To think erasure were underrated

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So many good hits. Seen they are on one of them rewind tours. H'I give you
blue savannah song
give a little respect
I love to hate you
Their version on Salisbury hill

the list is endless

Lots of typos, sorry. I'm painting my nails and trying to type too!

Love to hate you is a good song. Sometimes I sing the lyric to myself:

'I like to read a murder mystery, I like to know the killer isn't me'

just to cheer myself up.

I love all of their songs. Brilliant for playing loudly with the car windows down even though some of them make me cry

You Surround Me was the first song I heard after finding out I was pregnant with DS

YADNBU Op, Erasure were brilliant.
Empire of the Sun remind me of them, if you haven't heard their music before I highly recommend them!

Ooh actually - when Andy Bell was on the radio last week he said they'd be touting next year (I think!) So see you all there, yeah?

TOURING dammit!

Andy Bell came to a gym I used to go to, before I moved house. Was very polite to the gym staff and no big I am.

Always I wanna be with you, and make believe with you and live in harmony, oh love!

that was the first Erasure song i got into back in 1990 whatever... I think I loved them because they wrote great tunes, lyrics and had the gay thing going on, back when lots of people were still horribly homophobic. Wonderfully constructed songs that still make me sit up and listen when played on Radio 2 etc...

From Margot
David van Day couldn't write a shopping list.

This made me roar with laughter, what a fabulous put down!

Loved Erasure, I still have all their cassettes and I still know all the words! Sometimes is my absolute favourite song to sing obscenely loudly when cleaning the house. I met Andy Bell in a toilet queue once, really nice guy and not at all full of himself.

And oh l'Amour. Adore that too. I might need to dig out my cassette player!

Ha Fizrim I had a snigger when I was typing it .

So totally underrated, live and recorded. I remember going to see them in September 1992, a few days before DD1 was born and dancing through the entire show. Jimmy Somerville is such a great showman.

Going downstairs to get headphones so I can play Smalltown Boy without waking DH.

I really liked erasure (and still do) but as my big brother was also a fan and went to see them, had all the records it meant I obviously had to pretend not to like them.

Ahem. Andy Bell!! Still a great gig though

I saw them at the NEC early 90's. I went with a gang from work and Abdy Bell was wearing a Cadburys purple codpiece. Great night, I'm off to watch YouTube videos of them and relive my youth.

YANBU - ive only recently grown to realise how good some of their songs are. LOVE a little respect. It's one if those ear worm songs that stays in your head for days though.
Incidentally I met the keyboard player from erasure several times when I was growing up - he was my neighbour's nephew and used to come see her quite regularly. For at least a year I thought he was her kindly taxi driver coming to fetch her for her regular bingo sessions until my mum told me - such an unassuming, lovely fella.
strolls off humming a little something to make me sweeteeeer

I loved how Andy Bell wore stuff which could have made him look like a twat but never did. Such a lovely vulnerable man who wears his heart on his sleeve. had a session on Youtube singing murdering their songs last night. Oh L'Amouuuuuuuur

Ooh an Erasure thread!
My favourite is Drama- 'how you ever entered into this life, God only knows!' At full throttle. Great if you're thinking of some git what's done ya wrong.

I've got the office door closed and am listening to their greatest hits on Spotify.

Tuuuuuunes!

Love them!

I have just bought a hits album from iTunes after reading this thread. So many good songs.

A big group of us went to see them live when I was a sixth former, must have been around 1990. It was in London, I think the O2 arena or wasn't that around then? It was somewhere in East London anyway. We had such a great night

I accidentally saw Erasure live when I went to see another band in concert at Wembley Arena (I'm fairly sure it was Midge Ure but can't verify that) - they were the supporting act. I was very happy about it though - I love their stuff!

Thanks for reminding me about Erasure! Think I need to download their greatest hits too, used to have it on CD but lost it many moons ago.

Pet Shop Boys are the greatest (and most underrated) band ever though

Whether you like them or not, having over thirty Top 40 singles hardly constitutes "underrated".

I assume she's talking about now. Are their songs still played on the radio, are they rated by the critics, do the hipsters like them. That kind of thing.