BCB Hall of Suck: Dare - The Human League
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BCB Hall of Suck: Dare - The Human League
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One of the greatest pop albums ever made
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You favorably compare a Hall nominee to another record - you automatically nominate that record.
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Goat Boy wrote:One of the greatest pop albums ever made
It's magnificent. You've got four of the greatest singles of the era - that alone qualifies it as far as I'm concerned. But then there's 'Seconds', for fuck's sake!
There might be two tracks I could live without, but I could say the same thing about Pepper.
Does not "suck" in any right-thinking person's world.
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Whoever is organizing these HoS nominations has got their shit mixed up badly here - Dare is brilliant. While there's always the odd cloth-eared cretin who might want to dispute this, they are clearly wrong.
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fange wrote:Whoever is organizing these HoS nominations has got their shit mixed up badly here - Dare is brilliant. While there's always the odd cloth-eared cretin who might want to dispute this, they are clearly wrong.
I love the sheer brazenness of the record: the way it immediately fires on all cylinders from "What Dreams Are Made Of". And yet the snyths often sound modern and strangely primitive at the same time ("Don't You Want Me" and "Love Action" notwithstanding). The vocals are often deliberately flat, yet somehow the group makes this work, it's an advantage rather than a hindrance: they seemingly cut through the occasional abrasiveness of the music. Perhaps this is down to the fact that fundamentally, the melodies are actually pretty strong, as evidenced in the "instrumental only" partner record, Love And Dancing.
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^ Yep. Its strengths - bold instrumentation and deeply hooky, strong songs - way overcome any of the things which might be faults in lesser records.
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Also they're from Yorkshire. Win
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Always with the Yorkshire with you...
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Matt Wilson wrote:The Human League or ABC or... God, there were so many... are the UK equivalent of Styx, or Journey. The Britons who were of age at the time can wax nostalgic all they want, just like Americans of a certain vintage. One is not necessarily better than the other - but I'm sure I'll be deluged with opinions to the contrary any minute now.
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Matt Wilson wrote:The Human League or ABC or... God, there were so many... are the UK equivalent of Styx, or Journey. The Britons who were of age at the time can wax nostalgic all they want, just like Americans of a certain vintage. One is not necessarily better than the other - but I'm sure I'll be deluged with opinions to the contrary any minute now.
"Better" is a tricky word, sure; but if you were to give me Dare or Lexicon of Love and any Journey album... well, i know which i would say is better. And i'm a Greek-Aussie who grew up with all those bands in real time.
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Matt's point about nostalgia rings true.
But what makes the Human League different from those other bands is that they had a very strong image, and they were creating music that was original and new. Whatever you think about Styx and Journey, I don't think you can argue they were doing either of those things. They were faceless, and despite all their success they weren't offering anything musically novel.
But what makes the Human League different from those other bands is that they had a very strong image, and they were creating music that was original and new. Whatever you think about Styx and Journey, I don't think you can argue they were doing either of those things. They were faceless, and despite all their success they weren't offering anything musically novel.
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It is very much "not my thing," but no - in positively no way does it suck.
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It’s fine for what it is...but I don’t really care for what it is.
It isn’t the fact that it’s electronic music. It’s the approach to electronic music that I don’t enjoy.
Yeah - there’s some nostalgic charm to the old school synth sounds involved, and the songs aren’t devoid of melodic appeal. But I hate the singing, and I hate the long, soupy synth patches (I’m generally more attracted to more percussive synth sounds, if I’m going to listen to this kind of music).
Ultimately it’s just an unattractive noise to my ears., I could happily live without ever hearing it again.
It isn’t the fact that it’s electronic music. It’s the approach to electronic music that I don’t enjoy.
Yeah - there’s some nostalgic charm to the old school synth sounds involved, and the songs aren’t devoid of melodic appeal. But I hate the singing, and I hate the long, soupy synth patches (I’m generally more attracted to more percussive synth sounds, if I’m going to listen to this kind of music).
Ultimately it’s just an unattractive noise to my ears., I could happily live without ever hearing it again.
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Good record. On my iPhone. Therefore it must have class
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It's not as good as earlier, better synthpop acts such as Kraftwerk, Thomas Leer & Robert Rental, Fad Gadget, and The Human League before Dare. But it absolutely does not suck.
Like fast-moving clouds casting shadows against a hillside, the melody-loop shuddered with a sense of the sublime, the awful unknowable majesty of the world.
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I voted on instinct -
into the hall. A wrong move. After I'd voted, I realised that I like their Love & Dancing LP a lot. That one I bought unheard after an ecstatic review by Paul Morley, in the NME.
So I stand corrected by myself.
Consider my decision irrelevant, please.
into the hall. A wrong move. After I'd voted, I realised that I like their Love & Dancing LP a lot. That one I bought unheard after an ecstatic review by Paul Morley, in the NME.
So I stand corrected by myself.
Consider my decision irrelevant, please.
On the whole, I'd rather be in Wallenpaupack.
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Consider my decision irrelevant, please.
We didn't need reminding, but thanks.
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