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From: gtaylor@cornell.UUCP (Greg Taylor)
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Subject: Re: Clockwork Orange trivia (Human League)questions
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Date: Tue, 10-Jul-84 14:14:11 EDT
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I gotta agree with Rich Rosen on this call. You will be disappointed
with their newest "Hysteria" to the extent that you liked "The
Lebanon." Apart from a fairly decent cover of James Brown's "rock Me
again and again and again and again and again", this record is a
stiff. Where do we lay the blame? well, the production just doesn't
have the same snap crackle and pop as Martin Rushent's stuff. The 
songwriting just isn't up to scratch, either. Lebanon is a hit to
the extent that it calls up stuff like "Seconds" from "dare."

Heaven 17 have made out pretty well, really. They've managed to hold
on to their politics, and make these cranky little "music as irritant"
tinkertoy dancefloor things. "The Luxury Gap" (their last) did
middlingly well, and certain *deserved* to outsell "Hysteria."