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early
1982
THE
HUMAN LEAGUE - BOILING POINT
bootleg
LP
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early
1982
THE
HUMAN LEAGUE - DRUMSET MYSTERY (LIVE AT THE ROLLING STONE CLUB)
bootleg
LP
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These live bootlegs are mentioned here simply because they include
the 1981/1982 League line-up performing a few early songs among the
Dare tracks, et cetera. Other post-split bootlegs exist - these
were just the first to appear on vinyl. The early songs included on
these items have brand new arrangements, all of them more pop-oriented
than the originals, and around this time, Circus Of Death
was being performed as a medley with Scott Joplin's The Entertainer
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on a hand-held cassette recorder in December 1981 at London's Rainbow
venue, Boiling Point apparently features a completely incorrect
tracklisting on the sleeve and terrible sound quality and editing
throughout. The early tracks included on this album are Circus
Of Death, Crow And A Baby
and Blind Youth,
the latter being the original line-up's demo version (not a live recording
by the later line-up). |
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Mystery,
recorded in Milan on March 17th 1982, is said to have better sound
quality despite being another audience recording. Early songs on this
album are Circus Of Death, Marianne
and Empire State Human.
Like Boiling Point, this is not an item found in the average
music store. |
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October
1999
HEAVEN
17 - HOW LIVE IS
CD,
Almafame ALMACD9
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17 had never played a live concert before 1997, but began to
tour occasionally in the late 1990s. This CD documents their
1997 show at Glasgow's SECC, where they were guests of Erasure,
and it is included here because the final track is their version
of The Human League's Being Boiled.
This version is very similar to the League's 1980 recording
of the song, as featured on Travelogue
- so similar in fact that one has to wonder whether the original
backing tapes were used! |
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show had originally been released exclusively through the official
Heaven 17 site in June 1999 as Live At Last (catalogue
number H17-1), limited to 1,000 copies and housed in a different
sleeve (pictured right). How Live Is was available through
regular music outlets and included three bonus CD-ROM video
tracks recorded live at London's Sound Republic in March 1999. |
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January
2003
THE
HUMAN LEAGUE - ELECTRONICALLY YOURS... THE HUMAN LEAGUE SAMPLER
CD,
Caroline 17689
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Being
Boiled (Fast Product version)
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Marianne |
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Blind
Youth
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The
Sound Of The Crowd |
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Empire
State Human
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Love
Action [I Believe In Love] |
The
Black Hit Of Space
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Don't
You Want Me (Love & Dancing version) |
WXJL
Tonight
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is a North American promotional-only release, issued by the Caroline
label to promote the January 2003 remastered editions of Reproduction,
Travelogue
and the Dare / Love & Dancing package. As this is not a
commercial release, it is only likely to be on sale through outlets
who specialise in such items for the collectors' market. However,
all of the material is readily available on the three CDs this release
was intended to promote, so this is only really of interest to completists. |
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Previously:
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miscellaneous
releases (part one)
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