This is the best!!!

[Yazoo]

Hey guys, this artist Tim Cullen is the best! I heard is music for the first time on the Sugarcult "Palm Trees And Powerline" record and he blew me away! I heard his music again while watching Summerland on the WB as well!! I had to pick up the record
ASAP!! You should check him out when you get the chance!

http://www.longlivecrimerecords.com/.../fr/index.html

[Namelessv1]

That's quite a bit of exclamation.

[Cylob]

I like the username.

[Mr Jones]

Funny you should say that Cylob, I've just had a debate with my other half this weekend about Yazoo, and in particular Vince Clarke..


Started off after I grabbed the new Erasure album for her, as she'd heard Andy Bell on the radio and said the new album sounded ok, so a quick trip to SS and via the majick of the interweb it's on my hard drive and burnt to disc.

So, I'm listening to it and I make the remark, 'you know, Erasure aint as popular as they used to be and I think it's down to Vince Clarke, his plinky plonky arrangements sound the same now as they did when he was in Depeche mode back in the early 80's...'

Anyhow, to compound it , on the radio this morning comes Yazoo, Mrs Jones starts singing along, and bugger me , because I'd never noticed this before, strip out the vocals and the arrangements sounds the same as DM / Erasure.

So from this we deduce that Vince Clarke isn't the musical genious he was painted as during the 80's and that he's somewhat stuck in a time warp somewhere living past glories.

Carry on...

[Cylob]

A joyous account to read Jones, I've just laughed openly in the office (practically a sackable offence here).

I was never into Erasure, Andy Bell scares the crap out of me (imagine being stuck in an elevator with this character, without a cyanide pill). Plinky plonky analogue synth is right on, Vince could make a fortune in the ring-tone industry. I always thought Erasure were Yazoo with a different vocalist.

I'm glad Clarke was given a wedgie and kicked out of DM, can you imagine Violator with him at the controls? What kind of beast would that have been? Besides, darkwave may never have happened.

I find alot of 80's behemoths have failed to change over the years. The ones that have (take The Human League) haven't quite grapsed it either, so it's equally as mundane. Soft Cell have done me proud though.

[Mr Jones]

Originally posted by Cylob

I'm glad Clarke was given a wedgie and kicked out of DM, can you imagine Violator with him at the controls? What kind of beast would that have been? Besides, darkwave may never have happened.

What always amused me about his departure from DM was the fact that I read somewhere that he left becuase he saw the way DM was going and didn't wanna get sucked into the glittery synth pop wave of things.

Imagine my amusement when not 10 years later he was enjoying number one success, appearing on Top of the Pops dressed up as a drag queen , dancing around to Voulez Vous while Andy Bell camped it up alongside him....

Irony 1 - Vince Clarke 0

[NJK]

not only with Erasure , everything Vince touched in the 80's and early 90's became hits.

the assembly - yazoo - erasure

sidenote: not bad for a guy who hates to be in the spotlight.