Too British for some US rockers i guess, lol!but hey Dad i'm so glad you were/are more open on various other stuff and synths as well.We had such a fascinating time here in Europe back then.The '80s was an explosive era.
Lying on my bunk in a military guard room waiting to go on stag. With my Walkman on listening to this and the Dare album. It took me to another world. Thanks for the memories.
I got to see The Human League for the very first time live only last week AND I'M HERE TO TELL YOU THEY WERE INCREDIBLE LIVE..... if you ever get the chance see them
When i first heard them i was kinda looking at the glass being half empty.Sounded weird,cold,Phil sounded wild and the girls kinda amateur non-tuned singers and awkard dancers.But i grew to like them after listening to some of their interviews and then listening to songs such as ''Hard Times","The things that dreams are made of","Mirror Man","Fascination",'Empire State human' and surely fell for them.I then saw the glass filled up.Phil had a special personality a commanding voice,a cool style and the girls were colourful and real fun doing what they did because they liked it.I love 'Love Action" and love even more the 'League Unlimited" album version.George Michael sampled this for his ''Shoot the dog" hit single.
Joanne & Susan got hired because they were spotted dancing and they had an it factor. They were okay singers but they looked great and they added a lot to the clips and their voices made for a nice counterpoint to Phil. Before this line-up they had Martin Ware and Ian Craig Marsh in the band but they left to form Heaven 17 - check out Temptation by them - the lead singer is often seen as the guy people cant quite remember from Band Aid's Do they Know It's Christmas clip
0:43/9:19.Many of their singles at the time had the cryptic indication 'Red" or 'Blue" written on their covers.As Suzane said 'red" was for posers and Spandys, and 'Blue is for Abba fans' as Phil added since he was a fan of the Swedes.
I saw the early Human League at my first concert in 1978. They were support to Siouxsie and the Banshees who I'd gone to see. I don't remember much other than Phil Oakey's lop sided hair, a keyboard along with black and white photos projected onto the backdrop! I'm not a great fan of 80's synth pop generally but the Human League made some great singles. Cheers
I was never aware of this song until George Michael sampled it for his anti-Iraq war song, "Shoot The Dog", which was not only critical of the war but George W Bush and Tony Blair and their relationship with a very funny animated music video with the aforementioned as well as different versions of George Michael throughout his career.
In case you haven't listened you may try the club version they did for the 'Love and Dancing" album featuring the band as The League Unlimited Orchestra .It's greatly addictive as well as the transformation of the track 'Hard Times" from the same album released in 1982.
just a reaction to the comments on Electronic music not providing the work or sweat on stage.... this is a very limiting view and completely untrue.... Now I can respect that not everyone enjoys certain music and that's fine but... if you see acts like well Skinny Puppy, KMFDM, Thrill Kill Kult, Ministry, New Order, so on and so forth they are absolutely killing it and them selves onstage
The drum machine you heard on this very inventive light years ahead music was Not 'synth drums' of any kind. The drums are by the sample playback Linn drum computer lm1 designed by pioneer Roger linn with the help of jeff porcaro, in 1978 linn decided to create a real drums drum unit out of nessecity for his own practicing purposes as he was a guitarist with eric clapton at the time. Jeff porcaro suggest to linn he might use the then new tecnique of sound and percussion Sampling as the way forward. In 1979 he created a computer program for capturing the sounds, a man called Art wood used a late 70's 'ludwig drum kit' and human clap and other percussion, linn decide to leave the 'mistakes' on the final 27-35 hrtz samples as they had punch depth and good top end. The rest is history. The human league and martin rushent are not musicians to be so casually underated and taken so lightly the way your reaction did. They paved the way, make no mistake!! For artists to record Better electronic music across ALL genres there after. The uk was way ahead mid 1981 when it came to setting brand new styles not heard before, Love action was no exception, it took artists such as this to show the way forward on how to properly utilizes sampling and synthesis in music very modernly and musically at that time, after all a yr later american artists after the uk was long used to hi quality electronics in commercial