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Yazoo - Upstairs At Eric's [MOFI 1-020 USA 2012 24-Bit 176.4kHz FLAC]

Is it really forty years since Upstairs At Eric's? Possibly one of the biggest selling indie albums of all time was remastered by Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab in 2012 as part of their Silver Label Vinyl Series from mostly multi-generation analogue tapes or digital masters, pressed by RTI onto standard noisy vinyl. I have a Mute original on my shelves but I thought I would give the Mofi version a run out.

For me Vince Clark remains a hero of my synthpop generation, Depeche Mode were never the same since he left, DM resorted to hard drugs and tried to go industrial, Clarke found a girl in Essex and released two classic albums of genuine synthpop.

I foolishly always thought Only You went to number one in the UK, it didn't that was The Flying Pickets acapella cover version, instead Yazoo's original only got to the second spot. Totally nuts if you ask me, also why on earth was Situation never a UK single first time around like the rest of the world??

File under classic.

A1 Don't Go

A2 Too Pieces

A3 Bad Connection

A4 I Before E Except After C

A5 Midnight

A6 In My Room

B1 Only You

B2 Goodbye Seventies

B3 Situation

B4 Winter Kills

B5 Bring Your Love Down (Didn't I)