I was in love with the sounds that came out of those women! Their angelic voices were just sublime and the icing on the cake for the band's musical output. Oakey - you will always friggin' ROCK !!! MUCH RESPECT AND LOVE! You touched lives and will always continue to do so!
@bjgjeff P.S. I rocked the BLEEP out of this jam on the radio all throughout the 80's so New York would get a taste of what brilliance in the evolution of dance music was all about. The extended 12" version with it's delicious Rushent production on the break was outstanding and will always live in my heart as a personal favorite!
a month ago I bought a mint condition Human League poster from some guy on Ebay. It features them in front of a rainbow-like background, half of them kneeling in the front and the 3 others standing in the back. Wondering if it's worth anything. Anyone know more about this poster and if it's rare or not? Says it was printed in Essex in 1983 by a company called Anabas.
La musica de aquellos tiempos era muy buena, pero ahora me doy cuenta que la ropa era de lo mas ridiculo, los peinados ni se diga, ojala no se vuelva a vestir ni a peinar la gente de esa manera, je je je.
Get the love and dancing LP, put on some headphones and listen to the genius of their music production. Bear in mind it's instrumental throughout but it's a synth audio feast. (If you ain't a synth head, you may not appreciate it quite so much!)
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I wasn't even born back then but did hear a lot of this by reading retro and electronic music magazines around 1999-2000. Naturally this kind of music ended up on my shopping list around 2000. It is pretty ironic I am nostaligic to the early spring of 2000 (when I first heard these albums) for music which was originally released almost 20 years before I discovered it.
I guess they retain their appeal for the generation after.
I only found out tonight that Martin Rushent had sadly died on June 4th 2011.
The song we are commenting on was re-worked and produced in 1981 by Martin Rushent for The Human League which subsequently became part of he Dare album which sold in huge amounts all around the world thanks to the genius of a human being named Martin Rushent.
Rest in peace for now martin,no doubt you will be coming back to show us how it's done...again!! :)
@nikamota I am shocked and saddened to see the news of Martin Rushent passing. I will always fondly remember his generosity with his time as he and I did 3 hours of reminiscent radio for the NY audience where we went through his discography and played DJ together. This was when I produced the "Post-Punk-Progressive-Pop-Party" on Hofstra University's Radio station. I was at the helm for fifteen years, and Martin's visit was one of the highlights of my broadcasting career. God BlessYou Martin.
I listened to them being in my early teens, continue to listen to them. Its music and lirics remains sofisticated for many simple brains. It was all subtle, except for the beauty if the ladies, this evident but not plain revealed. great.
I love it. The song and the video. The best thing about this "performance" (it is of course mimed, all TOTP was) is the shots of one finger keyboard playing. It's not to be smart, its an honest portrayal of what was going on with the monosynths. .Theres no way on earth they would show the simplicity of this on TV these days. It would have to be all ironic or something. Its saying "fuckoff" and I like it. One of the weirdest pop singles ever. Great .
Erm, without wishing to sound negative or harsh, my comments centred on the best decade in music and thus the great composers whom you mentioned are unlikely to appear on such a list in the 20th or indeed 21st centuries.
so great to see: those tapes rolling, the simple synths, those 2 girls dancing & the great Phil Oakey peering out from behind that classic hair~style .. this was so exciting this period ..basic but inventive ..it seemed to be leading somewhere, but ended up being 'it'.
I love the new wave music. For everyone that likes new wave, thank David Bowie. He inspired it all. In 1977 he was very busy working on two albums. One of them was with Iggy Pop the other was "Low". Phil Oakey, Vince Clark (who started Depeche Mode), and Ian Curtis were all huge Bowie fans.
@barbrastreyesand Pretty close. Before the girls joined the group, the Human League were considered to be seriously cutting edge as far as electronic music was concerned. Definitely in the same league as Kraftwerk when Phil and the gang were younger.
According to Wikipedia, before he was famous he'd walk around his city wearing strange clothing and hair and yet nobody would bother him. That's uplifting and shows that England accepts people and has humanity.
@megaforcemedia, no it's because along with him so was half the population it was acceptable then to do this because of the new romantic music scene, music scenes in Britain had far more influence on the street than it does now.
