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Release date: 31.10.81
Label: Virgin Records
LP: V2192
Cassette: TCV 2192
CDV 2192 (1983)
Super Audio Digitally Remastered CD
SACDV2192
(Released 29 October 2001)
DARE/LOVE & DANCING
Remastered 21st Anniversary Edition
(Released 21st October 2002)
CDVX2192
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Track
Listing
01:
THE THINGS THAT DREAMS ARE MADE OF
02: OPEN YOUR HEART
03: THE SOUND OF THE CROWD
04: DARKNESS
05: DO OR DIE
06: GET CARTER
07: I AM THE LAW
08: SECONDS
09: LOVE ACTION (I BELIEVE IN
LOVE)
10: DON'T YOU WANT
ME
PRODUCED BY MARTIN RUSHENT & THE
HUMAN LEAGUE
UK Chart
position: 1
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NOTES:
I can still remember the effect this album had on me when I first
heard it way back in 1981. I would listen to it on headphones and
marvel at every note of every layer. I had simply never heard anything
like it before, and to be honest, it blew me away. In the early
eighties, people were really beginning to tire of thrashing guitars
that lacked melody and all that hopeless American rock that filled
up the European charts. Dare was the first successful mix of electronics
with pure, commercial pop. Taking it a step further than the godfathers
of electronica Kraftwerk, the League brought in sequencers and mixed
it with their love for cult films and fashion. The album contains
synth baseline which are still being imitated by dance acts today
some 20 years after this classic album was released. Dare paved
the way for groups such as Depeche Mode, Pet Shop Boys, Heaven 17,
& New Order. It was a period when music was reinvented and enhanced.
This landmark album represents the very nucleus of electronica and
it's relevance today cannot be under estimated. It is rare nowadays
to find an album that has so many strong tracks but Dare still manages
it effortlessly. Highlights include" Seconds" and "The Things that
Dreams Are Made Of" which are pure brilliance with killer hooks.
Dare remains a true masterpiece
and a record that everyone should cherish.
The album has been released several
times on CD in the past 20 years and one of the more interesting
re-issues is the US version released on Caroline in 1999 containing
two extra tracks Hard Times and Non-Stop.
Choice
Tracks:
Seconds
Darkness
Don't You Want Me
The Things That Dreams Are Made Of
THE
Q
REVIEW
When The Human League divided,
amoeba-like, in 1979 after two brilliantly original albums, most
thought Martyn Ware and lan Craig Marsh, the musical half, would
shake the world. But it was Philip Adrian Wright (slides) and Philip
Oakey (mad fringe, former hospital porter, sonorous Yorkshire baritone)
who picked up some game lasses, took the brand name and made it
synonymous with sexy, silly, synthesizer fun. Dare today sounds
wonky and a little amateur, but it did then; that's the point. Abba
meets Kraftwerk and thus a masterpiece.
Best
moments Suzanne Sulley's "I was working as a waitress" reply lines
in Don't You Want Me
©
Stuart Mcconie
Singles
released:
Boys
and Girls
(Feb 1981)
UK Chart position: 48
The Sound of The Crowd (2 May 1981)
UK Chart position: 12
Love Action (I Believe in Love)
(8 August 1981)
UK Chart position: 3
Open Your Heart (10 October 1981)
UK
Chart position: 6
Don't You Want Me (5 December 1981)
UK Chart position: 1
Human League reflections in 1988...
Sound Of The Crowd
Susan: "Ooh
no, we weren't nervous at all. We were into dressing up and going
out when someone asked us to sing on tour with the Human League.
It was an extension of going out.
Joanne:
"It wasn't like
we were going into a group who were megastars, so there was no problem
with the public accepting us. Also, although music had been a hobby,
we'd never thought about being in a group or doing it as a career.
We still haven't got a deal with any record company."
Philip:
"No one thought
it would be successful. Our manager at the time pleaded with Virgin
not to put it out. He thought the girls couldn't sing and wanted
to do it with sessioners."
Love
Action (I Believe In Love)
Philip: "We
supported Iggy Pop. He did this song called 'Turn Blue' and went
'Hey Jesus, this is Iggy talking'. You knew it was a real person
saying something he means. As for religion, I'm like Jam & Lewis,
they believe in God but hate churches."
Open Your Heart
Philip:
"Exactly right.
Jo Callis had written a brilliant backing, the verses had a lot
to say, then I let everyone down with the chorus."
Susan:
"It's
very difficult to sing, so we don't do it live."
Don't
You Want Me
Joanne:
"No one, not even
a synth group, had done anything like it before. Now the charts
are full of it."
Philip:
"I don't see it that way. Everyone's
writing love songs. This is a power song, sexual imperialism."
Susan:
"I can't stand groups who turn round
and disown their past. I'm very proud of it. Reaching Number 1 was
a goal, the goal,
and we'd no idea how big it was
going to be".
Dare/Love
and Dancing
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