Travelogue | 
| Artist: The Human League
Label: Blue Plate Caroline
Category: Music
List Price: $15.98
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Rating:  6 reviews
Sales Rank: 110512
Format: Original Recording Reissued, Original Recording Remastered
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 724358011524
EAN: 0724358011524
ASIN: B00007KMZT
Release Date: January 28, 2003
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| Tracks:
| • | The Black Hit Of Space | | • | Only After Dark | | • | Life Kills | | • | Dreams Of Leaving | | • | Toyota City | | • | Crow And A Baby | | • | The Touchables | | • | Gordon's Gin | | • | Being Boiled | | • | WXJL Tonight | | • | Marianne | | • | Dance Vision | | • | Rock 'n' Roll Part Two | | • | Night Clubbing | | • | Tom Baker | | • | Boys And Girls | | • | I Don't Depend On You / Cruel |
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Album Description
With their second album, Travelogue from 1980, The Human League began to incorporate more traditional rock elements to their signature synth-led sound and in doing so featured songs with more pop and dance music leanings creating a sound that would become the template for the current electronic music movement. This album has been remastered and expanded to include 8 non-LP singles tracks released during this period including, 'Marianne', 'Dancevision', 'Rock 'N' Roll/Night Clubbing' (Gary Glitter/Iggy Pop), 'Tom Baker', 'Boys & Girls', 'I Don't Depend On You' and 'Cruel'. Virgin. 2003.
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 post-punk synth classic January 29, 2003
aliled (Shawnee, Kansas United States)
11 out of 11 found this review helpful
For all the press that synth pop got in the early 80s, not a lot of it has held up particularly well, except at the more experimental end of what could still sort of be called pop. Suicide's first album still sounds fab, Cabaret Voltaire's early Rough Trade material makes increasingly wonderful aesthetic sense, but it's the Human League who finally seem to be undergoing a long overdue critical reevaluation. This began with the release of a CD of "pre-Human League" recordings made largely under the name "The Future". It continues with the reissue and remastering of the first three Human League albums."Travelogue" is the band's true masterpiece. Much more cohesive than its predecessor "Reproduction", it maintains a unique experimental edge that's largely (though not entirely) lost on their next album, "Dare" - but it's loaded with songs that are full of great ideas, catchy tunes and stark beauty. It's hard to resist "The Black Hit Of Space" - wherein a song so bland becomes a black hole, sucking up everything in its orbit and climbing so high in the charts that it reaches negative numbers - in this day and age. They turn a commercial jingle for gin into a lovely tune, cover Iggy, Mick Ronson and Gary Glitter, and convincingly too. What's new about this remaster? Well, it sounds great - better than the original vinyl and miles beyond the earlier CD issue. Other than that, it looks the same from the outside, but inside the booklet are expanded lyrics and credits. That's the good stuff... Oh well. It's nearly the length of two LPs (there are 7 bonus tracks) and worth every penny anyway. For the record, "Reproduction" and "Dare" are similarly remastered and worth it too. Each has 8 bonus tracks.
Spooky Masterpiece..... March 10, 2003
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
There is something about this album that is strange and unique. It is truly a work of art-- themes of industrialization, automation, and isolation are echoed by machine-like synthesizer sounds of the late 70's. It is haunting yet charming at the same time. Poignant, but with a sense of humor too. This is rare and under appreciated album and probably always will be. The bonus tracks are equally as good, most notably "I don't depend on you" with its surprising disco-era sound. Not for everybody, but definitely can be appreciated by fans of Gary Numan's early work such as "Telekon" and "Dance"
 Probably their creative peak July 18, 2007
J. Alberson (Memphis, TN USA)
I'm very torn on the Human League. I love the idea of the band as well as a lot of their old work, but I think they hit a rut sadly early in their career (and rock bottom with "Human").
Travelogue makes more sense to me as an album than the rest of their offerings. It's not the conceptual hodgepodge of Reproduction, and it's not the sleek-but-compromised pop of Dare. It's just foreboding enough to still seem interesting, and pop enough to be enjoyable.
The bonus tracks are an asset to the release and I enjoyed the liners as well.
Love this February 20, 2006
Kurt Hungus (TX)
I love this record and the synth work done on it,get it if your into 80's synth stuff.
As long as Philip Oakey is here, it's still the Human League February 19, 2005
HumanDon119 (USA)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I wasn't sure what to expect since I knew that the band at this time was not a pop dancing band, and was a more pre-Tarantino kind of style, but I felt reassured when I heard Being Boiled. When I got the album, I was more satisfied than I expected! It was still a rock kind of music you could dance to, but a little more darker with the lyrics and synthesizers; they are still the same Human League I know, just a different style of them, but still deep down, still the Human League they turned out to be. Some of the most favored songs on Travelogue is "Life Kills", "Rock n' Roll/Nightclubbing", and "Gordon's Gin." Whether or not this album was remastered, I would still have loved it! But the great thing is this album is remastered with six extra tracks! Overall, it was a great CD!!!
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