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Just a nit here - Solisbury Hill & Make Me Smile (Come Up & See Me) were released in 2003, not in the "1980s" or "1990s" as the lead in sentence states.
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[edit] Pet Shop Boys Comparison
Reason why we should compare Erasure and Pet Shop Boys - Both lead singers are homosexuals and the other member plays the synth. There were other Pop duos in the 80's.
[edit] Gay Icon Project
In my effort to merge the now-deleted list from the article Gay icon to the Gay icons category, I have added this page to the category. I engaged in this effort as a "human script", adding everyone from the list to the category, bypassing the fact-checking stage. That is what I am relying on you to do. Please check the article Gay icon and make a judgment as to whether this person or group fits the category. By distributing this task from the regular editors of one article to the regular editors of several articles, I believe that the task of fact-checking this information can be expedited. Thank you very much. Philwelch 20:31, 24 Mar 2005 (UTC)
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- I'd say that they can be classed as gay icons, since they are well known among the gay community and have songs with lyrics which LGBT people can relate to. Beno1000 22:46, 21 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Ridiculous
"As pop craftsmen, their work bears comparison with that of Irving Berlin, Lerner and Loewe, Rodgers and Hart, Gershwin, and other songwriting luminaries."
Are there some cites of critics to support this grandiose claim? Or is it just one WP editor who thinks so?
"Their productivity and record sales have declined in the last decade, Erasure remains an inevitable presence on the British singles charts, scoring at least one Top 30 hit with the release of every new album. Few bands have demonstrated the durability of Erasure."
Hitting the top 30 doesn't sound like such great shakes to me. And Erasure's only been around since 1986? (1985 actually-Ed) There are plenty of bands with a longer commercial lifetime than that.(Like who?-Ed) (And Erasure have had as many top ten's and top twenty's as Pet Shop Boys, last year they made number 3 with Breathe. They are still a successful pop act-Ed)
Back on goes the NPOV tag. Wasted Time R 02:38, 21 July 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Suggestion
I suggest to add the adjective "electronic" ... Few electronic bands have demonstrated the durability of Erasure..." as this is the truth, so that the article will be entirely neutral.
"...through 1995, Erasure were the greatest pop phenomenon in Britain since ABBA." WHAT????? Shouldn't a truly great pop phenom have at least one #1 song?70.188.137.18 17:12, 11 August 2006 (UTC)K. Rudasill
[edit] NPOV tag withdrawal
I've just replaced the inapropriate comparisons with more pertinent ones and added the adjective "electronic" when needed. Hence, I suggest to put out the NPOV tag.
- I did some further toning down and general simplification, and removed the NPOV tag. Wasted Time R 20:17, 25 July 2005 (UTC)
"(additionally, Bell was openly gay from the beginning, and he reflected this in his lyrics at a time when society as a whole was more ignorant around queer issues than it is today - making Erasure's success all the more notable)" This quote, while very true, seems only loosely relevant to the section it's in. Also it creates quite the run-on sentence. I'm not sure what to do with it, though. --Loltard 08:10, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] updating charts and tables
Xinger: If you are going to add chart statistics and do major work to the albums/singles formatting then do the work on a subpage of your own, then transfer it over to the main article once all the research is done and the formatting is complete. Moving two songs ("Chains Of Love" and "A Little Respect") out of the main singles table and into their own on the bottom of the section destroys the chronology of the article and makes everything look sloppy. If you want to include Modern Rock Chart peaks then find out the stats on ALL their Modern Rock entries, not just a few. Keep the article as one found in an encylopaedia... doing it bit by bit on the main article page leaves it in disarray. -- eo 00:44, 31 August 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Music Videos?
Where can I view Erasure music videos? Specifically I'm looking for "Make Me Smile". -- AS Artimour 23:25, 5 October 2006 (UTC)
- YouTube maybe? -- eo 23:33, 5 October 2006 (UTC)
"Make Me Smile" video is featured on the double-DVD "Hits! The Videos". Look at the tracklisting of this DVD with the link below : http://www.erasureinfo.com/releases/videos/dvd_hits.html
[edit] Handwritten Q&A with Vince & Andy
I already posted one photo on the Erasure main page (and have others) - but there are a few things I'm not going to upload to wikipedia, namely these two handwritten questionnaires I did with the band 20 (ack!) years ago:
- http://andwhatsnext.com/qa-with-vince-clarke-of-erasure/
- http://andwhatsnext.com/qa-with-andy-bell-of-erasure/
So if anyone wants to get anything from those to report here, or to link to them otherwise, please do. (I'm not doing it myself because of COI concerns.)
Andwhatsnext 03:17, 7 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Moving page??
I'm disputing this for now. I think moving a page with this many links to it without a discussion first should not have occurred. As there is (I assume) a yet-to-be-created page called Erasure (logic) and no other articles using the title of "Erasure" - perhaps it would be best to simply put a disambiguation/other uses link at the top of each article? The bands is certainly what is most associated with the word "Erasure". - eo 14:50, 18 March 2007 (UTC)
- P.S. I've noticed that the Talk Page was not moved along with the main article? Clicking on the Talk Page for Erasure (the disambiguation page) leads to Erasure (the band) Talk Page. Something wasn't done correctly. - eo 14:52, 18 March 2007 (UTC)
Arguements for creating the disambiguation page:
There is an extensive set of logic pages on wikipedia, with the exception of erasure. The uses of erasure for logic and for a band name are disjoint.
Arguments against creating the disambiguation page:
There are around 50 links to the Erasure page that intend the band. There are more pop fans than logicians in the world.
Very sorry, I didn't know the conventions for such edits. Was just trying to do the right thing. I read the docs on disambiguation pages and didn't see advisories about discussing with maintainers.
What's the right thing now? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by EricGPrud (talk • contribs) 15:21, 18 March 2007 (UTC).
- No need for apologies - if others feel that (band) works better then that is fine. Actually a lot more than 50 articles link to the band (50 is just the default view setting when clicking on "What links here") so in a case such as this I'd like to see some discussion first. I've asked an admin about moving the band article back to "Erasure" - not sure if that will happen right away, but in the meantime some input from other editors will definitely help. - eo 15:31, 18 March 2007 (UTC)
