I'll defend everything until I Love Saturday. Even I have my limitations.

I'd go as far as Rock Me Gently, but some of the remixes from the Cowboy singles were top drawer.

I think they struggled after Sometimes and there wasn't really an absolute killer single from The Circus to follow that up, but by christ from 1988 they were an absolute pop machine until, as @jopijedd.bsky.social says, I Love Saturday. Not a foot wrong.

I know Mute didn’t tend to re-release things back then, but very surprised they didn’t try O L’Amour again in 87.

For blog related reasons, I was wondering about that recently as well. Seemed a bit of a missed opportunity, and it allowed Dollar to step in and actually have the hit with it.

Mute back catalogue was always generally available back then, hence they didn't really bother with re-releases. Guess Vince and Andy were just looking at moving forward.

My memory from school is that whilst loads of people bought the Circus and everyone bought the Innocents - no one bought wonderland retrospectively. Almost like their audience only looked forward too.

My first exposure to them was when somebody sprayed "Erasure" on our back gate. Early 86 it was. Very odd. I didn't buy the first album until years later. I think 1991.

As an addendum, in 1989 I started work and one of the guys in the office turned out to be the culprit Erasure fan.

I thought that about Yello at the time, after The Race broke through Mercury were stuck with trying to get singles off Flag when it might have been more sensible to dip into the back catalogue

First 3 albums are peerless. Saw them on tour on The Innocents at the Newport Centre and it was ace - it was hardly full from memory