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| Human League - Secrets Band: Human League Tracks: - All I Ever Wanted - Nervous - Love Me Madly? - Shameless - 122.3 BPM - Never Give Your Heart - Ran - The Snake - Ringinglow - Liar - Lament - Reflections - Brute - Sin City - Release - You'll Be Sorry Welcome back !! Hooray! The Human League are back.<BR>This is the first newly released CD that I've bought for a long time and I wasn't disappointed.It's worth buying it just for 'All I ever wanted' - a classic HL track. Hearing it for the first time brought back happy memories of 1981 and 'Don't you want me?'. Both are great, unpretentious pop songs.<BR>Another great track is 'Love me madly?' but what lets the album down for me is the number of instrumental tracks (7). It's not that they aren't any good, it just makes the album somewhat disjointed. Especially as after every vocal track comes an instrumental one. Just program your CD to play the vocal tracks first....<BR>To conclude, if you like The Human League you'll Love this. It's got a retro feel to it without being stuck in an 80's time warp.<BR>Proper pop songs by proper pop stars. Welcome back! Go, Funky Intellectual White People, Go! It's nice to know there are thing in this world you can still count on. Having been a fan of Human League since Dare (purists will scoff, noting Travelogue and Reproduction the only true Human League sound, with Dare being a sell-out pop departure), it's interesting to hear something in Secrets remeniscent from just about every single previous album. Also, Phil Oakey's music style, very clearly enunciated obscure words ("Made a folly out of caution, made all virtue seem bizarre"), is in perfect form as we've come to expect. It's nice to see an Artist (band = artist) that's had such a great progression and evolution of style, and that's been around long enough to borrow from its own catalogue and Present it as fresh. The funky promises of Crash and Romantic and the orchestral pop of Octopus find their fruition in Secrets. Favorite Tracks: Shameless, Never Give Your Heart, The Snake, an 000002X2I.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg Buy Human League Secrets at Amazon.com Buy posters at Allposters.comJamster - the latest ringtones for your phone! |
