The Associates - Take Me To The Girl

(1985)

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Music

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• The
• Associates
• synthpop
• 80s
• new
• wave

[SeaBassTian]

Why is it a simple video of Billy on a staircase is more compelling than our current culture of expensive videos? Another reason the 80's were brilliant. And this is another top notch tune!

[todnyc]

you must be half deaf (at least)

[TheJaking87]

Strangely enough, this great tune wasn't a U.K hit ......I prefer it to "Party Fears Two" and "Club Country" put together!!

[rhedin]

Schöne Jugenderinnerung

[calboy64]

as much as i luv billy this is no very good,,,,,but still better than duran duran

[helga0618]

Awesome

[AllyKnox1]

wonderful song, hello to martin lynch

[sgtrayelwood]

@sgtrayelwood

But that's just me.

Also, for the record, I believe the '93 reunion with Alan produced, for the most part, a pile of pish. The magic was lost and there was no way of ever recapturing it again. Pointless to have tried, really, in my opinion.

[sgtrayelwood]

@sgtrayelwood

... in terms of one being better than the other, because they really can't be compared. They are both so utterly different.

Again I stand by my statement that Steve did indeed have a musical chemistry with Billy that was entirely right for the time (as it was with Alan back then). And that includes Steve fighting Billy's corner when he could no longer speak for himself.

Maybe I'm a bit biased as I am a huge admirer of Steve and the music he made with Billy.

[sgtrayelwood]

@MisAnnThorpe

Oh don't get me wrong - I completely agree with you regarding the strange and beguiling nature of early Associates music. What I meant was that I believe that Steve is a faithful interpreter of Billy's ideas at the time that he and Billy were working together. And that was surely, one could argue, a very different Billy from the man he was back in the late 70s/early 80s, when he collaborated with Alan. I do think it's maybe unfair to compare the work of either Alan or Steve....