Alan Rankine - Party Fears Two

[@charliejharry]

RIP Alan Rankine. So sorry to hear of his passing.🙏

[@Zetep]

One of the best songs the 80’s gave us. Brilliant.

[@ivorbiggun710]

I probably still listen to it at least once a week. Loved it then and love it now. Such great times.

[@rabbruce8232]

Same here one of my favourite tunes it’s up there as ☝️ of the best !”

[@danielwatson3273]

Listen to it probably once a year and it's always stirring ,it always makes the hairs stand on end , it's the emotion in Billy's voice, I know it's a cliche but it's the soundtrack of our lives.

[@scotmark]

I remember the review of this single in Record Mirror at the time: "This pisses on every other release from a very great height." (apparently Alan shagged the reviewer to get that 🙊). Also, every record shop here in Edinburgh sold it cheap to help it get up the charts! It remains one of the best songs of *any* decade.

[@frodo261]

Wasn’t Club Country better?

[@boogieelaine]

one best songs from 1980s 1982 i was pregnant with my 1st son absolutely love this song rip

[@Auldreekie967]

Party fears two stopped me in my tracks when I first heard it as a 13 year old staying at my grannies for the weekend. It was belting out of her downstair neighbour’s bedroom window. When it was finished I ran down and asked him to play it again. We became firm music pals going to concerts. The 80’s was a great time to be a young music fan. I was sad to hear of Alan’s passing, I’ve always enjoyed listening to his interviews. He had a beautiful speaking voice as well as being a talented musician. 😢

[@ancientart1827]

Incredible that they knew it was special and had the patience and intelligence to hold it back until the right time. Alan was a unique and extremely talented musician. And seems like he was an absolute hoot as well. Gone far too soon.

[@davidk6271]

Other worldly melody. All who had a hand in this should be proud.

[@Lee-cz6ss]

Was Just about to Thank Him for a Game - Changer of a Record , then discovered we lost him last year , RIP My Friend , And Thank You

[@DanHunterSportsWriter]

Man I could talk to this guy for hours. I loved The Associates. There was never a band like them. Billy McEnzie was one of rocks great tragic figures

[@alfieconn2692]

RIP Alan. You were a genius.

[@romanjohncarlos2368]

RIP! You and your music will live on forever in my heart! Absolutely breathtaking!

[@iuhjhfdskjsdf]

My favourite song of the 80’s, there’s just something about it I’ve never been able to put my finger on it

[@arronstone177]

Best band ever and of course Billy’s vocals are pure class.

[@arcrs40]

RIP

[@TrumptonMayor]

The Associates were so good, great memories.R.I.P. Alan.

[@andycaulton6295]

Fascinating take.... Seemed a very humble bloke, love the honesty.. Great song, so fitting for the times..RIP Alan...

[@doctordirk6316]

I first heard this on late night radio (Peel show?) working in my garage. I stopped everything because I could not believe my ears and knew I had to own this music.

[@pflynn581]

Wasn't released until 1982 so you did well hearing it in the late seventies.

[@PremiumHillBilly]

@@pflynn581 i heard it the same probably on Peel too at that time, where d'ya get the seventies bit from?

[@pflynn581]

@@PremiumHillBilly The original comment said they heard it on the radio in the late 70s.

[@RJJNY]

@@pflynn581 the distance between the late 70s and Jan 82 when Peel played this isn't exactly gargantuan, to be fair.

[@Queen-of-Swords]

Its a brilliant song one of my favourite. Ever. I remembered it from my childhood and it took me AGES to find out who wrote it. I love Billy's kind of abstract howling at the end. Yes. That will stick with me forever that song.

[@gsg9205]

Rest in peace. Back making music with Billy. Thanks again for the music 🎶!

[@nickhowarth4527]

This fantastic Scottish band were a massive part of my youth both back together again God Bless and thank you for the music and the memories 🙏🏻 ❤

[@MachinaX]

hank you for this track, Billy and Alan - wonderful to hear the bts for it. Never forgotten. 🖤

[@tracyyy99]

This song along with Club Country and 18 Carat Love affair define my young life in the 80s...Many Thanks Alan for this...Just heard the news Alan passed away Jan 2023. R.I.P Alan Rankin.

[@steveoprey7969]

Reunited with Billy, RIP Alan and thanks for such wonderful music.

[@teenspirit9012]

Thank you times a million for uploading this! God bless Alan, but the only thing missing is the incomparable, matchless, four-octave voice of Billy Mackenzie. Now singing with a choir of angels......

[@arcrs40]

RIP

[@Chrisamusic1]

Back with Billy now. RIP Alan and thank you for your wonderful music.

