Next let's look at the chart activities of the band most close to the Kraftwerk synthesizer format, even a bit wilder at it at times: The Human League. Probably the biggest band of the early 1980s synth explosion, they, along with Ultravox (whom we'll get to in time, for sure), pioneered the British synth-pop and became one of the biggest influences on the electronic pop movement. For years dismissed as a "pop band with synths" (there was a time when this was seen as something wrong, for some reason), in 2000s they finally got their recognition as one of the most important bands of their era - 20 years too late, some might say, but at least it happened.
Surprisingly, for the band of their stature, their consistently successful years are limited to 1981-1986, with later ones providing increasingly diminishing returns. Truly a story of the band that record companies hardly knew what to do with. Still, they did remarkably great for some time, with 12 pages of the Word file to show for it!
I also decided to include solo efforts by The HL vocalist Philip Oakey - just for the hell of it😊
The Human League
(Download and open in Microsoft Word for the best viewing experience😊)
Surprisingly, for the band of their stature, their consistently successful years are limited to 1981-1986, with later ones providing increasingly diminishing returns. Truly a story of the band that record companies hardly knew what to do with. Still, they did remarkably great for some time, with 12 pages of the Word file to show for it!
I also decided to include solo efforts by The HL vocalist Philip Oakey - just for the hell of it😊
The Human League
(Download and open in Microsoft Word for the best viewing experience😊)
Nb. Discography
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