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Erasure: Other people's songs

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Artist: Erasure
Title: Other people's songs
Released: 2003.01.28
Label: Mute Records
Time: 41:11
Producer(s): Gareth Jones
Appears with:
Category: Pop/Rock
Rating: *******... (7/10)
Media type: CD
Purchase date:  2003.11.11
Price in €: 18,99
Web address: www.erasureinfo.com

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[1] Solsbury Hill (Gabriel) - 4:19
[2] Everybody's Got to Learn Sometime (Warren) - 3:20
[3] Make Me Smile (Come Up and See Me) (Harley) - 3:58
[4] Everyday (Hardin/Petty) - 2:00
[5] When Will I See You Again (Gamble/Huff) - 2:59
[6] Walking in the Rain (Mann/Spector/Weil) - 2:49
[7] True Love Always (Holly/Petty) - 3:08
[8] Ebb Tide (Maxwell/Sigman) - 3:07
[9] Can't Help Falling in Love (Creatore/Peretti/Weiss) - 3:29
[10] You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin' (Mann/Spector/Weil) - 4:00
[11] Goodnight (Eberhardt) - 4:10
[12] Video Killed the Radio Star (Downes/Horne/Woolley) - 3:50 

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VINCE CLARKE - Synthesizer, Keyboards, Producer
ANDY BELL - Vocals

DAVE BASCOMBE - Producer, Mixing
GARETH JONES - Engineer, Photography
MICK MARTIN - Vocals
MARTIN PHILLIPPS - Programming, Whistle, Bells
MIKE MARSH - Mastering
EMMA WHITTLE - Background Vocals
EBBY ACQUAH - Mixing Engineer 

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2003 CD Mute MUSDJ 127-2
2003 CD Mute 9198
2003 LP Mute 9198


Erasure's tenth studio album, & the follow up to 2000s critically acclaimed 'Loveboat', features the duo's unique take on some of their favorite songs. Recorded over 2001 with Gareth Jones, best known for his work with Depeche Mode, the album includes a diverse selection of tracks originally made famous by the likes of Buggles, Cockney Rebel, Buddy Holly, The Righteous Brothers & The Korgis. Mute. 2003.

Album Description



While there's nothing wrong with doing an album of covers, putting such a project together has its risks. For Erasure, the experiment yields mixed results. More often than not, they connect with the material in unexpected ways, and certainly with greater success than one might expect from other electronic groups. This is due largely to the fact that these guys have been around long enough to develop a sensitivity to music as being more than a beat and a hook. Their sense of humor leads them to revise "Video Killed the Radio Star" in a way that's not only highly amusing — it actually suits the message of the song. Plus, Andy Bell remains a very convincing singer, particularly on the softer material, where his choir-boy timbre glistens and shimmers. Problems occur when they can't find a convincing way to graft their highly identifiable sound onto the song. On "True Love Ways," for instance, Vince Clarke's textures are sweet to the point of gag inducement, which makes the squirmy synth lick in the bridge section seem weirdly out of place. While they deserve credit for not mimicking the feel of the records they cover, there's something very unnerving about the disco gallop they inflict on "Ebb Tide." And when they do stay faithful to the original arrangement, as on "You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling," all the grandiosity achieved by Phil Spector sounds as if it was being squashed down to Tinker Toy sonics. Finally, just because you're able to insert a cricket sound every time the word "sleeping" occurs on "Goodnight" doesn't necessarily mean it's a good idea.

Robert L. Doerschuk



Erasure is at the top of the list of synth-pop groups who have transcended the genre's inherent limitations, and Other People's Songs demonstrates why they've stood the test of time. These are not remixes or samples; in fact, the arrangement apple never falls far from the tree. The selected pop tracks from the latter half of the 20th century are rendered through Vincent Clarke's effervescent sensibility and Andy Bell's emotive vocals. Most dance-club covers have a shelf life that barely outlasts the last call. But as on Abba-esque, their homage to Abba, Erasure meticulously nurture and revitalize rainbow-colored covers, this time making Peter Gabriel's "Solsbury Hill" and Buddy Holly's "Everyday" sweet but not bubblegum-flavored. Erasure has a stockpile of signature sounds, many of them used here to tie together disparate but instantly recognizable pop songs into Erasure songs.

