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Associates Circa Pop Rock 1990

Performer: The Associates
Genre: Rock / Pop
Title: Wild And Lonely
Country: UK
Released: 24 Mar 1990
Style: Pop Rock
Label: Circa
Catalog Number: CIRCA 11, 210 631
FLAC version ZIP size: 2632 mb
MP3 version ZIP size: 1119 mb
WMA version ZIP size: 1128 mb
Rating: 4.3
Votes: 476

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Tracklist

1	Just Can't Say Goodbye
2	Fever
3	Wild And Lonely
4	Something's Got To Give
5	Ever Since That Day
6	Strasbourg Square
7	People We Meet
8	Where There's Love
9	Calling All Around The World
10	Fire To Ice

Versions

Category	Artist	Title (Format)	Label	Category	Country	Year
CIRCA 11, 210 631	The Associates	Wild And Lonely ‎(LP, Album, RP)	Circa, Circa	CIRCA 11, 210 631	UK	1990
billyc 1	The Associates	Wild And Lonely ‎(Cass, Promo)	Circa	billyc 1	UK	1990
91389-4	The Associates	Wild And Lonely ‎(Cass, Album, Promo, Dol)	Charisma	91389-4	US	1990
VJCP-36	The Associates	Wild And Lonely ‎(CD, Album)	Circa	VJCP-36	Japan	1990
CIRC 11, 410 631	The Associates	Wild And Lonely ‎(Cass, Album, Bla)	Circa, Circa	CIRC 11, 410 631	Europe	1990

Credits

Backing Vocals – Carol Kenyon, Carroll Thompson, Juliet Roberts
Bass – Guy Pratt, Kevin Hutchison
Bouzouki – Lennie Costa
Engineer – Ren Swan
Engineer [Assistant] – Robin Barclay
Guitar – J.J. Belle, Mark Rutherford
Guitar, Other [Aura] – Chester Kamen
Keyboards, Programmed By – Gary Maughan
Keyboards, Strings, Programmed By – Philipp Erb
Keyboards, Strings, Programmed By [Vocals] – Blair Booth
Painting – Colin Williams
Percussion – Danny Cummings, Moritz von Oswald
Photography By – Richard Haughton
Piano – Izumi Kobayashi
Piano, Strings – Howard Hughes
Producer, Mixed By – Julian Mendelsohn
Saxophone – Malcolm Duncan, Neil Sidwell
Strings – Anne Dudley, Gavyn Wright
Trumpet – Martin Drover
Written-By, Sleeve [Design] – Billy MacKenzie

Notes

First issue released with embossed lettering sleeve and printed lyrics inner.

Barcodes

Barcode: 5 012985 001113
Price Code (D): 630
Price Code (F): PM 262
Matrix / Runout (Side A, var. 1, stamped): CIRCA 11 A-2U-1- D
Matrix / Runout (Side B, var. 1, stamped): CIRCA 11 B-2U-1- D
Matrix / Runout (Side A, var. 2, stamped): CIRCA 11 A-2U-1- D
Matrix / Runout (Side B, var. 2, stamped): CIRCA 11 B-1U-1- 1 D

Companies

Marketed By – AVL
Pressed By – EMI Records
Published By – Fiction Songs Ltd.
Copyright (c) – Circa Records Ltd.
Distributed By – Virgin Records Ltd.
Manufactured By – Virgin Records Ltd.
Phonographic Copyright (p) – Circa Records Ltd.

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There is no such thing as a bad Associates or Billy Mackenzie record. It doesn't really exist. Still, the early recordings with Alan Rankine are for sure the more artful era of The Associates. Compare early Bryan Ferry with Eno Roxy Music, and later era of that band. Both are still great, but very different. "Wild and Lonely" is basically Billy solo, even though he kept the band's name, it is a solo album. It is also a brilliant pop album with a strong groove. I think Billy was listening to Michael Jackson "Off the Wall," in that he mixes the pop with the Rn'B in an organic manner that it seems effortless. There is not a bad cut on the album, and why it wasn't successful either in the UK or in the U.S., is sort of an odd mystery, but more of a great disappointment.

"Strasbourg Square" is a lush and beautiful ballad. European to its soul, one would have hoped that Billy moved to Paris or even Berlin, but alas, a man of Scotland to the very end. A great album.

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