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Avoid this

Comment man | Omaha, Ne | 11/22/2007

(1 out of 5 stars)

"I stumbled on this travesty while seeking a version of Video killed the radio star, and found the selection of songs intriguing. I love versions of good songs and erasure had chosen some excellent songs to cover.

Unfortunately, their mechanical synthpop approach to this classic material is worse than annoying--it is slapdash and heretical. Particularly, their Solisbury Hill tackles one of the finest songs of the rock era and facemasks the profound meaning of Gabriel's original--one suspects the group didn't even understand the mystical meaning of the song! If an appropriate group of pop music mavens convened in a college and appointed a theologically correct pop music pope

(is Paul McCartney available? He isn't doing anything except battling messy divorce cases.), he would excommunicate erasure and condemn them to the Muzak inferno.



Just seek out the originals of these songs."

Buy Solsbury Hill, skip the others

Josh Lehan | Castro Valley, CA USA | 12/09/2007

(3 out of 5 stars)

"The "Solsbury Hill" song, the first track on this CD, is absolutely mind-blowing. It has a power and punch that even surpasses the original song. Get it!



However, can't say the rest about the other songs on this CD. Many of them are just blah. They feel generic and uninspired, with random synthesizer beeps and boops that seem to be prevalent in Erasure's later sound. Is it music or an old video game? Who knows. By contrast, the first song, "Solsbury Hill", instead captures the great high-energy sound of Erasure's early hits.



I bought this CD merely for completeness, but if I had it to do over again, I'd just buy "Solsbury Hill" individually online and skip the others."