The Human League - Circus Of Death

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  • @richardcochrane1966
    @richardcochrane1966 6 місяців тому +9

    Forget their commercial successess - this blew everything else out of the water!

  • @mikehole001
    @mikehole001 3 роки тому +67

    The real Human League

    • @paulfarley1808
      @paulfarley1808 Рік тому +5

      and so say all of us

    • @ham_Yai
      @ham_Yai Рік тому +7

      This album is a masterpiece.

    • @bink865
      @bink865 Рік тому +2

      I like all Human Leagues

    • @nikolaibaas2776
      @nikolaibaas2776 Рік тому +2

      I know this since the 80s. Around 84 I bought the Maxi Single of Being Boiled, where this is the B side…. I was a big fan of the old Depeche Mode, even before People. Are People, the first Tears for Fears albun, Yazoo, Heaven 17-TheLuxury Gap, Howard Jones, OMD, The Cure and U2 before the Joshua Tree… then a friend gave me the three first Marillion records, and from there I was into Rock. A neighbour showed me the firs Genesis Albums, when I showed him Marillion he said, yes, good, but this was all there before.. I discovered Pink Floyd and all the Old stuff, like Led Zeppelin, Jethro Tull, King Crimson, ect., also harder stuff like ACDC and even Motörhead… the 90s came, and I missed the Grunge train, I listened to Peter Gabriel and Tori Amos instead. By incodent I discovered the last two Talk Talk records, but I also went back in time to Roxy Music, Dire Straits, I discovered my heart for America by listening to Tom Petty, the Cars, Springsteen an even Tom Waits ( though I must admit I can listen to him only in the right mood). And I forgot the Simple Minds of course! they provided spiritual uplift from the 80s to the 90s! Hip Hop never
      realley touched me,
      Techno neither..
      like Chemical Brothers and Primal Scream being the exeption of the rule… And there were the things, I coudn‘t tell my friends about, being too wimpy, my feminine, maybe a bit gay side, A-Ha, Propaganda, OMD (I mentioned them before..), Roxy Music and Bryan Ferry… Trash of course, but I had a heart for trash, too… even for the KLF…at the end of the milennium I discovered German Hip Hop, and I started to like some of it. exspecially SEEED, but that‘s not really Hip Hop, that‘s more Dancehall Raggae, made in Berlin, by international people..
      Then I should tell you about my punk side… the german band „Die Ärzte“, Die Toten Hosen ( later both missed to retire in time and became cringy and started to suck massively..) Rammstein were funny once, but they also missed the right time to retire..
      Then I should tell you about being a musician myself, Keyboard and Saxophone.. and of course I listened to oldschool saxophone stuff from the 50s and sixtys, the Blues Brothers and even Glenn Miller…
      So, that was my personal music history!
      The music history of a 52 years old german street musician, heroin addict, christian ( only for a year now)…
      Did I really forget the Heaven 17?
      And: there is german stuff, nobody here will ever have heard of, that I left out! Marius Müller-Westernhagen, Herbert Grönemeyer, Ulla Meinicke, Spliff ( the former Band of Nina Hagen), Straßenjungs ( from the 70s, and some other stuff from the 80s, where there was something called „die neue deutsch Welle“ ( the new german wave) which was the german answer to new wave.. of course, as being a teenager in the 80s, I listened to that, too. Living in Germany, it was on the radio all the time! In fact I only knew one person who really listened to David Hasselhoff, my Grand-cousin. So all Germans loving David Hasselhoff is definetly a myth! To listen to David Hasselhoff you had to have an outstanding bad taste in music, even for a German!

    • @1110Zappa
      @1110Zappa Рік тому

      You have an incredible good taste in music. Much the same as I would have listened too as well back in the day

  • @gdragonstan
    @gdragonstan 3 місяці тому +4

    Phil Oakey is an incredible singer. This is pure artistic genius.

  • @MrMusicbyMartin
    @MrMusicbyMartin 4 місяці тому +5

    Who doesn’t love those backing vocals? Ooohh! Aaahh!

  • @davidhales7573
    @davidhales7573 Рік тому +16

    Phil Oakey is a national treasure.

  • @reynardkitsune501
    @reynardkitsune501 2 роки тому +38

    When Kraftwerk added some human spirit and soul to electronic music, "Reproduction" was the exact opposite. I think that is one of the most bleak and despondent recordings ever, making even Joy Division sounds, um, joyful sometimes. Great stuff that hasn't aged a bit.

