Put The Needle On The Record - Week #4

Weekly feature: Put The Needle On The Record Week #4 The Human League - Dare

I think we all have albums we haven't played in years and this feature, hopefully, will encourage you to play the featured album we choose each week.

For this weeks feature we go back to October 1981 and one of THE greatest albums of the 80s, "Dare" by The Human League, the album catapulted The Human League to mega stardom, with superb production by Martin Rushnet.

I own 2 vinyl versions of this album, standard black vinyl and a picture disc.

The album featured 4 stunning singles "The Sound Of The Crowd" (which reached number 12 in the UK singles chart), "Love Action (I Believe In Love)" (reached number 3 in the UK singles chart) "Open Your Heart" (Which reached number 6 in the UK singles chart) and of course "Don't You Want Me" (which reached number 1 in the UK singles chart), all the singles embraced the 12 inch vinyl format. The album also hit the top of the UK albums chart and is one of those albums where virtually every track could have been a single, especially the tracks "Darkness" and "Do Or Die".

Track listing

The Things That Dreams Are Made Of
Open Your Heart
The Sound Of The Crowd
Darkness
Do Or Die
Get Carter
I Am The Law
Seconds
Love Action (I Believe In Love)
Don't You Want Me

So if you have the album in your collection and have n't played it in a while, dig it out and give it a spin!