@tarquinfarquhar hi did U mean 77? Actually I would have to include the Woody Guthrie through Dylan Cohen Mitchell Marley Bush Johnson's period - but yeah Punk n Electronic - Smiths and of course Patty Smith - are the way to educate yourself about life -
Yes, oops sorry about that. The decade spanning the mid 1970s to the mid 1980s was IMO the greatest [creative] musical period in the history of humanity so far.
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I'm afraid the list you presented was too specific to really support my point in as much as it fails to illustrate the diversity of musical genres that originated in the period in question.
@tarquinfarquhar hi, well my list encompassed music from the 1930's right up to today - but I would also have to include the great composers which goes back centuries -
london was an amazing city to live in for the punk to electric period -
@anthonynewsome It's a shame they were a northern band like Joy Division though hey and deliberately didn't really stalk the London scene at all? Bands like them lead to Factory Records and a whole Yorks/Lance thing that had as little to do with London as possible. Fad Gadget, Numan, Tears, Wire, Spandau and others were the London equivalents but the best new romantics came from up in the industrial north. The whole notion of mechanised music and krypto facist symbology was integral to it all :)
@CompactJam well up north was a very glum scene during the 1980's under thatcher/unemployment - the HL were very much political when they began - I was talking about the vibe of the times - London had an edge to it - but like New York - London has been dead the past decade - we wont ever see London back to vibe it had 76/85 - the politics of youth culture today exists on a diet of bland/corporate/lazy/uptight/homophobic/mulch which offers up nothing new or exciting -
Havent seen this for nearly 30 years, thanx for posting! such an influential sound at the time... and a great, great 12". The orignal HL splitting into this incarnation and Heaven 17 was the best thing ever, giving us two great bands.
The sound of this song,the lyrics and the look of the performers scared the shit out of me when i was a kid.....really freaky futuristic sounding stuff..i believed they were from outer space or somethin'....
I fecking love this song in 2010 and it still sounds like it should be made 10 years from now.... weird!!!
I havent heard this since i was 11 sound like it was made yesterday still blows me away got so much depth and groove and that bass synth is just awesome its a time less classic
the bands of the 80s didnt care and were not manufactured garbage like today they were so original. check out phil oakleys trade mark hairstyle lol
Phil Oakey's so unique haircut and attitude just inspired my coolest friend Jorge Revilla (Cocó Ciëlo) to be called for stardom and glory... Coco from heavens, this one's for you.
@MizziProductions nothing wrong with that, you have good taste, look out for alphaville, flock of seagulls, gary numan, OMD, listen to them kiddo and you wont go far wrong.....
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batllekat23 thinks the Human League are 'commverical vile'
anyone any comments on this? i know im angry.
as far as i can tell, he wastches a lot of Japan videos (who he thinks are the innovators of ambient synth music haahha) and has this ego Ego Worship thing about Davy Sylvian and is pretty much using his recreational time to masterbate to him in videos like Quiet Life and Life in Tokoyo coz hes got very tight trousers on in the videos.
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I dunno why people thumb down statements that are true...colin thrurston produced huamn league - he did david bowie, roxy music, talk talk and duran duran and a few others. some people think that mainstream pop music loses its high status/pedigree/musical snobbery if it has a mainstream producer like colin thurston...but i think it improves them. hes wasnt like stock aitken and waterman ffs...
still have fantasies about the two birds in the group.
limehurst08 1 day ago
WHY ARE THE TAPE MACHINES RUNNING IN THE BACK?
powerkor 2 weeks ago
@powerkor
is just for the show.....not real musical reason
pontello3 1 day ago
I was in love with the sounds that came out of those women! Their angelic voices were just sublime and the icing on the cake for the band's musical output. Oakey - you will always friggin' ROCK !!! MUCH RESPECT AND LOVE! You touched lives and will always continue to do so!
bjgjeff 2 weeks ago
@bjgjeff P.S. I rocked the BLEEP out of this jam on the radio all throughout the 80's so New York would get a taste of what brilliance in the evolution of dance music was all about. The extended 12" version with it's delicious Rushent production on the break was outstanding and will always live in my heart as a personal favorite!
bjgjeff 2 weeks ago
I was in love with Phil Oakey... they were amazing
tallfliss 1 month ago
i must be old...iremeber seeing this on tv at the time :0(
eyeed 1 month ago
a month ago I bought a mint condition Human League poster from some guy on Ebay. It features them in front of a rainbow-like background, half of them kneeling in the front and the 3 others standing in the back. Wondering if it's worth anything. Anyone know more about this poster and if it's rare or not? Says it was printed in Essex in 1983 by a company called Anabas.