    • @scottyunitedboy2925
      @scottyunitedboy2925 Рік тому +3

      The 2003 remaster of Reproduction is superb, excellent record and bonus tracks

    • @MrMusicbyMartin
      @MrMusicbyMartin 4 місяці тому

      It has a glacial beauty amidst the gloom - the breathtaking, slow morph into “You’ve Lost That Loving Feeling”; the playground chanting - “tall, tall, tall, I wanna be tall, tall, tall” made into a bizarrely funny military march; the burst of verse in ‘Blind Youth’. But yes, this is a long way from “Don’t You Want Me Baby?”

  • @MadameFlutterbi
    @MadameFlutterbi Рік тому +3

    Original line up were the best, great music.

    • @paulburns1333
      @paulburns1333 4 місяці тому +1

      Defo, before they turned into steps.

  • @LarthVolos
    @LarthVolos 5 місяців тому +2

    I love the sound. And of course, in generally speaking, I love sounds.

  • @technicmoney1466
    @technicmoney1466 Рік тому +2

    This music video is like yesterday.

  • @paulmccluskey6862
    @paulmccluskey6862 6 днів тому

    Total other worldly greatness.

  • @glamnesianouveaux2039
    @glamnesianouveaux2039 3 роки тому +50

    Such a piece of dark genius, adore The Circus Of Death. It's chilling drum sounds and feeling like you are floating in another dimension in space.

    • @mczigger
      @mczigger 3 роки тому +3

      yeah it was on the b-side of Being Boiled - What a single that was BOTH SIDES!

    • @NemoConsequentae
      @NemoConsequentae Рік тому

      I recall seeing this many years ago on TV performed as part of _The Very Hot Gossip Show._

  • @jonorochester2250
    @jonorochester2250 2 роки тому +23

    pure genius. Must have been listening to this for 40 years. Thank you so much

    • @dermot51
      @dermot51 Рік тому

      Way ahead of its time, dark and foreboding, fantastic!

  • @daveborda7878
    @daveborda7878 Рік тому +5

    This is my favorite from league, early , raw, and original. wish there was a 12 inch version.

  • @andrewhenderson2172
    @andrewhenderson2172 9 місяців тому +3

    Genius and raw electronic music at its best

  • @chrismiller1700
    @chrismiller1700 Рік тому +2

    Unbelievable that this true masterpiece is from 1979. And it's still up to date, what a fucking record! 44 years later, I first heard it in 1983 and will continue to listen.

  • @countvanderhoff
    @countvanderhoff 3 роки тому +22

    Great tune, great video, and there's a cat! This wins on all fronts.

    • @andrewhillis9544
      @andrewhillis9544 2 роки тому +2

      Is That The Cat From Downing Street!!!???👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

  • @simonxag
    @simonxag 3 роки тому +6

    Never thought this song would get to be topical.

  • @Deeper_Darkside
    @Deeper_Darkside 6 років тому +31

    MASTERPIECE...

    • @francescxavierbulto9848
      @francescxavierbulto9848 3 роки тому +3

      Deeper_Darkside it was a master piece that was in an underhand way telling you about Yorkshire’s industrial demise , 1980 they knew it was coming , it came and it went ! Was it for the the better? No more Satanic steel mills and Coal mines?

    • @Deeper_Darkside
      @Deeper_Darkside 3 роки тому +2

      @@francescxavierbulto9848 - I was meaning the music by itself, no the text.

  • @blackcreativefilms
    @blackcreativefilms 2 роки тому +5

    It's the lyrics I adore.

  • @MrSteniorod
    @MrSteniorod 4 роки тому +22

    Great record ! Still sounds modern.

  • @georgerowley7522
    @georgerowley7522 2 місяці тому

    So haunting the lyrics wow , what a tune

  • @ham_Yai
    @ham_Yai 2 місяці тому

    Human League at their best 👍

  • @captaincomputaa
    @captaincomputaa 3 роки тому +9

    Has to be one of the creepiest songs ever made.

  • @g-plan9future204
    @g-plan9future204 2 роки тому +4

    Unforgettable track the pathway to the future

  • @thomasfrancis5747
    @thomasfrancis5747 Рік тому +3

    One of the links between Kraftwerk and 80's British synthpop. Very important track despite the slightly ostentatious lyrics. Brilliant.

    • @santorini8423
      @santorini8423 2 місяці тому

      Not as bad as being boiled, you don’t get many protest songs about sericulture nowadays😂

  • @juanpabloarena2724
    @juanpabloarena2724 3 роки тому +5

    Great band ever!

