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In 2003, a second single from Secrets, " Love Me Madly?", was released independently as a private venture by Nukove, a small independent label especially set up to release Human League material, but it did not have funds for promotion and the single did not chart. [33] Also in 2003, Virgin records released The Very Best of The Human League, a DVD of most of their previously recorded music videos. The DVD sold well in the UK and US and was accompanied by a compilation album of the same name. The Human League: (Keep Feeling) Fascination". British Phonographic Industry . Retrieved 12 June 2020. a b c d "The Human League | full Official Chart History". Official Charts Company . Retrieved 17 June 2022. I’ve wondered if Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis didn’t exactly give Human League their best work, or maybe they tried and it just didn’t work. According to the Wikipedia article on Crash, there were creative clashes and the other members of Human League were basically sidelined. Their renewed success prompted the band to tour again for the first time since 1987, and they conducted a tour of the US and UK in 1995. Subsequent singles " Filling Up with Heaven" and the non-album single " Stay with Me Tonight" also reached the UK Top 40, and a new remix of "Don't You Want Me" was released to capitalise on the band's revitalised profile. This was in the run up to a new "greatest hits" compilation in 1996, but which proved less successful than their first "Greatest Hits" album from 1988.

Top 100 Singles of '86". RPM. Vol.45, no.14. 27 December 1986. p.5. ISSN 0033-7064– via Library and Archives Canada. The Human League: Love Action (I Believe in Love)". British Phonographic Industry . Retrieved 12 June 2020.Throughout the following years, the band has continued to tour frequently, enjoying success and popularity as a live act. In 2004, they released The Human League Live at the Dome, a DVD of a live show filmed at the Brighton Dome, complete with a compilation CD called Live at the Dome.

DeCurtis, Anthony (20 November 1986). "Talking Heads tell 'True Stories'; Fogerty's 'Zombie' misses mark". Rolling Stone. No.487. p.125 . Retrieved 1 June 2022– via The Tuscaloosa News. British album certifications – Human League – Crash". British Phonographic Industry. 6 October 1986 . Retrieved 30 June 2021.In 2016, Virgin released A Very British Synthesizer Group, a two-CD retrospective compilation spanning material from the band's debut single in 1978 to their most recent album in 2011. British certifications – Human League – Don't You Want Me". British Phonographic Industry . Retrieved 13 April 2023. Offiziellecharts.de – The Human League – Human" (in German). GfK Entertainment charts. Retrieved 27 February 2020. Retaining the Human League name came at a heavy price for Oakey. As the band's sole remaining member, he was responsible for all Human League debts and commitments. Furthermore, the terms of the Virgin contract required him to pay Ware and Marsh one per cent of royalties of the next Human League album. The split also jeopardized the band's upcoming tour. With the first performance only ten days away and the music media reporting that the Human League was finished now that "the talented people had left", promoters started threatening to sue Oakey if the concerts were not completed as contracted. Fake-Out Fade-Out: "Tell Me When", which then jumps into a reprise of the chorus before fading out for real.

Hysteria includes a re-recording of "I Love You Too Much" from Fascination!, featuring a less aggressive electro sound.

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Boxed Set: 2022's The Virgin Years is a five-LP set containing all of the Mark II lineup's studio albums on Virgin Records plus the EP Fascination!, each on color-coded vinyl (the two Mark I albums, Reproduction and Travelogue, are omitted). Consequently, the set marks the first time Romantic? was reissued outside of Japan since its original 1990 release, having previously been thrown into Canon Discontinuity by Virgin on account of its critical and commercial underperformance. The fractious splintering of the original Human League line-up into the Phil Oakey-led collective and Heaven 17 was a difficult hangover the group had yet to recover from. The Travelogue and Reproduction albums had started to build some momentum for the band, but the subsequent messy split and Oakey’s seemingly left-field decision to recruit two inexperienced teenage girls to bolster the lineup surprised critics and threatened to derail the League’s credibility. After Hysteria, the group found themselves in creative stagnation, struggling to record material to follow up on their previous successes. Key songwriter Jo Callis departed, replaced by drummer Jim Russell. Bob Last quit as manager and was not replaced. In 1985, the band spent several months working on a new album with producer Colin Thurston (who had produced "I Don't Depend on You", Reproduction, and the first two Duran Duran albums), but yet more clashes in the recording studio ensued and the project was shelved in September 1985. [27]

The Human League has influenced many electropop, other synth-pop, and mainstream performers, including Pet Shop Boys. [ citation needed] Moby and Little Boots are longtime fans of the group. [46] [47] They have been sampled and covered by various artists, including Ladytron, Utah Saints, George Michael, Robbie Williams and LCD Soundsystem. [ citation needed] Because the imposed style had not worked, Virgin permitted the band to return to their original style and the band recorded and released their first full studio album Reproduction in August 1979. The album and the single " Empire State Human" failed to make an impact on the charts. After these flops, Virgin cancelled the band's December 1979 tour. By this time, the Human League's role as UK electronic pioneers was usurped by Gary Numan, when his single " Are 'Friends' Electric?" became a huge hit in the UK in mid-1979. [7] [ unreliable source?] The band has been the subject of, and appeared in, various TV documentaries and features, including Channel 4's Made in Sheffield and the BBC's Young Guns: The Bands of the Early 1980s. In June 2007, Sulley and Catherall presented a documentary on Sheffield's pop music history entitled The Nation's Music Cities for VH1. By this time, the band's commercial success and higher profile had caused their first two albums to start selling again. Reproduction charted for the first time in August 1981, eventually peaking at No.34, and Travelogue also recharted and returned to the Top 30 for several weeks. Both albums would eventually achieve Gold status. In October 1981, Virgin released a brand new single, " Open Your Heart", which gave the band another Top 10 hit. The band's new album, Dare, was also released in October 1981 and reached No.1 in the UK. It spent a total of four weeks at the top spot over the 1981/82 period, remaining in the chart for 77 weeks and eventually going triple platinum. Robert Smith of the Cure cited the song as an influence for their 1992 album, Wish. "For every album we do, I assemble a bunch of songs that have something that I'm trying to capture. For Wish, I would listen to ' Mesmerise' by Chapterhouse for its feeling of abandon and 'Human' by The Human League. You couldn't spot anything sonically or structurally that would influence anything we did, but there's an indefinable something that I'm trying to capture", Smith said in 1993. [ citation needed]It's from a crash cymbal, because it's a disco album again with lots of cymbals. One day somebody said "what sorts of cymbals do you want, a ride or a crash?", and we thought, "what a great title!" Human' is probably the best vocal that I ever did, but it took a month to record," Oakey recalled. "A really big influence on doing those monologues was Gary Numan, particularly ' Are "Friends" Electric?', which has two different spoken bits, and he pulls it off." [6]