Blind
Youth
(demo)
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Dancevision
(demo) |
Interface
(listed as Year Of The Jet Packs)
(demo)
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No
Time
(Radio One) |
Again
The Eye Again
(demo)
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You've
Lost That Lovin' Feeling
(Radio One) |
Toyota
City
(demo)
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Being
Boiled
(Radio One) |
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Blind
Youth [Progression] (Radio One) |
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This
is an illegal release, issued without the consent of The Human
League, Virgin Records or the BBC, and was not available in
the average high street record shop.
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However,
despite the poor sound quality of the record, it is of some
interest to fans, as it features unreleased material from
1979's so-called 'Human
League cassette', plus other recordings made for John
Peel's influential late-night show on BBC Radio One, also
in 1979.
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Of
the demo recordings, two were commercially released,
unchanged: Toyota City appeared on the free Only
After Dark
single, and Dancevision was part of both the Holiday
80 double
single and single
(later appearing on the Travelogue
CD also).
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Two
of the remaining three demos (Blind Youth and Again
The Eye Again) were later re-recorded for the Reproduction
album (Again The Eye Again would be re-titled The
Word Before Last).
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The
mis-labelled Interface is an instrumental which remains
officially unreleased on vinyl or CD, though it can be heard
in the Futuristic
Sounds section of this site. The demos are separated by
the Dominion jingle',
though this is not listed on the sleeve or label.
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The
Radio One recording, No Time, is another early version
of The Word Before Last. This was re-recorded for the
Reproduction album, as were Blind Youth and
You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling (which is rather shorter
and slightly faster in this version, and excludes Reproduction's
segue with Morale...).
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It
seems the album was released in two different sleeves, one
of which is pictured above. The other sleeve is said to sport
a poor reproduction of a group photograph taken from the New
Musical Express in July 1980, which depicts the group
standing together in front of a projected slide of a hand
(see group
pictures in the Old Imagery section of this site).
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All
tracks by Marsh/Oakey/Ware, except Toyota City (The
Human League), Dancevision (Marsh/Ware) and You've
Lost That Lovin' Feeling (Spector/Mann/Weil), though the
writing credits for Interface are unspecified.
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Demos
produced by The Human League, Radio One recordings produced
by Bob Sargeant and engineered by Mike Robinson.
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LP
not generally available, though some 'specialist' dealers
may have a copy.
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