In addition to the music, this CD features a track of audio liner notes which provides a rare opportunity to hear the Human League reflect on their past, the present and future as the band prepares for a new era. However, to hear Phillip Oakey tell it, the past, is simply a moment in time. For myself, I would forget those times. If it were up to me, every record over five years old would be destroyed. I would make a machine that did that if it was possible.
People have to move on.
I think art has to move on and nostalgia is really dangerous. I don't care to be lumped in with other eighties bands. I feel that we are being lumped in with people who were good but what they were doing was just writing pop songs for people to enjoy. The music Oakey remembers is quite different from the nostalgia that seemingly everyone else remembers. Even Depeche Mode at the start.