Greatest Hits (Human League album)

Infobox Album |
Name = The Human League Greatest Hits
Type = Compilation
Artist = The Human League


Released = November 1988 & November 1996
Recorded = 1978-1995
Genre = Synthpop, Electronic
Length =
Label = Virgin Records
Producer = Various
Reviews = *Allmusic:rating|4.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:pq5tk6sx9krd 1988]
*Robert Christgau (B+) [http://www.robertchristgau.com/get_artist.php?id=600&name=Human+League 1988]
*Allmusic:rating|3|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:gzfrxqu0ldae 1996]
Last album = "Crash" (1986)
This album = "Greatest Hits" (1988)
Next album = "Romantic?" (1990)
Misc = Extra chronology 2
Artist = The Human League
Type = Compilation album
Last album = Octopus" (1995)
This album = "Greatest Hits" (1995)
Next album = "Secrets" (2001) Extra album cover
Upper caption ="Greatest Hits" 1995 cover


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"Human League Greatest Hits" is a compilation album released by British synthpop band The Human League. It was released by Virgin Records in 1988 and contained 13 singles released by the band, spanning from their debut single (1978's "Being Boiled") to their most recent album at the time ("Crash", 1986) plus Philip Oakey's collaboration with Giorgio Moroder "Together In Electric Dreams". The album reached no.3 in the UK.

In November 1995, to cash in on the band's renewed success at that time, Virgin repackaged the hits collection with a new cover and added newer tracks: "Tell Me When" (from the "Octopus" album) and a new remix of the band's biggest hit "Don't You Want Me". In addition to this, a brand new track, "Stay with Me Tonight", was included which the band had recorded under their new recording contract with EastWest Records. This would later be released as a single.

Track listing 1988 album

# "Mirror Man" (Burden, Callis, Oakey) – 3:49
# "(Keep Feeling) Fascination" (Callis, Oakey) – 3:43
# "The Sound of the Crowd" (Burden, Oakey) – 3:56
# "The Lebanon" (Callis, Oakey) – 3:43
# "Human" (Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis) – 3:46
# "Together In Electric Dreams" (Moroder, Oakey) – 3:53
# "Don't You Want Me" (Callis, Oakey, Wright) – 3:57
# "Being Boiled" (Marsh, Oakey, Ware) – 3:38
# "Love Action (I Believe in Love)" (Burden, Oakey) – 3:50
# "Louise" (Callis, Oakey, Wright) – 4:55
# "Open Your Heart" (Callis, Oakey) – 3:55
# "Love Is All That Matters" (Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis) – 4:06
# "Life On Your Own" (Callis, Oakey, Wright) – 4:05

Track listing 1996 album

# "Don't You Want Me" (Callis, Oakey, Wright) – 3:57
# "Love Action (I Believe in Love)" (Burden, Oakey) – 3:50
# "Mirror Man" (Burden, Callis, Oakey) – 3:49
# "Tell Me When" (Beckett, Oakey) – 4:43
# "Stay with Me Tonight" (Oakey, Stanley) – 4:00
# "Open Your Heart" (Callis, Oakey) – 3:55
# "(Keep Feeling) Fascination" (Callis, Oakey) – 3:43
# "The Sound of the Crowd" (Burden, Oakey) – 3:56
# "Being Boiled" (Marsh, Oakey, Ware) – 3:38
# "The Lebanon" (Callis, Oakey) – 3:43
# "Love Is All That Matters" (Harris, Lewis) – 4:06
# "Louise" (Callis, Oakey, Wright) – 4:55
# "Life On Your Own" (Callis, Oakey, Wright) – 4:05
# "Together In Electric Dreams" (Moroder, Oakey) – 3:53
# "Human" (Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis) – 3:46
# "Don't You Want Me" (Snap 7 Remix) – 3:58

Video Release

To accompany each album Virgin also released a VHS video tape compilation of the music videos of the tracks on each album album

References

External links

* [http://www.the-black-hit-of-space.dk/greatest_hits_review.htm Reviews]