Those lovely, loveable, nice sounding analoque synthesisers were not so easy ones to keep in tune. I know. And I have stopped my sericulture. And Phil's hair is good.
i have another version of this song on vinyl,much harder but i cant find it here.Its only the old version.this is a being boring to me,i want the other version...where can i find it?
the hair wouldnt look 'gay' if he teased that long side or something. it looks kind of lame like that. it's maybe like what one of those 'outrageous'/flamboyant gay guys would wear (if it was blond) lol. anyway this is obviously very good. i think it was kind of a cool hair-do for 1978. i agree the synths are incredible though.
I sort of diagree, since at that point the US market wasn't to favorable to pop anyhow, let alone electronic pop.
And anyway, the great thing about Human league is that they showed, with their subsequent music, that synth music doesn't have to be the stereotypical cold "robot" thing. If they had stayed doing this style they may have been forgotten as just Kraftwerk-lite.
Compare these sounds to the shitty, thin, shrill, boring, flat, lifeless sounds used in most music of the last 15 years. Hmmmm someone fucked up didnt they lol.
Most songs from the 70's and 80's contain 'sounds' that really interest me. I've never come across a Korg Triton, Nord Lead, JP8000 sound that made me excited.
@DIGITALSCREAMS It's the same old story; "experts" tell us digital is superior to analogue. That C.D. is superior to vinyl & that transistor amps are superior to valve. 20 odd years down the line experts change their minds & tell us what some of us have always known, that they were wrong! Meanwhile all those mugs who got rid of their "inferior, obsolete" gear, pay through the nose in a desperate attempt to reacquire it. So says a man who replaced his (nicked, admittedly) Juno 6 with a D10!
The synth guys who were part of the human league were computer geniuses from cambridge. God the sequences must of taken ages to program and record on those ancient reel-to-reel tapes which date back to the 50s. Real talent behind that great techno
Saw them live tonight here in Sweden, this song included, and they were easily the best act of the night in my opinion (together with Ultravox). Wonderful experience, I'm happy to have seen them all and very lucky to have them visit my town in particular. Made my month.
A big thank you Metalbucket,I loved your comments. A breath of fresh air in these times. There influence hasn't been fully recognised or acknowledged by people with no taste or feeling in my opinion.
Phil Oakey wasn't a very good singer and this sounds like something Kraftwerk were doing years before they came along and the polyphonic syth sounds badly programmed. "LIsten to the voice of Buddah" was a regular wanky 80s line, pretentious and silly at the same time. Some people are blinded by nostalgia.
@derpestarzt Sorry I forgot this is this spotty geeks forum. It's all about masturbating over the electronic equipment and the tape players. Why don't you put the Kleenex down, walk out of your bedroom, go out and meet some people.
@metalbucket2 I know lots of people, go out regularly and don't have spots, oh and i also have a girlfriend and drive a cool car but if u don't get turned on by those synthes there is something seriously wrong wit u!!! The sound or raw electricity is fuckin amazin so if ya don't like it don't listen. Simple eh???
@metalbucket2 Lol, I know that in the eyes of a simpleton like you anyone who can use a synth has to be for necessity some sort of brainy freak with no friends, but that only says how much of a retard you are. Also I'm a girl so I don't need Kleenex :)
@metalbucket2 i dont know why you think that phil oakey cant sing..... have you seen the band live.. remember that this was from 1978 i used to go down to near kelvin and listen to them rehearse
Who exactly is playing the beat here? A talentless machine, programmed by musically intelligent "musician".Your obsession with "authenticity" is misplaced. Electronic music has been moving towards the cold embrace of machines since get go,including their sequencing. House before and after your arbitrary date of 1990 used samplers and sequencers and like the HL and all the electronic bands that cam before them involved pressing buttons. It involves musical intelligence just the same.
All you so called electronic DJ's, don't you see the difference? You call yourself a musicians? You call techno a music? Listen and watch THIS, because this is electronic music made by man and played on live instruments. Even a monkey can make music by pressing a key on keyboard. STOP CALLING TECHNO/HOUSE ELECTRONIC MUSIC!!
@gombie M8 i know how the good old house was made perfectly well, i wasn't refering to it, i was refering to house music beyond 1990 which is made half/half e.g. half man made and half sampled. The only house music that i like is the likes of Bomb the bass or S Express or Colonel Abrams, when house was taken over by DJ it went into shit.
@AORCrazy Of course Tech/House music are electronic music, you have to a monkey not to understand that. If you want hands on "musicianship"you are in the wrong bar my friend...get down to Nashville.
Yeah but there were the size of rooms and all monophonic. Nothing at all like the ones the HL or Kraftwerk used. In fact, Kraftwerk used to build their own synths!
