The Human League - All The Best (2cd)

[BigManRestless]

The Sign was remixed for the 7" and 12" (4'50" and 5'16")

[discoginfo]

Human League's "Tranquility" is definitely one of the hardest tracks I have ever tried to get hold of, in digital format. It's not even on youtube. I can't even find it using google, apart fom a lot of "promising" more or less legal download sites using their own (unreliable) exe files you need to download. No thanks.

[Neil Kelly]

I have that on CD single must've been on one of the two 'All i ever wanted' CD's. I did a copy of 'Secrets' as i always did back at the time and added a few bonus tracks to take the CD next to 80 mins. I included about three mixes of 'All i ever wanted'. There was a rare mix possibly about 18 months after this can't remember much about it except that it was a one sided one track (mix) 12". Think it may've been the 'Alter Ego mix'. Think it also appeared some time after on a CD compilation possibly from Alter Ego themselves. For those interested this reminds me of another CD compilation by the remixer Derrick Carter which had another exclusive-to-CD mix of something, possibly another '95 mix of DYWM!

[moni]

Tranquility is also the Japanese version of Secrets plus two mixes of All I Ever Wanted if you can track that down at a reasonable price.

[discoginfo]

Thanks. Yes it's "available" on the rare/expensive Jap CD and deleted and also relatively expensive CD-maxis. I meant more that it's strange that being so rare and Human League being a relatively big and still popular grups, that the track isn't available other than that, not even as illegal download from some blog or torrent or even youtube. But someone sent me an MP3 now, thanks. As it's not available to purchase legally as MP3, and since the artist earns no royalties from used CDs, I gladly accepted the offer. It's just strange that the label, or whoever owns the rights now, don't issue a deluxe SECRETS 2-CD. /JW

[discoginfo]

Here is how they could have reissued the first Human League album as a deluxe 2-CD. Naturally the tracks would be expertly remastered, with great liner notes/memories from the members themselves, recording info, lyrics, photos. Ok here we go.

REPRODUCTION

CD 1: Original Album 5 Oct 1979
1. Almost Medieval 4.35
2. Circus of Death 3.51
3. The Path of Least Resistance 3.28
4. Blind Youth 3.17
5. The Word Before Last 3.58
6. Empire State Human 3.12
7. Morale... You've Lost That Loving Feeling 9.30
8. Austerity/Girl One (medley) 6.39
9. Zero As a Limit 4.07


CD 2: Bonus tracks 1977-1979
1. Introducing 3.13 (B-side Empire State Human, 15 Oct 1979)
2. Being Boiled (1978 Version - stereo mix) 3.45
3. I Don't Depend on You 4.33 (single as "The Men", 11 July 1979)
4. Cruel 4.43 (B-side I Don't Depend on You)
5. The Dignity of Labour part 1 (4.23) (12" EP 16 April 1979)
6. The Dignity of Labour part 2 (2.50) (12" EP 16 April 1979)
7. The Dignity of Labour part 3 (3.55) (12" EP 16 April 1979)
8. The Dignity of Labour part 4 (3.50) (12" EP 16 April 1979)
9. Being Boiled 3.49 (1978 Version - mono mix) (single 30 June 1978)
10. Circus of Death (1978 version) 4.40 (B-side Being Boiled, 30 June 1978)
11. Toyota City (Long Version) 5.38 (B-side free 7" Only After Dark, 16 June 1980)
12. Being Boiled (Peel Session 8 Aug 1978) 4.24
13. No Time (Peel Session 8 Aug 1978) 3.31
14. You've Lost That Loving Feeling (Peel Session 8 Aug 1978) 4.31
15. Blind Youth (Peel Session 8 Aug 1978) 3.00
16. Dancevision 2.20 (from Holiday 80 EP, 16 April 1980)
17. Flexi 4.08 (interview flexi 7" with initial copies of 'The Dignity of Labour' EP)

/JW