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1981 single by the Human League

"Don't You Want Me"
Single past the Human League
from the album Cartel
B-side	"Seconds"
Released	27 November 1981
Recorded	1981
Genre	New wave synthpop[1]
Length	iii:57
Label	Virgin
Songwriter(s)	Jo Callis Philip Oakey Philip Adrian Wright
Producer(s)	Martin Rushent
The Human being League singles chronology
"Open Your Heart" (1981) "Don't You Want Me" (1981) "Being Boiled" (1982)
Music video
"Don't You lot Want Me" on YouTube

"Don't Y'all Want Me" is a unmarried past British synthpop group the Human League (credited on the cover as The Human League 100). It was released on 27 Nov 1981 as the quaternary unmarried from their third studio album Dare (1981). The band'due south all-time known and nigh commercially successful vocal, it was the biggest selling UK single of 1981,^[ii] that year'southward Christmas number 1, and has since sold over 1,560,000 copies in the UK, making it the 23rd-most successful single in UK Singles Chart history.^[3] Information technology topped the Billboard Hot 100 in the US on 3 July 1982, where information technology stayed for iii weeks.

In November 1983, Rolling Stone named information technology the "breakthrough song" of the Second British Invasion of the United states of america.^[4] In 2015, the vocal was voted by the British public as the nation'due south seventh-favourite 1980s number one in a poll for ITV.^[five]

Groundwork [edit]

The lyrics were inspired after lead vocalist Philip Oakey read a photo-story in a teen-girl's mag. Though the vocal had been conceived and recorded in the studio equally a male solo, Oakey was inspired past the film A Star Is Born and decided to turn the song into a conflicting duet with ane of the ring's two teenage female person vocalists. Susan Ann Sulley was so asked to take on the role. Until and so, she and the other female person vocalist, Joanne Catherall, had merely been assigned backing vocals; Sulley says she was chosen only through "luck of the depict".^[half-dozen] Musicians Jo Callis and Philip Adrian Wright created a synthesizer score to accompany the lyrics that was much harsher than the version that was actually released. Initial versions of the song were recorded just Virgin Records-appointed producer Martin Rushent was unhappy with them. He and Callis remixed the track, giving it a softer, and in Oakey's opinion, "poppy" sound. Oakey hated the new version and thought it would be the weakest rail on Cartel, resulting in i of his infamous rows with Rushent.^[7] Oakey disliked it so much that information technology was relegated to the terminal track on side two of the album.

Before the release of Dare, iii of its tracks—"The Audio of the Oversupply", "Honey Action (I Believe in Love)", and "Open Your Eye"—had already been released as successful singles. With a hitting album and three hit singles in a row, Virgin's chief executive Simon Draper decided to release one more single from the album before the end of 1981. His choice, "Don't Yous Want Me", instantly caused a row with Oakey, who did not desire another unmarried to be released because he was convinced that "the public were now sick of hearing" the ring and the selection of the "poor quality filler track" would almost certainly be a disaster, wrecking the group'due south new-institute popularity. The ring felt the track was "our sort of Des O'Connor song."^[8] Virgin were adamant that a quaternary single would exist released and Oakey finally agreed on the condition that a big colour affiche accompany the vii" single, considering he felt fans would "feel ripped off" by the 'substandard' single alone.^[9]

The Human being League often added cryptic references to their productions and the record sleeve of "Don't You Want Me" featured the suffix of "100". This was a reference to The 100 Club, a restaurant/bar in Sheffield.^[10]

Today, the song is widely considered a classic of its era. In a retrospective review, Stephen Thomas Erlewine, senior editor for AllMusic, described the song every bit "a devastating chronicle of a frayed romance wrapped in the greatest pop hooks and product of its year."^[11] Young man new wave musician Graham Parker praised the song, maxim, "I but love that catchy chorus."^[12] Oakey even so describes it as overrated, but acknowledges his initial dismissal was misguided and claims pride in the track.^{[ citation needed ]} Oakey is also at pains to point out another misconception: that information technology is non a dear song, but "a nasty song nigh sexual power politics."^[13]

Chart operation and sales [edit]

"Don't You Want Me" was released in the UK on 27 Nov 1981. The B-side was "Seconds", another track lifted straight from the Dare album. Every bit with previous singles, a 12" version was also issued featuring the original version of "Don't You lot Want Me" and "Seconds" on the A-side and an "extended dance mix" lasting 7 and a one-half minutes on the B-side. This mix is also featured on the Love and Dancing anthology that was released under the proper name of the League Unlimited Orchestra in 1982.

