Consumer Guide Album

Human League: Greatest Hits [A&M, 1988]
I still don't believe humans bought these songs because they liked them. As the leader says, or intones, or even sings if you want to be polite: "(Keep Feeling) [dig those parentheses] Fascination." At their best, they're fascinating--masters of body-snatcher music, articulate simulated emotion fortified with the coldest hooks ever manufactured. Which is why their Jam-Lewis move was such a fraud. "I'm only human/Of flesh and blood I'm made"--yeah, sure. B+