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The Innocents (album)
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| Studio album by Erasure | |||||
| Released | 18 April 1988 | ||||
| Recorded | 1988 | ||||
| Genre | Synthpop | ||||
| Length | 51:45 | ||||
| Label | Mute Records, Sire Records |
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| Producer | Stephen Hague, Dave Jacob, Erasure | ||||
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After releasing The Two Ring Circus remix album in 1987, The Innocents was the third proper studio release from Erasure in 1988. This album, produced by Stephen Hague and released by Mute Records in the UK and Sire Records in the U.S., was the release that catapulted Erasure to super-stardom in their home country and gave them their long-awaited top forty breakthrough in the U.S.
The Innocents became the first in a string of number-one albums by Erasure in the UK and thanks to heavy exposure on MTV, it spawned two major Billboard Hot 100 hits, a top-fifty placing on the Billboard 200 and Platinum album certification in the U.S.
- "A Little Respect" (Clarke/Bell)
- "Ship of Fools" (Clarke/Bell)
- "Phantom Bride" (Clarke/Bell)
- "Chains of Love" (Clarke/Bell)
- "Hallowed Ground" (Clarke/Bell)
- "Sixty-Five Thousand" (Clarke/Bell)
- "Heart of Stone" (Clarke/Bell)
- "Yahoo!" (Clarke/Bell)
- "Imagination" (Clarke/Bell)
- "Witch in the Ditch" (Clarke/Bell)
- "Weight of the World" (Clarke/Bell)
- "When I Needed You" (Melancholic Mix) (Clarke/Bell)
- "River Deep, Mountain High" (Private Dance Mix) (Barry Greenwich/Phil Spector)
The Innocents hit number one in the UK and climbed to number forty-nine in the U.S. and number ten in Germany.
It remains the only number one album to return to the top spot in the UK a year after its initial release.