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Another NME editor, Paul Moody, viewed it as "sublimely clumsy" with "this killer Human League chorus all over it, the sort that rings around your brain like a nursery rhyme from Mars. Dave Thompson of AllMusic said it echoes earlier material, likening it to " Fascination" and " Mirror Man".
You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice.But isn't that what the League have always had, in abundance, with more than a modicum of electronic auteur thrown in?
Tell Me When" is a song by English synth-pop band the Human League, released in December 1994 by East West Records as the first single from their seventh album, Octopus (1995).
It then became the first release by the band under East West, who had signed the Human League after their dismissal by Virgin in 1992. In the video, well-known sites in the city can be seen, as Wenceslas Square, Prague Castle and Wallenstein Garden. Then there is the tendency to fiddle with the original to such an extent it almost becomes unrecognisable from the outstanding original. Tell Me When" became the Human League's most commercially successful single in nine years and reintroduced the band to many of the British general public. It opens with Catherall and Sulley in the Wallenstein Gardens, where leaves are blowing upwards instead of downwards.