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Double Hipness

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Product details

  • Audio CD (21 Aug 2000)
  • Number of Discs: 2
  • Label: V2
  • ASIN: B00004UB49
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 63,363 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

Track Listings

Disc: 1
1. Shadow Of My Lung
2. Do The Call Girl
3. Not Tonight Josephine
4. 2000 Years Of Mental Torture
5. 18 Carat Love Affair
6. Boys Keep Swinging
7. Green For Grief
8. Janice
9. Saline Drips
10. Galaxy Of Memories
See all 16 tracks on this disc
Disc: 2
1. Gloomy Sunday
2. I Never Will
3. Club Country
4. Waiting For The Loveboat
5. International Loner
6. Mama Used To Say
7. Gun Talk
8. Fear Is My Bride
9. Stephen You're Really Something
10. Edge Of The World
See all 11 tracks on this disc

Product Description

Amazon.co.uk Review
Double Hipness is a confusion of delights. Twenty-five rare and unreleased tracks which neatly fill in most of the gaps on the Associates' mercurial, tempestuous career. There are tracks from MacKenzie and Rankine's late 1970's cabaret roots, and early demos which owed a fair amount to both Station To Station-era Bowie and the collected poise of The Sparks. (Watch out for the imaginary dance craze "Do The Call Girl".) There are six tracks from the ill-fated 1993 reunion, even featuring a camp, glitter stomp riposte to The Smiths' own Associates tribute song "William it was Really Nothing". There are dark demos of "Party Fears Two" and "Club Country". There are out-takes from the first album The Affectionate Punch, recorded after the pair were given endless hours of studio time. There's the Bacharach tribute, "Saline Drips". There's the emotionally heightened take on David Bowie's "Boys Keep Swinging". There's the rather bewildering and perverted title track... and so on. Perfect for both the casual observer and obsessive fan--who probably will have many of these on crackly bootleg already. --Jerry Thackray

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5.0 out of 5 stars Arrrbsolutely Farrrbulous, 23 Aug 2000
By J. McHugh "johnny_maccy" (UK) - See all my reviews
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Purchasing a double cd of out-takes, demos and other song-sketches weighing in at almost 2 hours could initially be thought of as anoracky in the extreme. However this cd is very good from the point of view that the songs are actually surprisingly strong and not that bad soundwise considering the variety of audio sources for the material. Listening to the embryos of some songs especially Party Fears Two is very interesting. Thank God they changed the lyrics to that one, as this track doesn't have the wit or verve of the final version. There is no way someone with that VOICE backed by the musical experimentation of Alan Rankine could get anything less than five stars, especially when it acts as a reminder of the huge talent we have lost and stops the fire of Billy's musical passion turning to ice.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Where has all the music gone?, 14 Nov 2003
By M. Evans "indigo_pipkin" (UK) - See all my reviews
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This double CD harks back to an era where bands developed - not arriving on the scene pre-packaged or plucked from a bunch of no-marks who are trying to be Justin Timberlake or J-Lo. Or - more frighteningly still - a mixture of both.

The formative years of The Associates is captured on this CD package. It is like being at the "sketching" stage of the ceiling of the Cistine Chapel - so much is added, amended, removed or just plain warped between inception and final delivery of the tracks we came to know, love and admire.

Billy MacKenzie is a desperately sad loss to music. In any sphere of music he had a voice to be admired. He had a talent which defies description, however much I try.

On hearing Double Hipness it is so obviously Billy singing. His hero - Bowie - is so obviously David Bowie when he sings.

This is what is so sad about music these days. Everyone sounds the same (Justin Timberlake or J-Lo) and no one has the guts to sing so passionately as Billy. No one has the guts to corrupt sound like Alan Rankine.

Buy this testament to a lost Golden Age. You'll still be playing it and marvelling at the talent long after Pop Idol 7 turns up yet another idol with feet of clay.

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