You must remember that this was written at a time when synths had just about been invented! Very few musicians were using them and nobody was using them like this (apart from Kraftwerk). These guys were the trailblazers of their time. But two of them left to form Heaven 17 and left Phil to go pop!!!
@CombatRocks You make it all sound so amicable. They didn't just "leave", they were booted out and replaced by the 2 all dancing and all singing girls!
Been looking up some old bands that are related to the tunes I like, experimenting; but what happened to Human League this is nothing like that "don't you want me" and "the lebanon" b/s. I know bands like to experiment and try new stuff but, Yikes.
when Mr Oakey went from this and produced pure pop - I recall being very sniffy about it all.....I was wrong of course because it is all sumptuous stuff
I was at Grammar School in the UK when this came out. Tried to grow my hair over Summer break , no no...even got written up for wearing white socks below my "sensible slacks" Went in next day in a pair or 14 hole Doctor Marten's...DM's
No one knew what this song meant....I mean, the start of keyboards etc....I remember dancing to this....Like Carlton off the Fresh Prince of Bel Air.......Hahaha...and Vodka....I remember that too, and.......
Is it true that DJs back in the day mixed this with Fade to Grey by Visage and they synced up EXACTLY! The guy who told me tried....and failed miserably
i recommend you the dvd MADE IN SHEFFIELD. it's about the synth revolution in the late 70's interviewing the human league and other great bands and so on. great stuff. there's another great dvd called synth britannia(SYNTH REVOLUTION,BBC).
I started the decade a Jam fan, then when I started to hear these new synth bands in the middle of 1980, decided that a band whose image was 15 years out of date was not the way forward. Bowie, The Human League, Ultravox and late period Blondie were my early faves.
great music taste. oh,it's a pity that i'm only 23 years old,i couldn't enjoy the real 80's parties... these days are horrible,don't like the music and charts,it's terrible... 80's music is charismatic,deep,strong and not superficial.
I grew up in this era, started the decade as a Jam fan but soon realised the synth bands were way better. 80s fashions and youth cults were a lot more exciting, fortunately the chav look seems to be dying out, though.
there are 80's parties once a month in my hometown... but it's mostly the same. would like to visit a typical synth party but that's not so easy in austria. we don't have lots of underground or scene locations here. would like to go to an other country in some years.
They do tend to play other stuff like stadium rock, PWL pop and early house music, but I suppose in London there would be nights devoted to early 80s synth music.
yeah,i think so,too. london and other english cities have lots of nice oldschool parties,especially synth and 80's pop. i mean,the best music came from england so they have the best things there.
I saw a documentary in the early 80s about American kids music tastes and most of them preferred British music to banal American crap like REO Speedwagon. We really were top of the game then.
The Human League was best at this age id say, i hate the new sutff, i love the lo-fi+raw synth+cloth and "fashion" of this age, thgier newer stuff reminds me of Britnet Spears(one of those modern artists who actually has fake voices, and probably allso body...) Synthpo and Electropop THESE DAYS is just pop, oldschool=WIN.
I have not heard their new stuff. The last that I heard was the Octopus album and I liked that but that was about 1994 so I don't know what their new stuff is like. I think that in 1994 I was surprised that they came out with a "new" album. It is a good one. But yes the really early lo fi analog synth sound of The Human League could not be beat. I guess now they are using digital synths and trying to be current which would suck.
yes indeed, i wonder how you could take new-thought music up, and if they had time would they had chosen to "take the music up" to another "age"? Im currently working on this, a fusion between EBM and IDM(called IBM, Intelligent Body Music duh..) and theres some underground industrial genres wich never take any big sceen at all, groups like Pig Face(i think this is what the band was called) and some underground, old industrial stuff by NIN(mostly soundtrack tracks n thingies) new Music worlds!!
Even more interesting that you tell me that, i'm slowly starting my project to mix old industrial elements (noisiness and metal percussion) with some 90's Industrial rock elements and little bit of ebm elements.
Fantastic revolutionary track. This is 31 years old and STILL sounds better than anything thats being released now. The HL were sooo ahead of their time.They pre-empted the 80's by four years! HL/Philip Oakey should be given an Outstanding Achievement Award and made members of the Hall of Fame. They are Britains first and longest-lived synth band. (Keep) Listening To The Voice of Buddha ;)
Well said. The Human League to this day is like a group of the future both in terms of making music and also image. Many people don't get this. I wish they get the recognition and accolades for their achievements like you said. But sadly, those awards are already reserved for mega-boring bands who are like Rolling Stones and Led Zeppelin.