To the anaesthesia of the band (and particularly Oakey),^[fourteen] the song entered the United kingdom Singles Chart at #9 and shot to #one the following calendar week, remaining at that place over the Christmas catamenia for a full of five weeks. It ultimately became the biggest-selling single to be released in 1981, and the fifth biggest-selling single of the unabridged decade. Its success was repeated 6 months later in the US, with "Don't You Want Me" hitting #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 for three weeks. Billboard mag ranked it as the sixth-biggest hit of 1982. The single was certified Golden past the RIAA the same yr for sales of a one thousand thousand copies. "Don't You Want Me" is notable as the first vocal featuring the revolutionary Linn LM-1 drum machine to hit #1 on the United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland charts and too the offset LM-1 runway to top the Billboard Hot 100.^{[ commendation needed ]}

After the ring scored a number of hits for Warner's eastwest label, the song was remixed and issued by Virgin as a CD,^[15] cassette^[xvi] and 12" single in October 1995. This version featured new remixes past Hooj Choons' Cherry Jerry and High german Eurodance duo Snap!, and would tiptop at #16 on the Great britain singles nautical chart.^[17] The release coincided with the consequence of the group's 2d Greatest Hits compilation anthology shortly afterwards (which featured the Snap 7 inch remix), while the principal seven inch remix by Blood-red Jerry was put on At present 32 by Virgin/EMI/Polygram, alongside dance acts similar Goldie, Candy Girls and Wildchild.^[18]

As of November 2012, "Don't Y'all Want Me" was the 23rd acknowledged single in the Britain, with 1.55 one thousand thousand copies sold.^[3] On 23 March 2014, the song re-entered the UK Singles Chart at #19 and debuted at #one in the Scottish singles charts thanks to a social media campaign by fans of Aberdeen Football Club.^[19] In 2022 it was reported to be the 43rd most successful unmarried in UK chart history with sales and streams combined.^[20]

In 2021, Viacom International Studios put into production a music chart programme called The 80s Greatest Hits 1980-1989 for Channel 5^[21] and asked the Official Charts Company (OCC) to provide the countdowns for the series, based on the best-selling singles for each yr. When the 1981 episode was broadcast (now under the title of Great britain's Favourite 80's Songs)^[22] "Don't You Want Me" was placed at number one,^[two] with the OCC now confirming information technology was the official all-time-selling song of 1981 with an estimated 1.15 million sales (previously the title had gone to "Tainted Love" by Soft Jail cell, which now has been put in second place with 1.05 one thousand thousand sales).

Music video [edit]

In 1981, tape company Virgin were becoming enlightened that the promotional music video was evolving into an important marketing tool, with MTV being launched that year. Because information technology was agreed^{[ by whom? ]} that the video for "Open Your Heart" had looked "cheap and nasty",^{[ commendation needed ]} Virgin commissioned a much more elaborate and expensive promotional video for "Don't You Desire Me".

The video for the song was filmed near Slough, Berkshire, during Nov 1981 and has the theme of the filming and editing of a murder-mystery film, featuring the band members as characters and product staff. Because it is a "making-of" video, both crew and photographic camera apparatus appear throughout. The video was conceived and directed by the Irish gaelic filmmaker Steve Barron, and has at its core the interaction between a successful actress (as well a 2d negative cutter) played by Susan Ann Sulley walking out on "film director" Philip Oakey on a film set. It is loosely based on the picture A Star Is Born. Near the end of the video, Wright, who also plays a movie editor, has an expression on his face while the camera pulls dorsum to reveal that the negative room where Oakey, Wright and Sulley were working is yet another set (the camera tin can be seen in the mirror's reflection).

