... Oh look, there's a Best Of. Love Action, Mirror Man, Human, Sound Of The Crowd. Lovely, they're all there, I thought, in my rush to purchase my three CDs and get back to the office before Fat Glenn the clockwatcher starts having a go. Then I played it. Here's my usual track listings with ... Read review
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greatest hits are included onThe Very Best of the Human League. With their heavy eye make-up, bizarre hair-styles and generally dodgy fashion sense, few people could have predicted back in the early 1980s that the group would become long-standing pop and style icons. Opening with the simple promos for experimental tracks "Circus of Death" and "Empire State Human", the videos evolve in budget and sophistication, reflecting the band's growing popular success and the general development of the pop video as a genre. Some of the early promos attempt pastiches of popular film and television productions: "Love Action (I Believe in Love)" is a take onThe Graduate, while "Don't You Want Me" appears to have been shot on the set of Jersey-based detective seriesBergerac. Heralding the arrival of the Quantel Paintbox--the ground-breaking televisual special effects generator--the "Open Your Heart" promo incorporates a variety of tacky special effects, which may have looked great onSwap Shopin 1981, but now look remarkably ridiculous.The lesser-known video for the Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis-produced track "I Need Your Loving" and the retrospective video montage for their 1998 Greatest Hits collection track "Love is All That Matters" also oddly make it on to this compilation. The videos for the non-Virgin Record singles are included, too ("Tell Me When", "One Man in My Heart" and "All I Ever Wanted"), with "One Man in My Heart" providing a step-by-step guide to making a cappuccino.On the DVD:The Very Best of The Human Leaguehas been mastered effectively overall, with the visual and audio quality of the 1981 promo for "Love Action" being particularly crisp. TheTop of the PopsandLater...performances provide an added perspective on the evolution of the band, and the interview with Phil, Joanne and Susan supplies a further comprehensive and accessible overview of their past and future development. --John Galilee
greatest hits are included onThe Very Best of the Human League. With their heavy eye make-up, bizarre hair-styles and generally dodgy fashion sense, few people could have predicted back in the early 1980s that the group would become long-standing pop and style icons. Opening with the simple promos for experimental tracks "Circus of Death" and "Empire State Human", the videos evolve in budget and sophistication, reflecting the band's growing popular success and the general development of the pop video as a genre. Some of the early promos attempt pastiches of popular film and television productions: "Love Action (I Believe in Love)" is a take onThe Graduate, while "Don't You Want Me" appears to have been shot on the set of Jersey-based detective seriesBergerac. Heralding the arrival of the Quantel Paintbox--the ground-breaking televisual special effects generator--the "Open Your Heart" promo incorporates a variety of tacky special effects, which may have looked great onSwap Shopin 1981, but now look remarkably ridiculous.The lesser-known video for the Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis-produced track "I Need Your Loving" and the retrospective video montage for their 1998 Greatest Hits collection track "Love is All That Matters" also oddly make it on to this compilation. The videos for the non-Virgin Record singles are included, too ("Tell Me When", "One Man in My Heart" and "All I Ever Wanted"), with "One Man in My Heart" providing a step-by-step guide to making a cappuccino.On the DVD:The Very Best of The Human Leaguehas been mastered effectively overall, with the visual and audio quality of the 1981 promo for "Love Action" being particularly crisp. TheTop of the PopsandLater...performances provide an added perspective on the evolution of the band, and the interview with Phil, Joanne and Susan supplies a further comprehensive and accessible overview of their past and future development. --John Galilee
Advantages: Early 80's synth-pop pioneers' best collated Disadvantages: No "Don't You Want Me"!
...Oh look, there's a Best Of. Love Action, Mirror Man, Human, Sound Of The Crowd. Lovely, they're all there, I thought, in my rush to purchase my three CDs and get back to the office before Fat Glenn the clockwatcher starts having a go. Then I played it. Here's my usual track listings with the obligatory mark out of five. Afterwards follows a brief list of the glaring omissions. How could I have been so dumb? There's a lot of weak links here......
... ...an impressive start to this best of album and it's whinging synth and tinny beats epitomise an era. (4/5)
**Mirror Man**
More whinging synths before Jo and Susan's "ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh" refrain kicks in with some natty finger clicking and more dated drums take you away to a time of colourful make-up and fireman-bothering amounts of hairspray. A bit like my earlier Duran Duran and Culture Club reviews, I am once again flummoxed by the meaning of ...
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Advantages: great album stuffed with old and a few new Disadvantages: is the 3rd greatest hits album from them
...I brought this cd to replace some of the humanleague albums and tapes I had brought in the past (before cds were thought of lol)
As a teen I even had the hair cut of Phil Oakey, oh I thought I was so cool!!
Dont you want me is a track everyone loves, those of us who grew up with it and a new generation love it.
Electric dreams his duet with georgio moroder, from the film, is still one of my favroutes.
Love action, human they are all still timeless (maybe im just living in the 80's!)
They are still going strong, too, how many bands can say that after so many years (well apart from my number one band UB40).
But I loved this electric era, I shunned the duran durans, and spandau ballets for these, the humans were and still are a top band.
I know there will be a lot of people disagree, but well we all have our own tastes, but if you...
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Advantages: Eight Good tracks. Disadvantages: Twenty naff tracks.
...State Human (Chamber's Reporduced Mix)
Laughable.
7.The Things That Dreams Are Made Of (Jimmy 19 The A509 PWC Remix)
Oh why? Ring my Bell, Anita Ward comes to mind.
8.The Sound Of The Crowd (Freaksblamredo)
Okay, too many whistles and squeaks though, not unpleasant but not a hit either.
9.Open Your Heart (The Strand Remix)
Another mix of this song, gawd knows why.
10.The Sound Of The Crowd (Riton Re-Rub)
Alright, bit more edgy than the original.
11.Love Action (Fluk's Dub Action Remix)
Another remix of a remix, oh dear.
#####Final thoughts#####
The 2nd disc, or 2nd half of downloads apart from the first one, are really not worth bothering with unless you are a diehard HumanLeague fan, I'm not. In fact, that EMI/Virgin had the cheek to call the last 10 tracks 'The Very Best of' is almost a crime under the trade...
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