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Erasure

Always

1985 · via Erasure

Erasure’s 1985 recording of “Always” is the earliest release on file. Andy Bell and Vince Clarke of Erasure are credited as its writers. Also recorded by Xiu Xiu (released 2012), POiSON GiRL FRiEND (released 2014) and Sometimes Me (released 1999), among 54 recordings of this work on MusicBrainz.

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Put Erasure's "Always" next to the Xiu Xiu recording and you find out what a Bell and Clarke song sounds like in somebody else's hands. A well-built song travels, and this one went somewhere you wouldn't have guessed.

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Liner notes

Credited writers: Andy Bell and Vince Clarke.

Earliest release on file: this one, 1985.

Other recordings on file · first release year

54 recordings of this work on MusicBrainz.

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Andy Bell and Vince Clarke wrote "Always" for Erasure. Which act later took the song on and recorded their own version of it?Xiu Xiu
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