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1982
METHODS
OF DANCE (Volume 2)
LP,
Virgin OVED 7
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CHINA
CRISIS No Ordinary Lover
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THE
MEN I Don't Depend On You |
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I-LEVEL
Give Me (American mix)
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SIMPLE
MINDS Soundtrack For Every Heaven |
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RIP,
RIG & PANIC You're My Kind Of Climate (party mix)
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CULTURE
CLUB I'm Afraid Of Me (Disconet remix) |
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DAF
Kebab Traume
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B.E.F.
The Secret Life Of Arabia (dub mix) |
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Volume 1 of Methods Of Dance (named after the song on Japan's
Gentlemen Take Polaroids album) had featured a track by the
second League line-up (a dub mix of Do Or Die from the Dare!
album), as well as two tracks from Martyn and Ian (B.E.F.'s Groove
Thang and Heaven 17's Soul Warfare). The album, which collected
dance-oriented material by Virgin artists, was reasonably successful
and was followed by this second volume. |
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time, the label delved back to 1979 for a Human League track - the
single they released under the name of The Men, I
Don't Depend On You. Note that Martyn and Ian also appear at the
end of the album, on a remix of their B.E.F. collaboration with Associates
vocalist Billy MacKenzie (a David Bowie cover version, the original
mix of which had appeared on the B.E.F. album, Music Of Quality
And Distinction). |
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I
Don't Depend On You written by Ware/Oakey/Marsh
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I
Don't Depend On You produced by Colin Thurston and The Men
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Deleted
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October
1988
GREATEST
HITS
LP,
Virgin HLTV 1
CD,
Virgin CDHL 1 (also issued as a picture disc CD, CDHL 1)
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Mirror
Man
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Being
Boiled
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[Keep
Feeling] Fascination
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Love
Action [I Believe In Love] |
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The
Sound Of The Crowd
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Louise |
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The
Lebanon
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Open
Your Heart |
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Human
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Love
Is All That Matters |
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Together
In Electric Dreams
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Life
On Your Own |
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Don't
You Want Me
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was the first compilation of hits by The Human League and as one might
expect, the original group line-up is represented by a single track
(the Fast Product version of Being
Boiled, which was a UK Number Six hit when reissued in January
1982). The rest of the album is dominated by later incarnations of
the group, with the exception of Together In Electric Dreams,
which is not actually a Human League track, but a single Philip recorded
with producer Giorgio Moroder in 1984. |
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compilation was also released as a video cassette, though as the group
never made a promotional video for Being Boiled, Russell Mulcahy's
video for the Reproduction
version of Being Boiled's original b-side, Circus Of Death,
was used instead. The album has also appeared on cassette, digital
compact cassette and mini-disc. The LP's gatefold sleeve featured
an interesting 'family tree' history of the group, but the quality
of the vinyl within is appalling on some copies. |
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Being
Boiled written by Ware/Marsh/Oakey
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Being
Boiled produced by The Human League
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Deleted
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November
1995
GREATEST
HITS
CD,
Virgin CDV 2792
cassette,
Virgin TCV 2792
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Don't
You Want Me
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Being
Boiled |
Love
Action [I Believe In Love]
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The
Lebanon |
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Mirror
Man
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Love
Is All That Matters |
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Tell
Me When
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Louise |
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Stay
With Me Tonight
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Life
On Your Own |
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Open
Your Heart
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Together
In Electric Dreams |
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[Keep
Feeling] Fascination
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Human |
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The
Sound Of The Crowd
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Don't
You Want Me (Snap 7" remix) |
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| Virgin
released the group from their recording contract after the disappointing
sales of their 1990 Romantic? album and the next Human League
album, Octopus, was issued by East West in 1995. Thanks to
two Top 20 singles (Tell Me When and One Man In My Heart),
the album sold respectably. Virgin were quick to capitalise on the
group's renewed popularity and issued a second Greatest Hiits
album. |
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second compilation was essentially the same as the first - even the
sleeve's photograph was taken from the same session! However, the
inclusion of Tell Me When and a then-unreleased track, Stay
With Me Tonight, provided an incentive to prospective buyers,
as did the final track, Snap's remix of Don't You Want Me.
Arguably. The version of Being Boiled is again the original
Fast Product single. |
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A video collection was also issued by Warner Music Vision (licensed
from Virgin - catalogue number 0630 12671-3), featuring Russell Mulcahy's
videos for Circus Of Death and Empire State Human,
which were filmed together in 1979. This collection was also issued
as a laserdisc in Japan (catalogue number AMLE-8108). |
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compilations have appeared since this one, without the consent (and
sometimes without the knowledge!) of the group. These are usually
budget-price affairs, containing a few hit singles and a lot of previously-released
album tracks and b-sides to fill the gaps in between. Fans are advised
to avoid these low-quality releases and stick with the group's 'official'
albums... |
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Being
Boiled written by Ware/Marsh/Oakey
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Being
Boiled produced by The Human League
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Currently
available on CD
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September
2003
THE
VERY BEST OF
CD,
Virgin HLCDX 2
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CD
1:
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CD
2: |
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Don't
You Want Me
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Don't
You Want Me (Majik J Original Booty vocal mix) |
Love
Action [I Believe In Love]
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Open
Your Heart (Laid remix) |
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Open
Your Heart
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The
Sound Of The Crowd (Trisco's PopClash mix) |
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The
Sound Of The Crowd
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Love
Action (Brooks Red Line vocal mix) |
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Mirror
Man
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[Keep
Feeling] Fascination (Groove Collision TMC mix)
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[Keep
Feeling] Fascination
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Empire
State Human (Chamber's Reproduced mix) |
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The
Lebanon
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The
Things That Dreams Are Made Of (Jimmy 19 The A509 PWC remix) |
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Life
On Your Own
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The
Sound Of The Crowd (Freaksblamredo) |
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Together
In Electric Dreams
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Open
Your Heart (The Strand remix) |
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Louise
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The
Sound Of The Crowd (Riton re-dub) |
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Love
Action (Fluke's Dub Action remix) |
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Heart
Like A Wheel
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Tell
Me When
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One
Man In My Heart
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All
I Ever Wanted
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Being
Boiled
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Empire
State Human
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is the latest 'best of' compilation, though the original League line-up
are only represented by the final two tracks on the first CD, and
a new remix of Empire State Human on the second CD. |
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is also a single-disc edition of this compilation, which features
only the first CD and none of the remixes on the second CD, all of
which were commissioned by Virgin during 2002 and 2003. |
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CDs were followed on September 29th by a DVD collection, also entitled
The Very Best Of (also Virgin, catalogue number 7243 4 90788
9 5). |
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collects almost all of the League's promo videos to date, including
Russell Mulcahy's clips for Circus Of Death and Empire State
Human, plus six BBC television appearances by later line-ups of
the group, a new interview with Philip, Joanne and Susan by music
writer Simon Price and various other extras. The Fast Product version
of Being Boiled plays when the DVD menus are viewed. |
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Being
Boiled, Empire State Human and Circus Of Death
written by Oakey/Marsh/Ware (order of credits varies)
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Being
Boiled produced by The Human League, Empire State Human
and Circus Of Death produced by The Human League and Colin
Thurston
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Currently
available on CD and DVD
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Previously:
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Next:
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selected
UK compilations (part one)
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miscellaneous releases (part one)
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