Erasure Total Pop ! Deluxe Box CD

This set includes a DVD and 3 CDs. CD 1 contains a newly remastered ('09) version of the group's 1992 singles compilation Pop!--The First 20 Hits, their fourth consecutive #1 album in the U.K.. CD 2 continues with 19 singles released from 1994 to 2007, including tracks from the band's most recent studio album, Light At The End Of The World. CD 3 compiles 15 rare live recordings from 1987-2007 including selections from 1992's Phantasmagorical Tour, 2006's Acoustic Tour, and 2007's World Tour. The DVD boasts BBC appearances from 1986-2005, including performances from Top Of The Pops, Daytime Live, and The Tom O'Connor Roadshow. Booklet features--76 Page Booklet, new sleeve notes, and a new exclusive interview.

Issued by the Rhino label in 2009, the three-CD/one-DVD TOTAL POP! box set surveys the first two decades of recordings by the renowned British synth-pop act Erasure. Disc One presents the remastered version of the POP! compilation, which visits the U.K. duo's hit-making era of 1986-92 (see the buoyant singles "Chains of Love" and "A Little Respect"), while Disc Two features the finest latter-day tracks by Andy Bell and Vince Clarke, including a pulsing cover of Peter Gabriel's "Solsbury Hill" and the club-ready "I Could Fall in Love With You." The remaining audio disc is devoted to live Erasure performances spanning the years 1987 to 2007, and the DVD covers similar territory with the group's many BBC appearances. Though fair-weather Erasure fans may be content with simply owning POP!, TOTAL POP! is for the truly devoted Bell/Clarke aficionado.

Erasure: Andy Bell , Vince Clarke (various instruments).

Blender (Magazine) - 3.5 stars out of 5 -- "This box, featuring all 39 of their singles, thrives on slutty electrobeats, smeared-lipstick soul and a DVD of eye-popping TV performances."