Filling Up with Heaven

Infobox Single |
Name = Filling up with Heaven


Artist = The Human League
from Album = Octopus
B-side = "John Cleese; Is He Funny?"
Released = June 11 1995
Format = 12", CD Maxi single
Recorded = Human League Studios, Sheffield, 1995
Genre = Synthpop
Length = 4:21
Label = EastWest Records
Writer = Philip Oakey, Ian Stanley
Producer = Ian Stanley
Chart position = * #36 UK
Last single = "One Man in My Heart"(1995)
This single = "Filling up with Heaven"(1995)
Next single = "Stay With Me Tonight"(1996)

“Filling up with Heaven” is a song by the British synthpop group The Human League. It is taken from the " Octopus" album of 1995.

“Filling up with Heaven” was the third and final single to be taken from the Octopus album. It was jointly written by lead singer Philip Oakey and Producer Ian Stanley (formerly of Tears for Fears). It was released on June 11, 1995; after the success of the previous two singles it was expected to equal the chart position of Tell Me When and One Man in My Heart. But unlike the two previous singles it was not play listed by BBC Radio 1 and received minimal national airplay, affecting sales. The single eventually peaked at number 36 in the UK singles chart, spending a total of two weeks in the charts.Human League Bio 1990-1999 > [http://www.league-online.com/biography4.html] ]

Promotional video

The music video for Filling up with Heaven was filmed on a low budget in a minimalist studio. It features a series of sweeping steadicam shots of Oakey, with a mainly seated Susan Ann Sulley and Joanne Catherall. For the instrumental sections a continual sweeping loop of Neil Sutton playing keyboards is featured. Post production the video was intentionally stylized by deeply enriching the colors and reducing the pixel resolution,giving a smudge effect.A licensing fee dispute between EastWest and Virgin Records would prevent the video from being featured on the 2003 Very Best of The Human League DVD. The video is now rarely seen compared to the band's other music videos.

References

External links

*http://www.the-black-hit-of-space.dk/filling_up_with_heaven.htm