[@jonlawrie3521]

The best song of the era. Everyone of our age gets immediately up to dance , then the kids hear it and the room dances

[@Sandybeaches07]

Loved this song then and still love it today ❤️❤️❤️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@GrahamByrne63]

Sad to hear of Alan’s passing ,wonderfully grafted song R I P Alan rankine

[@kennztube]

A fascinating insight into how that great song was formed. Also how they sat on it for years shows great foresight. Thanks Alan for great music.

[@ivorbiggun710]

Possibly my favourite song of all time. Thank you Alan and Billy.

[@littlenige]

Brilliant. Their choruses were always like nothing else. Shouldn't have worked but verging on genius for my money. The piano riff on this track is sheer joy.

[@izpozpeeps]

Thank you, Alan, raising my cup of tea to you for this fantastic song. I also drink 10 cups a day. cheers to you and Billy 👍

[@clarewebber288]

Don't smash any of those cups though!

[@robertleete2988]

Rest in peace Alan, thank you so much for everything 😊😊

[@tobyaughnotobi3919]

Love this song so much. Play it regularly as part of my playlist on YT music. RIP William Mckenzie.

[@michaelachurch4463]

One of the top 5 bands ever.....pure genius.....was so glad to have been there.....thanks so much Alan.....really appreciate this.....we miss all of you ❤️ 💙

[@fedorovalexandr5715]

Dear Alan, only this song are to remain in history but you have did more

[@barrypotter5751]

Alan rankine a witty and likeable guy now with Billy in that great gig in the sky

[@sandradring6265]

Such a unique singer and song , I absolutely love it. I was gutted when I heard he had passed . So very sad. Gone far too soon. 🙁

[@IainWallington]

Pure brilliance still today Alan and Billy

[@caeserromero3013]

Beautiful music. Sad to hear Alan passed but the music lives forever.

[@dexterrieke9997]

So this song was made 1977 thats just even cooler..i heard this song first time in 2022 and i emidiately knew this was something else..iv bin listening to it non stop for 48 hrs.. especially the ending over and over.

[@kirstinekeogh744]

Best song of the 80's & 90's & 70's & 00's!!!!!!!!!!!

[@manbearpig7521]

👍

[@quillianpiffkitt8284]

RIP alan you were a massive influence on me back then

[@ajs41]

I knew this for ages as an instrumental because it was used on the Radio Four show "Weekending". Never realised it was a pop song until much later!

[@fredbraid322]

This song personified the 80's for me.

[@spacespace764]

Just superb listening and memories! I fell in love from that first moment on TOTP. Obsessed! To this day, not a day goes by that I don’t listen to an Associates / Billy Mackenzie song. Pure genius! 🙏💚🙏💚🙏💚🙏

[@flipflop1975ify]

Iconic still, no wonder it was only released when the time was right. Whatever the generation I bet when the first hear The Associates they think "Wow"!

[@johnking-wm1oz]

The best song of the 1980's beautiful song, fabulous memories …

[@drjazz7278]

Every student of the music business should watch this.

[@damian-795]

Thank you Alan. Billy to me always seemed to be a lovely and very interesting person.

[@katiee.4396]

Fourth Drawer Down is a work of auditory genius. RIP, Mr. Rankine, and thanks for the music.

[@lisacollins4997]

When ever I hear this song I'm immediately transported back to the 80s watching you on Top of the pops brilliant song .

[@QuicknStraight]

Arguably the most iconic keyboard riff in pop history.

[@stephenward9340]

100 percent agree❤

[@markeagling2897]

Thank you for not wasting it...

[@ceased2care]

And they timed it to perfection. If there's a band and a song that conveys the spirit of the eighties, it's The Associates and Party Fears Two. So British but so European all at once. There are others, but this is 'it'

[@lizziemedel8100]

Aww...rest in peace beautiful Alan 😭🎸🎈💔

[@daryllcornier4509]

A beautiful song. I loved it from first hearing. So idiosyncratic. Unique. ❤

[@GaryMcKinnonUFO]

Amazing song, blew me away back in the day.

[@shirleyburke1571]

My hubby absolutely loves this

[@samuel96100]

Genius pair The Associates. Fantastic talent. God bless you. RIP

[@rexel666]

A wonderful song, one of many, by two wonderful, talented and greatly missed people. RIP, Billy and Alan.

[@ashleymartin1670]

I was struck by this song from the moment I heard it, there is nothing else quite like it and I still listen to it today...genius

[@deletebilderberg]

So innovative. Kitchen Person still remains my personal favourite!