Thank you corbyz - I didn't know what it was about. It is a weird idea for a song, but maybe it is a metaphor, saying don't torture the weak and helpless for your own ends? I note the words "blameless victim." I like everything the Human Leaque did EXCEPT "Don't you want me Baby" which was dreadful.
I agree whith what brunsk123 said, I haven't heard all of the Human League's songs yet but I don't like 'Don't you want me' either =/ quite cheesy. 'Human' is my favourite.
I only just realized this song is about not doing silk farming. "Listen to the voice of Buddha, saying stop your sericulture." I went to a silk factory in China and saw the little silkworms being boiled alive. It's how they loosen u...p the threads so they can get it all in one long string... if the worm is allowed to chew its way out, then you get short threads (which can be weaved into "peace silk"). What a weird idea for a song. Though I do agree with it, and never buy silk.
ALlso lol i was in Thailand not long ago and they did that for making silk, anyways i love Budhism its more Philosophy than religion AND why dont you buy silk? I LOVE SILK, buy it you wont regret.
if this is animal vivsecting then your an idiot its an insect, even plants are life. Christianity on the other hand...
Some people will kill insects or fish but nothing more intelligent, some will kill birds but nothing higher, some will kill cows and any animal and then some will even kill people... I guess it's a personal issue where you choose to draw the line. Silk production isn't something I'm comfortable with. Anyway, that's what the lyrics are about.
Okay, ofc i understand, i just don't get why this song is criticising buddhism when its just handy to sacrafice 1 tiny insect, whos simple lifed.
Anyways yeah you can't live whithout using nature, even all other animals/insect/fdfish/micros do that! Its just resources. Lions aren't vegetarian for a reason so so are human neither.
At the time it was revolutionary to have a pop band perform using only synthesizers. As you can see the tech was hardly ready. Plus, THL had punk cred. They weren't playing mindless disco -- at least not yet.
Not necessarily. I mean, isn't the whole point of electronic music that it keeps evolving into better things as the technology becomes more sophisticated?
I've come around from my earlier, stupider time in my life where I would smash the faces of any band that didn't have a massive drum set and a 7 minute guitar solo.
too bad they went silly commercial, for me they are the I-mac of modern music
daramix1 1 week ago
yes, young people have to realise they owe their souls, all that they are to a bunch of free thinking nuts back in the day. Take the pain and enjoy
BaalZobel 1 month ago
english P-I-O-N-E-E-R-S
0114owl1867 3 months ago
Those lovely, loveable, nice sounding analoque synthesisers were not so easy ones to keep in tune. I know. And I have stopped my sericulture. And Phil's hair is good.
kermankalle 5 months ago
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onionringassault1 5 months ago
Love the sound of those old analogue synths.
paulph12002 5 months ago
i have another version of this song on vinyl,much harder but i cant find it here.Its only the old version.this is a being boring to me,i want the other version...where can i find it?
gnu63 6 months ago
@gnu63 Best version IMO is the 1980 version. Search for Being Boiled 1980.
kenny0709 5 months ago
@gnu63 look for the "fast" version . . . i just watched/heard it on YOUTUBE.
joeyraccoon 4 months ago
...and what's wrong with 'gay' hair anyway? prolly took a fair amount of guts to sport that kinda 'do back then. Pretty badass tune by the way
NameyMD 6 months ago
gay hair??? how about stellar tune. move the fuck on.
motherxsuperior 6 months ago
the hair wouldnt look 'gay' if he teased that long side or something. it looks kind of lame like that. it's maybe like what one of those 'outrageous'/flamboyant gay guys would wear (if it was blond) lol. anyway this is obviously very good. i think it was kind of a cool hair-do for 1978. i agree the synths are incredible though.
XxXRammsteinxRoXxXxX 6 months ago
Das ist ja mal eine verschwuchtelte Frisur!
Borussiasempervictor 7 months ago
kick ass man
nasalflute 7 months ago
kmfdm totally stole this song in blitz
greenghost2008 8 months ago
Roland Jupiter 4 .. Wonderful!
speedtribejp 9 months ago
It's a shame how many great UK bands went rubbish by trying to break into the US market- OMD, the Human League, New Labour…
SuperTruth77 10 months ago
@SuperTruth77
I sort of diagree, since at that point the US market wasn't to favorable to pop anyhow, let alone electronic pop.
And anyway, the great thing about Human league is that they showed, with their subsequent music, that synth music doesn't have to be the stereotypical cold "robot" thing. If they had stayed doing this style they may have been forgotten as just Kraftwerk-lite.
Vebinz 10 months ago
The main hook is a killer, I've never got it out of my head. They lead the way in synth music, this sounded metal when it first came out. Uber cool.
goodgodzilla 11 months ago
Truly amazing version.
