Alison Moyet

And ahead, we maintain the status quo.

Emerging from English group Yazoo, Alison Moyet had a successful solo career through the 80s, starting with her debut solo album Elf, which was also her nickname.

That came out in 1984.

Here's the extended version of the opening track from it, Love Resurrection.

Oh, cry down.

It's hard to give you something when you're pushing and it's shoving you around.

Alison Moyet with the second single from her debut solo album, Elf, All Cried Out.

It peaked at number six on the charts in New Zealand, the highest chart placing that song had anywhere in the world.

It had songs like You're the One and Another Son.

In 2007, Alison Moyet released The Turn.

This one hit number 21 on the UK albums chart.

It had One More Time, A Place to Stay, and The World Unknown.

Yeah.

So they're on the road in the States at the moment with, um, Soft Cell and Alison Moyet on the bill, which is a very nice English bill.

Mm.

Mm.Oh, wow.

And it's doing very well.

She had a lovely voice, didn't she? Alison Moyet.

Yes.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Bon Jovi did Backdoor Santa.

Alison Moyet of Yaz or Yazoo fame did the Coventry Carol.

And Stevie Nicks finished it off with Silent Night.

It is a must-have in your Christmas collection.

There must've been a UK-American dispute.

But, uh, Bad Connection, Alison Moyet and Vince Clarke with Yaz.

Such great records.

And we started off with Sleigh Ride to Heck, four minutes of non-radio sounding sounds from James Katchulke and his band Jazz in Hell, and, uh, Peter Cate is producing, and a lot of people singing backgrounds in a basement in Greenwich, Connecticut, in 1991.

Right.

Alison Moyet.

Uh, who is Alison Moyet? Better known as Alf to her friends.

We can call her Alf because she's got a t- LP entitled Alf in 1984.

Uh, if you're not sure who she was, she was the voice of Yazoo, who were known as Yaz in North America, and here she is.

You took a whole lot of loving.

All cried out

Alison Moyet with the one that's called All Cried Out.

I'll, I'll give you one or two other initial reactions when I first listened to it.

Firstly, uh, and this is actually something that I quite enjoyed in, in the first few listens, Mark Hollis's vocal is very much like Alison Moyet.

Can you hear that?

No, no. [laughs] I can't.

[laughs] It's exactly like Moyet, and, uh, from the very first track.

And then as we go into track two, I Don't Believe in You, it's especially like Moyet.

Listen to him sing, "The charade goes on," and just visualize Alison Moyet.

It's very, very similar, I think.

So

listening to Madonna or Alison Moyet or the Eurythmics or Depeche Mode or The Cure or whatever, that's when a lot of erasure, too.

I feel like that was my most comfortable place.

And then the second is...