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Travelogue is the second full-length studio album released by British synthpop
Synthpop

Synthpop is a subgenre of New Wave music and pop music in which the synthesizer is the dominant musical instrument. It is most closely associated with the era between the late 1970s and early to middle 1980s, although it has continued to exist and develop ever since....
 band The Human League
The Human League

The Human League are a British people synthpop band. Formed in Sheffield, South Yorkshire in 1977, they achieved popularity after a key change in line-up in the early 1980s....
.

The band at this point had yet to achieve any degree of commercial success. For this album, they worked with a new producer, Richard Mainwaring, who the next year would produce Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark

Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark are a synthpop group whose founding members are originally from the Wirral Peninsula, England. OMD record for Virgin Records ....
's platinum selling Architecture & Morality
Architecture & Morality

Architecture & Morality is an album by Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, released in 1981.It is the group's most commercially and critically successful album, selling over 3 million copies....
. However, Travelogue did not sell well, reaching #16 on the UK album chart in May 1980 and, tired of commercial disappointment, it precipitated the departure of founding band members Martyn Ware
Martyn Ware

Martyn Ware is a British musician. As a founder member of both The Human League and Heaven 17, he was partly responsible for hit Gramophone record such as "Being Boiled" and "Temptation "....
 and Ian Craig Marsh
Ian Craig Marsh

Ian Craig Marsh is an England musician. He was a founding member of the electronic music band The Human League, writing and playing on their first two albums and several singles, until leaving in 1980 to form B.E.F....
.

The album included a cover of an advertising jingle for Gordon's Gin
Gordon's Gin

Gordon's is a brand of gin produced in the United Kingdom and under license in New Zealand and several other former British territories, with the top markets for Gordon's being the UK, US, Greece and Africa....
, written by Jeff Wayne
Jeff Wayne

Jeffrey "Jeff" Wayne is a musician mostly known for Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds of H. G. Wells' The War of the Worlds ....
 (famous for his War of the Worlds
Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds

Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds is a 1978 concept album by Jeff Wayne and others, retelling the story of The War of the Worlds by H....
 album).

Virgin Records remastered and re-issued Travelogue on CD in 1988, with an expanded track listing which included the Holiday '80
Holiday '80

Holiday '80 is an extended play released by the original lineup of the British synthpop band The Human League. The EP was issued by Virgin Records in the UK, in April 1980, principally as a stop-gap to test the market after the poor sales of Reproduction , the Human League's first album, however it too was not a great commercial succ...
 EP, the disco single "I Don't Depend on You
I Don't Depend on You

"I Don't Depend on You" is a disco-influenced song by the British Synthpop group The Human League released under the pseudonym The Men. It was released as a single in the UK in July 1979, but failed to chart....
", original released under the moniker "The Men", and the single "Boys and Girls", which had been produced by Oakey and Wright after the line-up split.








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Travelogue is the second full-length studio album released by British synthpop
Synthpop

Synthpop is a subgenre of New Wave music and pop music in which the synthesizer is the dominant musical instrument. It is most closely associated with the era between the late 1970s and early to middle 1980s, although it has continued to exist and develop ever since....
 band The Human League
The Human League

The Human League are a British people synthpop band. Formed in Sheffield, South Yorkshire in 1977, they achieved popularity after a key change in line-up in the early 1980s....
.

The band at this point had yet to achieve any degree of commercial success. For this album, they worked with a new producer, Richard Mainwaring, who the next year would produce Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark

Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark are a synthpop group whose founding members are originally from the Wirral Peninsula, England. OMD record for Virgin Records ....
's platinum selling Architecture & Morality
Architecture & Morality

Architecture & Morality is an album by Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, released in 1981.It is the group's most commercially and critically successful album, selling over 3 million copies....
. However, Travelogue did not sell well, reaching #16 on the UK album chart in May 1980 and, tired of commercial disappointment, it precipitated the departure of founding band members Martyn Ware
Martyn Ware

Martyn Ware is a British musician. As a founder member of both The Human League and Heaven 17, he was partly responsible for hit Gramophone record such as "Being Boiled" and "Temptation "....
 and Ian Craig Marsh
Ian Craig Marsh

Ian Craig Marsh is an England musician. He was a founding member of the electronic music band The Human League, writing and playing on their first two albums and several singles, until leaving in 1980 to form B.E.F....
.

The album included a cover of an advertising jingle for Gordon's Gin
Gordon's Gin

Gordon's is a brand of gin produced in the United Kingdom and under license in New Zealand and several other former British territories, with the top markets for Gordon's being the UK, US, Greece and Africa....
, written by Jeff Wayne
Jeff Wayne

Jeffrey "Jeff" Wayne is a musician mostly known for Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds of H. G. Wells' The War of the Worlds ....
 (famous for his War of the Worlds
Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds

Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds is a 1978 concept album by Jeff Wayne and others, retelling the story of The War of the Worlds by H....
 album).

