The Human League - The Very Best of The Human League

Synth Pop, Dance Pop, Dance Rock, New Romantics? Seriously people all these genre tags are post period labels. This is just New Wave.

And New Wave was the logic consequence of punk music. Playable non mainstream music without the screaming.
The Human League was a trendsetting band. Not only it was one of the first bands introducing and using full synthesizers and they did that in a very very professional way. But they also were fashionable enough to hire a director of visuals to do slideshows.
Funny enough the founding members, synth players Martyn Ware and Ian Marsh both left the band, leaving singer Philip Oakey with a tiny winy little problem: he didn't know how to play a synthesizer :-)

But Oakey somehow managed, hired some people to join the band and literally came up with two schoolgirls, Susanne Sulley and Joanne Catherall to do backing vocals. And it is exactly that what brought them the famous eighties sound, scoring big hits like Love Action, Don't You Want Me Baby, Fascination and The Lebanon.

My choice: Louise. Because it is like the one slow song they ever scored a hit with.

The album contains 17 original greats plus a bonus CD with 11 remixes and is worth the money 100%.