The Human League ~ Don't You Want Me 1981 New Wave Xtension

I dedicate this song to Suzanne P, I remember the instant where you turned the radio up and told me to listen.
The first time I heard the Human League was through their song "Hard Times" on Ultra Weekend out of Montreal with Alain Montpetit. I worked a sous chef at a restaurant a stone's throw away from Quebec City's magnificent Chateau Frontenac Hotel. It was either Friday or Saturday night at the resto pub in the 1981 winter into spring of 1982.
It was as funky as electronic music could be, and the vocals were kept to a minumum like Donna Summer's "I Feel Love". This new wave funk tune had me hungering for more from them and soon after I heard "Don't You Want Me" on the radio and my friend Suzanne excitedly told me it was the new wave group The Human League.
The group formed in Sheffield, England in 1977 with Ian Craig-Marsh, Martyn Ware and Phil Oakey. The band split with Craig-Marsh & Ware forming Heaven 17 (Let Me Go) leaving Oakey to add Philip Adrian Wright, Ian Burden, Jo Callis, Joanne Catherall and Susanne Sulley to the Human League roster.
Admittedly, the band was quite amateurish and it took a while to get the music recorded. Virgin Records signed them and they released their first LP "Dare", which gave them two UK Top 10 hits, "Love Action(I Believe In Love) and "Open Your Heart". The third single, "Don't You Want Me" went straight to #1 in the UK for five weeks in December of 1981.
"Don't You Want Me" was inspired by the film "A Star Is Born" and the band tried hard to suppress the release of the song as a single, citing it was too commercial. Undaunted, Virgin released the song and its popularity kickstarted the New Romantic movement that allowed other bands like Culture Club, Eurythmics and Dexy's Midnight Runners who all had #1 hits in the US, creating a mini British Invasion.

[@andrewclowes6242]

No record collection is complete without this song.

[@cherib61]

I agree with you Andrew.

[@rodrigobolinhadj1]

tudo bem amigo ou amiga

[@SupremeNerd]

I promise you it's not

[@styner3]

1981...my first apartment, many parties, 39 years ago this month...damn.

[@shannonvanderhoof4810]

🖤

[@wb3381]

This song always gave me a good feeling as a teenager

[@joemontemurro4210]

Truly the greatest Extended Dance Mix of all time and The Human League is so worthy of it. Thank you for a Lifetime of Joy that your Music has given me. ❤️

[@sandraelena5859]

I love this song... Icon of the 80s!!💜 💜 💜 ✌️ 😉

[@rodrigobolinhadj1]

tudo bem amigo ou amiga

[@sedisarepartiments9167]

The human League... Pioneers and legends of synth-pop... Good 'ol times... Great mix!

[@rodrigobolinhadj1]

oi tudo bem amigo ou amiga

[@terrigurganus1446]

Love the 80s Memories MTV.

[@U2HL]

The 80's...great years in music...Always been my favorite of them...love this extended version, thanks!❤❤🎵🎶🎤🎹

[@rodrigobolinhadj1]

tudo bem amigo ou amiga

[@jeromemanoharan7427]

Human League, Haven’t heard this track for ages. Great days. Good decade. Brings back my youth. I used to play this quite often. 😉😊🙏

[@rodrigobolinhadj1]

tudo bem amigo ou amiga

[@jeromemanoharan7427]

@@rodrigobolinhadj1 Yes my friend. Hope everything is well and good with you. Be safe.

[@gregsouthorn2871]

Omg I was in the Marine corps when this came out. Overseas in Okinawa. Roller skating and loving this song!!! Thank you for the trip back!!!

[@rodrigobolinhadj1]

tudo bem amigo ou amiga

[@dyanabartley1744]

This song was one of those songs you couldn't get away from, they played it in heavy rotation, not to mention just about every DJ had this song in their arsenal. I heard this being played at the many block parties attended back in the day. Once again, DiscoCat, you never cease to amaze me with your brilliant remixes, I am adding this one to my DiscoCat collection. Thank you so much for this, I love it!!!