South Yorkshire's best export without doubt.
shinysynthcity 1 year ago
KMFDM have a version of this..not sure who covered who. /watch?v=UYnNeUcstS8
kymully1 1 year ago
@kymully1 This is the original :)
quir0 9 months ago
Great... but the synth guys..Martyn Ware & Ian Craig Marsh were from Sheffield not Cambridge.
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Ahhhh, proper 80's, before heaven 17, there was proper human league too! gets no better.
abletonandreasondude 1 year ago
Ahhhh, proper 80's, before heaven 17, there was proper human league too! gets no better.
abletonandreasondude 1 year ago
Great sound
junevortex 1 year ago
Top tune !
TRB1946 1 year ago
@TRB1946 ♥
MrMLD72MLD 1 year ago
Listen to the voice of Oakey...
Saying stop and listen to their new song called Night People.
Animateme3D 1 year ago
@Animateme3D Listen to the VOICE of Oakey....saying "Stop talkin' ALL that hokey"......
jrmetmoi 1 year ago
@Animateme3D Night People just doesn't compare with this.
shinysynthcity 1 year ago
A truly fantastic song. Brilliant sound.
DingKong 1 year ago
I was 11 at the time... Now i'm 43 and I still adore it
givesyouhell002 1 year ago 5
brilliant synths. love the sound , very interesting idea although buddhist monk garments are cotton
steelundergrounder 1 year ago
Best synths. I prefer wen they were up there with TG not pop.
MagnitudePerson 1 year ago
i remember ..... surly not everything - but i remember ;-)
mikeBLUMENTOPF 1 year ago
This is brilliant... 1978!
Roniel81 1 year ago
Man beachte den Peak Level,sowas gibt es so nicht mehr,geil! Schöne Vergangenheit,i love it :-)
EBMer1 1 year ago
the live version is better than the studio
chyman 1 year ago
Those synths sound incredible!
HAL0INREVERSE 1 year ago 36
@HAL0INREVERSE
Compare these sounds to the shitty, thin, shrill, boring, flat, lifeless sounds used in most music of the last 15 years. Hmmmm someone fucked up didnt they lol.
Most songs from the 70's and 80's contain 'sounds' that really interest me. I've never come across a Korg Triton, Nord Lead, JP8000 sound that made me excited.
DIGITALSCREAMS 1 year ago 3
@DIGITALSCREAMS It's the same old story; "experts" tell us digital is superior to analogue. That C.D. is superior to vinyl & that transistor amps are superior to valve. 20 odd years down the line experts change their minds & tell us what some of us have always known, that they were wrong! Meanwhile all those mugs who got rid of their "inferior, obsolete" gear, pay through the nose in a desperate attempt to reacquire it. So says a man who replaced his (nicked, admittedly) Juno 6 with a D10!
MisAnnThorpe 7 months ago
Check it out in the credits for Ninja Assasin, 2nd song. What a cool song!
nikldan 1 year ago
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senorverde09 1 year ago
I had this cassette.
51Thundersticks 1 year ago
Questa musica si ballava al COSMIC ... gradi Human
bettinluca 1 year ago
ok ..ready..let's do it!
principelettronico 1 year ago
The synth guys who were part of the human league were computer geniuses from cambridge. God the sequences must of taken ages to program and record on those ancient reel-to-reel tapes which date back to the 50s. Real talent behind that great techno
VTS1337 1 year ago
Saw them live tonight here in Sweden, this song included, and they were easily the best act of the night in my opinion (together with Ultravox). Wonderful experience, I'm happy to have seen them all and very lucky to have them visit my town in particular. Made my month.
HSBurn 1 year ago
Thanks so much for posting this...I never seen this played live...:¬)
strangius 1 year ago
Meine erste Discobegegnung
Lionforever1860 1 year ago
The best song about silk production ever! So cool - even now! Phil Oakey is one sexy guy too! - a girl :)
Alta3go 1 year ago
awsome just awsome
gantymiffy 1 year ago 2
A big thank you Metalbucket,I loved your comments. A breath of fresh air in these times. There influence hasn't been fully recognised or acknowledged by people with no taste or feeling in my opinion.
steveandroid 1 year ago
This reminds me for some Depeche Mode's early song.. hmm..
MyOutloud 1 year ago
The Human League gave us two brilliant bands for the price of two. Heaven 17 and Human League Mrk2.
callofnature4mw 1 year ago
Que cosa mas extraña, a la vez que innovadora y experimental.
