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 Travelogue, released in 1980, is the second album by English Synth-Pop group The Human League, and the final one by their initial "Mk. I" incarnation. Following the commercial failure of Reproduction and the concurrent rise of Gary Numan as electronic music's leading non-Kraftwerk act, the band sought for greater public appeal with their follow-up. Not wanting to sacrifice their artistic ethos, they attempted to craft a middle ground between their earlier Avant-Garde Music and the kind of radio-friendly material that brought Numan to the forefront, using the Holiday '80 EP as a test run for this approach. It did well enough to get the band on Top of the Pops, and the band released the full follow-up album in its wake, touring the UK the same month of its release to further boost their profile.The effort seemed to pay off at first, with Travelogue debuting at No. 16 on the UK Albums chart— compared to Reproduction, which hadn't charted at all— but sales dropped off soon after, leaving Virgin Records hesitant to promote it. This mix of low success and low record company faith sowed the seeds of immense Creative Differences within the band, with lead singer Philip Oakey favoring an even more commercial direction in the vein of Numan and other better-performing groups. Martyn Ware and Ian Craig Marsh meanwhile wanted to stick to the experimental style that they'd started off with, ultimately walking out on the band as a result.Their manager, Bob Last, would budge in to help the three clear the legal dust in the wake of this move: Oakey, the only member of the group who didn't explicitly quit, was given the rights to the Human League name and catalog, while Ware and Marsh were allowed to continue without Oakey as Heaven 17, recruiting Glenn Gregory as a replacement singer. Since Oakey inherited the band name, he also inherited its debts— including the money the band owed Virgin and the fall 1980 tour they'd booked to support Travelogue. Oakey would hastily cobble together a new lineup, forming the "Mk. II" incarnation of the band. It was with this new configuration that the band would finally achieve their Breakthrough Hit with Dare the following year; Virgin would reissue Travelogue in the wake of the album's success, with the latter selling well enough off the heels of Dare to be certified gold by the BPI in 1982.Travelogue was supported by one single: a Cover Version of Mick Ronson's "Only After Dark".Tracklist:Side One "The Black Hit of Space" (4:11) "Only After Dark"note originally by Mick Ronson (3:50) "Life Kills" (3:07) "Dreams of Leaving" (5:49) "Toyota City" (3:24)Side Two "Crow and a Baby" (3:43) "The Touchables" (3:21) "Gordon's Gin"note originally by Jeff Wayne (2:58) "Being Boiled" (4:21) "WXJL Tonight" (4:40)With one trope on the town and a gleam in an eye of red:
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