The Circus

by Erasure

The Circus cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 30 March 1987
  • Label: Mute
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Length: 1:55:34
  • Community rating: 3.07/5 from 2 ratings

Artists on this release: Guy Barker, Flood

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Serving as the duo's major commercial breakthrough, 'The Circus' perfectly balances Vince Clarke's masterful, bubbling synthesizer programming with Andy Bell's soaring, openly queer vocal performances. The record successfully pairs highly infectious, club-ready dance-pop hooks with surprisingly earnest meditations on working-class life and romance.

Genres

Descriptors: rhythmic, melodic, lgbtq, gay

Tracklist

  1. It Doesn't Have to Be (3:56)
  2. Hideaway (3:48)
  3. Don't Dance (3:39)
  4. If I Could (3:52)
  5. Sexuality (3:53)
  6. Victim of Love (3:42)
  7. Leave Me to Bleed (3:22)
  8. Sometimes (3:39)
  9. The Circus (5:31)
  10. Spiralling (3:10)
  11. In the Hall of the Mountain King (2:58)
  12. Sometimes (12" Mix) - 12'' Mix (5:24)
  13. It Doesn't Have to Be (Boop Oopa Doo Mix) - Boop Oopa Doo Mix (7:17)
  14. Sexuality - 12" Mix (6:48)
  15. Sometimes - Shiver Mix (5:53)
  16. The Circus - Bareback Rider Mix (6:24)
  17. Who Needs Love Like That - Betty Boop Mix (7:34)
  18. It Doesn't Have to Be - Cement Mix (5:35)
  19. The Soldier's Return - The Return of the Radical Radcliffe Mix (5:06)
  20. Victim of Love - Vixen Vitesse Mix (5:50)
  21. If I Could - Japanese Mix (3:45)
  22. The Circus - BBC Radio One Session - 10 March 1987 (4:42)
  23. Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! - BBC Radio One Session - 10 March 1987 (3:46)
  24. Spiralling - BBC Radio One Session - 10 March 1987 (2:25)
  25. Phantom Bride - BBC Radio One Session - 10 March 1987 (3:21)

Credits

  • Erasure - primary artist
  • Tim Young - lacquer cut by
  • PAG - plated by
  • Guy Barker - trumpet
  • Clarke/Bell - written-by

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