Song · The Human League
“Mirror Man” by The Human League
From the EP Fascination! (1983)
“Mirror Man” by The Human League appears on 5 radio countdowns from 3 stations between 1989 and 2003. It was first released in 1983 on the EP Fascination!. Its best result is #381 on the KROQ Flashback 500 (Memorial Day 1992). In the combined RockLists rankings it is #5,312 alternative song of all time.
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The Human League's "Mirror Man" hit British shops as a single in November 1982 and climbed to number two on the UK chart, and it later landed on the Fascination! EP. It was the first song the band wrote and recorded after coming home from the world tour that followed the huge international success of Dare, and it started life under another title, "Can't Get to Sleep at Night".
Philip Oakey wrote it with keyboardists Jo Callis and Ian Burden as a celebration of the Motown records he and Philip Adrian Wright loved, and it's been tagged electronic northern soul. Oakey delivers the verses in measured sentences, leaning on the last word of each, while Susan Ann Sulley and Joanne Catherall weave wordless oohs and aahs all the way through. Martin Rushent, the man behind Dare, produced it with the band.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
All Rock Formats
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1989 | 408 | KROQ | KROQ Flashback 500 (Memorial Day 1989) | 495 |
| 1992 | 381 | KROQ | KROQ Flashback 500 (Memorial Day 1992) | 500 |
| 1999 | 949 | CFNY 102.1 The Edge | CFNY Top 1002 Songs of All-Time (November 1999) | 1002 |
| 2002 | 1989 | Fred (XM 44) | Fred XM Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (July 2002) | 2002 |
| 2003 | 2014 | Fred (XM 44) | Fred XM Top 2044 Songs of All-Time (July 2003) | 2044 |
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