Friday, May 20, 2005

Erasure

Erasure is still together and doing concerts! Who knew?!? I thought that they had broken up or one of them died or something (oops... just noticed that Bell has revealed he's been HIV positive since 1998... I don't mean to make light of this, I'm just saying what I had thought happened).

Anyway, if you like pure Pop and you're feeling nostalgic for the synth sound of the '80s, "Erasure Pop!: The First 20 Hits" is an excellent CD to get. Actually, forget the nostalgia, many of these cuts have aged surprisingly well. Great pop songs are timeless in a way, aren't they?

9 comments:

  1. They even have a new album out, Nightbird. The first single, Breathe, off of this album is fantastic!

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  2. I didn't even know you liked Erasure, Jon! I had that CD you're talking about, and then, of course, I inherited about 20 more through marriage.

    I was pretty impressed with the sound at The Grove in Anaheim. It was my first concert there, but the place sounded great. The concert as a whole was a lot of fun, even though it was SRO/GA. I did see a guy in a boa, but I didn't get picked up on, so I had that going for me.

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  3. Monique and I didn't care for the album they put out before this latest one. That was called Cowboy, and this new one is Nightbird, which, she's not lyin', is good.

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  4. Sounds promising. How about the covers album they did in 2003? Is that any good?

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  5. I'd say that the best of their stuff came out between 1986 and 2001. All prior to Pop! The rest of their albums have maybe one or two songs that I really like. You have to remember that with synth-pop bands, you need to buy the singles too, to get the B-sides. Sometimes those are better than the singles.

    Other People's Songs, the cover album, wasn't all that great in my book. I'd recommend Nightbird, the new one, before the cover album.

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  6. Do you mean 1991 as opposed to 2001? 'Cuz 2001 counts everything except the covers album and the new album, right?

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  7. 1986 – Wonderland
    1987 – The Circus
    1987 – The Two Ring Circus
    1988 – The Innocents
    1989 – Wild!
    1991 – Chorus
    1992 – Pop! The First 20 Hits
    1994 – I Say I Say I Say
    1995 – Erasure
    1997 – Cowboy
    2000 – Loveboat
    2003 – Other People’s Songs
    2003 – Hits! The Very Best of Erasure
    2005 - Nightbird

    Everything prior to Pop! is awesome...every single song on every single album is fantastic. The albums after Pop! weren't as great with only a few songs on my rotation. Nightbird is more in line with their earlier stuff...poppy.

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  8. Jon...I did mean 1991, not 2001. I obviously think I'm younger than I am. :)

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  9. I have the block of CDs from 1988 to Pop! (1992). So for the three albums prior to The Innocents, I just have what ended up on Pop!. I bought 1994's I Say I Say I Say, but then traded it in at a used CD shop before the days of CD burners, so I don't even remember what's on that one.

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