[@DJDiscoCat]

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[@cesar0223]

totally agree w you..

[@rodrigobolinhadj1]

tudo bem amigo ou amiga

[@Patron_YT_Bmgo]

One of big in japan alphaville please

[@porchetu]

That was music....!!

[@marymcgivney9041]

Great song in the 80s love it 😃❤❤😃

[@FaiLee]

An iconic tune of the 80s and a great dance mix of it.

[@tyroneepps3018]

Human league 4-ever !

[@walomota5197]

Keep hitting the 80's Cat,well done!

[@rodrigobolinhadj1]

tudo bem amigo ou amiga

[@vivianvictory576]

Loved this song back in the "80"s! Thanks again DJ "S" and Yes I do want you Baby!!! ❤😻😜

[@perfectpitchmeow7470]

Me too! And I was just only a kid back in the 80s!

[@vivianvictory576]

@@perfectpitchmeow7470 - Same here, I was in 6th grade when this song came out! Lol

[@Capricorni1967]

¡Excelente canción de los años 80"s ......y aún la sigo escuchando desde que salió en la radio en aquella época...... hasta el presente.....2020!

[@rodrigobolinhadj1]

tudo bem amigo ou amiga

[@arielfrancogonzalez5664]

This remix 86.2 We stared the day with song and yeah im youre dj mister a so remeber drink water and stay coooool And yes ! We have songs of 60,70,80 and 90 and more So remeber the music is our passion , runing in our vains

[@ClaudioPerezVergara]

One of my favorite song ! Thanks to share !

[@rodrigobolinhadj1]

blz tudo bem amigo ou amiga

[@mickfloydrguez5866]

De mis canciones favoritas en una excelente super versión!! 👍

[@rodrigobolinhadj1]

alo tudo bem amigo ou amiga

[@angelcabrera1866]

Pus sí, wey, no mames. Ese mi Barret.

[@unclesalty7778]

My GIRL! 8/24.81 I asked you out while this song was hot and heavy on the air waves you was 16 i was 19 ...........2020 your 55 I"m 58 what a happy grow up trip we took together! till my last breath! I'll Always want you baby!

[@stevenferruzza7928]

The extended version was worth waiting for. Extended to dance on and on. The 1980's music. Original new wave electronic plays forever. Thank you dj discocat

[@rodrigobolinhadj1]

alo amigo ou amiga

[@AmyLSacks]

One of those buy-jewelry-by-phone channels used to have a station-break riff which sounded almost exactly like the opening bars of this song. Once I pointed this out to my husband, we'd always start singing, "Don't you want some jewelry?" whenever we tuned into the channel. :D

[@rodrigobolinhadj1]

tudo bem amigo ou amiga

[@nygelmiller5293]

To Amy L.Saks. WOW!That's so cool!

[@keithinaz9769]

After getting kicked in the boys 5 times, one event, then stabbed in the arm, I finally realized I was a lucky man in April 1987. This event changed my life for SURE. Never called police but this was within 1 hour of Lake Arrowhead, CA Running Springs. FACT 🙂🙂🙂

[@keithinaz9769]

Persons, two, we're both female.

[@DOMOZORROORROZOMOD]

A pearl necklace? 😱

[@theturkeyhead57]

Another of my “go-to” songs that kept em on the dance floor in the early 80’s! Wow, wish I had THIS remix back then! It was basically vocal to instrumental track, and back! Thanks for a GREAT mix! ...as usual!!! 👍🏽✔️😎

[@dj1rons]

I know Right? I feel the same way. We had nothing like this to throw out to the floor! Thank you @djdiscocat

[@rodrigobolinhadj1]

tudo bem amigo ou amiga

[@joseluisramirez8163]

Excelente versión, para oírla una y otra vez!!!! Saludos.

[@rodrigobolinhadj1]

oi tudo bem amigo ou amiga

[@donfirus4278]

Hermosa canción 🤩🤩

[@alanoszy1159]

Great song in 80's and still great now and very great long version too🕺💃👍

[@rodrigobolinhadj1]

oi

[@lufra180]

Very nice!!!!