Beth Massa - Amazon.com



Way back in the prehistoric days of the ’80s, after synth mastermind Vince Clarke had already founded Depeche Mode and produced two albums with soul singer Alison Moyet as Yaz, he started a little duo called Erasure. Fronted by flamboyantly gay Andy Bell on the mic, Erasure generated an impressive string of upbeat and danceable ditties that flirted with the American Top 10. On this new album of cover songs, they take their love of grandiose pop to a curious level, reinterpreting tunes from the likes of the Righteous Brothers, Buddy Holly and the king himself, Elvis Presley. Sounding like it was produced on their old gear from the ’80s (a bonus in these electro-clashed times), the results have a better chance of ending up in mom’s Volvo than your iPod, though you might get a kick out of their version of the Buggles’ "Video Killed the Radio Star."

Timothy Brown - From URB Magazine



Da sich erwiesenermaßen Bekanntes besser verkauft, haben Cover-Versionen Hochkonjuktur. Auch die neue LP des britischen Synthi-Duos Erasure besteht aus "Other People's Songs", zwölf an der Zahl. Die Titelauswahl ist nicht immer geglückt, und warum sie im Jahr 1980 endet, könnten nur Vince Clarke und Andy Bell beantworten. Mit Produzent Gareth Jones legte sich das Duo auf den frühen Synthi-Sound der 70er-Jahre samt Analog-Moog-Geblubber fest. Eine Umsetzung, die manchmal perfekt passt und manchmal gar nicht - wie eben auch Bells Stimme. Bei "Solsbury Hill" von Peter Gabriel, 1977, der ersten Single, funktioniert das wunderbar, ebenso beim Cockney-Rebel-Hit "Make Me Smile", 1975, und den Oldies "Walking In The Rain", 1964 im Original von The Ronettes, oder "You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'", 1965 ein Welt-Hit der Righteous Brothers. Diese Teenage Tragedies mit künstlicher Pop-Dramatik liegen Erasure und vertragen die Sound-Effekte und Studiospielereien. Für alte Rock-'n'-Roll-Nummern wie Buddy Hollys "Everyday" oder Elvis Presleys "Can't Help Falling In Love" kann man das leider nicht sagen. Letzteres hätte man sich angesichts der inflationären Elvis-Imitate sparen können. Auch eine weitere Version der Buggles-Nummer "Video Killed The Radio Star" - noch dazu als Mickey-Maus-Casio-Version mit Vocoder - braucht die Welt nicht unbedingt. Dafür versöhnt "Ebb Tide", ein Evergreen von Frank Sinatra bis Tom Jones gesungen, durch rockig-rhythmisches Tempo zum tief angelegten Crooner-Gesang. --Ingeborg Schober

Amazon.de



Schon einmal wagten sich Erasure für eine CD an fremde Songs: vor zehn Jahren, mit "ABBA-esque", einer Mischung aus Tuntigkeit, Schlagerpathos und Ironie, die Camp sein wollte, aber in ihrer ungebrochenen Kommerzialität vor allem Anbiederung an eine Szene war, die mit Erasure eigentlich nichts zu tun haben wollte. Diese Gefahr besteht bei "Other People's Songs" nicht: Andy Bell und Vince Clark haben sich zwölf ernste Songs vorgenommen und mit ihrer bewährten Mischung aus Zuckerguss und Bierzelt-Techno überzogen. Erasure-CDs klingen seit 15 Jahren immer gleich, egal, wer die Titel geschrieben hat - nur funktioniert diese Eintönigkeit diesmal. Und was für ein kluger Song Peter Gabriels "Solsbury Hill" ist, hört man umso besser, wenn Andy Bell "My heart's going boom-boom-boom" säuselt und dann ein Trance-Trommelwirbel einsetzt. Boom- boom-boom, klasse. (fis)

Kulturnews



Eurotrash dance popsters cover Buddy Holly and other oldies Vince Clarke reigns as one of New Wave's all-time nattiest songwriters -- first with Depeche Mode, then with Yaz and then with vocalist Andy Bell in Erasure, penning synth-pop swoon classics such as "Blue Savannah" and "Victim of Love." So Other People's Songs is an audacious concept: oldies covers in a vampy Eurotrash style that could give you third-degree Eighties burns. There's one absolute comic masterpiece: Bell camps up the Frank Sinatra ballad "Ebb Tide" over perky mall-disco beats, hitting a histrionic falsetto for the big finish. Erasure do the Ronettes' "Walking in the Rain" almost as well as Cheryl Ladd, they do Buddy Holly's "Everyday" better than James Taylor, they prove that one man and one man only was meant to sing "Can't Help Falling in Love," and they tart up Peter Gabriel something fierce.

ROB SHEFFIELD
From RS 916 – February 20, 2003
  

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