For Erasure fans like me, there is of course only the Deluxe version of Total Pop 40 Hits! In addition to the double-CD with all Erasuresingles there is a live CD and a DVD with many performances of the band in the English Top Of The Pops and other TV shows. The first CD is the same as the first best of, "Pop The First 20 Hits", but in a remastered version, the second contains the next season of "Always" to "Storm in a Teacup", which no longer all these singles were among the very biggest hits, although they still reached good chart positions in England. Here in Germany Erasure succeeded in recent years, no real success more, yet still fill the fans with the rare concerts in Cologne, or anywhere else the halls. The book with a detailed discography, lots of pictures, an interview is attractively designed and is for the fan a source of joy (written in English). Fans will order this great best-of-Deluxe with security, but also people having fun on the electro 80erjahre will appreciate it. For there is then also the Basic version with two CDs. Whether it will probably give a survival of Erasure? "The First 40 Hits" sounds like ABBA "The First Ten Years", which then definitely the last album the group was.
