Hits! the Videos
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Hits! the Videos is a DVD
released by British synthpop
duo Erasure
as a companion to their greatest hits album Hits - the Very Best of Erasure
. The double-disc set was released by Mute Records
in 2003 and contained all music video
clips from the band from their inception in 1985 up to 2003. Also included are several live and television performances, alternate videos and promotional documentaries and interviews with Vince Clarke
and Andy Bell
during the course of their career.
DVD
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released by British synthpop
Synthpop
Synthpop is a genre of popular music that first became prominent in the 1980s, in which the synthesizer is the dominant musical instrument. It was prefigured in the 1960s and early 1970s by the use of synthesizers in progressive rock, electronic art rock, disco and particularly the "Kraut rock" of...
duo Erasure
Erasure
Erasure are an English synthpop duo, consisting of songwriter and keyboardist Vince Clarke and singer Andy Bell. Erasure entered the music scene in 1985 with their debut single "Who Needs Love Like That"...
as a companion to their greatest hits album Hits - the Very Best of Erasure
Hits!
-10 Great Songs:Erasure - 10 Great Songs was a budget compilation released on 2 November 2009, shortly after the Total Pop! The First 40 Hits range of releases. According to the official Erasure website, the album was "part of a series of budget titles put together by EMI specifically for sale...
. The double-disc set was released by Mute Records
Mute Records
Mute is an independent record label based in the UK. It was founded in 1978 by Daniel Miller and featured several prominent musical acts on its roster such as Goldfrapp, Depeche Mode, Yazoo, Erasure and Fad Gadget.-Beginnings:...
in 2003 and contained all music video
Music video
A music video or song video is a short film integrating a song and imagery, produced for promotional or artistic purposes. Modern music videos are primarily made and used as a marketing device intended to promote the sale of music recordings...
clips from the band from their inception in 1985 up to 2003. Also included are several live and television performances, alternate videos and promotional documentaries and interviews with Vince Clarke
Vince Clarke
Vince Clarke is an English synthpop musician and songwriter. Clarke has been involved with a number of successful groups, including Depeche Mode, Yazoo, The Assembly and Erasure....
and Andy Bell
Andy Bell (singer)
Andrew Ivan "Andy" Bell is the lead singer of the English synthpop duo Erasure. He also has a solo career, with the albums Non-Stop and Electric Blue.-Early life:Andy Bell originates from the Dogsthorpe area in Peterborough...
during the course of their career.
Disc one
- "Who Needs Love Like That"
Directed by: John Scarlett-Davies
Production company: Aldabra - "Heavenly Action"
Directed by: John Scarlett-Davies
Production company: Aldabra - "Oh L'amour"
Directed by: Peter Hamilton and Alistair Rae - "Sometimes"
Directed by: Gerard de Thame
Production company: Lee Lacy - "It Doesn't Have To Be"
Directed by: Gerard de Thame
Production company: HLA - "Victim of Love"
Directed by: Peter Scammell
Production company: State - "The Circus"
Directed by: Jerry Chater
Production company: Media Lab - "Ship of Fools"
Directed by: Phillip Vile
Production company: HLA - "Chains of Love"
Directed by: Peter Christopherson
Production company: Aubrey Powell Productions - "A Little Respect"
Directed by: Peter Christopherson
Production company: Aubrey Powell Productions - "Stop!"
Directed by: Peter Christopherson
Production company: Aubrey Powell Productions - "Drama!"
Directed by: The Giblets
Production company: HLA - "You Surround Me"
Directed by: James le Bon
Production company: Popata - "Blue Savannah"
Directed by: Kevin Godley
Production company: Media Lab - "Star"
Directed by: John Maybury
Production company: Limelight - "Chorus"
Directed by: David Mallet
Production company: Serpent Films - "Love to Hate You"
Directed by: David Mallet
Production company: Serpent Films - "Am I Right?"
