The
Associates
- The
Affectionate Punch (re-mixed
/ re-recorded version)
CD Album, 1997
Fiction Records
A total mystery to me why Billy
Mackenzie and Alan Rankine went back to the studio to re-record or
re-mixed this album. Contractual reason? The original edition is
much better, with its guitar, bass, drums sound, processed with
compression and other studio trickery. This version is very 80's
orientated. “Paper House” is an Associates classic, and both
versions can't do wrong. But I feel that the new recordings doesn't
add anything to the mix. Perhaps its bad for any artist to go back to
their older work to 'fix' it. Each recording or work of art is part
of its time. Or even season. I think one has to respect that aspect
of art as it happened.
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