Travelogue (album)
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| The Human League's studio album | ||||
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Publication |
May 1980 |
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| Label (s) | Virgin Records | |||
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Format (s) |
CD, LP |
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Title (number) |
10 |
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The Human League and Richard Manwaring |
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Studio (s) |
Monumental Pictures Studio, Sheffield |
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Travelogue is the second studio album by British synth-pop band The Human League . The album is the last of the line-ups of Philip Oakey, Ian Craig Marsh and Martyn Ware.
Emergence
Two of the recordings on the album were not made with co-producer Richard Manwaring at Monumental Pictures Studio in Sheffield. Toyota City is a mono recording from 1978. The re-recording of Being Boiled was made for the EP Holiday '80 under the production of John Leckie . In addition to his own compositions, the album also features Gordon's Gin, composed by Jeff Wayne , and Only After Dark , written by Mick Ronson and Scott Richardson , with which the British guitarist achieved his first solo success after the breakup of David Bowie's backing band The Spiders From Mars scored.
reception
William Ruhlmann reviewed the album for the music database Allmusic and says that already at this point the synthesizer textures of the band and Oakey's mannered voice were turning towards a pop direction. Much of this album, however, retained the strict tone of earlier synthesizer groups such as Kraftwerk and Tangerine Dream . Christian Graf says in the rock music lexicon that the album celebrates “the contradiction between man and machine in soft-sweet and at the same time shrill, unorthodox melodies” and alludes to the Kraftwerk album Die Mensch-Maschine .
Track list
| # | title | Author (s) | length |
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| 1. | The Black Hit of Space | Ware, Marsh, Oakey, Wright | 4:11 |
| 2. | Only after dark | Richardson, Mick Ronson | 3:51 |
| 3. | Life kills | Ware, Marsh, Oakey, Wright | 3:08 |
| 4th | Dreams of Leaving | Ware, Marsh, Oakey, Wright | 5:52 |
| 5. | Toyota City | Ware, Marsh, Oakey, Wright | 3:21 |
| 6th | Crow and a baby | Ware, Marsh, Oakey, Wright | 3:43 |
| 7th | The touchables | Ware, Marsh, Oakey, Wright | 3:21 |
| 8th. | Gordon's gin | Wayne | 2:59 |
| 9. | Being boiled | Marsh, Oakey, Ware | 4:22 |
| 10. | WXJL Tonight | Ware, Marsh, Oakey, Wright | 4:46 |
Individual evidence
- ^ William Ruhlmann: Travelogue - The Human League: Songs, Reviews, Credits, Awards: AllMusic. In: allmusic.com. Rovi Corp., accessed November 15, 2012 .
- ^ Christian Graf: Rock Music Lexicon . Europe / Vol. 1, A – K. Taurus Press, Hamburg 1986, ISBN 3-922542-22-0 . , P. 376