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Fascination! by The Human League
Fascination! is an EP by The Human League, released in 1983. 2 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 14 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “(Keep Feeling) Fascination”, on 9 lists with a best position of #100.
Fascination! was the Human League's holding pattern of 1983, a six-track EP on Virgin put out in the US and Canada to fill the gap between Dare and Hysteria, with Europe left to pick it up on import. Nobody was complaining, because it packed the two singles that kept the Sheffield synth-pop crew in the charts on both sides of the Atlantic: the bubbling, chattering "(Keep Feeling) Fascination", here in two versions, and the strutting "Mirror Man".
Philip Oakey still led from the front, with Joanne Catherall and Susan Ann Sulley singing alongside him and Jo Callis, Ian Burden and Philip Adrian Wright on keyboards. Round the edges sit "Hard Times", the old flip side of "Love Action", and an early crack at "I Love You Too Much", a song that would turn up again, reworked, on Hysteria.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Fascination! on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | (Keep Feeling) Fascination | 9 | #100 | – | 1983–2023 | |
| 2 | Mirror Man | 5 | #381 | – | 1989–2003 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.