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Nothing short of a C&W album recorded in the heart of Nashville would seem as far removed from the Human League's early experimental art-noise roots as 1986's CRASH. Following the commercial and critical disappointment of 1984's underrated HYSTERIA, singers Phil Oakey, Joanne Catherall and Susanne Sulley parted with the instrumental axis of the Human League's hitmaking heyday and traveled to Minneapolis to record with ex-Prince protTgTs Terry Lewis and Jimmy Jam, then at the top of the charts as the masterminds of Janet Jackson's CONTROL.
Jam and Lewis wrote and performed the songs on CRASH, with only occasional lyrical help from Oakey, and the results are fine mid-'80s pop-funk, even if they have almost nothing to do with the Human League's earlier records. The group was rewarded with the big American chart hit "Human," but from here on, every new Human League album was treated as a comeback attempt.
The Human League turned to American R&B producers Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis in the wake of their success with Janet Jackson's Control, and the combination brought the group its second number one hit with the Jam-Lewis composition "Human," which harked back to the earlier "Don't You Want Me," albeit with a gentler tone. The album's second single, the Control-soundalike "I Need Your Loving," was also a Jam-Lewis song (as was the U.K.-only third single, "Love Is All That Matters"), but the bulk of the album was made up of group-written songs with appealing backing tracks that maintained their dance appeal while eschewing the overtly synthesized sound of previous albums. That made Crash an improvement over the lackluster Hysteria, but still not on a par with Dare. [Crash was reissued in 2005 with remastered sound and extended mixes of "Human," "I Need Your Loving" and "Love Is All That Matters."] ~ William Ruhlmann
Additional Tracks
Photographer: Gavin Cochrane.
Arranger: Paul Rabiger.
Human League: Philip Oakey.
Personnel: Paul Rabiger (keyboards).
Crash Music | List Price | $15.98 (You save $4.43) | | Category | Rock/Pop Albums, Rock CDs, Pop, Synth Pop | | Label | Caroline | | Orig Year | 1986 | | All Time Sales Rank |  25982  | | CD Universe Part number | 6929967 | | Catalog number | 33415 | | Discs | 1 | | Release Date | Oct 04, 2005 | | Studio/Live | Studio | | Mono/Stereo | Stereo | | Producer | Jimmy Jam; Terry Lewis; Jimmy Jam; Terry Lewis | | Engineer | Steve Hodge | | Personnel | Philip Oakey - keyboards
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