Vintage Music Pinbacks #8

Eighth in a series.

Buttons, badges, pinbacks - whatever you call 'em, I've got a shoebox full. Here's a few of my vintage music pinbacks from the '70s and '80s:

1.  1.25" Berlin, "Sex (I'm a...)" 1982
2.  1" Spandau Ballet, ca. 1980
3.  1.25" Rolling Stones "In Concert" ca. 1981
4.  1.25" Thompson Twins logo, ca. 1983
5.  1.25" The Police, Zenyatta Mondatta, 1980
6.  1" Crass, "Nagasaki Nightmare" 1981
7.  1.25" David Bowie, Let's Dance, 1983
8.  1" The Human League, ca. 1981

Vintage Music Pinbacks #4

Fourth in a series.

Buttons, badges, pinbacks - whatever you call 'em, I've got a shoebox full. Here's a few of my vintage music pinbacks from the '70s and '80s:

1.  1.25" The Boomtown Rats, ca. 1977
2.  1.25" Ian Dury, ca. 1981
3.  1.25" Joe Jackson, Body and Soul, 1984
4.  1.25" Eurythmics (pinback dated 1984)
5.  1" Depeche Mode, "A Question of Lust" 1986*
6.  1" Adam and The Ants, "Dirk Wears White Sox" 1979
7.  1" Thompson Twins, Into the Gap, 1984
8.  1.25" Record Breaker, Manchester CT, ca. 1980
9.  1.25" The Human League, Dare!, 1981
10.  1.25" The Police, Synchronicity, 1983
11.  1.25" Asia, Asia, 1982

*I realize that 1986 is beyond the scope of this blog, but I like the pinback so I'm bending the rules.

Vintage Music Pinbacks #1

First in a series.

Buttons, badges, pinbacks - whatever you call 'em, I've got a shoebox full, collected over the past fifty years. When I was in high school, I typically wore one or more on a shirt or my letter jacket daily (one or more safety pins were also acceptable).  I normally bought them at the record store or Spencer's Gifts.

Let's take a look at what I was wearing in the early '80s - here's a few of my vintage music pinbacks:

1.  2.25" Devo, Freedom of Choice 1980
2.  1" Thompson Twins logo
3.  1" The Human League, "Being Boiled" 1978
4.  1" Eurythmics logo, (pinback dated 1984)
5.  1.5" Joe Jackson, Night and Day 1982
6.  1.25" U2 (pinback dated 1983)
7.  1" The Comsat Angels logo 1980

CD Longbox #11

The Human League - Dare! (1981)

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Exclusive photo courtesy of the Hambonian Archives.

Disco hits of The Human League, 1976-1985

During the years 1976-1985, English technopop group The Human League charted 6 times on Billboard's Disco Chart. Here's a breakdown table, including year, peak chart position, and number of weeks on the disco charts.

"Hard Times/Love Action" charted twice, first as an import then again a year later as a domestic release. The group's megahit "Don't You Want Me" is present and accounted for - it spent a remarkable 40 weeks on the chart (very few songs reach even the 20 week mark). For my money, the playlist gets better as it goes on, ending with two of the group's best songs. For more of my thoughts on The Human League and their music, click here.

Year	Peak	Weeks	Title
1981	27	14	The Sound of the Crowd
1981	37	12	Hard Times/Love Action
1981	3	40	Don't You Want Me
1982	57	7	Hard Times/Love Action
1983	1	18	(Keep Feeling) Fascination
1984	19	11	The Lebanon

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Philip Oakey, the leader/singer of The Human League, also had two dance hits with disco savant Giorgio Moroder. "Good-Bye Bad Times" reached #20 in 1985, but the song I remember is "Together in Electric Dreams" which reached #20 in 1984.