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Heaven 17s The Luxury Gap is the giveaway album today in the Daily Mail.

...is there no end to this?...

Yeah...the last one is Marillion tomorrow!
*boom* *tish!* I'll get my coat...

but seriously folks - what do the 'League or the '17 get out of it?

Most labels have a clause in arttists contracts that they can give away recordings for promotional purposes - so I'm not sure HL/H17 will earn anything from this.

Quite a sad state of affairs when you consider that Gregory recently said that they only paid the studio bill for The Luxury Gap only 18 months ago! (Yes, I know I've mentioned this before but I'm still shocked at that...it also makes me wonder if the League ever finished paying for Hysteria which took two years to record!)

..well perhaps that's why the 17 are givin' it away in the soaraway Sun or whatever it is...next time get your FREE copy of 'The Golden Hour of the Future' to pay off their reel-to-reel 4 track tape recorders or whatever..

"His Mum bought him a synthesizer,
Got the Human League in to pay for it.....not!"

Connected, but slightly off topic...

I had a vinyl version of Reproduction by the Human League which had a curious addition. Before "Path of Least Resistance", which happens to be my favourite, someone says "Knit one, pearl one". I'm sure I wasn't dreaming each time I heard it (4-5 thousand times???), but it isn't on my later version, nor on my CD version. Anyone with ideas on why it was there?

Not OT at all! This is where meet and discuss the pioneering synthesizer outfit The Human League and their future 21st Century tribute band, also conveniently called The Human League!

There's quite a few differences, some noted on the fantastic Human League Mk1 website Blind Youth http://www.blindyouth.co.uk/

The CD re-issues usefully add all the tracks from the first three Human League singles (not including I Don't Depend On You, which was released under the pseudonym of The Men). Note though that some of these tracks are not taken from the original master tapes, but have been transferred from the original records, and surface noise is occasionally audible.

Curiously, the CD version included small changes to two of the original album tracks - Almost Medieval and The Path Of Least Resistance. Also, the Fast Product version of Circus Of Death lacks the short sample of dialogue included at the end of the Being Boiled B-side.

One other small point - the extra track Being Boiled does not fade out, as on the original single release and the 1988 Greatest Hits compilation, but is presented in its entirety. It's possible that the master tape for this track no longer exists, at least in its original form, as synthesizer overdubs and new vocals were added to the track for one of the group's demo tapes, though hopefully this is not the case.

Note: initial copies of the 2003 remastered CD listed Circus Of Death as Circus Of Love (!). This was rectified on later copies.

Another difference that I noted on The Path of Least Resistance vinyl & CD ('88 issue) was the intro section: the vinyl version, the song comes in on the synth, whereas on the CD the song comes in on the kick drum.

Wow .. Human League Mk 1 geeks in anoraks...love it!
Must swot up on Blind Youth site..was always an excellent source.

BTW is it at the beginning of 'The Word BEfore Last' that there's a voice - possibly Jim Callaghan - saying
"You'll notice that very appropriately I'm left-handed" .. ??

..always wanted to know that.

from THE GOLDEN HOUR OF THE FUTURE myspace

The Golden Hour... re-issue now available;

The Golden Hour of The Future... EBay page

Mine's on its way from WH Smith at £7.99 delivered. Thanks Garry for letting us all know about this release in the first place (I'd missed the news completely).