Track Listing
1. Don't You Want Me
2. Love Action (I Believe in Love)
3. Open Your Heart
4. Sound of the Crowd, The
5. Mirror Man
6. (Keep Feeling) Fascination
7. Lebanon, The
8. Life on Your Own
9. Together in Electric Dreams
10. Louise
11. Human
12. Heart Like a Wheel
13. Tell Me When
14. One Man in My Heart
15. All I Ever Wanted - (original version)
16. Being Boiled - (Fast version)
17. Empire State Human
| Details | | Producer: | Human League, Jason Day (Compilation), Jimmy Jam, Terry Lewis, The Human League | | Distributor: | Caroline Distribution | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes
The Human League: Philip Oakey, Susanne Sulley, Joanne Catherall.
THE VERY BEST OF THE HUMAN LEAGUE is an excellent and rather generous compilation. In addition to featuring the group's biggest singles, it also provides a broad overview of the Human League's career, reaching as far back as 1978's "Being Boiled," the band's very first single. While the Human League occasionally misstep (their singles from the '90s, for example, do not hold up to their '80s work), at their best, they were sophisticated, intelligent, and humorous, with an undeniable knack for crafting immaculate pop hooks.
The League's patented blend of synthesizers and electronic beats, highlighted by lead singer Philip Oakey's rich baritone and Joanne Catherall and Susanne Sulley's sweet backing vocals, is evident here on their monster hits--"Don't You Want Me," "(Keep Feeling) Fascination," "Love Action (I Believe in Love)"--and on lesser known gems like "Mirror Man" and "The Lebanon." While completists will want the original albums (DARE, in particular, is a quintessential New Wave document), this compact and comprehensive overview underscores why the Human League's marriage of electronic music and classic pop songwriting makes them one of the more innovative, successful, and enduring of England's synth-pop acts.
Editorial Reviews
3 stars out of 5 - VERY BEST proves that the pop purism of early gems such as 'The Sound of the Crowd' and 'Love Action' will never be outmoded.
Rolling Stone
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