- Loveboat
:"For the TV series known as "Loveboat," see
The Love Boat ."Infobox Album |
Name = Loveboat
Type =Album
Artist =Erasure
Released = flagicon|UK start_date|2000|10|23
flagicon|USA start_date|2003|6|17
Recorded = 1999-2000
Genre =Synthpop
Length = 44:54
Label =Mute Records
Producer = Flood,Erasure
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|4|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:c95s8qzpbtq4 link]
Last album = "Cowboy"
(1997)
This album = "Loveboat"
(2000)
Next album = "Other People's Songs "
(2003)"Loveboat",
Erasure 's ninth full-length studio album, proved to be their least successful in terms of sales and charts since their debut "Wonderland" in 1986. Produced by Erasure and Flood, it was released in the UK byMute Records in 2000. Erasure's U.S. record label at the time,Maverick Records , shelved the album because of "lack of hit singles." Largely panned by Erasure fans upon its release (and even by Andy Bell years after) because of its greater use of acoustic guitars, itslo-fi feel and heavy-handed bass sounds (many blame Flood's production work), the album did manage to get some positive reviews by music critics."Loveboat" failed to hit the top forty in the UK and two singles were released, although only one was eligible to chart. Maverick Records requested the re-recording and
remix ing of several tracks from the album before they would agree to release it. Although "Moon & the Sky " was re-worked, Maverick never released it and dropped Erasure from its artist roster. Three years after its UK release, Mute Records secured rights to finally release it in its original form in the U.S. in 2003.It was actually released in the States after Erasure's follow-up album "
Other People's Songs ". "Loveboat" did not chart on theBillboard 200 .Track listing
# "Freedom" (Clarke/Bell)
# "Where in the World" (Clarke/Bell)
# "Crying in the Rain" (Clarke/Bell)
# "Perchance to Dream" (Clarke/Bell)
# "Alien" (Clarke/Bell)
# "Mad as We Are" (Clarke/Bell)
# "Here in My Heart" (Clarke/Bell)
# "Love is the Rage" (Clarke/Bell)
# "Catch 22" (Clarke/Bell)
# "Moon & the Sky " (Clarke/Bell)
# "Surreal" (Clarke/Bell)Chart Placings
"Loveboat" hit number forty-five on the UK album chart and number forty-eight in
Germany .
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