Review
Hits! — The Very Best of Erasure
Release Date: 11/11/2003 12:00
Reviewed by Andrew Harrison
Once mainstays of international pop stardom, now reduced to the role of caring best friend for stressed female TV characters — it hasn’t all been progress for gay men. In the late ’80s, Andy Bell was the outest of the out, keen on aquamarine sequined cowboy chaps with cut-outs for the butt cheeks, and his bandmate Vince Clarke, formerly of Depeche Mode, supplied the good-time hi-NRG disco. They were easily likeable: camp enough to soundtrack weddings but capable of genuine passion, too. These club hits are heavy on the early stuff (“Sometimes,” “Oh L’Amour,” “Stop!”) and fade after their bleepy cover of ABBA’s “Take a Chance on Me,” but they offer quality freak-out fuel for those secure in their sexuality.
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