The Human League - Travelogue [Remastered] (CD 2003)

takes me back to my teens when i was beginning to develop my musical tastes (which have not changed that much)i could still remember the song words and it annoyed my teenage son thats what parents are for
GREAT STUFF DOESN'T SOUND AS DATED AS SOME MUSIC FROM THIS PERIOD

If you are thinking about buying this album - then don't - its still brilliant and at the prices that you can buy it these days - absolutely unmissable!

This is still one of my best albums and probably most played.

Ahh! The nostalgia :-)

Seriously good album. They don't make music like this anymore!

brought htis for 2 tracks and to replace lost cd's
being boiled and tom baker are the highlights of this cd the old style new romantic music just as it came out of new wave when the political stamnets turn to the dressing up box awhen slapping on some blusher with bowie baggies with old army shirt when the music just made you want to dance and drink and have a great time
a must cd

I have this one LP but am now trying to replace some LP's onto CD. Human leagues finest hour and their best.

The extra tracks on this one include rarities - Marianne is one of thier best. The CD contains Only after Dark which stands the test of time.

A must - Excellent

The second of the indispensable Human League albums and continues in a similar vein to Reproduction released the year before. Travelogue has slightly more in the way of production values and doesn't sound quite so bleak as Reproduction which is the more atmospheric of the two. The tracks on Travelogue start to show a more pop orientated slant to the material, although still with one foot in the "experimental" category both musically and lyrically. This was also evident in the live League shows of the period which were multimedia events incorporating projected images.

The League continue with their unusual choices in cover versions with the Mick Ronson track "Only after Dark" and even more bizarrely covering the music to a Gordons Gin TV advert (written by Jeff Wayne!). But it's the original material that really shows the League at their most accomplished, and this album contains some of the best material they ever recorded, "Black Hit of Space" and "Crow and a Baby" sound like nothing you have ever heard but somehow still remain accessible. Reproduction also contains the most well known of the early League's material, "Being Boiled", although it is a very different re-recorded version to the original single release on Fast records.

Reproduction and Travelogue are both available on mid-priced remastered CD each containing a lot of bonus material, consisting of most of the early non-album releases (including the most successful of their experiments with cover versions, Glitter's "Rock 'n' Roll" segueing into Iggy Pop's "Nightclubbing") as well as the original Fast versions of "Circus of Death" and "Being Boiled.