The Associates

[The Red Baron]

Anyone who is a fan of The Associates and the brilliant Billy McKenzie will appreciate these.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ww2AYxrPqkk

Party Fears Two

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=i38fCDsrKIg

Club Country

[Glyn_Wigley]

Sorry, but the 'singing' on Party Fears Two has always been like fingernails down a blackboard to me.

[The Red Baron]

Each to his own. Personally I thought Billy McKenzie was a unique talent. A truly tortured genius. I suppose it was always going to end the way it did.

Sadly I can no longer find the vid of him and "Professor" Martha Ladly larking about on TOTP (18 Carat Love Affair). It also featured the chocolate guitar.

[BillyStubbsTears]

Billy McKenzies voice was a thing of beauty. This one is gentler pop from a year or two later but it still sends shivers down my spine.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AHCKSZZNB8c

And then this one, where he slides into being a 5 octave Thatcher-era Scottish Kurt Weil.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tZ_4f4gVof4

[darren61]

Anyone who is a fan of The Associates and the brilliant Billy McKenzie will appreciate these.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ww2AYxrPqkk

Party Fears Two
I love Billys Voice and the keyboard riff on this track is brilliant, just takes me back.

[nightporter]

Mmmm  Martha Ladly, always had a thing for her, great performance.  She's now a professor in Canada.  Perhaps She could form a supergroup with Prof Brian Cox.
She was a Martha (there were 2 )from Martha and the Muffins if you didn't know.

[The Red Baron]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SSOyxkHjwDE

Martha & The Muffins. Martha Johnson on lead vocals. Martha Ladly on keyboards and backing vocals.