Genial.
yuppie5612 1 year ago
Good old Tony.
harrisonaard1 1 year ago
Phil Oakey wasn't a very good singer and this sounds like something Kraftwerk were doing years before they came along and the polyphonic syth sounds badly programmed. "LIsten to the voice of Buddah" was a regular wanky 80s line, pretentious and silly at the same time. Some people are blinded by nostalgia.
metalbucket2 1 year ago
@metalbucket2 "Phil Oakey wasn't a very good singer" then go listen to Whitney Houston, faggot.
derpestarzt 1 year ago
@derpestarzt Sorry I forgot this is this spotty geeks forum. It's all about masturbating over the electronic equipment and the tape players. Why don't you put the Kleenex down, walk out of your bedroom, go out and meet some people.
metalbucket2 1 year ago
@metalbucket2 I know lots of people, go out regularly and don't have spots, oh and i also have a girlfriend and drive a cool car but if u don't get turned on by those synthes there is something seriously wrong wit u!!! The sound or raw electricity is fuckin amazin so if ya don't like it don't listen. Simple eh???
RasOrville 1 year ago
@RasOrville Amen!
clebrane 1 year ago
@RasOrville what's the car? :)
VTS1337 1 year ago
@metalbucket2 Lol, I know that in the eyes of a simpleton like you anyone who can use a synth has to be for necessity some sort of brainy freak with no friends, but that only says how much of a retard you are. Also I'm a girl so I don't need Kleenex :)
derpestarzt 1 year ago 2
@metalbucket2 Its still beats the pants off music today. Still funky. Bottom line. And if you can't hear that...music was never made for you.
clebrane 1 year ago
@metalbucket2 i dont know why you think that phil oakey cant sing..... have you seen the band live.. remember that this was from 1978 i used to go down to near kelvin and listen to them rehearse
millhouses21 1 year ago
Gay hair? It was 1978 ffs you muppet
snoozedoggydog 1 year ago 55
@snoozedoggydog still it was a bit lopsided. lol
RasOrville 1 year ago
the lead singer has really gay hair. but the music is good.
UberDouchClanLive 1 year ago
@UberDouchClanLive That is gay hair? Hes wa more hot and talented than you'll ever be ;) Love phil & only 13
tinkerbellys 10 months ago
@tinkerbellys Cool story, bro.
UberDouchClanLive 10 months ago
@UberDouchClanLive I know :) I love your sarcasm :// :/ & Phil still *hot* now.
tinkerbellys 10 months ago
Aha! I have the answer.. it was 15/2/79, not 78 and the programme was So It Goes on Granada
Railcoach679 1 year ago
Does anybody know the date the programme was first broadcast. It was 1978, probably June... anybody know more?
Thanks
Railcoach679 1 year ago
heavy synthesizer sound, especially for the end of the seventies :)
DOSkywalkR 1 year ago
Who exactly is playing the beat here? A talentless machine, programmed by musically intelligent "musician".Your obsession with "authenticity" is misplaced. Electronic music has been moving towards the cold embrace of machines since get go,including their sequencing. House before and after your arbitrary date of 1990 used samplers and sequencers and like the HL and all the electronic bands that cam before them involved pressing buttons. It involves musical intelligence just the same.
thevirgohifi 1 year ago
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thevirgohifi 1 year ago
I have this, original 7". Good tune
liamevans 1 year ago
wow.
spadehatesscrewtube 1 year ago
All you so called electronic DJ's, don't you see the difference? You call yourself a musicians? You call techno a music? Listen and watch THIS, because this is electronic music made by man and played on live instruments. Even a monkey can make music by pressing a key on keyboard. STOP CALLING TECHNO/HOUSE ELECTRONIC MUSIC!!
AORCrazy 1 year ago
@AORCrazy AGREE'DDD!!! DJ's play a recorded song and just play around with it (ruin it) .. thats it .. they take credit for others work. Cheers
offthelinegt 1 year ago 2
@AORCrazy
I have to ask, did you know that the GOOD old house wasn't made in this primitive sampling way?
gombie 1 year ago
@gombie M8 i know how the good old house was made perfectly well, i wasn't refering to it, i was refering to house music beyond 1990 which is made half/half e.g. half man made and half sampled. The only house music that i like is the likes of Bomb the bass or S Express or Colonel Abrams, when house was taken over by DJ it went into shit.
AORCrazy 1 year ago
@AORCrazy
Good, i was just checking. Because there is always people who think that electronic music is just mixing samples.
gombie 1 year ago
@AORCrazy Of course Tech/House music are electronic music, you have to a monkey not to understand that. If you want hands on "musicianship"you are in the wrong bar my friend...get down to Nashville.
thevirgohifi 1 year ago
very nice
mahmut0815 1 year ago
Fuck, this would sound soooo good if the audio was better quality
offthelinegt 1 year ago
a very sexy track.
