Upstairs at Eric's

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I'd just shot some furniture for a furniture designer, and got paid with the furniture. I chose dummies and started work—a fortuitous series of events. I felt that the hi-tech furniture worked really well with the rough look of the room, and I put the cake—which was actually the top of my wedding cake—as a focus on the table." [6] Only Yazoo: The Best Of: "Official Independent Albums Chart Top 50". Official Charts Company. 12 September 1999 . Retrieved 7 December 2021. Larkin, Colin (2011). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music (5th conciseed.). Omnibus Press. ISBN 978-0-85712-595-8. Upstairs at Eric's: "RPM 100 Albums". RPM. Vol.37, no.22. 29 January 1983. ISSN 0033-7064– via Library and Archives Canada. Yaz Chart History (Hot 100)". Billboard. Archived from the original on 20 May 2018 . Retrieved 2 August 2022.

Moyet later described how her song "Goodbye 70's" had been inspired by her disillusionment with how the late-1970s punk scene had turned out, saying, "'Goodbye 70's' is about punk and not caring how you were dressed, and then I discovered that so many of my friends that I'd thought it all really meant something to just saw it as another trend... That's what 'Goodbye 70's' was all about, about how sour the whole thing became." [7] Artwork [ edit ] Considine, J. D. (28 October 1982). "Yaz: Upstairs at Eric's". Rolling Stone. No.381. Archived from the original on 11 June 2008 . Retrieved 7 January 2012. a b "Yazoo | Awards". AllMusic. Archived from the original on 16 May 2016 . Retrieved 2 August 2022.Upstairs at Eric's was Yazoo's debut, and Moyet's vocals aside, it was pretty standard synth pop stuff. "Don't Go" and "Only You" were the big hits - both hitting the top 3 and cementing the band's reputation here in the UK. Sure, they both sound pure 1982, but they're still strong pop singles regardless, and Moyet's voice lift both above other synth-heavy stuff that was charting at the time. Contrasting the band's big hits, "I Before E Except After C" is a real love it / hate it number, and I'm afraid the experimental cut-up vocal stuff just doesn't work for me. In fact, outside of the two big hits, "Goodbye Seventies", "Winter Kills", and Moyet's voice, there's not a lot on Upstairs at Eric's that would encourage me to return to it on even an irregular basis. Review Summary: Catchy and concise yet innovating and influential, it's quite possibly Vince Clarke's finest hour. Ok, I didn’t think so. Sadly, I was not privy to early second-British-invasion acts like Yazoo until long after the fact; sure, I heard “Situation” here and there, and wondered who it was. And I got myself a copy of Alison Moyet’s 1984 single “Invisible.” The Allied "a" logo' is machine stamped can only be described as looking like a 'Q' or a lower case "a" (the type without a 'top') and is the Allied Record Company logo. Volvic, Mitja (12 January 1985). "Pervasive Economic Slump Hits Yugoslav Industry Hard". Billboard. Vol.97, no.2. p.57. ISSN 0006-2510– via Google Books.

The discography of English synth-pop duo Yazoo consists of two studio albums, one live album, six compilation albums, two extended plays (EPs) and nine singles. Their debut studio album, Upstairs at Eric's, achieved platinum status both in the United Kingdom and the United States.Rees, Dafydd; Lazell, Barry; Jones, Alan (1983). "The Top 100 UK Albums". Chart File Volume 2. London: Virgin Books. pp.82–83. ISBN 0-907080-73-1. On the 30th anniversary of Upstairs at Eric's in 2012 Clarke told The Quietus that there had been no grand plan for the album's creation: Colbert, Paul (28 August 1982). "Review: Yazoo – Upstairs at Eric's". Melody Maker. London, England. p.13. SPAR" etching and the "-SP#" at the end of the matrix number (# being a number) indicates that the B Side was sourced from metal parts (metal mother disc) created at Specialty Records Corporation for use at Allied Record Company. Three Pieces: "Official Independent Albums Chart Top 50". Official Charts Company. 9 November 2018 . Retrieved 7 December 2021.

Yaz Chart History ( Billboard 200)". Billboard. Archived from the original on 20 May 2018 . Retrieved 2 August 2022. great flow have the production sweeps on and on, geniously handled, a masterful showcase of well care taken detailed production, with direct go to it, without being over hectic or over bouncy

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The highlight of the debut disc is the evergreen ballad "Only You." A sad lament set to a timeless melody. One of those songs that you have to be tone deaf to not be even remotely charmed by. Heard in supermarkets worldwide. Mitchell, Matt (21 July 2023). "The 50 Greatest Synth-Pop Albums of All Time". Paste . Retrieved 26 July 2023. There are some weak spots on the album, especially “Bad Connection,” which might have been better used as a non-LP b-side. And the final song, “Bring Your Love Down (Didn't I),” seems to be a pastiche of several of the other songs.