Human League - "Human"

Besides the fact that the 45-rpm fades during the last chorus? I think the LP has three light cymbal sounds strung together very rapidly on the very beginning, prior to the downbeat. I don't have the two records in front me so I'm guessing.

I can't friggin' believe it. That was a total guess. The only reason I thought that was the case was this.

When I bought the 45-rpm disc at Melody Lane in Hamilton, Ontario (this was 1986), there was a girl behind the counter. I thought it was uncanny that she also had a copy of the 45 on her turntable. Now she had the instrumental side on (which I didn't realize at the time). The instrumental had those cymbals on the beginning, and it just seemed to sound more "complete" than I had ever heard on the radio before.

So I get my 45 home, dropped the cue lever, and I remembered it sounding truncated comapred to what I just heard. Of course I was listening to the A-side. I had never critically thought about it again until you asked that question. In fact, I never paid attention to the LP version much at all, except I knew it had the instrumental ending.

That was cool. It shows the weird things one can lock into their memory sometimes....lol.


Edited by Jody Thornton