[@jamesmonroe7903]

This techno-pop masterpiece is now NEW and IMPROVED-thanks to D-Cat!👏

[@rodrigobolinhadj1]

olha eu tudo bem amigo ou amiga

[@hakeemabdellah1192]

Very dope!

[@Pasadenaboy27]

This song came out the year I was born.

[@AmyLSacks]

What?! Speak up, Kid. I can't hear you! ;)

[@DJDiscoCat]

I was 21.

[@deanhall4064]

@@DJDiscoCat I was 8 years old at the time, loved the Human League then and still do to this day along with another one of my bands back then Duran, Duran

[@paulinegreig2147]

10 yrs old when Dare was released, still a fan to this day, love The Human League 😉

[@Nina0116SJR]

I was 4 years old when it came out. (Throughout the late 1980s and into the early 1990s, a local radio station continued to regularly play late 70s and early 80s music, so I was 11 or 12 when I finally heard it all the way through, fell in love with it, and recorded it from the radio onto a blank cassette tape).

[@deborahheckanderson7463]

I love this song

[@andrewclowes6242]

The first time I heard this song I was working as a waiter in a cocktail bar called "The Ports" on Yonge Street.

[@virgilwyatt4632]

Toronto, huh?

[@DJDiscoCat]

I moved to Toronto in 1983 to work at McDonald's at King and Dufferin, just outside the Expo grounds. The club scene at that time was phenomenal! So many good places to dance and drink! I did not know The Ports, where on Yonge St was it?

[@andrewclowes6242]

@@DJDiscoCat The Ports was at Yonge & Summerhill. (Now a condo of course). It was a complex of a restaurant, a dinner Theater a bar and meeting spaces.

[@DJDiscoCat]

@@andrewclowes6242 Nice neighborhood there...I was Broadview & Danforth, it was very Greek at the time.

[@daveybaby1212]

I'm from Buffalo, NY loved Toronto one of my favorite places

[@alaingodin9775]

souvenir souvenir love that thanks

[@Vin3Man]

So simple yet so engrossing...

[@marcjacobs5988]

We're all part of 'the human league'...... Perfect mix!

[@josesalomao7602]

Bom dia à todos apreciadores da boa música dos anos 80 e 90 muito Boa essa versão da D.L , OITENTISTA PARA SEMPRE SAÚDE PARA TODOS FORTALEZA CE B BRASIL

[@josesalomao7602]

T .H.L

[@juanro9078]

Excellent!👍

[@ryanjackson846]

Loving these last couple of songs!

[@rodrigobolinhadj1]

oi amigo

[@EduardoHernandez-nm4qv]

Excelente Rola,de mi Decada de los 80,s cuando lo único qué podía yo hacer era escuchar las transmisiones atraves de las RadioDifusoras Radio Capital en AM,Radio 590 La Pantera, igual Frecuencia AM,Sonomil 101 en la Frecuencia de FM y KosmoEstereo 103 el punto de Encuentro! Gracias por publicar

[@moncesoto1996]

Extrsordinaria ls version inpecable que temazo y con.estos efectos te quedo salvaje felicita0ciones mas estro maravilloso tu trabajo graciass totales👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

[@rodrigobolinhadj1]

tudo bem amiga

[@foofee6617]

Please Please Please do (Keep Feeling) Fascination!!! This isn't a remix, it's the first breath of my new life. I have been reborn, again DJDISCOCAT!!! And how did you know I ABSOLUTELY adore The Human League. They are the best!!!

[@RomanL.N]

I remember this song very well!Thx DJDCV2!

[@traciepearce1888]

This brings me back good memories. 🎹

[@rodrigobolinhadj1]

tudo bem

[@juanbetanzo5169]

Excelente Versión,viva los años 80...

