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May 17, 1999

General Public/English Beat to Tour with the Human League

Two-month Eighties retro tour to launch July 7 in Seattle

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Despite frontman Phil Oakey's ridiculous lopsided hairdo and the presence of two northern England disco dollies who could neither dance nor sing, the Human League defined Eighties New Romantic cool. The band's 1982 trans-Atlantic smash, "Don't You Want Me" -- driven by devilish techno beats, Oakey's...

2005 RS: 3of 5 Stars

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The most impressive thing about the Human League's output isn't that the band went from avant pop to Top 40 in three albums, but that its best singles hold up despite all the hokey electronics.

Needless to say, the League's early recordings sound pretty primitive at this point. With its buzzing, clanking synths and dour "postindustrial" perspective, Reproduction sounds less like a rock album than...

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