music started to see all the potential with a few earlier us rare examples prior to '82, artists such as john cougars 'jack and diane' used the linn drum, prince etal, grandmaster flash used oberheim dmx digital drums in '82. Here in the uk we had a plethora of fantastic artists advdertisers producers etc utilizing fairlight cmi linndrum emulator simmons drum, solid state logic 4000e consoles lexicon and eventide digital effects units in our music and more besides then rock bands started to take electronics very seriously after hearing the major uk successes def leopard is an example. It is a fact reported in the music press at the time 1981, that American people and artists were very Very resistant to well produced electronic music hence your very lack lustre mid 70's inspired 'adult contemporary' safe dated music in 1981, where as in the uk we were gettin' very fresh new styles and great artists of our own thankfully. No one needs to belong to any particular tribe of music to know that this exquisite piece of modern pop is very good quite excellent, tightly recorded and very sound pallete wide with something ded real to say. Give this more credit!! Theres no surprises with same ole same ole' guitar rock, this surprised millions of good people because it surpassed so much ordinary safe usa music in the charts at the time, i'm glad i had this to spur me on back then as the likes of weird staid grey sounding old journey and kiss were very old fashioned to many of us in the uk at that time, we took chances then. As a session musician back then who worked with many of the top people i know quality!! and you heard it on Love action but totally misunderstood as per. High end Electronics were my speciality. The human league's music was light years ahead, know that!! it was a first in music making. Nowt sounded like it before it!! but many did it after it..
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Ooooh!Such a great tune.!One of my favest HL tracks ever and i love the official video with 'the bride in the church'.
This is my favourite Human League song ❤ hoping to see them live in December in Manchester 🥰
Too British for some US rockers i guess, lol!but hey Dad i'm so glad you were/are more open on various other stuff and synths as well.We had such a fascinating time here in Europe back then.The '80s was an explosive era.
Lying on my bunk in a military guard room waiting to go on stag. With my Walkman on listening to this and the Dare album. It took me to another world. Thanks for the memories.
My favorite Human League song.
I got to see The Human League for the very first time live only last week AND I'M HERE TO TELL YOU THEY WERE INCREDIBLE LIVE..... if you ever get the chance see them
When i first heard them i was kinda looking at the glass being half empty.Sounded weird,cold,Phil sounded wild and the girls kinda amateur non-tuned singers and awkard dancers.But i grew to like them after listening to some of their interviews and then listening to songs such as ''Hard Times","The things that dreams are made of","Mirror Man","Fascination",'Empire State human' and surely fell for them.I then saw the glass filled up.Phil had a special personality a commanding voice,a cool style and the girls were colourful and real fun doing what they did because they liked it.I love 'Love Action" and love even more the 'League Unlimited" album version.George Michael sampled this for his ''Shoot the dog" hit single.
Oh yeah!! Loved the 12” mix of this song with with Hard Times. Best times.
I used to be an alternative music listener back then, but I used to dance my feet off from this one😂
Joanne & Susan got hired because they were spotted dancing and they had an it factor. They were okay singers but they looked great and they added a lot to the clips and their voices made for a nice counterpoint to Phil.
Before this line-up they had Martin Ware and Ian Craig Marsh in the band but they left to form Heaven 17 - check out Temptation by them - the lead singer is often seen as the guy people cant quite remember from Band Aid's Do they Know It's Christmas clip
Adore Heaven 17. Let Me Go is perfection.
@@Miss-Katie Yeah they were great
0:43/9:19.Many of their singles at the time had the cryptic indication 'Red" or 'Blue" written on their covers.As Suzane said 'red" was for posers and Spandys, and 'Blue is for Abba fans' as Phil added since he was a fan of the Swedes.
Love this song, it's my favorite on the album, and there's a lot of great songs on it! Love Human League, got to see them live, great show!
What a brilliant song and amazing album. 'Things That Dreams Are Made Of' was my anthem of 1982
Dare one of my all time favourite albums, shout out to producer Martin Rushent who made it sound amazing.