Smiff74 1 year ago
My fave version, I wish this was released.
jimjams91 1 year ago
Thank goodness not all of the music from the 70s, the decade I was born, totally sucks. Phew.
NerdyCanadian 1 year ago
Probably the only anti-silk trade song ever written LOL
cuntylishus 1 year ago
1979!!! i was 2 years old and i remembered!!
nadoanacleto 1 year ago
1978, actually
theultimatekoopa2 1 year ago
Yeah but there were the size of rooms and all monophonic. Nothing at all like the ones the HL or Kraftwerk used. In fact, Kraftwerk used to build their own synths!
CombatRocks 1 year ago
You must remember that this was written at a time when synths had just about been invented! Very few musicians were using them and nobody was using them like this (apart from Kraftwerk). These guys were the trailblazers of their time. But two of them left to form Heaven 17 and left Phil to go pop!!!
CombatRocks 1 year ago 2
@CombatRocks You make it all sound so amicable. They didn't just "leave", they were booted out and replaced by the 2 all dancing and all singing girls!
MisAnnThorpe 7 months ago
Been looking up some old bands that are related to the tunes I like, experimenting; but what happened to Human League this is nothing like that "don't you want me" and "the lebanon" b/s. I know bands like to experiment and try new stuff but, Yikes.
Jiveturkey68 1 year ago
'don't you want me' WAS the experiment
accepthis 1 year ago
Yea for sure didn't this stuff come first or am I wrong?
Jiveturkey68 1 year ago
when Mr Oakey went from this and produced pure pop - I recall being very sniffy about it all.....I was wrong of course because it is all sumptuous stuff
accepthis 1 year ago
@accepthis Got ya
Jiveturkey68 1 year ago
This was 1978. Don't You Want Me was 1981.
theultimatekoopa2 1 year ago
sericulture
kermankalle 1 year ago
interesting song
its unbelievable for me to think that the song was released 7 years before my birth
it sounds so fresh and innovative
according to wikipediia the song was a commercial failure in 1978 and was rereleased in 1981 and became a huge hit
ffm20zaheri 2 years ago
yes thats right. I have the 1978 version on 7" vinyl on the fast product label and it was actually recorded in mono, quite rare.
jakejasmine 1 year ago
not... really. sounds like the early 80's..
smarzotais 1 year ago
Late 70's
spotwheels 1 year ago
I was at Grammar School in the UK when this came out. Tried to grow my hair over Summer break , no no...even got written up for wearing white socks below my "sensible slacks" Went in next day in a pair or 14 hole Doctor Marten's...DM's
No one knew what this song meant....I mean, the start of keyboards etc....I remember dancing to this....Like Carlton off the Fresh Prince of Bel Air.......Hahaha...and Vodka....I remember that too, and.......
MrKingers 2 years ago
Is it true that DJs back in the day mixed this with Fade to Grey by Visage and they synced up EXACTLY! The guy who told me tried....and failed miserably
geordiedonutmonster 2 years ago
maybe Night Train by Visage?
MrKingers 2 years ago
i was 21 around the time this came out ! ABSOLUTE QUALITY !.......
baskyobe 2 years ago
QUALITY
electrozaps 2 years ago
best version of being boiled
MrPhiloakey 2 years ago
@MrPhiloakey
This was played at their first gig in 1978, so I believe. Way better than the punk stuff.
Glenn1967ful 2 years ago
yeah,much better!
MrPhiloakey 2 years ago
i recommend you the dvd MADE IN SHEFFIELD. it's about the synth revolution in the late 70's interviewing the human league and other great bands and so on. great stuff. there's another great dvd called synth britannia(SYNTH REVOLUTION,BBC).
MrPhiloakey 2 years ago
@MrPhiloakey
Hi
I started the decade a Jam fan, then when I started to hear these new synth bands in the middle of 1980, decided that a band whose image was 15 years out of date was not the way forward. Bowie, The Human League, Ultravox and late period Blondie were my early faves.
Glenn1967ful 2 years ago
great music taste. oh,it's a pity that i'm only 23 years old,i couldn't enjoy the real 80's parties... these days are horrible,don't like the music and charts,it's terrible... 80's music is charismatic,deep,strong and not superficial.
MrPhiloakey 2 years ago
@MrPhiloakey
I grew up in this era, started the decade as a Jam fan but soon realised the synth bands were way better. 80s fashions and youth cults were a lot more exciting, fortunately the chav look seems to be dying out, though.
Glenn1967ful 2 years ago
great that you like that style and music,compliment. are there any nice 80's wave parties nowadays? or else we need a time machine ;)
MrPhiloakey 2 years ago
@MrPhiloakey
One of the clubs locally has an eighties night, but this always on a working day. Best to check the internet and listings.
