Having featured The Human League, it's only natural to represent the successes of their friends/rivals Heaven 17. Those are nowhere near the peaks of The League, of course, but the trio managed to reach a respectable level of chart recognition around the world. Given their long-time aversion for touring it's a small miracle they did, but wonders of the new technology (primarily video) aided them quite a bit. But perhaps more important is the fact that they managed to create an album that has as much of a "classic" status as that of The League, and that ensures their place in the history of pop music. To me they are all about the first two albums, after which something went wrong and there's little of interest on later offerings, sadly. The general public seems to agree, judging by the charts, but they still had enough ammunition to go on for quite a while, and since they started touring in the late 1990s they never had trouble attracting audiences. Today they are respected elders in the field of electronic music and hopefully new "stuff" is in the pipeline.
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