HighRiseChateau 1 month ago
Hated this at the time. I was wrong.
andyh109 1 month ago
The Rita Sue and Bob Too of techno pop.
rm009z0858 2 months ago 3
absolutely class. bearing in mind i was a 10 year old punk ha ha
micknufc 2 months ago
La musica de aquellos tiempos era muy buena, pero ahora me doy cuenta que la ropa era de lo mas ridiculo, los peinados ni se diga, ojala no se vuelva a vestir ni a peinar la gente de esa manera, je je je.
Ru960725 2 months ago
Abril, my favourite month of the year
hello2900 2 months ago
Every little thing here is amazing, except for the video effect.
metacsum 2 months ago
outstanding
sduddy 2 months ago
God I miss the eighties but I can't begin to describe how grateful I am to have experienced them.
MsOhYes1 2 months ago
love it! just wish the volume was a little bit louder...
StevenLJohnson 2 months ago in playlist The Cure - One Hundred Years (HD)
this chart music absolutely owns all the chart shit now
Topshizzleable 3 months ago
Get the love and dancing LP, put on some headphones and listen to the genius of their music production. Bear in mind it's instrumental throughout but it's a synth audio feast. (If you ain't a synth head, you may not appreciate it quite so much!)
PhobiaGuy 3 months ago
Always wanted my hair like that, but my dad would have killed me ;o)
Great simple bass line, which is a little lost here, but still a great song that stands the test of time - 30 years, sheesh, where does the time go?
iansmithphotos 3 months ago
Them were days !
WildmanBorneo 4 months ago in playlist New Cool
dare : the best album of the 80's
Doteatsurpants 4 months ago 3
why is the audio so low on this? what a shame
sdsuedeheadsd 4 months ago
The magical 80's. Human League. That's what dreams are made of.
KhurrumAsif 4 months ago 2
Oh yeh killer bass !
WildmanBorneo 5 months ago
Tune of my life !
WildmanBorneo 5 months ago
This song & video RULES!!!!!!!!!!!!!
GMFWAFL82 5 months ago
good on a subwoffer
danepashby 5 months ago
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StNige 5 months ago
This was Jo and Susan's first ever appearance on television.
TheDeepBlueWater 6 months ago
@TheDeepBlueWater
back when Susan was a Brunette!!
sepptheredurq 6 months ago
@sepptheredurq Yeahhh... and she looked soooo good too :D
TheDeepBlueWater 5 months ago
Just posted the demo of this song as a video response if anyone is curious.
cullyvan 6 months ago
@jessiekittygurl
I wasn't even born back then but did hear a lot of this by reading retro and electronic music magazines around 1999-2000. Naturally this kind of music ended up on my shopping list around 2000. It is pretty ironic I am nostaligic to the early spring of 2000 (when I first heard these albums) for music which was originally released almost 20 years before I discovered it.
I guess they retain their appeal for the generation after.
McLarenMercedes 6 months ago
I only found out tonight that Martin Rushent had sadly died on June 4th 2011.
The song we are commenting on was re-worked and produced in 1981 by Martin Rushent for The Human League which subsequently became part of he Dare album which sold in huge amounts all around the world thanks to the genius of a human being named Martin Rushent.
Rest in peace for now martin,no doubt you will be coming back to show us how it's done...again!! :)
nikamota 6 months ago 16
@nikamota I am shocked and saddened to see the news of Martin Rushent passing. I will always fondly remember his generosity with his time as he and I did 3 hours of reminiscent radio for the NY audience where we went through his discography and played DJ together. This was when I produced the "Post-Punk-Progressive-Pop-Party" on Hofstra University's Radio station. I was at the helm for fifteen years, and Martin's visit was one of the highlights of my broadcasting career. God BlessYou Martin.
bjgjeff 2 weeks ago
@bjgjeff Very sad/
nikamota 2 weeks ago
MY BIRTHDAY, 30 APRIL 1981, I HAD 16 YEARS OLD
alexymox 7 months ago
I listened to them being in my early teens, continue to listen to them. Its music and lirics remains sofisticated for many simple brains. It was all subtle, except for the beauty if the ladies, this evident but not plain revealed. great.
TheAndresMendez 7 months ago
wonderful. sad we've lost martin rushent. how good were his productions!!!
drlovepants 7 months ago 3
10 dislikes?! How can anyone not LOVE this? RIP Martin Rushent. "Dare" was indeed one of your finest productions.
