Soundtrack to a Generation (album)

Soundtrack to a Generation is the title of a compilation album released by The Human League in 1996 on the  budget  Disky label. It takes its name from the eponymous song and single by the group which is also included on the compilation.

The compilation was released a few weeks after their 1995 studio album Octopus had been enjoying continued success in the UK charts.

Soundtrack to a Generation is the first compilation album of the group's work to feature both singles and album tracks, as opposed to just singles. In fact among the fourteen tracks featured, only four were singles released by the group, the rest being album tracks, plus the non-Human League single 'Together in Electric Dreams'.

The artwork is credited to the van Dijken studio who also designed other CD covers and booklets for Disky. The front cover features a photograph of the three core group members of the time, Oakey, Sulley and Catherall. The same photograph is used for the rear of the CD, superimposed with the album tracklisting, and for the CD label itself. The group names appears as 'Human League' without the definite article in a stylised logo unique to this release.

Tracklisting
timings as stated on the CD booklet

1. Human  (4:28)

2. Kiss the Future (4:14)

3. Together in Electric Dreams (3:53)

4. Are You Ever Coming Back? (4:53)

5. Betrayed (4:03)

6. Hard Times (5:11)

7. Get It Right This Time (4:13)

8. I Need Your Loving (3:45)

9. Do or Die (5:24)

10. Rebound (3:57)

11. Soundtrack to a Generation (4:35)

12. Empire State Human (3:13)

13. The Real Thing (4:18)

14. Don't You Know I Want You (3:09)

Tracklisting analysis
Original year of release: 1979 (1), 1981 (2), 1984 (3), 1986 (4), 1990 (4)

Singles: 5 (including ' Together in Electric Dreams')

Album tracks: 8

B-sides: 1 (Hard Times)

Track notes
Human: this is the longer album version of the song rather than the edited single version

Together in Electric Dreams: the track is not credited as being recorded and released by Oakey and Moroder so to an outsider appears as a Human League track.

Hard Times: this is the version which appears on the A side of the Hard Times/Love Action 12" single and is slightly longer than most other recordings of the track featured on other compilations, which usually fade out before the cat sound at the very end.

Rebound and Soundtrack to a Generation feature as consecutive tracks although in reverse order compared to their original release on Romantic?