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Article: POP MUSIC / ALBUMS: At the crossroads of naff The Human League - Octopus, East West Little Axe - The Wolf that House Built, Wired Ezio - Black Boots On Latin Feet, Arista
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- January 20, 1995
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The Human League Octopus East West (4509-98750)
There's always been provision in pop for the banal. Indeed,
banality is often good in pop. In a creative milieu often remarkable
for overstatement, melodrama, pomposity and the sedulous pursuit of
the uncommon, a spot of banality does, from time to time,hit like a
custard pie.
The Human League's big time came between 1981 and 1983, with "Love
Action", "Don't You Want Me" and "Fascination", all of which took
high-street technology, flat singing and doggerel to the upper
reaches of the charts on the strength of the premise that you, too,
might sound like this in your bathroom with a Casio and some friends.
More than that, this sequence of ...