Talk:Always (Erasure song)

Robot Unicorn Attack
This needs to be discussed and suggested adding a section of the page dedicated to it. Also, Robot Unicorn Attack is stuck as one of the tracks on the single. We really need a section on how this brought /v/ together as one....HARMONY. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.49.33.30 (talk) 21:05, 28 February 2010 (UTC)

I agree. Oh Love!

It sure looks to have become a meme, it should get some more attention. There are sources popping up everywhere. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.202.136.83 (talk) 21:53, 7 March 2010 (UTC)
 * But no one is providing them. Without them, this tidbit can't be mentioned in the article. WesleyDodds (talk) 11:17, 14 March 2010 (UTC)

Exactly. Without a reliable source for the importance of this information, we can't include it. — Gavia immer (talk) 15:50, 14 March 2010 (UTC)

This is true, but if it increases song, album, and group popularity; even if for a brief moment, it is a reliable source. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.181.41.121 (talk) 17:39, 14 March 2010 (UTC)
 * No it isn't see Reliable sources. WesleyDodds (talk) 02:28, 15 March 2010 (UTC)

Photography
Towards the end of the video, after the demon is defeated, you see a close up of a cross with a photography of a man on it. Does anyone know who the man on the photography is? thestor 20:07, 8 August 2007 (UTC)

Could it be the grave of the singer? With the story being of his ghost coming back to help the one he loved? Bill C45 05:25, 17 August 2007 (UTC)

It's Andy, the other band member. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.87.180.68 (talk) 05:59, 28 April 2009 (UTC)

It's not Andy Bell, it's Vince Clarke (the other half of Erasure) ... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.32.122.57 (talk) 17:50, 30 June 2009 (UTC)

Japanese or Chinese mythology in the music video
Could we get someone expert on Chinese or Japanese ghost stories and movies to give an expert opinion on whether the Erasure Always video represents a Chinese or Japanese movie parody?

My experiences of both Japanese and Chinese restaurants, and of watching Chinese and Japanese movies on the Australian SBS TV channel of old is the basis for me seeing this as obviously being of a Chinese ghost story, but many may not regard this as qualifications enough. Bill C45 22:57, 30 June 2007 (UTC)Bill C45 30th June 2007

Japanese mythology in the music video
I doubt he was supposed to be a samurai, but then I have no idea what he was supposed to be. The other thing was probably supposed to be an oni, though.

I guess not enough people have even seen the video in the first place, let alone conduct research on the Japanese mythology background; but then, the whole thing looked a bit too fanciful to possibly be perfectly faithful to the actual folklore. (Actually, I did manage to find this transcript of the album EPK, which says the video was filmed in Paris. Of course the EPK is on DVD, so perhaps someone could confirm this.) –Unint 23:11, 21 April 2006 (UTC)

The imagery in the video is quite clearly Chinese, not Japanese. Just look at the style of dress; it's pre-Ming dynasty. Plus the main character's flying is clearly drawn from Chinese wuxia (I don't think the Japanese don't have that type of folklore tradition). Anyone who has seen Chinese television will find the imagery and story in this video very familiar. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.238.45.232 (talk) 04:47, 12 February 2009 (UTC)


 * I'm replying to something that's ten years old, but I was alive in 1994 and remember the single's video. A few years earlier Jonathan Ross had presented a Channel 4 TV programme called The Incredibly Strange Film Show, which had an episode on the Hong Kong film industry; he then presented a series of films along the lines of A Chinese Ghost Story, and although I have no proof of this everybody in the UK was aware of Hong Kong cinema all of a sudden. I would wager twenty-four pounds that the video's director based the concept on a memory of Incredibly Strange Film Show, or on a VHS tape of Chinese Ghost Story. -Ashley Pomeroy (talk) 17:33, 22 June 2016 (UTC)

Fair use rationale for Image:Erasure single always.jpg
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Time signature in chorus
I realize it's splitting hairs, but it could also be said that the last bar of the chorus is in 5/4, rather than giving a 17/4 to the whole thing. The former is certainly the easier way to count it out as well. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.224.73.237 (talk) 04:58, 30 May 2017 (UTC)

I completely agree (66.30.201.95 (talk) 15:57, 7 June 2018 (UTC))

Microbots Trance Dance Mix
I remember the version of the song played on my local radio station(s) was the Microbots Trance Dance Mix, but can't find any evidence as to whether this phenomenon was worldwide, American, or local. Anyone know? Calbaer (talk) 02:19, 14 July 2019 (UTC)