Question: Which musician ,Eicca Toppinen or Billy Mackenzie, was best known as a member of The Associates?

Context articles: Billy Davis Jr.
Tim Landers
Mizuki Sano
Eicca Toppinen
Billy Mackenzie
Chain (Paul Haig album)
Joey Huffman
Alan Rankine
The Dude of Life
Aaron Aites

Billy Davis Jr. (born June 26, 1938 in St. Louis, Missouri) is an American musician, best known as a member of the 5th Dimension.
 Along with his wife, Marilyn McCoo, he had hit records during 1976 and 1977 with "I Hope We Get to Love in Time", "Your Love", and "You Don't Have to Be a Star (To Be in My Show)".
 Davis and McCoo were married in 1969.
 They became the first African American married couple to host a network television series, "The Marilyn McCoo & Billy Davis Jr.
 Show", on CBS in Summer 1977.
 That same year, "You Don't Have to Be a Star (To Be in My Show)" won a Grammy Award.
Timothy “Tim” Landers (born November 1, 1956) is an American musician and bassist, best known for his contribution to the 1970s-80s jazz-fusion genre and his bass work with Al Di Meola, Billy Cobham, Gil Evans Orchestra, among others.
 Landers is also known as a prolific session musician and as a member of Tom Scott's band on the CBS late-night television program ‘’The Pat Sajak Show’’.
Mizuki Sano (佐野 瑞樹 , Sano Mizuki , born September 26, 1973 in Fujinomiya, Shizuoka, Japan) is a Japanese actor and the eldest member of Johnny's Jr., the trainee unit of the well-known talent agency Johnny & Associates.
 He is perhaps best known for his role in "Kindaichi Shounen no Jikenbo" and his various activities as a member of Johnny's Jr.
Eino Matti "Eicca" Toppinen (born 5 August 1975) is a Finnish cellist, songwriter, producer, arranger, and (as a hobby) drummer.
 In 1993 he formed the quartet Apocalyptica.
William MacArthur "Billy" MacKenzie (27 March 1957 – 22 January 1997) was a Scottish singer, with a distinctive high tenor voice; he was best known as a member of The Associates.
Chain was Edinburgh musician Paul Haig's third album and was released in May 1989 on Circa Records, a subsidiary of Virgin Records.
 "Chain", which Haig financed himself, was recorded and completed in 1988, but it sat on the shelf after the normally accommodating Les Disques Du Crepuscule decided not to take up the option of releasing it.
 The album was co-produced by long-time Haig cohort, Alan Rankine, instrumentalist with celebrated Dundee band, The Associates.
 There was another Associates connection on the album - the track "Chained" was written by Haig's good friend, Billy Mackenzie.
 Haig returned the favour and gave Mackenzie the track "Reach The Top" for his album "The Glamour Chase", which after many years in limbo was finally released in 2002.
Joey Huffman (born August 4, 1962) is an American musician.
 Primarily known as a keyboard and organ player, Huffman has performed with many artists, both in the studio and live.
 He was a member of Witness, Drivin' N Cryin', and the Georgia Satellites.
 Joey has recorded on over 125 records as a musician and producer/engineer during his career including Bowling for Soup's "A Hangover You Don't Deserve", Skinny Molly's "Here For A Good Time", Miranda Lambert' "Kerosene", Soul Asylum's "Let Your Dim Light Shine", "After the Flood: Live from Grand Forks Prom", "Black Gold: The Best of Soul Asylum" and "Silver Lining", Meat Puppets' "No Joke", Matchbox Twenty's "Live From Down Under" DVD, Butch Walker's "Letters", Cee-lo Green's "Cee-Lo Green and His Perfect Imperfections", Collective Soul's "Youth", Izzy Stradlin's "Miami", Blackberry Smoke's "New Honky Tonk Bootlegs" to name a few.
 He has also toured with Isaac Hayes (1989) Michelle Malone and Drag the River (1990-1991), The Georgia Satellites (1992-2004), Drivin N Cryin (1994-2006), Izzy Stradlin, (1993), Matchbox Twenty (1998), Soul Asylum (1993–1997).
 in 2008, he performed live with Lynyrd Skynyrd, filling-in for Billy Powell.
 He is currently a member of Hank Williams, Jr.'s touring band.
Alan Rankine (born 17 May 1958) is a Scottish musician and record producer best known as keyboardist/guitarist for the rock band Associates, which he co-founded with Billy Mackenzie in the late 1970s.
Steve Pollak, best known by his stage name The Dude of Life, is a musician and lyricist, who has co-written numerous Phish songs, including "Suzy Greenberg", "Fluffhead", "Slave to the Traffic Light", "Run like an Antelope", "Sanity", "Crimes of the Mind", "Dinner and a Movie", and most recently, "Show of Life".
 The Dude of Life became involved with Trey Anastasio when they attended The Taft School (where they fronted a band called Space Antelope) and later at the University of Vermont.
 The Dude of Life has appeared on stage at Phish concerts numerous times.
 During appearances at Phish shows as well as his own shows, he threw out a series of numbered yellow rubber chickens with strange Sharpie inscriptions by him as well as Phish band members and associates.
Aaron T. Bandur (1969- 28 April 2016), also known by the professional name Aaron Aites, was an American filmmaker and musician, best known for the 2009 documentary film <nowiki>"Until the Light Takes Us"</nowiki> which he directed with his fiancee and filmmaking partner Audrey Ewell, and for his musical band Iran.
 Aites died on 28 April 2016 at the age of 46, after battling cancer.
 He is also known for the films "99%: The Occupy Wall Street Collaborative Film" which premiered at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival and is distributed by Participant Media, and for "Memory Box" which stars Mackenzie Davis and Shane Carruth which premiered at the 2016 Fantastic Fest.