I Say I Say I Say - Revision history

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	\| rev3score = {{Rating\|2.5\|4}}<ref>{{cite news\|first=Chris\|last=Willman\|title=Organic Love for Space Age Swooners\|work=[[Los Angeles Times]]\|date=22 May 1994\|page=\|accessdate=20 January 2023\|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1995-04-16-ca-55148-story.html}}</ref>		\| rev3score = {{Rating\|2.5\|4}}<ref>{{cite news\|first=Chris\|last=Willman\|title=Organic Love for Space Age Swooners\|work=[[Los Angeles Times]]\|date=22 May 1994\|page=\|accessdate=20 January 2023\|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1995-04-16-ca-55148-story.html}}</ref>
	\| rev4 = ''[[~~NME~~]]''		\| rev4 = ''[[Music Week]]''
	\| rev4score = ~~7/10~~<ref ~~name="NME"~~>{{cite magazine \|~~last~~=~~Wells~~ \|~~first~~=~~Steven~~ \|~~date~~=~~21 May~~ 1994 \|title=~~Long~~ ~~Play~~ \|magazine=[[~~New~~ ~~Musical Express~~]] \|page=39}}</ref>		\| rev4score = {{Rating\|3\|5}}<ref>{{cite magazine\|first=Alan\|last=Jones\|url=https://www.worldradiohistory.com/UK/Music-Week/1994/Music-Week-1994-05-14.pdf\|title=Market Preview: Mainstream - Albums\|magazine=[[Music Week]]\|date=14 May 1994\|page=19\|access-date=9 May 2025}}</ref>
	\| rev5 = ''[[~~The Observer~~]]''		\| rev5 = ''[[NME]]''
	\| rev5score = ~~(favorable)~~<ref>~~Spencer,~~ ~~Neil~~ ~~(15~~ May 1994). ~~"Pop~~ ~~Releases".~~ ''[[~~The~~ ~~Observer~~]]~~''.~~</ref>		\| rev5score = 7/10<ref name="NME">{{cite magazine \|last=Wells \|first=Steven \|date=21 May 1994 \|title=Long Play \|magazine=[[New Musical Express]] \|page=39}}</ref>
	\| rev6 = ''[[~~Select~~ ~~(magazine)\|Select~~]]''		\| rev6 = ''[[The Observer]]''
	\| rev6score = {{rating\|2\|5\|full=U+25A0.svg\|empty=U+25A1.svg\|rating=medal}}<ref>{{cite magazine\|first=Siân\|last=Pattenden\|url=https://selectmagazinescans.monkeon.co.uk/showpage.php?file=wp-content/uploads/2014/06/albums25.jpg\|title=New Albums\|work=[[Select (magazine)\|Select]]\|date=June 1994\|page=86\|access-date=18 December 2024\|author-link=Siân Pattenden}}</ref>		\| rev6score = (favorable)<ref>[[Neil Spencer\|Spencer, Neil]] (15 May 1994). "Pop Releases". ''[[The Observer]]''.</ref>
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	\| ~~rev7~~ = ''[[Smash Hits]]''		\| rev8 = ''[[Smash Hits]]''
	\| ~~rev7score~~ = {{Rating\|4\|5}}<ref>{{cite magazine\|first=Emma\|last=Cochrane\|url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/smashhits90s/34994103950/in/album-72157685202618935/\|title=New Albums\|work=[[Smash Hits]]\|date=11 May 1994\|page=48\|access-date=4 October 2024}}</ref>		\| rev8score = {{Rating\|4\|5}}<ref name="smashhits">{{cite magazine\|first=Emma\|last=Cochrane\|url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/smashhits90s/34994103950/in/album-72157685202618935/\|title=New Albums\|work=[[Smash Hits]]\|date=11 May 1994\|page=48\|access-date=4 October 2024}}</ref>
