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Still listen to it now. YouTube has some brilliant versions, completely updated, played at various Hogmanay celebrations in more recent years under Edinburgh Castle to huge crowds. They are brilliant. He was and is an immense talented musician.

China Crisis were great and not uncool. If they were disliked, it would be by people who simply hated the New Wave genre.

I still love them both and play their stuff on vinyl. Got the Party Fears Two 12". I first heard it on TV at the time - The Associates appeared on a trendy BBC2 music programme called Riverside from London. Joy Division were great. Uplifting if you love the music, depressing if you couldn't...

The Associates were super cool, unique and much loved. Brilliant at times during their all too short time.

The clue is in the dire.

Was it uncool to like them at their peak and before that? That were loved by a mass of young followers.

We liked them inside this house, but didn't admit it to mates!

Great shout re: the Carpenters. Amazing then, even better now. Incredible vocals.

Please don't let a happy thread become the 100th active running miserable NSC thread on politics and/or terrorism,

Saw him early on at the Brighton Centre. Loved much of that kind of music with my mates. I only found out literally the other day (in a Thomas Dolby interview on 5Live) that it wasn't cool the time. I was surprised as it was well past punk, and the main alternative for 15 and 16 year old then...

Abba (long before the more recent nostalgia & acceptance) Pet Shop Boys Soft Cell OMD