| 词条 | Perhaps (album) |
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| name = Perhaps | type = studio | artist = The Associates | cover = Perhaps album cover.jpg | alt = | released = 9 February 1985 | recorded = | venue = | studio = | genre = | length = | label = WEA | producer = {{flatlist|
}} | prev_title = Sulk | prev_year = 1982 | next_title = Wild and Lonely | next_year = 1990 }} Perhaps is the third studio album by Scottish post-punk/new wave band The Associates, released on 9 February 1985 by record label WEA. It is the first album without founding multi-instrumentalist Alan Rankine. BackgroundWith the departure of Alan Rankine and Michael Dempsey, The Associates were effectively a Billy Mackenzie solo project for this album. MacKenzie started work with Steve Reid, a guitarist from Dundee and Howard Hughes, an accomplished keyboard player in late 1982 after the departure of Rankine and came up with an album's worth of material. RecordingThe recording sessions were chaotic, and the resulting album was deemed unreleasable by Warner Music Group, who demanded further work be carried out on the project. The master tapes for this version went missing over the Christmas period in 1982 (allegedly hidden by Mackenzie due to his own dissatisfaction with the record).{{citation needed|date=December 2014}} The album was restarted from scratch and was finally finished after a further two years in early 1985, featuring four different producers and at a total final cost of approximately £250,000 to complete, an uncommonly major expense, even for a major label record, at that time.{{citation needed|date=December 2014}} ReleasePerhaps was released on 9 February 1985. The album was a commercial failure, making number 23 in the UK charts but only selling around 40,000 copies, putting Billy in significant debt to Warner Music Group.{{citation needed|date=December 2014}} For years Perhaps was only available on vinyl and cassette. However, due to the reissue program of Associates material after Billy Mackenzie's death, it was re-released along with the unreleased The Glamour Chase album in a double CD package in 2002. The bonus instrumentals included on the original cassette release were not included. Reception{{album ratings| rev1 = AllMusic | rev1score = {{Rating|3|5}}[1] | rev2 = Smash Hits | rev2Score = 8/10[2] }}Trouser Press wrote "To write it off with a snide 'perhaps not' would be a cheap shot, but more than generous", calling it "undanceable dance music with a few ho-hum twists. The lyrics include strange, gratuitous, incomprehensible non sequiturs; the music is at best uninvolving, even if you listen for sheer sound and ignore the pose."[3] Track listing{{track listing| headline = Side A | title1 = Those First Impressions | title2 = Waiting for the Loveboat | title3 = Perhaps | title4 = Schampout | title5 = Helicopter Helicopter }}{{track listing | headline = Side B | title1 = Breakfast | title2 = Thirteen Feelings | title3 = The Stranger in Your Voice | title4 = The Best of You | title5 = Don't Give Me That 'I Told You So' Look }} Cassette issues included instrumental versions of Perhaps, Thirteen Feelings, The Stranger In Your Voice and Breakfast (titled Breakfast Alone) Personnel
References1. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/perhaps-mw0000836385 |title=Perhaps – The Associates | Songs, Reviews, Credits, Awards | AllMusic |website=AllMusic |accessdate=16 December 2014}} 2. ^[https://www.flickr.com/photos/51106326@N00/14190115060/in/album-72157644665056920/] 3. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.trouserpress.com/entry.php?a=associates |title=TrouserPress.com :: Associates |last1=Green |first1=Jim |last2=Aswad |first2=Jem |website=Trouser Press |accessdate=12 February 2015}} External links
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