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	'''''I Say I Say I Say''''' is the sixth studio album by English [[synth-pop]] duo [[Erasure (duo)\|Erasure]], released in 1994 by [[Mute Records]] in the UK and [[Elektra Records]] in the US. The album was produced by [[Martyn Ware]], who was a founding member of veteran synth-pop groups [[the Human League]] and [[Heaven 17]].		'''''I Say I Say I Say''''' is the sixth studio album by English [[synth-pop]] duo [[Erasure (duo)\|Erasure]], released in 1994 by [[Mute Records]] in the UK and [[Elektra Records]] in the US. The album was produced by [[Martyn Ware]], who was a founding member of veteran synth-pop groups [[the Human League]] and [[Heaven 17]].
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	==Critical reception==		==Critical reception==
	Upon its release, James Slattery of ''[[Melody Maker]]'' felt ~~that~~ Erasure had taken a "misguided quest for serious critical acclaim", resulting in the "greatest singles band in the last 10 years" to produce an album without one "shag-happy top five certainty" and only "glimpses of what might've been". He ~~commented~~, "Erasure seem too willing to rein in the extravagances and plump for a utilitarian pop-techno sound, pussy-footing around in a fog of lightweight moderation."<ref>{{cite magazine \|last=Slattery \|first=James \|title=Albums: It's No Joke \|magazine=[[Melody Maker]] \|date=14 May 1994 \|page=30}}</ref> Alan Jones of ''[[Music Week]]'' remarked that the album "sadly contains fewer songs of merit than any previous Erasure album" and predicted it would be "huge initially" but with a "shorter chart life than usual". He singled out "Always" for "standing head and shoulders above the rest".<ref>{{cite magazine \|last=Jones \|first=Alan \|title=Market Preview: Mainstream - Albums \|magazine=[[Music Week]] \|date=14 May 1994 \|page=18 \|issn=0265-1548}}</ref> Steven Wells of ''[[NME]]'' felt ~~that~~ ~~Erasure~~ had "once again proven themselves worthy" with an album which "runs the whole gamut of current bink-bash-bleep-bonk-diddley-bop dancepop". He added, "There are ten screamingly obviously international top ten hits here, all of them hymns to an innocence which yearns desperately to be corrupted and all of them with fabulous, juddering, soaring, sickeningly sweet melodies that wiggle and jiggle past the appalled intellect and make straight for the tear ducts."<ref name="NME"/>		Upon its release, James Slattery of ''[[Melody Maker]]'' felt Erasure had taken a "misguided quest for serious critical acclaim", resulting in the "greatest singles band in the last 10 years" to produce an album without one "shag-happy top five certainty" and only "glimpses of what might've been". He said, "Erasure seem too willing to rein in the extravagances and plump for a utilitarian [[Techno-pop\|pop-techno]] sound, pussy-footing around in a fog of lightweight moderation."<ref>{{cite magazine \|last=Slattery \|first=James \|title=Albums: It's No Joke \|magazine=[[Melody Maker]] \|date=14 May 1994 \|page=30}}</ref> Alan Jones of ''[[Music Week]]'' remarked that the album "sadly contains fewer songs of merit than any previous Erasure album" and predicted it would be "huge initially" but with a "shorter chart life than usual". He singled out "[[Always (Erasure song)\|Always]]" for "standing head and shoulders above the rest".<ref>{{cite magazine \|last=Jones \|first=Alan \|title=Market Preview: Mainstream - Albums \|magazine=[[Music Week]] \|date=14 May 1994 \|page=18 \|issn=0265-1548}}</ref>

