The Human League Crash Virgin VL2391 1986 First Canadian Pressing GF NM LP  The Album cover is excellent. Vinyl is Near Mint. This is a Canadian  Pressing from 1986.
Tracklist
    "Money" (Burden, Oakey, Russell) 3:54
    "Swang" (Eiland) 4:36
    "Human" (Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis) 4:25
    "Jam" (Oakey, Russell) 4:20
    "Are You Ever Coming Back?" (Oakey, Russell, Wright) 4:53
    "I Need Your Loving" (Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis, Davis, Eiland, Richey, Williams) 3:42
    "Party" (Burden, Oakey, Russell) 4:29
    "Love on the Run" (Burden, Oakey, Russell) 3:53
    "The Real Thing" (Burden, Fellows, Oakey, Russell) 4:17
    "Love Is All That Matters" (Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis) 6:05



Crash is the fifth full-length studio album released by the British synthpop band The Human League in 1986. Unlike the band’s previous and subsequent albums it is R&B influenced. Crash would provide the band with their second US number-one single "Human" the same year.
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After spending two years recording their fourth album Hysteria, which only met with moderate commercial success the band struggled to record further material and by 1985 they had lost both Dare producer Martin Rushent and musician/songwriter Jo Callis. Virgin Records, worried by the lack of progress in their previously most profitable signing, called the band principals to a meeting where a solution to the impasse in the band was sought. As the problem was perceived to be the lack of production, it was suggested that the band take up an offer to work with Minneapolis based production duo Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis. Jam and Lewis had recently become in-demand producers following their huge global success with Janet Jackson's Control album. Jam and Lewis had developed an interest in the Human League after the success of their U.S releases; they were also seeking an opportunity to cross over into the mainstream pop and saw The Human League as the perfect opportunity.

In February 1986 The Human League were flown out to Minneapolis to work at Flyte Time studios with Jam and Lewis. After initial enthusiasm on both sides the working relationship began to break down. Jam and Lewis had total control over the final album and insisted that their own tracks take precedence over the Human League's. Jam and Lewis were also intolerant of the bands' laid back working methods and their musician's lack of technical ability.

Keyboard players Philip Adrian Wright and Ian Burden had been sidelined by Jam and Lewis. Wright (an original member) would not recover from the humiliation, and feeling redundant he immediately left the band on return to the UK, a year later Burden would follow him.

After 4 months in Minneapolis, Oakey pulled the band out of further recording and they returned to Sheffield leaving Jam and Lewis to complete the album using session musicians. Oakey said later:
“     We like to be in control in the studio. We don't like giving that up to a producer. That's why we had a big, final argument, and we just decided to go home and leave them to finish it off. It just got to the point of who had the power, and in that instance..."They were the men behind the mixing console, so they had ultimate control.     ”

The album name was taken from a moment in the studio during the recording. Oakey described it thus:
“     It’s from a crash cymbal, because it’s a disco album again with lots of cymbals. One day somebody said “what sorts of cymbals do you want, a ride or a crash?”, and we thought “what a great title!     ”

Although at the time the band had all but washed their hands of the album post production, when released it quickly became an unexpected success. One of the Jam and Lewis compositions, "Human", was released as the album's first single and became the Human League's second number-one on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 (no.8 in the UK). The Album itself was more popular in the U.S than the UK. Follow-up singles "I Need Your Loving" and the 1988 UK-only release "Love Is All That Matters" were not as successful. But the album had succeeded in returning the Human League back to mainstream prominence both sides of the Atlantic five years after their Dare album. Oakey with hindsight states that it was this album that saved the band’s career and one of the main reasons they are still recording today.

In 2005, Crash was re-issued with extended versions of the three singles.



The Human League are an English electronic New Wave band formed in Sheffield in 1977. They achieved popularity after a key change in line-up in the early 1980s and have continued recording and performing with moderate commercial success throughout the 1980s up to the present day.

The only constant band member since 1977 is vocalist and songwriter Philip Oakey. Originally an avant-garde all-male synthesizer-based group, The Human League evolved into a commercially successful synthpop band under Oakey's leadership, yielding the group's biggest-selling album, Dare (1981). Since 1987, the band has essentially been a trio of Oakey and long-serving female vocalists Joanne Catherall and Susan Ann Sulley (who joined the ensemble in 1980), with various sidemen. The Human League has influenced many electro-pop, other synthpop, and mainstream performers including Madonna, La Roux, Moby, Pet Shop Boys, Little Boots. and Parralox. They have been sampled and covered by various artists including Tony Christie, Utah Saints, Ministry of Sound, Craig David, George Michael, KMFDM, Robbie Williams and Out of the Blue (Oxford University).

Since 1978, The Human League have released nine studio albums, four EPs and thirty singles. They have had four albums and eight singles in the UK Top Ten, one of which was #1 (two in the US) and they have played over 350 live concerts. The band has sold more than 20 million records worldwide.

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