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Pughie wrote: Sat Aug 27, 2022 6:43 pm Stand By Your Man added,have I missed anymore?

kwerty wrote: Sat Aug 27, 2022 6:55 pm

Pughie wrote: Sat Aug 27, 2022 6:43 pm Stand By Your Man added,have I missed anymore?

Over the Rainbow?

Heart Of Glass
(BBC Radio 1 Session, 1994, unreleased)

Three years before Erasure included this track in their set list for the "Tiny Tour", they performed this song on UK BBC Radio 1.

The track, one of Andy's all-time favourites, was played on "Collins & Maconie's Hit Parade" on the 19th May 1994 and was recorded at Vince's home studio, 37B, at the same time as the version of "Because You're So Sweet" which appeared on the b-side of "I Love Saturday".

Introduced by Vince, who says they chose to cover the song "because the chords are easy", it is another light-hearted, bouncy arrangement, under produced but with excellent falsetto vocals from Andy.

Magic Moments*
(on Lord of Illusions Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, 1995, The Fine Line / Mute; IONIC 13CD)

Erasure were asked by Clive Barker to contribute to the soundtrack to this gruesome and derivative horror movie and their cover version of "Magic Moments" (a Bacharach and David hit for Perry Como) works beautifully as a cheerful counterpoint to the brooding visuals.

The song, produced as a 'warm up' to the "Erasure" album, contains many wonderful touches; Andy's sinister reverberating vocals on the bridge, Vince's plinky-plonk accompaniment and Andy's 'dum-dum' bassline on the coda.

It is a perfectly concise and bright rendition and one of Erasure's most delightful cover versions.

The track was resurrected to appear as a bonus track on the US edition of "Cowboy" in 1997 and was almost released as a single in the autumn of that year, with Maverick producing a small number of 1-track promotional CD singles. "Magic Moments" would have been an odd choice of track to represent Erasure's musical oeuvre, but as an example of the breadth of their musical sensibilities it is unrivalled.

"While we're down our cover version alley we've got this song here and this song is for Daniel Miller of Mute Records, who started the whole thing off with the help of this song, Vince's very first song."

A roar from the crowd greeted the famously distinctive synth intro of Just Can't Get Enough. Reading from a lyric sheet, Andy made the song his own whilst Vince's upbeat and bouncy arrangement updated this classic Depeche Mode track for the 1990's. As the song ended with block harmonies and a cute synth coda, Erasure received their loudest ovation of the night

Over The Rainbow
("The Tank, The Swan & The Balloon" video, 1993, BMG/MuteFilm; 74321-12250-3)

Not the bonus track from the "Chorus" CD single of the same name, but the rather more famous Judy Garland song from The Wizard Of Oz.

The only official release of this track is on this (now deleted) video of the "Phantasmagorical Entertainment" tour, although the track has turned up on innumerable concert bootlegs.

Andy gives a heartfelt performance of the song against a tinkly, minimalist synthesiser backdrop, wearing the almost obligatory ruby slippers.

[Note: Now available on DVD]

Stand By Your Man
(The Tank, The Swan & The Balloon video, 1993, BMG/MuteFilm; 74321-12250-3)

Like "Over The Rainbow", this track is only available in the live version performed at the Manchester Apollo on the 6th August 1992, featuring Andy as a bare cheeked Rhinestone cowboy and Vince as a bizarre pink Mae West.

The accompaniment is camp and jaunty, the song an example of Erasure at their most self-effacingly ridiculous.

[Note: Now available on DVD]

Cesar wrote: Sun Aug 28, 2022 12:51 am The Fractured Fairytales project? Rock-A-Bye-Baby, Three Blind Mice...

Edit: There's also 'My Foolish Heart' from the 'Buried Treasure' EIS CD.

César