It never gets old

Erasure have revisited their smash hit "A Little Respect" for the 3rd or 4th time (I can't keep track) and it's just brilliant.



From the press release:

"Erasure have announced the release of a brand new version of their top 5 single, A Little Respect -- HMI Redux, out on 5 December 2010. A colourful new video for the track, shot in New York City and featuring Erasure lead singer Andy Bell, HMI youth and many other passers-by, will be released as well.

Proceeds from the track will be donated to The Hetrick-Martin Institute, the home of the Harvey Milk High School, in New York, and the True Colors Fund. The Hetrick-Martin Institute, the nation's oldest and largest LGBTQ youth service organization, provides a safe and supportive environment to all young people -- regardless of their sexual orientation or gender identity so that they can achieve their full potential.

The HMI Redux features a youth chorus from the Hetrick-Martin Institute who also appear in the music video, directed by filmmaker Jason Stein."

I'll never get over Erasure. They'll be my lifelong love.

Strange haircuts, cardboard guitars, and computer samples

I think I'll always love Information Society. I have this unbreakable bond with InSoc and Erasure. Vincent Alvarado was a classmate of mine in 8th grade and he made a mixtape for me with InSoc and Erasure on it. He knew exactly what I needed, and it (cheese alert!) changed my life.



This song is right on so many levels. Can we talk Spock!? Just the fact that Information Society samples Mr. Spock is badass. One of the short tracks on their 1990 album is called "Charlie X." It was probably 18 years after the album came out that I learned that "Charlie X" is the name of a Star Trek character that utters a line that is spoken in this track.

What's crazy about this video is that it seems so very 80s even though it was released in the 90s. Yazoo's "Goodbye Seventies" is about leaving a decade and its style behind, but this video certainly doesn't seem to do that. It just reminds me that just because the decade changes, style doesn't change overnight.

I'm particularly fond of the InSoc self titled album, Hack and Peace and Love Inc. I used to doodle the IS logo on my notebooks in high school and practice the Me Company Erasure logo. Hah!