Song · Erasure
“Star” by Erasure
From the album Wild! (1989)
“Star” by Erasure appears on 6 radio countdowns from 4 stations between 1990 and 2003. It was first released in 1989 on the album Wild!. Its best result is #37 on the KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 1990. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #120 alternative song of 1990 and #3,571 alternative song of all time.
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"Star" came off Wild!, Erasure's fourth album, and went out as a single on Mute in May 1990, and it's a sly trick of a record: a straight-ahead dance track with a disco sparkle on top and the bomb ticking underneath. Vince Clarke and Andy Bell wrote it as their own kind of protest song, with the lyric circling nuclear war while the beat keeps the floor full. Gareth Jones and Mark Saunders produced it with the duo, and the single got a light radio remix that pushed the acoustic guitar and the backing vocals further up front. John Maybury directed the video.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | 37 | KROQ Los Angeles, CA | KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 1990 | 107 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | 84 | Live 105 | Live 105 Top 300 Songs of All-Time (Memorial Day 1990) | 299 |
| 1996 | 483 | KROQ | KROQ Flashback 500 (Memorial Day 1996) | 500 |
| 1999 | 1033 | 107.7 The End | The End Top 1077 Songs of All-Time (December 1999) | 1077 |
| 2002 | 1852 | Fred (XM 44) | Fred XM Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (July 2002) | 2002 |
| 2003 | 859 | Fred (XM 44) | Fred XM Top 2044 Songs of All-Time (July 2003) | 2044 |
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