Glenn1967ful 2 years ago
there are 80's parties once a month in my hometown... but it's mostly the same. would like to visit a typical synth party but that's not so easy in austria. we don't have lots of underground or scene locations here. would like to go to an other country in some years.
MrPhiloakey 2 years ago
@MrPhiloakey
They do tend to play other stuff like stadium rock, PWL pop and early house music, but I suppose in London there would be nights devoted to early 80s synth music.
Glenn1967ful 2 years ago
yeah,i think so,too. london and other english cities have lots of nice oldschool parties,especially synth and 80's pop. i mean,the best music came from england so they have the best things there.
MrPhiloakey 2 years ago
@MrPhiloakey
I saw a documentary in the early 80s about American kids music tastes and most of them preferred British music to banal American crap like REO Speedwagon. We really were top of the game then.
Glenn1967ful 2 years ago
Could someone upload the KMFDM version? I cant find it here on YouTube.
MagnitudePerson 2 years ago
@MagnitudePerson
Yeah, like none of the songs from Blitz are on YT yet... probably because it only came out this year. Give it a few months and someone will...
xoruhtra 2 years ago
This and all versions kicks as and rocks!!!
The Human League was best at this age id say, i hate the new sutff, i love the lo-fi+raw synth+cloth and "fashion" of this age, thgier newer stuff reminds me of Britnet Spears(one of those modern artists who actually has fake voices, and probably allso body...) Synthpo and Electropop THESE DAYS is just pop, oldschool=WIN.
MagnitudePerson 2 years ago
I have not heard their new stuff. The last that I heard was the Octopus album and I liked that but that was about 1994 so I don't know what their new stuff is like. I think that in 1994 I was surprised that they came out with a "new" album. It is a good one. But yes the really early lo fi analog synth sound of The Human League could not be beat. I guess now they are using digital synths and trying to be current which would suck.
gretscher 2 years ago
Human League just signed to UK recording label Wall of Sound! New material (songs, videos, album) expected in 2010!!!!
Animateme3D 2 years ago 2
That's great, first Throbbing Gristle returned, then Cabaret Voltaire.
gombie 2 years ago
But they're old now :<
Maybe there kids and grnadkids and there kids will invent music for the other ages(Industrial was Victorian Age-followed music, said TG)
MagnitudePerson 2 years ago
Interesting that you mentioned it, i've been thinking about that...
gombie 2 years ago
yes indeed, i wonder how you could take new-thought music up, and if they had time would they had chosen to "take the music up" to another "age"? Im currently working on this, a fusion between EBM and IDM(called IBM, Intelligent Body Music duh..) and theres some underground industrial genres wich never take any big sceen at all, groups like Pig Face(i think this is what the band was called) and some underground, old industrial stuff by NIN(mostly soundtrack tracks n thingies) new Music worlds!!
MagnitudePerson 2 years ago
Even more interesting that you tell me that, i'm slowly starting my project to mix old industrial elements (noisiness and metal percussion) with some 90's Industrial rock elements and little bit of ebm elements.
gombie 2 years ago
Nice nice nice, you must love yourself more than H league. have fun and go f yself buye.
Keolse69 2 years ago
KMFDM version kicks ass.
Anjohl 2 years ago 4
Fantastic revolutionary track. This is 31 years old and STILL sounds better than anything thats being released now. The HL were sooo ahead of their time.They pre-empted the 80's by four years! HL/Philip Oakey should be given an Outstanding Achievement Award and made members of the Hall of Fame. They are Britains first and longest-lived synth band. (Keep) Listening To The Voice of Buddha ;)
tompom89 2 years ago 25
i liked the starting beat.
victorspell1 2 years ago 4
Well said. The Human League to this day is like a group of the future both in terms of making music and also image. Many people don't get this. I wish they get the recognition and accolades for their achievements like you said. But sadly, those awards are already reserved for mega-boring bands who are like Rolling Stones and Led Zeppelin.
ajittffcure 2 years ago 2
Indeed...
MagnitudePerson 2 years ago
yes! a ROLAND JUPITER 4 analog synthesizer!
ultraxmusic 2 years ago 3
This song is on the Ninja Assassin soundtrack!
rashad0026 2 years ago
Thank you corbyz - I didn't know what it was about. It is a weird idea for a song, but maybe it is a metaphor, saying don't torture the weak and helpless for your own ends? I note the words "blameless victim." I like everything the Human Leaque did EXCEPT "Don't you want me Baby" which was dreadful.
brunsk123 2 years ago
I agree whith what brunsk123 said, I haven't heard all of the Human League's songs yet but I don't like 'Don't you want me' either =/ quite cheesy. 'Human' is my favourite.