			Steven Wells of ''[[NME]]'' felt the band had "once again proven themselves worthy" with an album which "runs the whole gamut of current bink-bash-bleep-bonk-diddley-bop [[Dance-pop\|dancepop]]". He added, "There are ten screamingly obviously international top ten hits here, all of them hymns to an innocence which yearns desperately to be corrupted and all of them with fabulous, juddering, soaring, sickeningly sweet melodies that wiggle and jiggle past the appalled intellect and make straight for the tear ducts."<ref name="NME"/> Emma Cochrane from ''[[Smash Hits]]'' wrote, "Whether they're camping it up (complete with choir) on 'So the Story Goes' or bopping about on '[[Run to the Sun]]', these boys are onto a winner, and they know it."<ref name="smashhits"/>

	==Track listing==		==Track listing==

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	==Critical reception==		==Critical reception==
	Upon its release, James Slattery of ''[[Melody Maker]]'' felt that Erasure had taken a "misguided quest for serious critical acclaim", resulting in the "greatest singles band in the last 10 years" to produce an album without one "shag-happy top five certainty" and only "glimpses of what might've been". He commented, "Erasure seem too willing to rein in the extravagances and plump for a utilitarian pop-techno sound, pussy-footing around in a fog of lightweight moderation."<ref>{{cite magazine \|last=Slattery \|first=James \|title=Albums: It's No Joke \|magazine=[[Melody Maker]] \|date=14 May 1994 \|page=30}}</ref> Alan Jones of ''[[Music Week]]'' remarked that the album "sadly contains fewer songs of merit than any previous Erasure album" and predicted it would be "huge initially" but with a "shorter chart life than usual". He singled out "Always" for "standing head and shoulders above the rest".<ref>{{cite magazine \|last=Jones \|first=Alan \|title=Market Preview: Mainstream - Albums \|magazine=[[Music Week]] \|date=14 May 1994 \|page=18 \|issn=0265-1548}}</ref> Steven Wells of ''[[NME]]'' felt that Erasure had "once again proven themselves worthy" with an album which "runs the whole gamut of current bink-bash-bleep-bonk-diddley-bop dancepop". He added, "There are ten screamingly obviously international top ten hits here, all of them hymns to an innocence which yearns desperately to be corrupted and all of them with fabulous, juddering, soaring, sickeningly sweet melodies that wiggle and jiggle past the appalled intellect and make straight for the tear ducts.<ref name="NME"/>		Upon its release, James Slattery of ''[[Melody Maker]]'' felt that Erasure had taken a "misguided quest for serious critical acclaim", resulting in the "greatest singles band in the last 10 years" to produce an album without one "shag-happy top five certainty" and only "glimpses of what might've been". He commented, "Erasure seem too willing to rein in the extravagances and plump for a utilitarian pop-techno sound, pussy-footing around in a fog of lightweight moderation."<ref>{{cite magazine \|last=Slattery \|first=James \|title=Albums: It's No Joke \|magazine=[[Melody Maker]] \|date=14 May 1994 \|page=30}}</ref> Alan Jones of ''[[Music Week]]'' remarked that the album "sadly contains fewer songs of merit than any previous Erasure album" and predicted it would be "huge initially" but with a "shorter chart life than usual". He singled out "Always" for "standing head and shoulders above the rest".<ref>{{cite magazine \|last=Jones \|first=Alan \|title=Market Preview: Mainstream - Albums \|magazine=[[Music Week]] \|date=14 May 1994 \|page=18 \|issn=0265-1548}}</ref> Steven Wells of ''[[NME]]'' felt that Erasure had "once again proven themselves worthy" with an album which "runs the whole gamut of current bink-bash-bleep-bonk-diddley-bop dancepop". He added, "There are ten screamingly obviously international top ten hits here, all of them hymns to an innocence which yearns desperately to be corrupted and all of them with fabulous, juddering, soaring, sickeningly sweet melodies that wiggle and jiggle past the appalled intellect and make straight for the tear ducts."<ref name="NME"/>

	==Track listing==		==Track listing==

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	\| rev5score = (favorable)<ref>Spencer, Neil (15 May 1994). "Pop Releases". ''[[The Observer]]''.</ref>		\| rev5score = (favorable)<ref>Spencer, Neil (15 May 1994). "Pop Releases". ''[[The Observer]]''.</ref>
	\| rev6 = ''[[~~Smash~~ ~~Hits~~]]''		\| rev6 = ''[[Select (magazine)\|Select]]''
	\| rev6score = 4/5<ref>{{cite magazine\|first=~~Emma~~\|last=~~Cochrane~~\|url=https://~~www~~.~~flickr~~.~~com~~/~~photos~~/~~smashhits90s~~/~~34994103950~~/~~in/album-72157685202618935~~/\|title=New Albums\|work=[[~~Smash~~ ~~Hits~~]]\|date=~~11 May~~ 1994\|page=48\|access-date=4 ~~October~~ 2024}}</ref>		\| rev6score = {{rating\|2\|5\|full=U+25A0.svg\|empty=U+25A1.svg\|rating=medal}}<ref>{{cite magazine\|first=Siân\|last=Pattenden\|url=https://selectmagazinescans.monkeon.co.uk/showpage.php?file=wp-content/uploads/2014/06/albums25.jpg\|title=New Albums\|work=[[Select (magazine)\|Select]]\|date=June 1994\|page=86\|access-date=18 December 2024\|author-link=Siân Pattenden}}</ref>
			\| rev7 = ''[[Smash Hits]]''
			\| rev7score = {{Rating\|4\|5}}<ref>{{cite magazine\|first=Emma\|last=Cochrane\|url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/smashhits90s/34994103950/in/album-72157685202618935/\|title=New Albums\|work=[[Smash Hits]]\|date=11 May 1994\|page=48\|access-date=4 October 2024}}</ref>
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	'''''I Say I Say I Say''''' is the sixth studio album by English [[synth-pop]] duo [[Erasure (duo)\|Erasure]], released in 1994 by [[Mute Records]] in the UK and [[Elektra Records]] in the US. The album was produced by [[Martyn Ware]], who was a founding member of veteran synth-pop groups [[the Human League]] and [[Heaven 17]].		'''''I Say I Say I Say''''' is the sixth studio album by English [[synth-pop]] duo [[Erasure (duo)\|Erasure]], released in 1994 by [[Mute Records]] in the UK and [[Elektra Records]] in the US. The album was produced by [[Martyn Ware]], who was a founding member of veteran synth-pop groups [[the Human League]] and [[Heaven 17]].