Thrillkisser 7 months ago 2
ghostly beauty!
valleybeneaththesea 8 months ago
OMG this really brings back memories...i can remember having this on my decks and trying to dance to this hahaha
jonboy196401 8 months ago
I love it. The song and the video. The best thing about this "performance" (it is of course mimed, all TOTP was) is the shots of one finger keyboard playing. It's not to be smart, its an honest portrayal of what was going on with the monosynths. .Theres no way on earth they would show the simplicity of this on TV these days. It would have to be all ironic or something. Its saying "fuckoff" and I like it. One of the weirdest pop singles ever. Great .
cullyvan 8 months ago
Shame that contemporary music is about looking back rather than forward.
Deesade86 9 months ago
look at his wedge hair quality
markyscooterboy 9 months ago
This song was released 30 years ago today!
shinysynthcity 9 months ago
Just seen them in Zurich - they were awesome. This was most definitely the highlight.
spleenteam 9 months ago
sto su picke dobre
misayamaha 9 months ago
wow
misayamaha 9 months ago
And still going strong! They played this last night in Paris. They looked and sounded fantastic! Phil's got a bit less hair these days though! : )
slideshowrod 9 months ago
Still sounds ahead of its time even today!
nik1969100 9 months ago
The only thin I couldn't understand is why Phil weared high heels for women??
SSTK1982 9 months ago
one word - Quality
MaG19851 9 months ago
Erm, without wishing to sound negative or harsh, my comments centred on the best decade in music and thus the great composers whom you mentioned are unlikely to appear on such a list in the 20th or indeed 21st centuries.
tarquinfarquhar 10 months ago
Raw....................................Awsome
pbriganti 10 months ago
Where's the blond girl?
SSTK1982 10 months ago
@SSTK1982 she's there on the left, she just wasnt blonde back then
marcofstoke 10 months ago
so great to see: those tapes rolling, the simple synths, those 2 girls dancing & the great Phil Oakey peering out from behind that classic hair~style .. this was so exciting this period ..basic but inventive ..it seemed to be leading somewhere, but ended up being 'it'.
peregrinations95 10 months ago 18
Wow 30 years ago! where has the time gone? and the good music :(
MrBornagainzombie 10 months ago
Brilliant!!!!! Oh how I miss the 80's!
giotronic 10 months ago
fuck, this is perfect
stroaters 10 months ago
what a great sound
not to mention the group
SuperBoogley 11 months ago
Best band of
1980's Human League
1990's Pulp
2000's Arctic Monkeys.
What do they all have in common??
rodley25 11 months ago
Girls knew how to be feminine and pretty then.
StNige 11 months ago 3
10 people dont add their voices to the sound of the Crowd
(shame)
davidnarbett 11 months ago
tune!
auf23 11 months ago
Always loved the lyrics. Funny how history repeats itself...
BillyBughead 11 months ago
EXELENTE BANDA
luandvuj 11 months ago
I was 10 when this came out, my mum loved it! she bought it and listened to it endlessly......tis good to hear again!
georgiavuk 1 year ago
I love the new wave music. For everyone that likes new wave, thank David Bowie. He inspired it all. In 1977 he was very busy working on two albums. One of them was with Iggy Pop the other was "Low". Phil Oakey, Vince Clark (who started Depeche Mode), and Ian Curtis were all huge Bowie fans.
destructingparabola 1 year ago
Sounds like a copy of Kraftwerks "The Model"
barbrastreyesand 1 year ago
@barbrastreyesand Pretty close. Before the girls joined the group, the Human League were considered to be seriously cutting edge as far as electronic music was concerned. Definitely in the same league as Kraftwerk when Phil and the gang were younger.
RedSoreLips 10 months ago
wow forgot about them cool,,
castlecan 1 year ago
Why did ten deaf people bother watching this?!!
rudyprotrudy08 1 year ago
@rudyprotrudy08 To experiment. Those buttons are worthless anyhow.
