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Track Listings
| 1. Arrogance Gave Him Up |
| 2. No |
| 3. Bap de la Bap |
| 4. Gloomy Sunday |
| 5. Nude Spoons |
| 6. Skipping |
| 7. It's Better This Way |
| 8. Party Fears Two |
| 9. Club Country |
| 10. Nothinginsomethingparticular [*] |
| 11. Love Hangover [*] |
| 12. 18 Carat Love Affair [*] |
| 13. Ulcragyceptimol [*] |
| 14. And Then I Read a Book [*] |
| 15. Australia [*] |
| 16. Grecian 2000 |
| 17. Room We Sat in Before [*] |
Product Description
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『Sulk』はアソシエイツらしさが最もよく出たラスト・アルバムだ。アソシエイツは、1980年代初頭のチャートを揺るがしたニュー・ポップ革命の中心部にいて、ポスト・パンク勢の味気ないモノトーンの音楽に対しスタイリッシュに反抗したのだった。『Sulk』のジャケットを見ると、シンガーのビリー・マッケンジーと、その音楽的片割れのアラン・ランキンが、しゃれた温室で横になり、人工的な青と緑の光を浴びている。ランキンの音楽もそれに劣らず「不自然」で、わざとらしい特徴をいくつも積み重ねていき、パンク、ファンク、グラム・ロックとのつながりを見えなくしてしまうのだ。一方、マッケンジーのヴォーカルは大げさなスタイルだが、マーク・アーモンドのようにこっけいなキャバレー調になることがない。それにしても、アソシエイツにはどこか暗く風変わりなところがあった。「Party Fears Two」と「Club Country」は、いわばヘアカット100の突然変異で、羽目を外しながらも疑念を払いきれないといった感じの曲。“カントリー・クラブでは大はしゃぎ／カントリー・クラブではいつもうんざり（Alive and kicking at the country club/we're always sickening at the country club）”。アソシエイツを突き動かしたもの、悩ませたものは、一体何だったのか。マッケンジーが1997年に自殺したことで、それはますます深いナゾに包まれてしまった。（David Stubbs, Amazon.co.uk）
From Amazon.co.uk
The Associates' last album, Sulk, was their most fully realised. They were central to the New Pop revolution spiking the waters of the early 1980s charts, a stylish revolt against the joyless monotones of much post-punk music. On the cover of Sulk, singer Billy Mackenzie and musical half Alan Rankine are seen reclining in some hothouse, bathed in artificial blue and green light. Rankine's music was now equally "unnatural"--layer upon layer of synthetic uniqueness, its relationships to punk, funk and glam-rock no longer visible, while Mackenzie's vocals are grandiloquent without lapsing into Marc Almond-style camp cabaret. Yet there was something darkly peculiar about the Associates. "Party Fears Two" and "Club Country" were mutations of Haircut 100, extravagant yet haunted by doubt. "Alive and kicking at the country club/we're always sickening at the country club". Whatever drove the Associates, whatever was eating them remained a mystery, exacerbated by Mackenzie's suicide in 1997. --David Stubbs
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