[@Useaname]

Incredible musician. Fortunately he passed on a lot of his knowledge with his teaching and lecturing. Thank you Alan.

[@PCamb1234]

Amazed to learn that it was recorded just around the corner from where I grew up in Willesden! Well I never

[@user-nd5jc8xv8v]

i love them both and did then. I had the associates album then in the 80s. I rated them as a great band and refreshing too. Yes new wave fitted these. I got a perm and danced to club country. im sorry Billy died. But Alan you were the talent Billy turned to so keep doing. RIP Billy

[@fumichun7306]

Happy to see Alan! Love from Japan.

[@alasdairreid4104]

Life pierces us with its strange relation... I was one of the band's biggest fans circa 1977, when they were called Caspian and played prog rock covers in Edinburgh pubs, not least Nicky Tam's. The Associates, I'm sorry say, completely passed me by and I only began putting two and two together recently when I saw a video of Billy Mackenzie from the early 80s and thought he looked vaguely familiar. Alan (wasn't his nickmake Black Boab?) was easily the best guitarist I'd heard play live at that point in my teenage life and the band (I think: it's a long time ago now) did an astonishingly good cover of Pink Floyd's Time. I was smitten - and I went weak at the knees when Alan nodded to me one time in NIcky Tam's before a gig. Mackenzie's solo party piece back then was an unaccompanied song called Blue Soap. I have to confess - I didn't much care for it...

[@winstonmiller9649]

Thank you for your breakdown of Party Fears... It was really intriguing to see your creative process, and just simply listen to you thoughts and experiences of your time. Party Fears two is one of thise exquisite and moving ballads of an era that stays in one's memory. 👍🏽🤝🏽🤗🖤❤💚💛👏

[@john0815]

thank you for this beautiful song it realy pull me through some tuff times

[@andysmith8890]

Absolutely Brilliant Track

[@lindastanley229]

Love this always will

[@daverage4729]

Stroke of genius booking the graveyard slot in the recording studio from midnight to 9AM Monday morning for only 100 bucks. Nice one lads!

[@paulburgess4954]

A "stand out track" from when I used to travel into Manchester on the way to a night out at 16/17. Absolute class! Respect to Andy & Billy for creating a masterpiece and a part of my life.

[@jasonmcbain15]

Imagine that kind of vision..God Rest Alan and Billy.

[@MsZoombye]

This song is my earworm these days! Love it!

[@calebrush3833]

I didn't know it was written in 77 ,when it came out in 82 it was head and shoulders above anything else .

[@stephenward9340]

It most certainly was that ❤.

[@paulr.stuurop4466]

Super song!

[@gavinspiby8304]

You could never forget this tune stuck with me since I heard it on TOTP ♥️

[@jm252]

The Associates Bass lines are just epic!........ Club Country is just bonkers!

[@mattstone5789]

Such a fabulous rift & a timeless classic. So sad to have heard of Ian’s passing. PF2 will live on in as a reminder of them.

[@puma55792]

That riff transports me back to the 80s a brilliant time to be young ,

[@cosmicsodared]

Fabulous can't believe both have left this earth but what a legacy

[@michaelw2816]

So good to see the creation of this sublime song explained

[@Bananadiva1]

One of the best songs ever and one of the greatest voices.

[@Dynamicdisco489]

Amazing they had this in 77 but waited for the right time to release

[@patrickmccarthy5462]

Signature tune to my life. Thanks Alan.

[@noelnasty]

Rest in peace mate, thank you x

[@paulhoward2417]

Loved this telling of the song’s genesis. Been thinking of Billy all day. He and Alan were a breath of fresh air back then.

[@abyssal-plains]

RIP Alan. You and Billy gave us some great music.

[@christinagreaves7932]

Heard this today on the radio , it cheered me right up ! Superb ! Wow

[@stephenroche5107]

This was up there with the true bands of the late 70s and 80s electric.

[@MirlitronOne]

Best pop song EVER, period.

[@zamiadams4343]

A masterpiece of music, simple as that. So great to see Alan, I loved this video!

[@johnleighdesigns]

fabulous to hear the story behind this great track

[@simonharrison1874]

Cheers Alan. Good memories mate! RIP Billy.

[@ronsteiner1637]

One of my favorite all-time favorites; great to hear this back story with instrumental accompaniment!! 😎🫶🏻

[@spookybaba]

I crack up everytime I hear the lyrics!!! They had to be tongue in cheek, for sure.

[@reddiamondsbunny]

My favourite 80's tune ever :)

[@RobCLynch]

You know when you notice a genius musician.

[@stubailey9433]

80's was the best. Thanks for this.

[@AlanTsVids]

RIP Alan, gone too soon.