a female backing singer?

[sgtrayelwood]

@Elvycards

It is Billy himself.

[dmdoombabe]

I used to get the train to school when i was little and he would sometimes be on it going to edinburgh. He never spoke to anyone but he used to smile at me every morning :) I was to young at the beginning to know who he was but i always smiled up at him in awe like he was some kind of pale angel. And discovering his music now im older and now he's gone i now realise he was xxx

[scottwebb]

Superbly talented and one of the best things to come out of Scotland :)

[Fregandisco]

I'm not gay but I would kiss him, saludos desde España!

[BeedieMobilityHire]

The Associates & Billy MacKenzie ! Fantastic !

[SKOTP69]

GENIUS!!!

[tayharleyd]

Fab !

[elisepoetry1603]

Love your description,

'i always smiled up at him in awe like he was some kind of pale angel'

and Love this song :-)

[brotyboy001]

This is vocally phenomenal; when he comes down through the octaves you can't hear any break in his voice at all; technically it should almost not be possible.

[peterwwolf]

@scottwebb

Out of the many many many best things to come out of Scotland musically.Alan Rankine had left by this point and apart from this track i was somewhat dissapointed by this Lp partly as it didnt have the same extraordinary production values as Sulk.

[lindagreen2]

An inspiration 

[49blackboab]

billy mackenzie..one of the greatest singers ever to come out of scotland..i think this is his greatest song...love it..

[MisAnnThorpe]

@stereoloov I've always considered Perhaps a deeply flawed record. I've tried hard to like it but although there are some very good songs on it, overall it feels messy & lacking in direction. It also sounds for the most part, very much of its time which is to say dated. I think I probably feared the worst from the very 1st time I saw the cover. Billy's stylist really did him no favours! Of course following up the peerless Sulk was never going to be easy but this was never an Associates album.