Glamour Chase / Perhaps [Import]

Associates | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 13, 2002)
• Number of Discs: 2
• Format: Import
• Label: Warner Spec. Mkt. UK
• ASIN: B0000657TU
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #411,829 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Reach The Top

2. Heart Of Glass

3. Terrorbeat

4. Set Me Up

5. Country Boy

6. Because You Love Me

7. The Rhythm Divine

8. Snowball

9. Youd Be The One

10. Empires Of The Heart

11. In Windows All

12. Heavens Blue

13. Take Me To The Girl

14. Those First Impressions

15. Waiting For The Loveboat

16. Perhaps

17. Schampout

18. Helicopter Helicopter

19. Breakfast

20. Thirteen Feelings

See all 23 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars ...finally, July 16, 2002

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hbotis "hbotis" (Hong Kong) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Glamour Chase / Perhaps (Audio CD)

The long awaited release of both albums on CD and one wished whoever is involved had gone further on the whole affair. The instrumental versions of some songs (originally on the cassette format) from Perhaps are sadly not included, while although the double cd does come in a card slipcase, the design is far from first rate.

Look closely and you'll find the typography all over the place and c'mon, not another quote from that BONO guy. Bono was never ever a comtemporary of Billy Mackenzie, nor was U2 anything close to The Associates. Please get some proper designers in!

The producers or guest musicians are all left out in the credits entirely. A sloppy job that fails the music.

At the end, one wonders why these 2 albums are lumped together when they really warrant independent releases.

A must buy for anyone with good music taste but please sack whoever designed the packaging.

0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Chasing Glamour? Perhaps!, August 1, 2010

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Grooveron (Centerville, Ohio USA) - See all my reviews

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Why wasn't THE GLAMOUR CHASE originally released?? Gee, let me count the reasons, all of which are one. IT IS COMMERCIAL!! From the opening neo-soul of "Reach The Top" to the shimmering disco remake of Blondie's "Heart of Glass" and beyond, the album pops, pulses, beats, and totally succeeds on that level. Would've been his biggest I imagine. Most creative?? Ask David Bowie that!! But it's a right good album and I am enjoying it very much.

Why oh! why it is paiGlamour Chase / Perhapsred with PERHAPS is beyond me. It works alone on it's own. And PERHAPS is a vastly different albeit pop record with all the pomp and circumstance we've come to love of Billy and company. Good enough to sell on it's own as well. My guess is ask the Germans. That's where my copy came from. And maybe somebody had the right idea at the time but a few credits and lyrics would've been nice for both.

Still, I can't complain. The albums are brilliant on their own and I love them. I love Billy. That's all I need.

4 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars About Bloody Time!, August 27, 2002

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A. Hamilton "Bollocks" (Alexandria, VA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Glamour Chase / Perhaps (Audio CD)

These days, when you find CDs from seemingly every shamefully-haired eighties band from Talk-Talk to Kagagoogoo lurking around in the Rock/Pop section of Tower Records, it is becoming increasingly a travesty that nothing can ever be found from The Associates - clearly and indisputably the most innovative band of their era, and by far the best. If you don't know why, then I pity your ignorance. Who else was there to compete with then? Early U2? Late Clash? Don't think so. Soft Cell? Springsteen? Prince? Mid-Career Bowie? Not Likely. Joy Division? Well, okay, maybe Joy Division are competition, but they still lose. This is the best there was, and it's still among the best there is.
If you think of yourself as a music lover, get this album, get "Sulk", and get "The Affectionate Punch". Get them in any order. Buy the cheapest first. You'll still end up buying them all. But don't bother about "Fourth Drawer Down", which isn't "accessible" (it kind of [stinks]).