[@rodrigobolinhadj1]

alo tudo bem amigo ou amiga

[@martinenathalierioux1711]

Thanks a lot from 🇨🇦 Quebec City 👌

[@paulinegreig2147]

10 yrs old when Dare was released, still a huge fan to this day ☺

[@rodrigobolinhadj1]

oi amiga

[@kadappakaroshi858]

Oh my Jesus is there any such song on this earth? My God what an alluring is the singers voice with perfect combination of drum cover Totally genius PROF KSK BELGAUM CITY KARNATAKA INDIA

[@ForeignerFan74]

Love This Song!

[@rodrigobolinhadj1]

alo amigo

[@auboy77]

arguably the quintessential “New Wave” song

[@anngonzalez7058]

Heard this song so many times growing up cool song which I still enjoy the great memories of a fantastic song

[@capitolia]

Wonderful! At last the DiscoCat treatment for this glory!

[@rodrigobolinhadj1]

helo tudo bem amigo ou amiga

[@carlobelmont5629]

Very good 🎉, WOW

[@stevie5443]

Don't You Want Me was new in the Top 10 📻 climbing to #1 💖this week in 1982 💜💙💛💚💜💙💛.

[@calinempl]

Memories 80' ❤❤❤ New wave

[@mikeots50]

Thank You So much

[@coreantiger5210]

둠칫둠칫!

[@virgilwyatt4632]

I use to watch the music video to this on WTBS on a show called "TBS Night Tracks."

[@deensf3201]

Virgil, wasn't that the must see tv of our time, along with USA Night Flight! The good ol' days, CRTS glowing in the dark of Livingrooms, basement received rooms and the like.

[@masterblaster2765]

Damn, just noticed my son's account is still signed in, oh well. Anyhoo, I was just telling someone the other day that I had to keep shouting, "I want my MTV" for what seemed like forever because the tiny town in Indiana I grew up in didn't get it until like '83 or '84 and since local radio was stuck playing Journey, REO and Skynyrd (not that there's anything wrong with that but c'mon!!!) the only way this former DJ could keep up with "cutting edge" was shows like Night Tracks and Night Flight and wishing they were on every day of the week.

[@virgilwyatt4632]

@@deensf3201 I always thought this track premiered in 1983 or 1984. I listed as having dropped in 1981. Also, I TOTALLY FORGOT about USA Night ✈️ ! Thanks for that reminder!

[@deensf3201]

Aloha Virgil, TV was so much more entertaining, and that both of us recall those programs, tho I'm pretty sure, we're not alone on that recall. Those became the good old days in short time.😆 Be well, Sir!

[@AndyG13GLA]

RA5: Another timeless classic given the Cat’s touch.

[@barp2086]

Best synth ever song!

[@mgtow-balance3409]

no way yo. almost the whole 80s had killer synths. but yeah i agree that it's one of the all-time greats

[@TheFevernight]

So many memories with this track. At my parties i always played this track.😄🎈🎆🎶🎵🎼💃👍

[@lithajones-bs2hy]

You came in my life I got u on the west coast don't need u now mistreded me 5 year's

[@0511ruben]

Hola que tal los saludo desde barranquilla Colombia desde muy joven eh escuchado esta música desde el año 1979 y todavía la escucho me gusta mucho los temas diferentes o versiones extended que no son tan comunes tengo muchas canciones en versiones largas gracias!!

[@lisalane7648]

🎶❤️More💜Than 🖤Beautiful🤎 💛 Amazing💚 Fabulous 💙 🧡Perfecto🖤🤍 Dance, ✝️ 🖤Friends💙& Music.♥️🎶 Enjoy Be Thankful...♥️🦋♥️

[@mildredbrown516]

HECK YEA !!🤣👏🙋‍♀️🙆‍♀️💃🕺

[@paulpeterson3923]

Dont forget the sony walkman loved it my best friend lol

[@paulpeterson3923]

Dumb cassette only not like today utube Bluetooth nice n better times wow

[@paulpeterson3923]

We all had such good times so young

[@edymarques6692]

Amo essa página ❤😍💃🕺

[@rodrigobolinhadj1]

tudo bem amigo ou amiga

[@yuspapillon7070]

salah 1 lagu di era taon 82an.. salah 1 lagu new wave favorit.. 🌹💖📼💿🎶🎵🎼📀🎤🎧💃🕺🏽🙏👍👍👌😍😎™

[@simonepalla8717]

Pezzo incedibile sembra fatto ora , io nelle mie serate in vinile metto sempre la parte strumentale

[@MissBB-bd1je]

Don't you wanna me babe 💞💞💝💖💖 💖💖💝💝

[@cmwaters84]

My fav song by Human League!