Filmed on a cold, wet winter night, the video was shot on 35mm picture instead of the cheaper videotape prevalent at the fourth dimension. Sulley claims that Barron was heavily influenced past the cinematography in Ultravox's video for "Vienna" (directed by Russell Mulcahy before that year). Barron was also influenced past François Truffaut and his picture show Day for Night, and, because of that, the clapperboard seen in the video bears the inscription "Le League Humaine" every bit a tribute to Truffaut.

The video is credited^{[ by whom? ]} for making Oakey, Sulley and Catherall visual icons of the early 1980s, but it became controversial later^{[ commendation needed ]} for a scene involving the murder-mystery pic subplot in which Jo Callis appears to shoot Catherall (and later in the video repeated with Oakey shooting Sulley) with a pistol from a automobile window (a Saab 99 turbo). The scene is cut out of the DVD version and unremarkably when shown on music tv, replaced with a montage of other shots from the video edited in wearisome motility. The other motorcar used in the video is a gilt W-reg (1981–82) Rover SD1 carrying the registration plate "GCK 68W". DVLA records show that this automobile's final period of Vehicle Excise Duty expired on 24 April 1992. In a 1995 interview, Catherall mentioned that the machine Callis was driving had to exist pushed into shot equally he could not drive at the time, to which Sulley added "he notwithstanding can't!"^[23]

The video was released in Dec 1981.

Runway listing [edit]

1981 release [edit]

vii" vinyl (Virgin VS466)

1. "Don't Y'all Want Me" – iii:57
2. "Seconds" – 4:59

12" vinyl (Virgin VS466-12)

1. "Don't You Want Me" – 3:57
2. "Seconds" – iv:59
3. "Don't Yous Want Me (Ext. Trip the light fantastic Mix)" – 7:30

1995 release [edit]

CD (Virgin VSCDT1557)

1. "Don't You lot Want Me (Cherry Jerry 7" Remix)" - iii:43
2. "Don't You Want Me (Snap vii" Remix)" - three:58
3. "Don't You Want Me (Red Jerry 12" Remix)" - 6:xi
4. "Don't Yous Desire Me (Snap 12" Extended Remix)" - 6:14
5. "Don't You Desire Me (Blood-red Jerry Dub Mix)" - seven:01
6. "Don't You Want Me (Original Version)" - iii:57

12" vinyl (Virgin VST1557)

1. "Don't You Want Me (Snap 12" Extended Remix)" - half-dozen:12
2. "Don't You Desire Me (Cherry-red Jerry 12" Remix)" - 6:09

Cassette (Virgin VSC 1557)

1. "Don't Y'all Want Me (Red Jerry seven" Remix)" - iii:43
2. "Don't You Want Me (Snap 7" Remix)" - three:58
3. "Don't You lot Want Me (Crimson Jerry 12" Remix)" - 6:11
4. "Don't Yous Want Me (Original Version)" - 3:57

Charts and certifications [edit]

Mandy Smith version [edit]

"Don't You Want Me Infant"
Single by Mandy Smith
B-side	"If It Makes You Experience Skilful"
Released	May 1989
Recorded	1989
Genre	Popular
Length	3:44
Characterization	PWL
Songwriter(south)	Philip Oakey Jo Callis Philip Adrian Wright
Producer(south)	Pete Hammond
Mandy Smith singles chronology
"Victim of Pleasure" (1988) "Don't You lot Want Me Baby" (1989) "I Just Can't Wait (92' Remixes)" (1992)

In 1989, English language pop vocalist Mandy covered this song under the title of "Don't Yous Want Me Babe". Released every bit a standalone unmarried after her only album Mandy, it was as well Smith's final single and became her only single to striking the UK tiptop 75, peaking at No. 59. The B-side, "If It Makes You Experience Skilful", featured on the album. The song was included as a bonus rails on the 2009 reissue of her album.