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	\| rev5score = (favorable)<ref>Spencer, Neil (15 May 1994). "Pop Releases". ''[[The Observer]]''.</ref>		\| rev5score = (favorable)<ref>Spencer, Neil (15 May 1994). "Pop Releases". ''[[The Observer]]''.</ref>
			\| rev6 = ''[[Smash Hits]]''
			\| rev6score = 4/5<ref>{{cite magazine\|first=Emma\|last=Cochrane\|url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/smashhits90s/34994103950/in/album-72157685202618935/\|title=New Albums\|work=[[Smash Hits]]\|date=11 May 1994\|page=48\|access-date=4 October 2024}}</ref>
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	'''''I Say I Say I Say''''' is the sixth studio album by English [[synth-pop]] duo [[Erasure (duo)\|Erasure]], released in 1994 by [[Mute Records]] in the UK and [[Elektra Records]] in the US. The album was produced by [[Martyn Ware]], who was a founding member of veteran synth-pop groups [[the Human League]] and [[Heaven 17]].		'''''I Say I Say I Say''''' is the sixth studio album by English [[synth-pop]] duo [[Erasure (duo)\|Erasure]], released in 1994 by [[Mute Records]] in the UK and [[Elektra Records]] in the US. The album was produced by [[Martyn Ware]], who was a founding member of veteran synth-pop groups [[the Human League]] and [[Heaven 17]].

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Personnel

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	* Martyn Ware – producer		* Martyn Ware – producer
	* Olaf Wendt – artwork		* Olaf Wendt – artwork
	* Kevin Metcalfe - ~~Mastering~~		* Kevin Metcalfe – mastering

	==Charts==		==Charts==

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	'''''I Say I Say I Say''''' is the sixth studio album by English [[synth-pop]] duo [[Erasure (duo)\|Erasure]], released in 1994 by [[Mute Records]] in the UK and [[Elektra Records]] in the US. The album was produced by [[Martyn Ware]], who was a founding member of veteran ~~synthpop~~ groups [[the Human League]] and [[Heaven 17]].		'''''I Say I Say I Say''''' is the sixth studio album by English [[synth-pop]] duo [[Erasure (duo)\|Erasure]], released in 1994 by [[Mute Records]] in the UK and [[Elektra Records]] in the US. The album was produced by [[Martyn Ware]], who was a founding member of veteran synth-pop groups [[the Human League]] and [[Heaven 17]].

	Upon its release it became Erasure's fourth consecutive studio album to hit No. 1 in the UK, and fifth overall,<ref>{{Cite web\|url=http://www.officialcharts.com/artist/23453/erasure/\|title=Erasure \| full Official Chart History \| Official Charts Company\|website=[[OfficialCharts.com]]}}</ref> generating three top-20 singles. In the US, ''I Say I Say I Say'' debuted and peaked at number 18 on the [[Billboard 200\|''Billboard'' 200]], easily beating their previous highest chart placing. In Germany, the album climbed to number six.		Upon its release it became Erasure's fourth consecutive studio album to hit No. 1 in the UK, and fifth overall,<ref>{{Cite web\|url=http://www.officialcharts.com/artist/23453/erasure/\|title=Erasure \| full Official Chart History \| Official Charts Company\|website=[[OfficialCharts.com]]}}</ref> generating three top-20 singles. In the US, ''I Say I Say I Say'' debuted and peaked at number 18 on the [[Billboard 200\|''Billboard'' 200]], easily beating their previous highest chart placing. In Germany, the album climbed to number six.

