Stuck In Our Head: "A Little Respect" - Erasure

It's been an unusual week to say the least, but if we had to give you one song which should be representative of the events and emotions involved, it has to be Erasure's "A Little Respect". At the beginning of the week, we had little to no idea who exactly Erasure were - the closest we came to forming an opinion was that of a Pet Shop Boys Lite. On Wednesday we snagged tickets to their gig at the Manchester Apollo to review it for a student newspaper, mainly to see what all the fuss was about. We left as Erasure fans. Seriously. If you don't think you'll have heard the song above, all it will take is to get the chorus and you'll realise how big it is in your musical subconscious - everyone knows this song and everyone went wild for it at the gig.

The more we've listened to it, the more we've realised how perfect a pop song is. Everything about it is so precisely measured and proportioned - the song length, the verse to bride to chorus ratio, the emotion-punching chords, the stadium-sing-a-long lyrics, the euphoric yet slightly tragic mood... it's an incredible example of fist-pumping, groin-throbbing pop music and we're so grateful it came into our lives. On Friday night we DJed at a proper club for the very first time and we're happy to say it went fabulously, but one of the tallest peaks came as a result of this song. The music was ear-drum-puncturingly loud but the roar of the crowd in the chorus was unignorable. Thank you Erasure for this week, it wouldn't have been the same without you.

PS We're not allowed to post the gig review for said newspaper until they publish it first... coming soon!