[@tomnikula4392]

Yes, my favorit song. Loved the video 🕺🕺🕺😄🇫🇮

[@deborahheckanderson7463]

Love love love

[@trevk9619]

Wow i was 15 when this song came out now i,m 55 I dont wear masscara these days or have a perry but still love this song,😁

[@antonioalbinocazeira824]

Eita saudades da boate Barilloche em Recife. Tempo bom 👏👏👏👏

[@rodrigobolinhadj1]

tudo bem amigo

[@jorgepaulino6642]

toquei nela em 2009 dj jorge sntana

[@thierry6769]

memory of the eighties, I love💜💙🤎many thanks DJ.

[@cesar0223]

great version of one of best song in 80's

[@groovecollector1732]

Cool...Human League...Xtension!!! Top!!! Thanks!

[@josedominguez2021]

SUPERBBB!!!!!

[@paulpeterson3923]

I had one mom that my best it was it really was she knew her son I loved it

[@paulpeterson3923]

40 years omg uffda

[@lawrencepizzi7067]

DARE was the first cassette I played in my WalkMan... I got both for X-mas 1981 (Genova, Italy). Then in the summer of 1984, this hit the charts again in the States and I enjoyed it all over again.

[@mgtow-balance3409]

lol @ sony walkman!!

[@AntmanBee]

Yes DJDISCOCAT WE WANT YOU!!!!!

[@vicentealvarez6723]

No tiene desperdicio Sublime nunca se olvidara BOA VIAGEM

[@fotografere2968]

I moved to Sheffield to go to University and I thought I would see the Human League around time. This (foolish) notion was boosted by seeing one of the band I'm the supermarket a week later! It took 10 years though before my claim to fame, my girlfriend had her hair cut by the woman who also cut the girl's hair. Occasionally I did bump into Phil in the street. Sheffield was a great place for music!

[@sylvielopez2686]

Tank you very much merci beaucoup

[@kabluey_louie1718]

I wish I could've lived thru the 70s and 80s. Great music, great fashion, great cars and great drugs🤣🤣🤣🤣 Edit: I laughed so hard at that, I cracked my fucking back. AAARRRRRGGGGG lol

[@Whisky_Tango_Foxtrot-jc5uq]

That is a fucking classic 👌

[@iseee3387]

.....all the time......💋🔥

[@alfredbrown7608]

Awesome job one of 80s favorite

[@adadc4052]

Love the extended synth introduction!!

[@rodrigobolinhadj1]

tudo bem

[@aeroman568]

23 years old been collection records for a few years and just got into all the 12" mixes which got me to this channel. Love all of your mixes! If you are ever looking for some hidden 80's bangers that could use a mix let me know!

[@rodrigobolinhadj1]

tudo bem amigo ou amiga um abraço

[@madeleinekarlssonbengtsson]

Love this song

[@AlphaOzoku]

❤ this is a great song. I would love to see him post my all time human league favorite human

[@hiker2742]

Excellent, I was trippin during this groovy tune!

[@novawax]

I was seven when I watched this video in a color TV 📺 for the first time.

[@ceephaxx]

It'll be the 40th anniversary of "The League Unlimited Orchestra" remix album in a couple of years' time. This deserves to be on it as a special bonus!

[@rodrigobolinhadj1]

tudo bem amigo ou amiga ok

[@user-gp5qj7nl6s]

ya somos mas de ochomil millones de seres humanos que dependemos del trabajo para sobrevivir tambien los cantantes

[@paulpeterson3923]

Will do try my best of those good times