The Very Best of the Human League is a DVD

DVD

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 by veteran British Synthpop

Synthpop

Synthpop is a genre of popular music that first became prominent in the 1980s, in which the synthesizer is the dominant musical instrument. It was prefigured in the 1960s and early 1970s by the use of synthesizers in progressive rock, electronic art rock, disco and particularly the "Kraut rock" of...

 group The Human League

The Human League

The Human League are an English electronic New Wave band formed in Sheffield in 1977. They achieved popularity after a key change in line-up in the early 1980s and have continued recording and performing with moderate commercial success throughout the 1980s up to the present day.The only constant...

, containing most of the band’s music videos recorded up to that point, digitally re-mastered. The only music video missing is Filling up with Heaven

Filling up with Heaven

“Filling up with Heaven” is a song by the British synthpop group The Human League. It is taken from the Octopus album of 1995.“Filling up with Heaven” was the third and final single to be taken from the Octopus album. It was jointly written by lead singer Philip Oakey and Producer Ian Stanley...

 from 1995 which was excluded due to a licensing fee dispute between Virgin Records

Virgin Records

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 and EastWest

The DVD also contains as bonus material 4 notable appearances on UK BBC 1 flagship music program Top of the Pops

Top of the Pops

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 and two songs from a live set performed on BBC 2 program Later with Jools Holland

Later with Jools Holland

Later... with Jools Holland is a contemporary British music television show hosted by Jools Holland. A spin-off of The Late Show, it has been running in short series since 1992 and is a part of BBC Two's late-night line-up, usually at around 11pm to 12 midnight...

 in 1996.

Also included is an interview of band principals Philip Oakey

Philip Oakey

Philip Oakey is an English composer, singer, songwriter and producer.He is best known as the lead singer, frontman and co-founder of the famous English synthpop band The Human League. He has also had an extensive solo music career and collaborated with numerous other artists and producers...

, Susan Ann Sulley and Joanne Catherall

Joanne Catherall

Joanne Catherall is an English singer; best known as one of the two female vocalists of the veteran English synthpop band The Human League.Born and raised in Sheffield, England...

; conducted by Simon Price

Simon Price

Simon Price is a British music journalist and club promoter, born on 25 September 1967 in the Welsh town of Barry. He is now best known for his weekly review section in The Independent on Sunday and his book on Manic Street Preachers.-Career:...

.

Main track listing

1. "Circus Of Death" 4:38
2. "Empire State Human
   Empire State Human
   "Empire State Human" is a song by the British Synthesizer group The Human League. The song was written by Philip Oakey, Martyn Ware and Ian Craig Marsh...
   
   " 3:17
3. "Love Action (I Believe in Love)
   Love Action (I Believe in Love)
   "Love Action " is a song by the British synthpop group The Human League, released as a single in the UK in July 1981. It peaked at number three in the UK Singles Chart, the band's first Top 10 success....
   
   " 3:50
4. "Open Your Heart
   Open Your Heart (Human League song)
   "Open Your Heart" is a song by the British synthpop group The Human League. It was released as a single in the UK in October 1981 and peaked at number six in the UK Singles Chart. It was written jointly by lead singer Philip Oakey and keyboard player Jo Callis...
   
   " 3:55
5. "Don't You Want Me
   Don't You Want Me
   "Don't You Want Me" is a single by British synthpop group Human League, released from their album: Dare on 27 November 1981.It is the band's best known and most commercially successful recording to date, and was the Christmas number one in the UK, in 1981, where it sold over 1,400,000 copies,...
   
   " 3:57
6. "Mirror Man
   Mirror Man (song)
   "Mirror Man" is a Motown-inspired song by the British synthpop group The Human League. It was released as a single in the UK on 27 November 1982 and peaked at number two in the UK Singles Chart. It was written jointly by lead singer Philip Oakey with keyboard players Jo Callis and Ian Burden...
   
   " 3:50
7. "(Keep Feeling) Fascination
   (Keep Feeling) Fascination
   " Fascination" is a dance song performed by British synthpop group The Human League. It was composed by Jo Callis and Philip Oakey....
   