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	\| rev2score = B<ref>Romero, Michele (20 May 1994). "I Say, I Say, I Say". ''[[Entertainment Weekly]]''.</ref>		\| rev2score = B<ref>Romero, Michele (20 May 1994). "I Say, I Say, I Say". ''[[Entertainment Weekly]]''.</ref>
	\| rev3 = ''[[Los Angeles Times]]''		\| rev3 = ''[[Los Angeles Times]]''
	\| rev3score = {{Rating\|2.5\|4}}<ref>{{cite ~~newspaper~~\|first=Chris\|last=Willman\|title=Organic Love for Space Age Swooners\|work=[[Los Angeles Times]]\|date=22 May 1994\|page=\|accessdate=20 January 2023\|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1995-04-16-ca-55148-story.html}}</ref>		\| rev3score = {{Rating\|2.5\|4}}<ref>{{cite news\|first=Chris\|last=Willman\|title=Organic Love for Space Age Swooners\|work=[[Los Angeles Times]]\|date=22 May 1994\|page=\|accessdate=20 January 2023\|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1995-04-16-ca-55148-story.html}}</ref>
	\| rev4 = ''[[NME]]''		\| rev4 = ''[[NME]]''
	\| rev4score = 7/10<ref name="NME">{{cite magazine \|last=Wells \|first=Steven \|date=21 May 1994 \|title=Long Play \|magazine=[[New Musical Express]] \|page=39}}</ref>		\| rev4score = 7/10<ref name="NME">{{cite magazine \|last=Wells \|first=Steven \|date=21 May 1994 \|title=Long Play \|magazine=[[New Musical Express]] \|page=39}}</ref>

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Personnel: no clue where came the idea of Bob Ludwig doing the mastering on this album.

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	* Martyn Ware – producer		* Martyn Ware – producer
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	==Charts==		==Charts==

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	\| artist = [[Erasure]]		\| artist = [[Erasure (duo)\|Erasure]]
	\| cover = Erasure I Say, I Say, I Say.jpg		\| cover = Erasure I Say, I Say, I Say.jpg
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	\| rev5score = (favorable)<ref>Spencer, Neil (15 May 1994). "Pop Releases". ''[[The Observer]]''.</ref>		\| rev5score = (favorable)<ref>Spencer, Neil (15 May 1994). "Pop Releases". ''[[The Observer]]''.</ref>
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	'''''I Say I Say I Say''''' is the sixth studio album by English [[synth-pop]] duo [[Erasure]], released in 1994 by [[Mute Records]] in the UK and [[Elektra Records]] in the US. The album was produced by [[Martyn Ware]], who was a founding member of veteran synthpop groups [[the Human League]] and [[Heaven 17]].		'''''I Say I Say I Say''''' is the sixth studio album by English [[synth-pop]] duo [[Erasure (duo)\|Erasure]], released in 1994 by [[Mute Records]] in the UK and [[Elektra Records]] in the US. The album was produced by [[Martyn Ware]], who was a founding member of veteran synthpop groups [[the Human League]] and [[Heaven 17]].

	Upon its release it became Erasure's fourth consecutive studio album to hit No. 1 in the UK, and fifth overall,<ref>{{Cite web\|url=http://www.officialcharts.com/artist/23453/erasure/\|title=Erasure \| full Official Chart History \| Official Charts Company\|website=[[OfficialCharts.com]]}}</ref> generating three top-20 singles. In the US, ''I Say I Say I Say'' debuted and peaked at number 18 on the [[Billboard 200\|''Billboard'' 200]], easily beating their previous highest chart placing. In Germany, the album climbed to number six.		Upon its release it became Erasure's fourth consecutive studio album to hit No. 1 in the UK, and fifth overall,<ref>{{Cite web\|url=http://www.officialcharts.com/artist/23453/erasure/\|title=Erasure \| full Official Chart History \| Official Charts Company\|website=[[OfficialCharts.com]]}}</ref> generating three top-20 singles. In the US, ''I Say I Say I Say'' debuted and peaked at number 18 on the [[Billboard 200\|''Billboard'' 200]], easily beating their previous highest chart placing. In Germany, the album climbed to number six.