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This
cassette compilation is not actually a commercial release
- it was used purely as a demo tape, which the League presented
to record companies in their search for a label which could
offer them the financial support they needed.
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The
Dominion jingle
is used extensively throughout the cassette (appearing after
every song except You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling), and
dialogue is also provided by Philip, who poses as a fictional
TV presenter, 'Jason Taverner'. This name was almost certainly
borrowed from Philip K Dick's novel, Flow My Tears, The Policeman
Said, which also features a television personality named
Jason Taverner. |
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The cassette is not actually titled the 'Taverner tape', but
it has become known as this, due to these excerpts of dialogue.
(For transcriptions of the dialogue, see the Avoid
Those Mistakes section of this site.) |
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the compilation is a good representation of the group's sound
at the time, mixing pop-oriented tracks (Blind Youth,
You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling) with instrumentals (Interface,
Toyota City) and slightly darker, more leftfield songs
(Again The Eye Again, The Path Of Least Resistance,
Zero As A Limit). Unsurprisingly, this generated a lot
of interest among the record labels in London and the League
were quickly signed by Virgin Records. |
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All
tracks written by Marsh/Oakey/Ware, except You've Lost
That Lovin' Feeling (Spector/Mann/Weill) and Toyota
City (The Human League)
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Produced
by The Human League, except *unspecified BBC engineer
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Cassette
not generally available
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