Jiveturkey68 1 year ago 2
:P
NeverGetting 1 year ago
2010...the whole 2000s suck..zero talent
halkvideos 1 year ago
The best Human League track... next to Dont you want me of course!
tanslec2 1 year ago
According to Wikipedia, before he was famous he'd walk around his city wearing strange clothing and hair and yet nobody would bother him. That's uplifting and shows that England accepts people and has humanity.
megaforcemedia 1 year ago
@megaforcemedia, no it's because along with him so was half the population it was acceptable then to do this because of the new romantic music scene, music scenes in Britain had far more influence on the street than it does now.
rugbydazz 1 year ago
love it, love it, love it
mygreatlovenova 1 year ago
Hauntingly Good Electronica.
ludwigvonsteampole1 1 year ago
@ralucagymnast shocking. That makes it even worse.
egglabmedia 1 year ago
Joanne and Susan were, are and will forever be the two of the sexist girls to ever grace popular music!
floppybollox3 1 year ago
They played this at the Royal Festival Hall last night - so pleased to hear a lot of 'Dare' era stuff as well as newer ones
Gumbroid 1 year ago
what ever happened to Phil Oakeys long locks. Great song, still sounds fresh.
MrBshift 1 year ago
sounds like theyre singin "arse around" .........great song tho.....and from my home city....Sheffield
SteelcityAndy 1 year ago
Sounded fucking great just turned 20 sounds just as good approaching 50.How time flies when your having fun xxxx
gary3640 1 year ago 2
love the hair, love the song better
rixtur 1 year ago
sickness
Djtonystewart 1 year ago
can't get enough.......still relevant now!!!
Djtonystewart 1 year ago 2
the 1970' to mid 80's was such a fantastic time for music - 2010 the music is contrive/bland/conservative -
anthonynewsome 1 year ago 32
@anthonynewsome Yup!
floppybollox3 1 year ago
@floppybollox3 I had forgot to include the word 'shite' also - thanks for reminding me
anthonynewsome 1 year ago
@anthonynewsome
The mid 1987s to the mid 1980s is the BEST musical decade in the history of humanity!!
tarquinfarquhar 10 months ago
@tarquinfarquhar hi did U mean 77? Actually I would have to include the Woody Guthrie through Dylan Cohen Mitchell Marley Bush Johnson's period - but yeah Punk n Electronic - Smiths and of course Patty Smith - are the way to educate yourself about life -
anthonynewsome 10 months ago
@anthonynewsome
Yes, oops sorry about that. The decade spanning the mid 1970s to the mid 1980s was IMO the greatest [creative] musical period in the history of humanity so far.
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I'm afraid the list you presented was too specific to really support my point in as much as it fails to illustrate the diversity of musical genres that originated in the period in question.
tarquinfarquhar 10 months ago
@tarquinfarquhar hi, well my list encompassed music from the 1930's right up to today - but I would also have to include the great composers which goes back centuries -
london was an amazing city to live in for the punk to electric period -
anthonynewsome 10 months ago
@anthonynewsome Yes it's an incredibly exciting place. I get excited every time I get on a bus or cross the road to go to a shop.
CompactJam 10 months ago
@CompactJam good for you - enjoy
anthonynewsome 10 months ago
@anthonynewsome ;)
CompactJam 10 months ago
@anthonynewsome It's a shame they were a northern band like Joy Division though hey and deliberately didn't really stalk the London scene at all? Bands like them lead to Factory Records and a whole Yorks/Lance thing that had as little to do with London as possible. Fad Gadget, Numan, Tears, Wire, Spandau and others were the London equivalents but the best new romantics came from up in the industrial north. The whole notion of mechanised music and krypto facist symbology was integral to it all :)
CompactJam 10 months ago 2
@CompactJam well up north was a very glum scene during the 1980's under thatcher/unemployment - the HL were very much political when they began - I was talking about the vibe of the times - London had an edge to it - but like New York - London has been dead the past decade - we wont ever see London back to vibe it had 76/85 - the politics of youth culture today exists on a diet of bland/corporate/lazy/uptight/homophobic/mulch which offers up nothing new or exciting -
anthonynewsome 10 months ago 2
@anthonynewsome
Fantastic is right!!
MrGlenMorris 7 months ago
@anthonynewsome Agree,..there has been such an unique period up to the mid 80-ies. ..in just the only one word : superb period "
123xxrobertx 5 months ago
@anthonynewsome Well you know what to do about it? !!!!! riot!!
Oh yeah, i forgot you can't even say that online now..... welcome to 1984
fishbone342 5 months ago
@fishbone342 why cant you say it - punk did it - & the miners - stonewall - students - the clash - bootboys - mods & skins -
anthonynewsome 5 months ago
Join the party wave and pass around the news. The Human League new song is called Night People!