  • @malvinmainwaring3443
    @malvinmainwaring3443 5 років тому +10

    Seen these with the banshees in 78. They played with anyone then.
    Great band

  • @gianlucabovi4470
    @gianlucabovi4470 5 років тому +16

    I can’t believe it. This is Human League in 1979.....awesome music and lyrics... A few years after they released a great bullshit like “togheter in electric dreams”. It’s been an enormous changing. Why??!!!?!

    • @luornu
      @luornu 4 роки тому +16

      Together in electric dreams was not the Human League. It was by Georgio Moroder with Phil Oakey. Oakey was a guest singer on that but it had nothing to do with the Human League. It was Moroder's song.

    • @annother3350
      @annother3350 4 роки тому

      Still a world away from open your heart

    • @edmacdonald2065
      @edmacdonald2065 4 роки тому +5

      The original lineup had separated by the time dare had come out so this sound changed with the band

    • @Mind-your-own-beeswax
      @Mind-your-own-beeswax 4 роки тому +3

      Martin Ware and Ian Craig Marsh left to form Heaven 17 along with Glenn Gregory before HL became chart toppers

    • @paulph12002
      @paulph12002 3 роки тому +1

      @@luornu True enough, Together in Electric Dreams wasn't the Human League. But it certainly was trash compared to earlier classics like this

  • @THEELDER1
    @THEELDER1 3 роки тому +6

    LOVE THIS!

  • @jesus3017
    @jesus3017 2 роки тому +3

    They knew it...

  • @jackglancy5286
    @jackglancy5286 3 роки тому +3

    Great song....great times....makes me want to order a lager and lime!

  • @anacecukv.9506
    @anacecukv.9506 Рік тому +1

    Great song

  • @juanmoisesibarragomez8391
    @juanmoisesibarragomez8391 2 роки тому +6

    Excelente canción
    Saludos desde México 🖤

    • @apache5098
      @apache5098 2 роки тому

      A nadie le importa que seas de México.

  • @musicforghosts3159
    @musicforghosts3159 5 років тому +8

    Master piece!

  • @ham_Yai
    @ham_Yai Рік тому +1

    So brilliant.

  • @mczigger
    @mczigger 3 роки тому +12

    To the clown it was known as Dominion - hmmm sounds like 2020

  • @sidfletcher4955
    @sidfletcher4955 5 років тому +4

    Brilliant

  • @LiuLoki
    @LiuLoki 3 роки тому +3

    Great

  • @huwzebediahthomas9193
    @huwzebediahthomas9193 2 роки тому +1

    Super classic

  • @devonblue
    @devonblue 3 роки тому +5

    Love it ....Just class 👌

  • @Cl4rendon
    @Cl4rendon 4 роки тому +14

    After all these years... I`m still asking myself: HOW ON EARTH DID THE TRIDENT MAKE ITS WAY FROM HAWAII TO HEATHROW???

    • @ecc84
      @ecc84 4 роки тому +7

      The same way the Clown has a drug called dominion ;-)

    • @Garylpool1
      @Garylpool1 2 роки тому +2

      @@ecc84 Dominion meaning is 'ruling or controlling power'

    • @andrewhillis9544
      @andrewhillis9544 2 роки тому +2

      Inflight refuelling?👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

    • @andrewhillis9544
      @andrewhillis9544 2 роки тому +1

      It Was Teleported There???👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

    • @andrewhillis9544
      @andrewhillis9544 2 роки тому +1

      It Was Abducted By The Alien Mothership And Taken There!!!???👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

  • @mauricioalexismartinezmart8085
    @mauricioalexismartinezmart8085 2 роки тому +4

    Pioneros en el sonido
    Electrónico

  • @SuperGooner10
    @SuperGooner10 6 років тому +13

    Great early track....

  • @anderson28491
    @anderson28491 3 роки тому +1

    Great Song

  • @jonnuanez2843
    @jonnuanez2843 3 роки тому +6

    This sounds WAY more edgy than with the girls. Yet this material in a sense helped recruit them to the band, Mk. 2

  • @turxanazimzade3917
    @turxanazimzade3917 3 роки тому +2

    It send me to new dimension

  • @stevewebb7126
    @stevewebb7126 3 місяці тому +1

    Reproductions is a great album , that can't be reproduced .Its the Black hit of space , time stops when you put it on .

  • @haapie1
    @haapie1 6 років тому +5

    roland jupiter 4.....yeah.....awsome.....