And that syntheziser is cool =D
Johny40Se7en 2 years ago
Yeah i think this could be expandedi not a metaphor...
MagnitudePerson 2 years ago
Love this track, the league were great until they went too poppy.
sisulart 2 years ago 5
Listen 2 the voice of Buddah !!!
dlx1974 2 years ago
Big Fan of the old Human Leauge.Hated the new stuff! the only good thing about the, Don't you want me baby Video was the Saab 99Turbs in it!
Dillboy 2 years ago 2
@Dillboy And the rover! The saab was really cool, don't get me wrong but there was a Rover SD1 V8 there, which was also really cool and retro,
VTS1337 1 year ago
years before i was born, i`m born in oct 15 - 1981. I love synthesizer music/electronics. The great smooth synth sounds - who dominate this song.
in the video to, the elegance, huge synthesizers, lot of eguitment in the studio, the pioneer of the synth/electronic
music. Big tapes from "Revox" or "Sony"
2009European 2 years ago 5
Those reel tape players are so cool...
MrYuppie 2 years ago 10
COOL !!!!
powerjump1 2 years ago
i think the kmfdm cover sounds pretty cool
SuperSlc 2 years ago 3
I only just realized this song is about not doing silk farming. "Listen to the voice of Buddha, saying stop your sericulture." I went to a silk factory in China and saw the little silkworms being boiled alive. It's how they loosen u...p the threads so they can get it all in one long string... if the worm is allowed to chew its way out, then you get short threads (which can be weaved into "peace silk"). What a weird idea for a song. Though I do agree with it, and never buy silk.
corbyz 2 years ago 6
Excellent post; I was wondering about the lyrics and your comment put it all together for me. Thanks!
FanatikJ 2 years ago 2
Ummm.... WHats wrong whith that?
ALlso lol i was in Thailand not long ago and they did that for making silk, anyways i love Budhism its more Philosophy than religion AND why dont you buy silk? I LOVE SILK, buy it you wont regret.
if this is animal vivsecting then your an idiot its an insect, even plants are life. Christianity on the other hand...
MagnitudePerson 2 years ago
Some people will kill insects or fish but nothing more intelligent, some will kill birds but nothing higher, some will kill cows and any animal and then some will even kill people... I guess it's a personal issue where you choose to draw the line. Silk production isn't something I'm comfortable with. Anyway, that's what the lyrics are about.
corbyz 2 years ago 2
Okay, ofc i understand, i just don't get why this song is criticising buddhism when its just handy to sacrafice 1 tiny insect, whos simple lifed.
Anyways yeah you can't live whithout using nature, even all other animals/insect/fdfish/micros do that! Its just resources. Lions aren't vegetarian for a reason so so are human neither.
MagnitudePerson 2 years ago
This is my favorite version. It's so raw and gutterral.
sparrowfell 2 years ago 3
Couldn't have said it better !
MagnitudePerson 2 years ago
At the time it was revolutionary to have a pop band perform using only synthesizers. As you can see the tech was hardly ready. Plus, THL had punk cred. They weren't playing mindless disco -- at least not yet.
miggon 2 years ago 3
Fantastic track- blew me away when I first heard it aged 11 in 1980, and it still has the same effect now.
However, I still have absolutely no idea whatsoever what the lyrics are about...
Nickthetoast 2 years ago
i prefer the much more minimal non-album "fast product version"
picchionero 2 years ago 2
you know the great Lester Bangs was said to be listening to Human League when he died. Probably died of fright, or just plain disgust....
pevainer 2 years ago
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animatetime 2 years ago
Vintage synthesizers are so effin' awesome. Better than the computer-made crap today!
panther0567 2 years ago 3
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Sesquipedaliantique 2 years ago
Not necessarily. I mean, isn't the whole point of electronic music that it keeps evolving into better things as the technology becomes more sophisticated?
Sesquipedaliantique 2 years ago
I spit on anyone who does not love this!
swalk813 2 years ago 2
I've come around from my earlier, stupider time in my life where I would smash the faces of any band that didn't have a massive drum set and a 7 minute guitar solo.
3soccerstars 2 years ago
fuck kmfdm, this is the origional, the best!!!!
StuMac303 2 years ago
What an awesome song. Is he saying "Listen to the voice of Buddha"?
Scotsman707 2 years ago 3
Yes he is
ShortGuy1792 2 years ago
nice song, i heared the KMFDMs cover, first and its also great
yugoth555 2 years ago 5
I prefer the KMFDM version, but this isn't too bad. :D
ShortGuy1792 2 years ago