()p() - The Human League

That said, "Love Action" - the synth riff! the bit that everyone samples! "This is Phil talking..."!

But there's no future
with out teEeEeEeEeEeeears"

it sounds FANTASTIC. "Open Your Heart", that's it - great. "Dare" is such a fantastic album.

Never mind! Let us remember that:

Everybody needs love and adventure
Everybody needs cash to spend
Everybody needs love and affection
Everybody needs two or three friends

I am thinking that The Human League were the BEST BAND EVER. Fantastic!

Worthy of Le Bon at his finest!

Maybe I'll go for "Marianne" 'cause no one else will.

Okay alright not so impossible heh.

Do not argue. You cannot.

If "Black Hit Of Space" and "Love Action" aren't available (is this some kind of Danny Baker breakfast show deal?), I'll go for the LP version of "Being Boiled". Those synths! Saying stop your sericulture!

And I suppose I'll have to go for the Holiday 80 Being Boiled - still saying stop your sericulture! Even better synths! The LP version sounds like the Queen cover version.

I despised what they turned into when they split in 2, and Oakey recruited the Dancing Girls....

(But then by that time the 'New Romantics' had hijacked and f**ked up synths in music anyway - between ex-punk guitar playing turncoats like Numan refashioning themselves into 'Mr Synthesiser', and a bunch of bored London schmoozers dressing up in Great-Granny's clothes and Mummy's make-up to go out bitching all night and thus begin the great Clubbing To Death of pop culture, us late-70's electronicos never stood a chance....not that I'm still bitter about it, oh no. Where's me tablets.....)

(PS - Has anyone else heard the early HL song 'Year Of The Jetpacks'(sic?)?)

This most punXOR move is just one of around 3,967,836 reasons why Oakey is utterly fantastic.

I've come to the conclusion that HL are by far the best pop band ever. No, best band ever. By light years.

OPO? Today's is Never Give Your Heart from last year's monumental Secrets. 'Dancing Girls' eh? - pah!

Forgot to mention the quite wonderful 'Dreams Of Leaving' as a candidate song - what a strange little piece that is...

By the way, could you explain what all this '..XOR..' stuff means stuck in the middle of words ? I've been trawling around ILM for about 3 days now and it's one of the several conventions I don't get... (Along with 'GWAR'?)

Look - there is no way that this isn't genius.

Good live band too.

'Open your Heart' ? - Christ, maybe, but be sure to cover your ears. That song could strip paint off a wall. And whose big idea was that tootle-ing piccolo chorus? Sounds like something written by the Orange Order (a New Order tribute band...)

I FUCKING LOVE THE HUMAN LEAGUE.

I did buy that "Holiday '80" ep though. Oakey playing the robot he obviously is = ok. Oakey playing 'real singer' = dud. Riffs like the one on "Keep Feeling Fascination" are dud, but dud in a way that almost holds my interest. It's so irritating, so junky you want to think it has to be deliberate. It doesn't make me like it, though.

-- Andy K

I agree with Andy. "Marianne" is 3:15 of electro-pop perfection.

Me and a friend once made an impromptu drunken Christmas eve visit to Phil Oakey's house. He let us in and we sat in his sparsely furnished front room and chatted about Barry White for a bit, and then he kinda said in his gruff voice 'er, can you leave now lads', so we did.

i just got 'hysteria' on vinyl for ten cents.

('I'm sure I could be just like someone's neighbour...' ah, man)

It's off The Golden Hour Of The Future.

HLAW - wonderful!

i'll read this at my leisure later and then return. OPO, though ... christ, probably "circus of death", but i'm not sure. i've got a very, very early vocal-less version of "morale" from one of the send-us-a-C90-and-we'll-fill-it days, and it's hypnotically beautiful.

it's all in the intro

However as an alternative - All that ever matters, Phil in great voice, that bass synth is the definition of phat.

this sums it up perfectly, dr c. beautifully put.

Once Upon a Time in the West
Marianne
Dancevision
Dominion Jingle
Circus of Death (C90 version)
Morale (C90 instrumental)
Morale/You've Lost That Loving Feeling
Dreams of Leaving
King of Kings
Dominion Advertisement
The Dignity of Labour (Parts 1-4)
Flexi Disc

must we? "rebound", then, from "romantic?" ... but that's it.

Oh yeah, does anybody have a copy of the "Girl One" demo? It'd be much appreciated.

uh, Simon, what would i have to do to persuade you to send me a copy of this? i'm extremely interested in hearing it...

and to respond to the thread: right now, "Louise", but this afternoon I've decided it's going to be "Tell Me When" - best comeback ever!

depends if you want a CD or just the files! if the former, give us your address (and give me a couple of days to buy some new blank CDs). if the latter ... er, just holler and i shall put them up somewhere for you in the next couple of days.

nb: some of them will be .m4a/AAC/iTunes things, as opposed to MP3s. but i'm assuming that isn't likely to be a problem.

Oh yeah, does anybody have a copy of the "Girl One" demo? It'd be much appreciated

i have a 6'28" demo of "almost medieval/girl one. at 3'33" it crashes very roughly from AM into GO. the rest of the song is GO without any "austerity" (i think ... can't be arsed listening to the whole thing). let me know if you want it and i'll YSI it or something.

did anyone ever tap me up about my ace little compilation?

ach well.

exciting news from sean at blind youth:

In case you hadn't heard, a remastered edition of "The Golden Hour Of
The Future" is due out on September 8th, again via Black Melody.

As well as being back out on CD, it'll be available through the usual
digital outlets online, and the sound quality should be *slightly*
better this time.

There'll be updates posted on this MySpace page:

http://www.myspace.com/thegoldenhourofthefuture

And Martyn Ware will be heard discussing the recordings in a podcast
on http://blackmelody.com sometime soon...

Now there's no excuse for anyone not to own this essential
compilation! :)

Grimly, can I tap you up about your ace little compilation?

but of course! e-mail me -- the ILX webmail link thing works just perfectly.

"Do Or Die". An often ignored highlight from "Dare".

The dub of Do or Die is fucking amazing.

dub of dob dee

I noticed nothing wrong w/ Golden Hour's sound the first time around.

damn, I was gonna sell mine for a million dollars.

I noticed nothing wrong w/ Golden Hour's sound the first time around

considering the source material, i thought it was pretty awesome. fucked if i'm buying a remaster, though.

also: i've had one slightly confused e-mail, so i should probably elucidate (i'm kind of imagining people will have read the previous posts about the compilation i made, but i know that's presumptuous) ... the thing i'm offering to give dudes is my "once upon a time in the east" compilation, mentioned in the posts from 2005 above(plus a shitload of bootlegs i'd forgotten i'd put on my webspace ages ago; seriously, this stuff is well worth hearing). it is not the golden hour of the future.

thought that was obvious but can see how it might not be.

Some goofy nights...I seriously think it's

THE LEBANON

THE LEB
A
NON

I must be dreaming!
It can't be true!

There are seriously 14 better answers than this but the fucking Lenbanon is on guys.

They should be playing this at the barricades in Libya!