  • @TheHerthaBSC
    @TheHerthaBSC 5 років тому +1

    unforgetable 80ies hamma-song kind regards from berlin ha ho he

  • @eymerichinquisitore9022
    @eymerichinquisitore9022 Рік тому +1

    Reproduction of The Human League and Chinese Restaurant by Chrisma where my favorite dark albums of the late 70's, oppressive and distressing.

  • @blade0954
    @blade0954 6 років тому +9

    takes me back,b side of being boiled

    • @wgaule
      @wgaule 5 років тому

      Not this version.

    • @annother3350
      @annother3350 4 роки тому

      William - very fucking similar though

  • @antilusion6960
    @antilusion6960 Рік тому +1

    this is 1979, not 80's not yet, that's more like 'Dare Album

  • @ulfutstrand
    @ulfutstrand 4 роки тому +4

    Its just there...elektronika......the new classical music.....embrase it...I do.

  • @Koshirozation
    @Koshirozation 3 роки тому +2

    ♥️

  • @MegaRonnald
    @MegaRonnald 3 роки тому +8

    A Bowie-like song. Who agrees?

  • @playlistismo
    @playlistismo 4 місяці тому +1

    @ ▷ The Human League
    🎶▷ Circus Of Death
    💿▷ Reproduction
    📅▷ 1979
    🎬︎▷ Russell Mulcahy

  • @sidfletcher4955
    @sidfletcher4955 5 років тому +1

    Good old Electric Russell

  • @c.s.6870
    @c.s.6870 7 років тому +2

    👌👌👌

  • @smguy7
    @smguy7 5 років тому +4

    Actually from the late 70s.

  • @tomislavpotocar91
    @tomislavpotocar91 2 роки тому +1

    Will we ever get rid of successive births and deaths ? (Translate in Sanskrit)

  • @hunterhearsthelmsley4955
    @hunterhearsthelmsley4955 Рік тому +3

    Spoken Intro :Why in just a few moments we're off to Hawaii to join Steve McGarrett and the team for tonight's adventure
    Nine o'clock flight from Hawaii
    The Trident is just touching down
    We're waiting here on the tarmac
    McGarrett is wearing a frown
    He's here to help with a problem
    A blood-spattered curse on our land
    Please cast your eye over this map, sir
    This business is quite out of hand
    The circus of death is approaching
    It's pathway is painted in red
    Before it the frightened and helpless
    Behind it a trail of the dead
    The narcotic that forges their union
    Is a substance known only to one
    To the clown it is known as dominion
    It's a secret that he'll give to none
    The drug which gives the clown power
    Means the circus can never be stopped
    And his dream can go on unhindered
    Till the last human being has dropped
    Spare me and my family, I've done you no wrong
    Go away, please let us be, I've known you for too long

  • @garyhosty
    @garyhosty 6 років тому +2

    I got my hopes up for some Hawaii 5 o action..

  • @mauricioalexismartinezmart8085

    Martyn ware

  • @gordonsh5964
    @gordonsh5964 3 роки тому +2

    Brilliant dark deep but they all change sell out start singing about moms blue cooking apron and pavlova cakes get back to dark it works

  • @berkkeskin2519
    @berkkeskin2519 5 років тому +2

    the human league circus of death vs edward maya stereo love vika jigulina

  • @paulturner5459
    @paulturner5459 4 роки тому +2

    I had that hairstyle

  • @gavinkerslake
    @gavinkerslake 4 місяці тому

    ...McGarrett is wearing a frown

  • @craigvickery7823
    @craigvickery7823 6 років тому +3

    The dead zone

  • @VoodooChildPurpleHaz
    @VoodooChildPurpleHaz 5 років тому +6

    258 likes? what's wrong with the society?

  • @BEHEDETY
    @BEHEDETY 7 років тому +1

    meow!

  • @richarddeboer-luiten6247
    @richarddeboer-luiten6247 Рік тому +1

    Fabelhaft

  • @davidcripps5268
    @davidcripps5268 8 місяців тому +1

    When they were a proper imaginative band before they started to sound too pop.

  • @KarlHainer
    @KarlHainer 6 років тому +1

    oy vey baby!

  • @solidstateresistor2485
    @solidstateresistor2485 4 роки тому +5

    Before the two slappers joined the band.

  • @seaofcronos675
    @seaofcronos675 4 місяці тому

    Reduced to peddling adspam So sad.

  • @mickyday2008
    @mickyday2008 2 роки тому +1

    Brilliant