Virgin Records remastered and re-issued Travelogue on CD in 1988, with an expanded track listing which included the Holiday '80
Holiday '80

Holiday '80 is an extended play released by the original lineup of the British synthpop band The Human League. The EP was issued by Virgin Records in the UK, in April 1980, principally as a stop-gap to test the market after the poor sales of Reproduction , the Human League's first album, however it too was not a great commercial succ...
 EP, the disco single "I Don't Depend on You
I Don't Depend on You

"I Don't Depend on You" is a disco-influenced song by the British Synthpop group The Human League released under the pseudonym The Men. It was released as a single in the UK in July 1979, but failed to chart....
", original released under the moniker "The Men", and the single "Boys and Girls", which had been produced by Oakey and Wright after the line-up split.

Track listing

  1. "The Black Hit of Space" (Ware, Marsh, Oakey, Wright) – 4:11
  2. "Only After Dark
    Only After Dark

    "Only After Dark" is a song by the British Synthpop group The Human League. It is a version of the Ronson/Richardson composition, originally found on Slaughter on 10th Avenue , the 1974 debut solo album by David Bowie Ziggy Stardust-era guitarist, Mick Ronson....
    " (Richardson, Mick Ronson
    Mick Ronson

    Mick Ronson was an England guitarist, composer, multi-instrumentalist, arranger and record producer. He is most well known for his work with David Bowie from 1970 to 1973, Bowie's glam rock period, including being part of The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars band....
    ) – 3:51
  3. "Life Kills" (Ware, Marsh, Oakey, Wright) – 3:08
  4. "Dreams of Leaving" (Ware, Marsh, Oakey, Wright) – 5:52
  5. "Toyota City" (Ware, Marsh, Oakey, Wright) – 3:21
  6. "Crow and a Baby" (Ware, Marsh, Oakey, Wright) – 3:43
  7. "The Touchables" (Ware, Marsh, Oakey, Wright) – 3:21
  8. "Gordon's Gin" (Wayne
    Jeff Wayne

    Jeffrey "Jeff" Wayne is a musician mostly known for Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds of H. G. Wells' The War of the Worlds ....
    ) – 2:59
  9. "Being Boiled
    Being Boiled

    "Being Boiled" is a song written by Sheffield musicians Martyn Ware and Ian Craig Marsh, with lyrics by Philip Oakey, and recorded by them as The Human League....
    " (Marsh, Oakey, Ware) – 4:22
  10. "WXJL Tonight" (Ware, Marsh, Oakey, Wright) – 4:46

Bonus tracks

  1. "Marianne" (Marsh, Oakey, Ware) – 3:17
  2. "Dancevision" (Marsh, Ware) – 2:22
  3. "Rock 'n' Roll/Night Clubbing" (Gary Glitter
    Gary Glitter

    Paul Francis Gadd is an England glam rock singer and songwriter, better known by his stage name Gary Glitter.Glitter first came to prominence in the glam rock era of the early 1970s....
    , Mike Leander
    Mike Leander

    Michael George Farr professionally known as Mike Leander was an arranger and record producer for Decca Records in the 1960s and Bell Records in the 1970s and worked with such artists as Marianne Faithfull, Billy Fury, Marc Bolan, Joe Cocker, The Small Faces, Van Morrison, Alan Price, Peter Frampton, Keith Richards, Shirley Bassey, Lul...
    /David Bowie
    David Bowie

    David Bowie is an English musician, actor, record producer and Arrangement. Active in five decades of rock music and frequently reinventing his music and image, Bowie is widely regarded as an innovator, particularly for his work in the 1970s....
    , James Osterberg) – 6:23
  4. "Tom Baker" (Oakey, Wright) – 4:01
  5. "Boys and Girls
    Boys and Girls (Human League song)

    "Boys and Girls" is a song by the British Synthpop group The Human League. It was released as a single in the UK in February 1981 and peaked at number 48 in the UK Singles Charts....
    " (Oakey, Wright) – 3:14
  6. "I Don't Depend on You
    I Don't Depend on You

    "I Don't Depend on You" is a disco-influenced song by the British Synthpop group The Human League released under the pseudonym The Men. It was released as a single in the UK in July 1979, but failed to chart....
    " (Marsh, Oakey, Ware) – 4:36
  7. "Cruel" (Marsh, Oakey, Ware) – 4:45