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  • Posted: 12/31/2012 21:00
  • Post subject: Album of the day (#776): Dare! by The Human League
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Today's album of the day

Dare! by The Human League (View album | Buy this album)

Year: 1981.
Overall rank: 636.
Average rating: 74/100 (from 105 votes).



Tracks:
1. The Things That Dreams Are Made Of
2. Open Your Heart
3. The Sound Of The Crowd
4. Darkness
5. Do Or Die
6. Get Carter
7. I Am The Law
8. Seconds
9. Love Action (I Believe In Love)
10. Don't You Want Me

About album of the day: The BestEverAlbums.com album of the day is the album appearing most prominently in member charts in the previous 24 hours. If an album, or artist, has previously been selected within a x day period, the next highest album is picked instead (and so on) to ensure a bit of variety.
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  • Posted: 12/31/2012 21:07
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  • Posted: 12/31/2012 22:47
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Actually, i've just realized how long it's been since i listened to this. think i'll do that now!
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You know, I never guessed a one hit wonder type band could have an album in the top 1000
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  • Posted: 01/01/2013 11:30
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This album was the point where I gave up on the Human League. I loved Travelogue and Reproduction, but some of the singles from the post-split band were weak. The 'girl singers' were just lifeless and the band seemed to be striving fo r chart success at all costs. My mum and younger sister quite liked the album and it remained in my mum's house after I moved out. Dare is a truly awful album.
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Happymeal wrote:
You know, I never guessed a one hit wonder type band could have an album in the top 1000


thats cause there's a whole lot more to them than just "Don't You Want Me"
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  • Posted: 01/01/2013 12:48
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It's a very good album, probably one the best synthpop LPs. I didn't use to like it, but on recent re-listens, I found it much less superficial and cheesy than I once thought it was. Very coherent.
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Happymeal wrote:
You know, I never guessed a one hit wonder type band could have an album in the top 1000


The Human League were not a one hit wonder band. They had a string of Top 10 hits in the UK and Human was also a number one single in the US.

I like some of this album. Seconds is a great synth track but it mostly sounds a bit too commercial for me. They were clearly going for chart success with Dare.
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Secondsoul wrote:
The Human League were not a one hit wonder band. They had a string of Top 10 hits in the UK and Human was also a number one single in the US.

I like some of this album. Seconds is a great synth track but it mostly sounds a bit too commercial for me. They were clearly going for chart success with Dare.


Notice I said one hit wonder type band. I knew they weren't one hit wonders, but they're pretty close. Do you know anyone who remembers all their hits? I doubt it because they had one huge one which everyone remembers them for. Perhaps they aren't one hit wonders, but like I said, pretty close.
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Happymeal wrote:
Notice I said one hit wonder type band. I knew they weren't one hit wonders, but they're pretty close. Do you know anyone who remembers all their hits? I doubt it because they had one huge one which everyone remembers them for. Perhaps they aren't one hit wonders, but like I said, pretty close.


oh, I think I can name one...
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