I saw the early Human League at my first concert in 1978. They were support to Siouxsie and the Banshees who I'd gone to see. I don't remember much other than Phil Oakey's lop sided hair, a keyboard along with black and white photos projected onto the backdrop! I'm not a great fan of 80's synth pop generally but the Human League made some great singles. Cheers
The synths on this is so friggin' cool.
Quality electronic pop music with wit, class and a great hook.
I was never aware of this song until George Michael sampled it for his anti-Iraq war song, "Shoot The Dog", which was not only critical of the war but George W Bush and Tony Blair and their relationship with a very funny animated music video with the aforementioned as well as different versions of George Michael throughout his career.
In case you haven't listened you may try the club version they did for the 'Love and Dancing" album featuring the band as The League Unlimited Orchestra .It's greatly addictive as well as the transformation of the track 'Hard Times" from the same album released in 1982.
Great song ... good discussion ... 👍
The sound was new then 82.synth shit..got better 20 years later..prodigy. ect..😊
Sweet synth sound
One of my all time top 10. Ty
This is on the same album as Don't You Want Me.
just a reaction to the comments on Electronic music not providing the work or sweat on stage.... this is a very limiting view and completely untrue.... Now I can respect that not everyone enjoys certain music and that's fine but... if you see acts like well Skinny Puppy, KMFDM, Thrill Kill Kult, Ministry, New Order, so on and so forth they are absolutely killing it and them selves onstage
My least favourite is don't you want me baby.
The drum machine you heard on this very inventive light years ahead music was Not 'synth drums' of any kind.
The drums are by the sample playback Linn drum computer lm1 designed by pioneer Roger linn with the help of jeff porcaro, in 1978 linn decided to create a real drums drum unit out of nessecity for his own practicing purposes as he was a guitarist with eric clapton at the time.
Jeff porcaro suggest to linn he might use the then new tecnique of sound and percussion Sampling as the way forward.
In 1979 he created a computer program for capturing the sounds, a man called Art wood used a late 70's 'ludwig drum kit' and human clap and other percussion, linn decide to leave the 'mistakes' on the final 27-35 hrtz samples as they had punch depth and good top end.
The rest is history.
The human league and martin rushent are not musicians to be so casually underated and taken so lightly the way your reaction did.
They paved the way, make no mistake!! For artists to record Better electronic music across ALL genres there after.
The uk was way ahead mid 1981 when it came to setting brand new styles not heard before, Love action was no exception, it took artists such as this to show the way forward on how to properly utilizes sampling and synthesis in music very modernly and musically at that time, after all a yr later american artists after the uk was long used to hi quality electronics in commercial music started to see all the potential with a few earlier us rare examples prior to '82, artists such as john cougars 'jack and diane' used the linn drum, prince etal, grandmaster flash used oberheim dmx digital drums in '82.
Here in the uk we had a plethora of fantastic artists advdertisers producers etc utilizing fairlight cmi linndrum emulator simmons drum, solid state logic 4000e consoles lexicon and eventide digital effects units in our music and more besides then rock bands started to take electronics very seriously after hearing the major uk successes def leopard is an example.
It is a fact reported in the music press at the time 1981, that American people and artists were very Very resistant to well produced electronic music hence your very lack lustre mid 70's inspired 'adult contemporary' safe dated music in 1981, where as in the uk we were gettin' very fresh new styles and great artists of our own thankfully.
No one needs to belong to any particular tribe of music to know that this exquisite piece of modern pop is very good quite excellent, tightly recorded and very sound pallete wide with something ded real to say.
Give this more credit!! Theres no surprises with same ole same ole' guitar rock, this surprised millions of good people because it surpassed so much ordinary safe usa music in the charts at the time, i'm glad i had this to spur me on back then as the likes of weird staid grey sounding old journey and kiss were very old fashioned to many of us in the uk at that time, we took chances then.
As a session musician back then who worked with many of the top people i know quality!! and you heard it on Love action but totally misunderstood as per.
High end Electronics were my speciality.
The human league's music was light years ahead, know that!! it was a first in music making.
Nowt sounded like it before it!!
but many did it after it..
The Drum Machine was essential to the early 80s New Wave. If you do not like the Drum Machine then you just dont get the music and the genre ;)