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| | Travelogue | | | Music Artist : | | The Human League | | Music Style : | | General | | Record Label : | | Blue Plate Caroline | | Release Date : | | 2003-01-28 | | Store Price : | | $15.98 | | Artistopia's Price: $15.98 | | Usually ships in 24 hours | | |
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CD Tracks/Songs
Disc 11. The Black Hit Of Space
2. Only After Dark
3. Life Kills
4. Dreams Of Leaving
5. Toyota City
6. Crow And A Baby
7. The Touchables
8. Gordon's Gin
9. Being Boiled
10. WXJL Tonight
11. Marianne
12. Dance Vision
13. Rock 'n' Roll Part Two
14. Night Clubbing
15. Tom Baker
16. Boys And Girls
17. I Don't Depend On You / Cruel
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Customer Reviews of This Album/CD |
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 Probably their creative peak
Submitted on: 2007-07-18 |
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I'm very torn on the Human League. I love the idea of the band as well as a lot of their old work, but I think they hit a rut sadly early in their career (and rock bottom with "Human").
Travelogue makes more sense to me as an album than the rest of their offerings. It's not the conceptual hodgepodge of Reproduction, and it's not the sleek-but-compromised pop of Dare. It's just foreboding enough to still seem interesting, and pop enough to be enjoyable.
The bonus tracks are an asset to the release and I enjoyed the liners as well. |
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 Love this
Submitted on: 2006-02-20 |
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| I love this record and the synth work done on it,get it if your into 80's synth stuff. |
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As long as Philip Oakey is here, it's still the Human League
Submitted on: 2005-02-19 |
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| I wasn't sure what to expect since I knew that the band at this time was not a pop dancing band, and was a more pre-Tarantino kind of style, but I felt reassured when I heard Being Boiled. When I got the album, I was more satisfied than I expected! It was still a rock kind of music you could dance to, but a little more darker with the lyrics and synthesizers; they are still the same Human League I know, just a different style of them, but still deep down, still the Human League they turned out to be. Some of the most favored songs on Travelogue is "Life Kills", "Rock n' Roll/Nightclubbing", and "Gordon's Gin." Whether or not this album was remastered, I would still have loved it! But the great thing is this album is remastered with six extra tracks! Overall, it was a great CD!!! |
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 Not as chilling as Reproduction
Submitted on: 2003-07-22 |
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| I've never been a Human League fan but I bought Reproduction and was amazed at it's icy, chilly and perhaps wintry approach. This however is a bit like the thawing process between Reproduction and Dare and as a result it seems a bit patchy. The Black Hit Of Space is a good song and so is their cover of Only After Dark, but Dreams of Leaving really show up Phil Oakey's limitations as a singer. I suppose the same can be said for TBHOS were Oakey sounds a little wooden. Tracks like Marianne and a few others are pretty good but they just don't have the same heart as the songs on Reproduction. Having said that there are moments within some of those songs that are not so great where the song briefly comes alive and then dies off.....which was never the case with Reproduction.....it's a shame though that Ware and Marsh left the band because with that Human League's creative was stolen and soon they became a complete mess ( well OK after Don't You Want Me, Baby? - the classic karaoke hit of the 80s ). Their songs became bland and not much else. I've made this point out that if Reproduction was like Cronenberg's Shivers, then Travelogue was like Rabid, a poor patchy product that has it's moments but not as satisfying. I could be wrong of course. It's just my opinion that's all |
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Spooky Masterpiece.....
Submitted on: 2003-03-10 |
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| There is something about this album that is strange and unique. It is truly a work of art-- themes of industrialization, automation, and isolation are echoed by machine-like synthesizer sounds of the late 70's. It is haunting yet charming at the same time. Poignant, but with a sense of humor too. This is rare and under appreciated album and probably always will be. The bonus tracks are equally as good, most notably "I don't depend on you" with its surprising disco-era sound. Not for everybody, but definitely can be appreciated by fans of Gary Numan's early work such as "Telekon" and "Dance" |
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