Erasure • Albums • Union Street
Union Street
| Released | 03 April 2006 (UK) | 18 April 2006 (US) | 03 April 2006 (DE) | ||
| Formats | Compact Disc, Digital Download | ||
| Singles | Boy | ||
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CDSTUMM235
Compact Disc
iSTUMM235
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PCDSTUMM235
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ACDSTUMM235
Compact Disc Promo
CD Album
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| 1 | Boy | 3:49 |  |
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| 2 | Piano Song | 3:17 | |
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| 3 | Stay With Me | 4:53 | |
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| 4 | Spiralling | 2:26 | |
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| 5 | Home | 4:12 | |
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| 6 | Tenderest Moments | 5:13 | |
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| 7 | Alien | 3:42 | |
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| 8 | Blues Away | 3:59 | |
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| 9 | How Many Times? | 3:30 | |
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| 10 | Love Affair | 3:55 | |
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| 11 | Rock Me Gently | 4:27 | |
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| 1 | Boy | 3:49 | |
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| 2 | Piano Song | 3:17 | |
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| 3 | Stay With Me | 4:53 | |
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| 4 | Spiralling | 2:26 | |
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| 5 | Home | 4:12 | |
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| 6 | Tenderest Moments | 5:13 | |
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| 7 | Alien | 3:42 | |
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| 8 | Blues Away | 3:59 | |
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| 9 | How Many Times? | 3:30 | |
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| 10 | Love Affair | 3:55 | |
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| 11 | Rock Me Gently | 4:27 | |
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| 12 | Boy (Pete Anderson Remix) | 3:51 | |
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| 1 | Boy [edit] | 3:41 | |
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| 2 | Home | 4:15 | |
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| 3 | Alien | 3:46 | |
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| 4 | Rock Me Gently | 4:29 | |
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| Country | Format | Label | Catalogue Number | Barcode / UPC | Release Date | Notes |
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| UK & Europe | CD Album | Mute | CDSTUMM235 | 0094635784602 | 03-Apr-06 | |
| UK & Europe | Internet | Mute | iSTUMM235 | 0094635784657 | 03-Apr-06 | |
| UK & Europe | CD Album Sampler | Mute | PCDSTUMM235 | 0094635784626 | ||
| UK & Europe | Promotional CD Album | Mute | ACDSTUMM235 | 0094635784923 | ||
| N. America | CD Album | Mute | 9321-2 | 0724596932124 | 18-Apr-06 | |
| N. America | Internet | Mute | 18-Apr-06 | Features bonus song |
Produced by Steve Walsh and Vince Clarke
Mixed by Jason Lehning
Recorded and mixed at Union Street Recording, Brooklyn, NY
Mastered by Greg Calbi at Sterling Sound, NY, NY
Production coordinator Jill Walsh
Additional vocal production Jill Walsh
Engineered by Juan Garcia, Nick Cipriano and Zach Dycus
Technical services Joe Salvatto
Artwork by Lucy McKenzie
Boy
Guitar Steve Walsh
Pedal steel Gordon Titcomb
Acoustic bass Richard Hammond
Percussion Ben Wittman
Piano Song
Guitar Steve Walsh
Dobro Gordon Titcomb
Acoustic bass Richard Hammond
Percussion Ben Wittman
Stay With Me
Guitars Ben Butler
Woodwinds David Weiss
Acoustic bass Joey Seifers
Percussion Ben Wittman
Spiralling
Guitar Ben Butler
Home
Guitar Steve Walsh
Pedal steel Gordon Titcomb
Acoustic bass Joey Seifers
Percussion Ben Wittman
Tenderest Moments
Nylon string guitar Vince Clarke
Steel string guitar / Slide guitar Steve Walsh
Alien
Acoustic guitar Steve Walsh
Mandolin Gordon Titcomb
Woodwinds David Weiss
Percussion Kenny Wollesen
Blues Away
Guitar Steve Walsh
Dobro Gordon Titcomb
Acoustic bass Richard Hammond
How Many Times
Guitar Steve Walsh
Love Affair
Guitar Steve Walsh
String arrangement Antoine Silverman
Violin Antoine Silverman
Violin Chris Cardona
Viola David Creswell
Cello Anja Wood
Rock Me Gently
Guitars Steve Walsh
Vocal arrangement Jill Walsh
Additional backing vocals Jill Walsh
All tracks written by Clarke/Bell
Published by Musical Moments (Europe) Ltd./Minotaur Music Ltd./Sony Music Publishing (UK) Ltd.
Ever the technical innovator (Clarke), he had crafted himself an artist's studio based round a computer and two speakers in his apartment, and found a hardworking little basement studio two blocks away in Brooklyn. Erasure had road-tested this new set-up in autumn 2003, recording a series of acoustic versions of highlights from their back catalogue.
"We just felt there were songs on our albums that had been missed as songs," says Clarke. "We found this cool guitarist [Steve Walsh] with a cool studio [Union Street] and decided to use both. Steve put the thing together. It was great going back through those songs, some of which I hadn't listened to properly since we made them - suddenly you heard some of the naivety that was in there in the first place."
The idea, says Bell, was "to show the songs in a different light, and show that they could work on whatever instrument, synthesisers or guitars.
It makes such a different singing with acoustic instruments - there's more space, it seems. When you're using electronics they soak up part of the voice. Whereas [with] strings, the voice seems to vibrate off of them." - smellslikemusic.com
The original versions of the songs are available on the following releases:
- The Circus: Spiralling
- Wild!: Piano Song, How Many Times?
- Chorus: Home
- I Say I Say I Say: Blues Away
- Run To The Sun (B-Side): Tenderest Moments
- Erasure: Stay With Me, Rock Me Gently
- Cowboy: Boy, Love Affair
- Loveboat: Alien