(Keep Feeling) Fascination
| (Keep Feeling) Fascination | |
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| The Human League | |
| publication | April 17, 1983 |
| length | 3:45 |
| Genre (s) | Synth pop |
| Author (s) | Philip Oakey , Jo Callis |
| album | Fascination! (EP) |
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(Keep Feeling) Fascination is a 1983 song by British synthpop group The Human League . It was written and composed by Jo Callis and Philip Oakey and released as a single in 1983.
background
Between the albums Dare! and Hysteria , (Keep Feeling) Fascination is the last collaboration with the producer Martin Rushent , who left the work in dispute at the beginning of the production of Hysteria . In the song, all group members Philip Oakey, Susan Ann Sulley and Joanne Catherall sing several refrains , and Jo Callis can also briefly be heard, who otherwise rarely appeared as a singer. The title reached number 2 in the British charts and only just missed the top. The single was later released in the US and reached number 8 on the Billboard Hot 100 , and it became The Human League's first number one hit on the US Hot Dance Music / Club Play charts.
The B-side to (Keep Feeling) Fascination is Total Panic , an early instrumental version of Don't You Know I Want You , which was released on the next album Hysteria .
In addition to the single version, the song was also released on an EP called Fascination in two alternative versions: As an "Extended Version" with a length of 4:56 minutes and as an improvisation with a length of 6:12 minutes. Both versions were also produced by Rushent in its Genetic Sound Studios; the Extended Version was mixed by Chris Thomas , who also produced the Hysteria alongside Hugh Padgham . The EP was released a few days before the single and was awarded a silver record on May 1, 1983 by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) .
The color scheme of the single was based on a short-lived color code that The Human League had launched: The reference "Red" should stand for a dance track, the blue background in turn symbolizes a pop song .
Music video
The music video for (Keep Feeling) Fascination was filmed in Newham , London , a part of the city that was largely cleared at the time and approved for demolition and redevelopment. The music video shows the band members using a map of London to search for a specific location marked with a red dot on the map.
The house that is marked on the map and the surrounding area (the intersection between 1st Avenue and 3rd Avenue) are painted completely red; the same applies to a car parked nearby. At the beginning of the video you can see the map of London, then you zoom in until the camera pans through a window into a gray-painted room where the band is playing.
Steve Barron directed the music video . All scenes in which the band can be seen were shot in a studio; Susan Ann Sulley said the house was occupied by a family while it was being painted and the scenes were being filmed. The house stayed red for several weeks until it was demolished in the summer of 1983.
Others
- The song is played in the game Grand Theft Auto: Vice City on the new wave radio station Wave 103.
- The song is part of the score for Fever Pitch (2005) and Don't Mess With The Mess (2008).
- A cover version of the song by Rob Crow (of Pinback ) was featured in a 2010 commercial for Kingsford Charcoal .
- Another cover version comes from the Mexican pop group OV7 and was released on their album Siete Latidos (2001).
- A remix version of the song is the background of a commercial for the Samsung Fascinate smartphone .
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- ↑ Charts UK Charts US
- ↑ Certified Awards Search. British Phonographic Industry , accessed September 15, 2014 (English, search term Human League ).
- ^ Rob Windle: The Human League Biography Part 3. In: League-online.com. Archived from the original on July 20, 2011 ; accessed on September 13, 2011 .
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yyf57m46Mu8
- ^ OV7 Discografia de OV7. Buenamusica.com, accessed November 17, 2012 .