"Honey,If You love him"

[helicine]

its the 25th and its still not up

http://www.mute.com/index.jsp

25th of March, not May

[hydro]

its the 25th and its still not up

http://www.mute.com/index.jsp

25th of March, not May

[hydro]

Andy's Non Stop will be released on June 7th 2010
http://andybell.com/

Listen to the full track with Perry "Honey,If You Love Him"
http://moragsvault.posterous.com/19546564

Andy talks about the making of Non Stop
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHjyz2HTyk0[/youtube]

[MissMaceo]

Hmm I am very interested in this.

I am surprised you can't reference Erasure for some reason, Mike, that makes me wonder what you were listening to at the time they were popular....

[hydro]

Erasure Frontman Andy Bell Gets Perry Farrell Guesting on New Album
* Posted on Jun 2nd 2010 6:00AM by Jody Thompson

Erasure frontman Andy Bell admits he's got an unlikely fan in the form of Jane's Addiction head honcho Perry Farrell.

Talking to Spinner ahead of the release of his second solo album, 'Non-Stop,' Bell reveals how Farrell ended up duetting with him on his new record.

Bell says, "It was precisely because not many people would put us together that I thought it would be a great idea. I did True Colors (Cyndi Lauper's music tour in aid of the Human Rights Campaign) on my own for the second time (in 2008) and he came especially to see me. But I was on early and he missed me. I felt awful! Somebody came and told me after. And I thought, well he reached out to me, so I got in touch with his management."

Bell says Farrell replied saying he'd written a song with him in mind, so he'd flown out and met him at his Santa Monica studio.

"It was fantastic!," he says. "We had two days in the studio and we had a lovely meal with him and his wife [Etty Lau Farrell], who is the most beautiful woman I've ever seen, and his two children."

The resulting song, Bell explains, is called 'Honey if You Love Him (That's All That Matters),' and Farrell had penned it about a fashion designer friend of his who was in a one-sided relationship.

Bell says, "It's a male-male duet. Perry's lyrics are amazing. He's one of those people who make you feel like you're still earning your stripes."

He also said that the reason for the five-year gap between solo albums -- 'Electric Blue' came out in 2005 -- was due to his continued commitment to Erasure.

He says, "It sounds like a long time, but we had two Erasure [studio] albums in the meantime and we had the Top 40 hits album out last year."

Bell adds that he's going back into the studio with Erasure cohort Vince Clarke in July with a view to releasing the band's new album early in 2011.

"We've got 19 ideas for songs. I'm really excited with a lot of stuff we've done already."

Meanwhile, Bell's new solo single, 'Call on Me,' was released on May 31 in the UK and June 1 in the US, and 'Non-Stop' is released on June 7. Watch 'Call on Me' by clicking here.

http://www.spinner.com/2010/06/02/erasu ... rell-duet/

[Mike]

Hmm I am very interested in this.

I am surprised you can't reference Erasure for some reason, Mike, that makes me wonder what you were listening to at the time they were popular....

Well there's a thread where we discussed this a little here:

http://forums.janesaddiction.org/viewto ... =33&t=1603

I don't want us to drift to far off topic but I will say I was more into classic rock than anything in the mid '80s.
The group of friends I hung out with and myself thought we were to cool to listen to the new shit that was coming out at the time.

It's funny but I've gone back and purchased a lot of music that I thought sucked back then.
I can only think of a handful artists / bands that I was buying / into when their music was brand new.
Robert Plant is one of my favorite vocalists and he was busy churning out solo records.
His band mate Jimmy Page was busy with The Firm.
Dio had been around for a few years and I was big time into him and your 13 thread reminded me of Fastway this morning.

Then Jane's came along.

To get back on topic I still haven't found an Erasure song I can remember hearing back in the day.

[hydro]

To get back on topic I still haven't found an Erasure song I can remember hearing back in the day.

you've had to have heard this song
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBR4EPBNI2A[/youtube]

[TrevorAyer]

im with mike on this one ... never heard these guys and thats ok way with me .. respect denied!

[Mike]

you've had to have heard this song

Sorry hydro but I've never heard it before and if I did I don't remember it.
I spent some time looking around on youtube prior to replying to MissMaceo and couldn't find anything.
I even checked out their Wikipedia page hoping something would jog my memory but had no luck.
The only thing I got from it was some facts that lead me to think these guys were popular at a time when I was locked into what I would listen to and seldom give anything new a listen.

[helicine]

I always thought "Chains of Love" was their biggest hit?