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29 Jan, 2008
Essential and Influential
1 of 1 found this helpful The second of the indispensable Human League albums and continues in a similar vein to Reproduction released the year before. Travelogue has slightly more in the way of production values and doesn't sound quite so bleak as Reproduction which is the more atmospheric of the two. The tracks on Travelogue start to show a more pop orientated slant to the material, although still with one foot in the "experimental" category both musically and lyrically. This was also evident in the live League shows of the period which were multimedia events incorporating projected images.
The League continue with their unusual choices in cover versions with the Mick Ronson track "Only after Dark" and even more bizarrely covering the music to a Gordons Gin TV advert (written by Jeff Wayne!). But it's the original material that really shows the League at their most accomplished, and this album contains some of the best material they ever recorded, "Black Hit of Space" and "Crow and a Baby" sound like nothing you have ever heard but somehow still remain accessible. Reproduction also contains the most well known of the early League's material, "Being Boiled", although it is a very different re-recorded version to the original single release on Fast records.
Reproduction and Travelogue are both available on mid-priced remastered CD each containing a lot of bonus material, consisting of most of the early non-album releases (including the most successful of their experiments with cover versions, Glitter's "Rock 'n' Roll" segueing into Iggy Pop's "Nightclubbing") as well as the original Fast versions of "Circus of Death" and "Being Boiled.
16 Jan, 2008
Essential..............
1 of 1 found this helpful Back when I was about 13 I borrowed a copy of this LP from my local library.....and Ive never looked back. My enthusiasm for electronic music, my desire to become a musician, my love of synthesisers, my open minded approach to music are all thanks to this record!!
The combination of surreal lyrics, sung in a baritone northern accent, together with purely electronic sounds (something the League used to pride themselves on) was a complete revelation...this really was the future of music. There were pop sensibilities at work here but hidden under an inhuman other worldly facade...they even manage to make "You've lost that loving feeling" sound like you have stumbled upon some strange radio transmission from another dimension. Even the more straightforward tracks such as "Empire state human" take on a slightly uncomfortable edge with Oakeys bizzare lyrics, and the creepiness of "Circus of death" still sends shivers down my spine nearly 25 years later.
If your only exposure to The Human League has been from the "Dare" era onwards then I cannot urge you enough to grab a copy of this Album (and the follow up "Travelogue") without a doubt two of the most influential albums of all time. Together with Kraftwerk and Suicide, The Human League showed that a "Band" did not have to consist of Drums, Guitar and Bass and opened the door for a whole new generation of electronic musicians.