Animateme3D 1 year ago
best mullet ever!!!
bettydaw1970 1 year ago
their best song!!!
bettydaw1970 1 year ago
Havent seen this for nearly 30 years, thanx for posting! such an influential sound at the time... and a great, great 12". The orignal HL splitting into this incarnation and Heaven 17 was the best thing ever, giving us two great bands.
bromodomain 1 year ago
ive seen phil in tesco`s on abbeydale road in sheffield top bloke top group all the memories of the 80`s.i think he was buying oven chips.
smithdvr 1 year ago
bored borde borde! the entirety of human existence expressed through a voltage control.
Goblobslobshoblot 1 year ago
I seen them live! They are great and they aged really well :)
NATMARTINEZ75 1 year ago
GREAT GREAT GREAT Takes me right back to being a young teenager when everything was better
Yelens82 1 year ago
Suddenly I'm 14 again. Classic.
rdcfrdcf 1 year ago
@rdcfrdcf Ja! I was 16
51Thundersticks 1 year ago
Stripped down uber coolness!
tommym1966 1 year ago
GREAT SONG ! GREAT DECADE ! GREAT BAND !.......
baskyobe 1 year ago
this frikken rocks!
clintxoxox 1 year ago
80s best scene of music ( apart from anything pete fucking pete waterman did ) best for music but especially movies
TR0LL2R0CKS 1 year ago
classic song, classic hair
mymgftube 1 year ago 2
New-romantic scene at some of it's finest moments.
vyqxendenny 1 year ago
Brett Anderson looked like him in the begining of his (band's) career.
sidandmoi 1 year ago
The sound of this song,the lyrics and the look of the performers scared the shit out of me when i was a kid.....really freaky futuristic sounding stuff..i believed they were from outer space or somethin'....
I fecking love this song in 2010 and it still sounds like it should be made 10 years from now.... weird!!!
nikamota 1 year ago 17
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nikamota 1 year ago
I luv that beat makes me wanna learn how to play keyboards.
johnied8509 1 year ago
The Human League rulez!
puacino2 1 year ago 2
gaskins middlesbrough im sure we were wearing frilly shirts and knickerbockers??? (with my fat arse as well ha ha - urgh!)
jacquielinka 1 year ago
always one of my favourite human league songs. that song is still really futuristic. love it.
shawnrudiman 1 year ago
Whoa! Look at that frame-rate! It's actually smooth :p damn it culture, why did you have to associate higher frame-rates with soap operas?
ubentu 1 year ago
was 12 at the time,and fell in love with Joanne Catherall,i think i still am. Great song.
scherzomortale 1 year ago
i wanna be a kid again....NOW!!! Anyone got a time machine?
sweetassnumba7 1 year ago 2
this was on the day i was born
mattbfc2009 1 year ago
LOVE IT.
THE FIRST HUMAN LEAGUE RECORD I BOUGHT.
TODDYINLINCOLN 1 year ago
the dogs bollocks
chandlerbingbong 1 year ago
"Its like pudding boom boom heavy"
Jiveturkey68 1 year ago
I havent heard this since i was 11 sound like it was made yesterday still blows me away got so much depth and groove and that bass synth is just awesome its a time less classic
the bands of the 80s didnt care and were not manufactured garbage like today they were so original. check out phil oakleys trade mark hairstyle lol
soulfulLuva 1 year ago 2
new romantic guys were so hot , i love guys in make up, guys today are so scared to do anything different , so boring.
MegaRapture 1 year ago
The guys look cold & cool. The girls look fresh and pretty...
...but am the only one who thinks Phil did NOT suit the New Romantic look?
Jarren202 1 year ago
Ummm...Not sure?