Directed by: Angela Conway
Production company: State - "Breath of Life"
Directed by: Angela Conway
Production company: State - "Lay All Your Love on Me"
Directed by: Jan Kounen
Production company: HLA - "S.O.S."
Directed by: Jan Kounen
Production company: HLA - "Take a Chance on Me"
Directed by: Philippe Gautier
Production company: Oil Factory - "Voulez-Vous"
Directed by: Jan Kounen
Production company: HLA - "Always"
Directed by: Jan Kounen
Production company: HLA - "Run to the Sun"
Directed by: Nico Beyer
Production company: Propaganda - "I Love Saturday"
Directed by: Caz Gorham and Frances Dickenson
Production company: The Christmas TV and Film Co. - "Stay With Me"
Directed by: Mario Cavalli
Production company: Pizazz - "Fingers & Thumbs (Cold Summer's Day)"
Directed by: Max Abbiss-Biro
Production company: Sensons Films - "Rock Me Gently"
Directed by: Max Abbiss-Biro
Production company: Sensons Films - "In My Arms"
Directed by: Dick Carruthers
Production company: Bug - "Don't Say Your Love is Killing Me"
Directed by: Richard Heslop
Production company: Oil Factory - "Rain"
- "Freedom"
Directed by: Vince Clarke
Production company: State - "Solsbury Hill"
Directed by: Vince Clarke
Production company: Battlecruiser - "Make Me Smile (Come Up and See Me)"
Directed by: Jonas Odell
Production company: Nexus
Disc two
- "Sometimes" (Top of the PopsTop of the PopsTop of the Pops, also known as TOTP, is a British music chart television programme, made by the BBC and originally broadcast weekly from 1 January 1964 to 30 July 2006. After 25 December 2006 it became a radio program, now hosted by Tony Blackburn...
debut performance, November 20, 1986) - "Sono Luminous" (Acoustic Version)
- "In My Arms" (U.S. Version)
- "Too Darn Hot" (from Red Hot and Blue)
Directed by: Adelle Luts and Sandy McLeod - "Leave Me to Bleed" (Live - The Circus Tour, April 17, 1987)
- "A Little Respect" (Live - The Innocents Tour, November 15, 1988)
- "Supernature" (Live - Wild! Tour, December 11, 1989)
- "Waiting For the Day" (Live - Phantasmagorical Entertainment Tour, August 6, 1992)
- "Fingers & Thumbs (Cold Summer's Day)" (Live - The Tiny Tour, November 11, 1996)
- Promotional Documentary: ChorusChorus (Erasure album)Chorus, Erasure's fifth proper studio album, was released by Mute Records in the UK and Sire Records in the U.S. in 1991 . This album was the last to end Erasure's classic period.- History :...
, 1991 - Promotional Documentary: Pop! - the First 20 HitsPop! - the First 20 HitsPop! The First 20 Hits is a greatest hits collection from Erasure, released in 1992 by Mute Records in the UK and Elektra Records in the U.S...
, 1992 - Promotional Documentary: I Say I Say I SayI Say I Say I SayI Say I Say I Say is the sixth studio album from synth pop duo Erasure, released in 1994 by Mute Records in the UK and Elektra Records in the U.S...
, 1994 - Promotional Documentary: ErasureErasure (album)Erasure was the seventh studio album by Erasure, released in 1995. It was produced by Thomas Fehlmann and Gareth Jones.An overtly experimental and introspective album, Erasure contains eleven, mostly mid-tempo tracks that differed from their past output of shiny, three-minute pop songs...
, 1995 - Promotional Documentary: Cowboy, 1997
- Promotional Documentary: Hits!Hits!-10 Great Songs:Erasure - 10 Great Songs was a budget compilation released on 2 November 2009, shortly after the Total Pop! The First 40 Hits range of releases. According to the official Erasure website, the album was "part of a series of budget titles put together by EMI specifically for sale...
, 2003