Singles Released This Week Years Ago

 

After a short hiatus this series continues as usual without big words.

1966: The Supremes

1979: The Human League

1987: George Michael

1967: The Troggs

1966: The Easybeats

1972: The Osmonds

1977: Elvis Costello

1995: Everything But The Girl

1961: The Tokens

1969: The Band

1968: Jimi Hendrix

1969: The Kinks

Singles Released This Week Years Ago

 

Another round of charting singles from the last decades, that are worth hearing again. Let's go.

1998: Air

1977: Television

1965: The Yardbirds

1974: Focus

1984: Huey Lewis and the News

1983: The Human League

1966: James Brown

1976: Patti Smith Group

1978: The Police

Purchased (Not Only) By The Cover

One of the first synth-pop album I purchased was Reproduction by The Human League in 1979 because it was part of a sampler called Who's Afraid Of The 80's featuring very new sounds by Talking Heads, The Ruts, XTC and The Human League. Empire State Human was a song I really played often at my place and I can't explain why I this kind of music became a part of me since. It was different to many others I used to hear and it introduced me into another kind of music. I think without them and their first album I didn't got aware to many other electronic and synth based bands that came after them.

The Human League - Empire State Human
The Human League - Morale .. / You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'
The Human League - Zero As A Limit

Let me go

Back in the early 1980s Martyn Ware and Ian Craig Marsh formed after they left The Human League together with Glenn Gregory Heaven 17 in Sheffield. They didn't only formed the band they also formed the producing company British Electronic Foundation (BEF). Like Human League the only used synthesisers and programmed drum machines to create their own sound. Other musicians were added when necessary. One of their first recordings '(We don't need that) fascist groove thang' with it's explicit left-wing political lyrics where banned from BBC. Without Heaven 17 and their new electric music dance music might not be like it is today. Lots of people joined that new electronic sound and danced to. This record is from 1982 and probably their most successful one.

So enjoy weekend and dance (a very special greeting to Drew over at Accross The Kitchen Table)

Heaven 17 - Let me go