Vinyl records

The Associates vinyl records

11 albums with 152 vinyl pressings between them. Open an album to see all its pressings and how to spot the first one.

Billy MacKenzie and Alan Rankine formed The Associates in Dundee, Scotland, in 1976. They released a self-funded 7" of 304539 mere weeks after David Bowie had released his original. This scam got them a publishing deal with Bowie's publishers and a proper record deal. By 1980 they were touring with The Cure and signed to Fiction Records, for whom they recorded 72502. At the turn of the year they relocated to Situation Two and put out a string of singles, later compiled on the album 72538, recorded using money from major labels who were expecting demos to be produced with their cash.