AronRaHAHAHA 1 year ago
Great song. It really takes you places.......
yuyuhaki1 1 year ago
Phil Oakey's so unique haircut and attitude just inspired my coolest friend Jorge Revilla (Cocó Ciëlo) to be called for stardom and glory... Coco from heavens, this one's for you.
hammertoejoe 1 year ago
Man this was cutting edge back then , and still sounds good . Fair balls to ya Phil and co !!
kenco1965 1 year ago
Lata 80-te, New Romantic, syntezatory i niezapomniani wokaliści... extra
zeus98 1 year ago
wow fantastic
sparkle935 1 year ago
I'm 13 and i absolutely love this song... is that wrong? :D
MizziProductions 1 year ago 4
@MizziProductions Lol im 15 and love it :')
i hope not xD
TabbyRew94 1 year ago
@TabbyRew94 awesome x
MizziProductions 1 year ago
@MizziProductions nothing wrong with it, enjoy this group, one of the best of the 80s
mikecot147 1 year ago
@MizziProductions nothing wrong with that, you have good taste, look out for alphaville, flock of seagulls, gary numan, OMD, listen to them kiddo and you wont go far wrong.....
gray3287 1 year ago
@gray3287 Guess you don't smoke the same cigs as me but, that is the start of the wrong way.
Jiveturkey68 1 year ago
Always loved his hair!! The 'girls' are having a good time in the background....
MelodyXX33 1 year ago
Many days of 'School Homework' was happily sent to oblivion to the sound of this track. I regret not a second of it. Happy days indeed.
VeryRidDotCom 1 year ago
wel wel bean thr mt traveloge repoduction . depp sann keyy kanna sann
451TIMOTHY 1 year ago
AFI eat your heart out....
richieroxx6 1 year ago
class my time...life was soooo kewl at this point...lmfao...we was all in it...xxxxxxxxxx
arcadianshepherd 1 year ago
we need more of this today
Mr1SXM 1 year ago
i saw this very TOTP show . . .which i recorded on my new video recorder (just becoming popular at that time) played this
song to death . . .loved it and still do ;-)
aaahh . . .memories are made of this!!
thanks for sharing.
badmattam 1 year ago
This song still sound futuristic!!! Bad Ass Song!!
nuromantik80 1 year ago
LOL looks like I missed the bunfight
tonupnolid 1 year ago
Loving this.
An Oasis and Brit Rock fan.
@ 35 im now getting into 80s Synth Pop.
Maybe the times, I dunno.
This is smooting my recession & hardship soul. :)
vhsanddvds74 1 year ago
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batllekat23 thinks the Human League are 'commverical vile'
anyone any comments on this? i know im angry.
as far as i can tell, he wastches a lot of Japan videos (who he thinks are the innovators of ambient synth music haahha) and has this ego Ego Worship thing about Davy Sylvian and is pretty much using his recreational time to masterbate to him in videos like Quiet Life and Life in Tokoyo coz hes got very tight trousers on in the videos.
any comments on the Commercial Vile thing?
gregingram1970 1 year ago
Was it before They split up ?...
essertpitay 1 year ago
Great video and song, thanks for posting. Early pioneers of synth pop.
Bloody hell, Phil's trousers are too tight...!!
whitekuduone 1 year ago
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great track. very mcuh kraftwerk influenced and a bit of roxy music...same producers as duran duran too.
gregingram1970 2 years ago
Why so many thumbs down for this?
xreddragonx 1 year ago
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I dunno why people thumb down statements that are true...colin thrurston produced huamn league - he did david bowie, roxy music, talk talk and duran duran and a few others. some people think that mainstream pop music loses its high status/pedigree/musical snobbery if it has a mainstream producer like colin thurston...but i think it improves them. hes wasnt like stock aitken and waterman ffs...
gregingram1970 1 year ago
@ gregingram1970 i thought it was martin rushant who produced this and the dare album?
dougiewhite778 1 year ago
colin thurston worked with human league. Ill need to reseach which album/albums.
its not a bad thing. thruston worked with bowie and roxy talk talk and a few other classic artists.
gregingram1970 1 year ago
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@gregingram1970 true
I just don't have issues with the League post 1986, sure Colin's work *RIP* was brilliant.
I don't think Colin was always mainstream but like Steve Lillywhite with Simple Minds on Sparkle in the Rain, he did make music that's timeless.
brismike65 1 year ago
oh my god I had that hair style
daza324 2 years ago
You know he slept with everyone in the band, most nights
eggboyuk 2 years ago
@eggboyuk What even with all the guys as well? LOL
Arcticwolf1964 2 years ago
@eggboyuk Who??Phil??He was in a relationship with Joanne Catherall at this time; a relationship which would last for 8 years!!
ralucagymnast 1 year ago
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eggboyuk 2 years ago
phil oakey is a handsome man
80sfanfreak 2 years ago 2
absolutely badass song.... Dare..... What an album
dogchopz 2 years ago 4
still sounds good today
erictheking1966 2 years ago 12