Romantic? is the sixth studio album by the English synthpop band The Human League. It was issued by Virgin Records in 1990 and was the bands first album of new material in four years. Romantic? had several producers, most notably Martin Rushent, who worked with the Human League on their biggest commercial success (1981s Dare) and had walked out of the recording sessions for its 1984 follow-up (Hysteria). Also producing several tracks is Mark Brydon, who would found Moloko several years later. Heart Like a Wheel was the first single to be taken from the Human Leagues Romantic? album of 1990. It was written by former band member Jo Callis with Eugene Reynolds (of The Rezillos) and features vocals by Philip Oakey, Joanne Catherall and Susan Ann Sulley; with the synthesizer skills of Neil Sutton. It was recorded at Genetic Sound Studios during 1990 and produced by Martin Rushent who was reconciled with the band after an eight-year gap. The song is a return to the overtly political lyrics that the Human League sometimes do, but dressed up to a poppy hook that makes it palatable to the public. Whereas The Lebanon of 1984 was the Human League’s view of the Israeli Invasion of Southern Lebanon and subsequent civil war, Heart Like a Wheel is supposedly a commentary on U.S. military imperialism. Calliss lyrics are suitably vague using references such as sell your soul to a holy war. At a time when Jihad was all but unheard of in the West, it went over the heads of most of the songs listeners. 11 years after its release, the events of 9/11, followed by the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, would make the song seem written for that epoch. Although it is rarely something the band dwell on allowing people to read what they want into the lyrics. https://youtube/watch?v=1oWoS9EbBCI
Posted on: Mon, 13 Oct 2014 06:11:12 +0000
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