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| | Dare!/Love and Dancing | | | Music Artist : | | The Human League | | Music Style : | | General | | Record Label : | | Blue Plate Caroline | | Release Date : | | 2003-01-28 | | Store Price : | | $11.94 | | Artistopia's Price: $11.94 | | Usually ships in 24 hours | | |
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CD Tracks/Songs
Disc 11. The Things That Dreams Are Made Of
2. Open Your Heart
3. The Sound Of The Crowd
4. Darkness
5. Do Or Die
6. Get Carter
7. I Am The Law
8. Seconds
9. Love Action (I Believe In Love)
10. Don't You Want Me
11. Hard Times
12. Love Action (I Believe In Love)
13. Don't You Want Me
14. Things That Dreams Are Made Of
15. Do Or Die
16. Seconds
17. Open Your Heart
18. The Sound Of The Crowd
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Customer Reviews of This Album/CD |
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 One of the Top 10 Albums of the 1980s
Submitted on: 2009-11-15 |
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| What can I say? This album is a masterpiece. Martin Rushent's work on LOVE AND DANCING serves as the paradigm for great remixes...unheeded since. One of the 10 best albums of the 80s...hands down. |
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Almost perfect electro / techno / dance
Submitted on: 2009-09-27 |
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I started working with synths back in the Dark Ages of plugboard Moogs.It was fun, & sometimes interesting, but mostly a lot of work for some tonal sweeps & ethereal beeping. When I bought Kraftwerk's _Autobahn_, I was bored to tears, & stayed away from synths for years.
Then one evening on MTV they played "Fascination," & I was instantly a huge fan. Suddenly there was a band who could take those drifty sounds & dig something out that was both musically interesting &... well, DANCEABLE. Worse, it made you WANT to dance. Being a broke college student, I pillaged the sofa for enough change to buy _Dare_.
A few years later, that crazed genius producer Martin Rushent released an album by The League Unlimited Orchestra -- NOT, let us note, the Human League, where eight of the songs I'd enjoyed from _Dare_ were given new energy.
The only thing lacking from this album (to my mind) is Rushent's jaw-dropping rework of "Fascination." Okay, it wasn't on _Dare_, but it'd fit in perfectly.
All in all, this music stands quite well 20+ years down the road. Buy it & crank it up, whether you're 16 or 60. |
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I always wanted to have it.
Submitted on: 2009-02-22 |
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| I always wanted to have it, since I was a very young man. When I listened to the Special remix of "Don't you want me" this one became one of my lifetime favorites. Now I have it, I'm very happy and the sound is very good. |
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 Machines feel music too
Submitted on: 2009-01-31 |
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| I have to compare "Dare" with making love to a robot, which I imagine would be cold, alienating, uncomfortable, and eventually haunting. But it would also be interesting, and there might even be some art to it. The same goes for "Dare." I'm struck by the fact that "Seconds" produces what I assume is synthetic emotion, yet I'm also genuinely comforted by "Don't You Want Me," THE anthem of synth pop, which feels a little less robotic and a little more cyborg-esque. Additionally, Susanne Sulley sings on that one, a pleasant break from Philip Oakley, who sounds like a jerk most of the time--though I'm sure he's a nice guy in reality. In a non-artificial reality. In that same non-artificial reality, "Dare" is worthy as an artifact and as a warning, even if its merits as music--a human invention, lest the machines should forget--are open to debate. |
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Buy it for the original album, the second CD is lame
Submitted on: 2008-01-18 |
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| Dare is a great album and 'the things that dreams are made of', 'sound of the crowd' and 'don't you want me...' still sound great. But the added CD is lame - dull remixes that shouldn't be the motivation for buying. |
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