   " 3:44
8. "The Lebanon
   The Lebanon (song)
   "The Lebanon" is a song by the British Synthpop group The Human League. Written jointly by lead singer Philip Oakey and keyboard player Jo Callis, it was recorded at Air studios between 1983-1984. Originally an album track on Hysteria, it was released as a single in the UK and the U.S...
   
   " 3:43
9. "Life On Your Own
   Life on Your Own
   "Life on Your Own" is a song by the British Synthpop group The Human League. Written jointly by lead singer Philip Oakey, Keyboard players Jo Callis and Adrian Wright, it was recorded at Air studios between 1983-1984...
   
   " 4:04
10. "Together In Electric Dreams
    Together in Electric Dreams
    "Together in Electric Dreams" is a song by the British singer and composer Philip Oakey and producer Giorgio Moroder. It was written by Oakey and Moroder and recorded for the original soundtrack of the 1984 film Electric Dreams....
    
    " 3:52
11. "Louise
    Louise (song)
    "Louise" is a song by the British synthpop group The Human League. It was released as a single in the UK in October 1984 and peaked at number thirteen in the UK Singles Chart. It was written jointly by lead singer Philip Oakey with fellow band members Jo Callis and Philip Adrian Wright...
    
    " 4:55
12. "Human" 3:47
13. "I Need Your Loving
    I Need Your Loving
    "I Need Your Loving" is the second single to be taken from the British Synthpop group The Human League's 1986 album, Crash.This song was written by the song writing team of Harris/Lewis/Eiland/Rickey/Williams/Davis and like many others from the album, was aimed towards the US market, where the...
    
    " 3:43
14. "Love Is All That Matters
    Love Is All That Matters
    "Love Is All That Matters" is the third single taken from the British Synthpop group The Human League's 1986 album, Crash. It was recorded in early 1986 at the Flyte Time studios in Minneapolis while the Human League were in residence recording Crash with producers Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis.This...
    
    " 4:04
15. "Heart Like A Wheel
    Heart Like a Wheel (song)
    "Heart Like a Wheel" is a song by the British synthpop group The Human League. It is taken from the Romantic? album of 1990.-Background:"Heart Like a Wheel" was the first single to be taken from the Human League's Romantic? album of 1990...
    
    " 4:29
16. "Soundtrack to a Generation
    Soundtrack to a Generation (song)
    "Soundtrack to a Generation" is a song by the British synthpop group The Human League. It is taken from the album, Romantic?, from 1990.-Background:...
    
    " 4:36
17. "Tell Me When
    Tell Me When
    "Tell Me When" is a song by the British synthpop group The Human League. Written jointly by lead singer Philip Oakey and Paul C. Beckett, it was recorded at 'Human League Studios', Sheffield in 1994...
    
    " 4:43
18. "One Man in My Heart
    One Man in My Heart
    "One Man in My Heart" is a song recorded by British synthpop band The Human League. It was released as the second single from the band's album Octopus...
    
    " 4:03
19. "All I Ever Wanted
    All I Ever Wanted (The Human League song)
    "All I Ever Wanted" is a song by the British synthpop group The Human League. It is taken from the Secrets album of 2001 and was released as its first single. It is currently their most recent single released on a major label...
    
    " 3:54

Bonus 'Top of the Pops' tracks

1. "The Sound of the Crowd" (originally transmitted - 30 April 1981)
2. "Love Action (I Believe in Love)" (originally transmitted - 6 August 1981)
3. "Open Your Heart" (originally transmitted - 8 October 1981)
4. "Dont You Want Me" (originally transmitted - 24 December 1981)

Bonus 'Later with Jools Holland' tracks

1. "The Stars are Going Out" (originally transmitted - 25 November 1995)
2. "The Sound of the Crowd" (originally transmitted - 25 November 1995)

Bonus interview track

1. Oakey/Sulley/Catherall interview by Simon Price (recorded Sheffield 23 July 2003)

External links

• Reviews
• http://www.league-online.com/dvd.html