Track listings [edit]

CD single

1. "Don't Y'all Want Me Baby"
2. "If It Makes You Feel Skilful"
3. "Don't You Want Me Baby" (Cocktail Mix)
4. "If It Makes You Feel Good" (Extended Version)

7" single

1. "Don't You Want Me Infant"
2. "If It Makes You Feel Good"

12" single

1. "Don't You Desire Me Infant" (Cocktail Mix)
2. "If It Makes You Feel Good" (Extended Version)

Charts [edit]

Chart (1989)	Superlative Position
United kingdom Singles Nautical chart[54]	59
Irish Singles Chart[55]	30

The Subcontract version [edit]

"Don't You Want Me"
Unmarried by the Farm
from the anthology Love Come across No Colour
B-side	"Evidently"
Released	October 1992
Recorded	1992
Length	4:12
Label	Terminate Product
Songwriter(due south)	Jo Callis Philip Oakey Philip Adrian Wright
Producer(south)	Mark Saunders
The Farm singles chronology
"Rising Sunday" (1992) "Don't You Want Me" (1992) "Love Meet No Colour" (re-mix)" (1992)

British band the Subcontract released a cover of "Don't You Desire Me" in October 1992 that reached #xviii in the UK charts, making it their 3rd most successful single afterward 1990'southward "All Together Now" and "Not bad Train". It was originally recorded for the NME charity album Cerise Trax.

An uncredited female singer sings atomic number 82 vocal on the second verse, equally sung by Susanne Sulley in the original version. The music video features sometime Manchester United footballer George Best mouthing along to the chorus.^[56]

Runway listings [edit]

CD unmarried

1. "Don't You Want Me"
2. "Don't You Desire Me" (Premier Mix)
3. "Evidently"
4. "Groovy Train" (Alternative Mix)

vii" single

1. "Don't You lot Want Me"
2. "Patently"

12" single

1. "Don't Yous Desire Me" (Premier Mix)
2. "Don't You Want Me" (20K Mix)
3. "Don't You lot Want Me" (Pickles Keef Mix)
4. "Peachy Train" (Alternative Mix)

Alcazar version [edit]

"Don't You Want Me"
Single by Alcazar
from the album Casino
Released	May 2002
Recorded	2001
Genre	Eurodance
Length	iii:27
Label	RCA Records BMG
Songwriter(south)	Jo Callis Philip Oakey Philip Adrian Wright
Alcazar singles chronology
"Sexual Guarantee" (2001) "Don't You Want Me" (2002) "Not a Sinner Nor a Saint" (2003)

"Don't You Desire Me" was recorded a Eurodance song by Swedish band Alcazar, released internationally in 2002. The vocal was included in the European version of Casino together with a few others. Information technology was recorded in Stockholm at first, but when the ring wanted it for a new pan-European single, a new version was fabricated.

The unmarried was released in Australia as a follow-upwardly to the successful unmarried "Crying at the Discoteque". The white 12-inch was released in Europe and distributed to DJs to become maximum airplay at the disco arenas.

"Don't You Desire Me" is Alcazar'southward biggest striking in the United States with 15 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, peaking at #30.

Music video [edit]

The video was filmed at Filmhuset in Stockholm, and was directed past Jesper Ganslandt. The video takes place in "Circus Alcazar" and is filled with horses, ducks, an evil parrot, acrobats, the Alcazar ballet (including a domestic dog in a pink ballerina dress) and Annikafiore's boyfriend juggling with fire in the background. The video shoot took nearly 23 hours.

Track listing [edit]

CD single

1. "Almighty Radio Edit" – iii:27
2. "Almighty Order Mix" – seven:25
3. "Project Eden Remix" – 7:34
4. "Earth Lodge Anthem" – x:24
5. "Wild Cowboys Radio Mix" – 3:38

Chart functioning [edit]

Chart (2002)	Peak position
Australian ARIA Singles Chart[57]	37
Belgian Singles Nautical chart (Flanders)[58]	21
Dutch Singles Chart[59]	83
Finnish Singles Chart[60]	18
Swedish Singles Chart[61]	30
Swiss Singles Chart[62]	76
Hot Trip the light fantastic Club Play[63]	30
Nihon[ citation needed ]	3

See too [edit]

• List of Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles of 1982

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External links [edit]

• "Don't You Want Me" at Discogs (list of releases)
• "Don't You Want Me" at The Black Striking of Space.dk
• The Human League - Don't You Want Me on YouTube

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