How Men Are

Infobox Album
Name = How Men Are
Type = studio
Longtype =
Artist = Heaven 17


Released = Start date|1984|9
Recorded =
Genre = Synthpop
Length = 38:18
Label = Virgin Records
Producer = B.E.F., Greg Walsh
Reviews = * Allmusic rating|4.5|5 [http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:fiftxq85ldhe link]
Last album = "The Luxury Gap"
(1983)
This album = "How Men Are"
(1984)
Next album = "Pleasure One"
(1986)
Misc = Singles
Name = How Men Are
Type = studio
Single 1 = Sunset Now
Single 1 date = Start date|1984
Single 2 = This is Mine
Single 2 date = Start date|1984
Single 3 = And That's No Lie
Single 3 date = Start date|1985

"How Men Are" is the third album by the English synthpop group Heaven 17, released in September 1984 by Virgin Records.

Three singles were released from this album: "Sunset Now", the album's most successful single with a #24 placing in the UK, and "This is Mine" in 1984, and an edited remix of "And That's No Lie" in early 1985, which was the first Heaven 17 single to fail to reach the UK's Top 40 since "Let Me Go" at the end of 1982.

Although digital sample-based instruments such as the Fairlight CMI and the Linn LM-1 drum machine were still responsible for most of the album's sounds, "How Men Are" marked the beginning of an increased usage of acoustic instruments in Heaven 17's music. A small orchestra is employed on three tracks, and two tracks make use of The Phenix Horns Esquire, Earth, Wind & Fire's famous brass section. Another notable contribution to this album was made by the vocal group Afrodiziak, who sang on four tracks.

In 2006, Heaven 17's first three albums were remastered and reissued with bonus tracks.

Track listing

# "Five Minutes to Midnight" (3:46)
# "Sunset Now" (3:35)
# "This is Mine" (3:51)
# "The Fuse" (3:05)
# "Shame is on the Rocks" (3:59)
# "The Skin I'm In" (3:46)
# "Flamedown" (2:59)
# "Reputation" (3:03)
# "And That's No Lie" (10:02)
# "This is Mine (Cinemix)" (8:43) +
# "...(And That's No Lie) (Re-mixed to Enhance Danceability)" (6:17) +
# "Counterforce II" (3:08) +
# "Sunset Now (Extended Version)" (5:21) +

Tracks marked with "+" are bonus tracks added to the 2006 remastered version of the album; all originally appeared on various formats of the singles taken from the album and had never appeared on CD before. "Counterforce II" was originally a B-side from the "Sunset Now" 12-inch single, and was also released under the title "Chase Runner" on the Electric Dreams soundtrack.

Personnel

* Glenn Gregory
* Ian Craig Marsh
* Martyn Ware