The Golden Hour of the Future [Import]

Editorial Reviews
Album Description
This album includes previously unheard material from the pre Travelogue and Reproduction era Human League, and their earlier alias, The Future. Black Melody Records. 2002.

Tracks:

Dance Like a Star - The Human League
Looking for the Black Haired Girls - The Future, The Human League
4JG - The Human League
Blank Clocks - The Future, The Human League
Cairo - The Future, The Human League
Dominion Advertisement - The Human League
Dada Dada Duchamp Vortex - The Future, The Human League
Daz - The Future, The Human League
Future Religion - The Future, The Human League
Disco Disaster - The Human League
Interface - The Human League
Circus of Dr. Lao - The Human League
Reach Out (I'll Be There) [Instrumental] - The Human League
New Pink Floyd - The Human League
Once Upon a Time in the West - The Human League
Overkill Disaster Crash (V.1) - The Human League
Year of the Jet Packs - The Human League
Pulse Lovers - The Future, The Human League
King of Kings - The Human League
Last Man on Earth - The Human League

Album Description

This album includes previously unheard material from the pre Travelogue and Reproduction era Human League, and their earlier alias, The Future. Black Melody Records. 2002.

Album Details

Overall, "Golden Hour" Shows How Underrated Both the Human League and Heaven 17 have Been as Eletronic Pioneers. This Album Includes Previously Unheard Material from the Pre-"Travelogue" and "Reproduction" Era Human League and their Alias, the Future and Includes Tracks from the Classic Ware/Mars/Newton and Ware/Marsh/Oakley Line Ups.

Customer Reviews:

It's perfectly cold and cool.......2003-09-04

Just what music should be. Some nice instrumentals. A bit of a sense of humour to the mix and good lyrics ( well most of the time ) and what you have is a compilation of tracks that float in your head with great tunes and melody. Amazing to think that in just such a short space of time the Human League would become synth pop's Abba and this work would go unheard of until now. Shame it went to waste. Oh well not to worry.....this compilation should have you enjoying this to no end.....if you enjoyed Reproduction or Travelogue that is

PS The instrumental of Reach Out is fantastic. I never liked the lyrics to the damn thing but this instrumental confirmed what I always thought......great music ruined by the lyrics

ABSOLUTELY CRUCIAL PIONEERING INDUSTRIAL MUSIC.......2002-12-30

Along with fellow Sheffield industrialists CABARET VOLTAIRE's "1974-76" and the London-based #1 industrial group THROBBING GRISTLE's "Very Friendly: The 1st Annual Report of TG", THE GOLDEN HOUR OF THE FUTURE represents an absolutely crucial and unquestionably pioneering point in the development and pre-history of British industrial music. The importance of the very fact that this CD includes amazing early recordings by both the pre-DARE!/"Don't You Want Me" line-up of THE HUMAN LEAGUE (unfortunately still not recognized for the amazing unit that they were, if nothing else for such tracks as "Being Boiled", "Blind Youth", "Toyota City" and their eerie cover of "You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling" but also Ian Craig Marsh and Martyn Ware's eventual roles in HEAVEN 17 and the B.E.T. plus their numerous production credits, including Ware's for Tina Turner!!!) but also the previously unheard (and not too dissimiler) group THE FUTURE (Ware, Marsh and future-CLOCK DVA mastermind the late great Adi Newton) cannot be understated. At last we can see just how CABARET VOLTAIRE, TG and THE HUMAN LEAGUE were true peers in both their breakdown and re-assemblege of their rock and roll pioneers/influences (The SEEDS and The BEATLES for CV, ABBA and The VELVET UNDERGROUND for TG and Phil Spector, Motown and Gary Glitter for THL but also KRAFTWERK for all three) but also their adaption of dada techniques, Burroughs and Gyson's cut-up methods, the adaption of the JG Ballard/Philip K. Dick science fiction now world theory embodied and refined by the use of strictly sytnhesizers and electronics plus the use of found sounds and field recordings from their own cities and surrounding areas all to paint an extremely bleak and too true modern vision of post-industrial revolution late-1970's Britain. While the SEX PISTOLS, THE DAMNED, THE JAM, BUZZCOCKS, THE CLASH and their comrades were out in front screaming and/or raising havoc and/or consciousness, THL, CV and TG were working on the inside, disassembling society and music from within and examining things from a more distant p.o.v., challenging their listeners and followers from a much greater perspective. THE GOLDEN HOUR OF THE FUTURE is a spooky, somewhat cold but supremely rewarding listen, from the near-hit single charm of "Dance Like A Star" and "Dada Dada Duchamp Vortex" to the humour of "Dominion Advertisement" (which makes as much sense today in our Prozac-riddled 21st century as it did in 1977) and the covers of "King Of Kings", "Once Upon A Time In The West" and the instrumental "Reach Out (I'll Be There)" (a near ode to Eno, ambient music and muzak) and experimentation of "4JG", "Year Of The Jet Packs" and "Daz". This lays the groundwork for not only THL's eventual THE DIGNITY OF LABOUR EP, REPRODUCTION and TRAVELOGUE LP's, but also fits in well with TG's 2nd ANNUAL REPORT and CV's "MIX-UP" LP and EXTENDED PLAY EP. Truly rewarding, fun and absolutely essential.

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