Tell Me When

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The song fared well on the Mainstream Top 40 chart, where it peaked at number nine on 22 April 1995. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. They added, "But the tune is an infectious anachronism—the synthesizer trio still tinkle about as soullessly as they did in 1982, when they hit No. By the time of its release, the single received over one thousand plays per week across the board according to East West Records. A music video was produced to promote the single, and was shot entirely on location in Prague [ citation needed] in the Czech Republic.

Oakey took issue with this description and said in an interview that the band had never stopped recording and performing since its formation in 1977. People Magazine stated that "their hot new single 'Tell Me When' has made the Human League hip again".

Released in a variety of vinyl and CD single formats, these variously included remixes of "Tell Me When" by contemporary electronic acts Utah Saints, Development Corporation and Red Jerry, a non-album B-side ("The Bus to Crookes"), and a track from the band's recent collaboration with Yellow Magic Orchestra. head of music Richard Park welcomed the single, saying "the marketplace is just ready for a fresh dose of the Human League". It peaked at number six on the UK Singles Chart in early 1995, their highest UK chart position since " (Keep Feeling) Fascination" reached number two in 1983, and spent a total of nine weeks on the chart. It opens with Catherall and Sulley in the Wallenstein Gardens, where leaves are blowing upwards instead of downwards. In the US, it peaked at number 31 on the Billboard Hot 100, number 15 on the Billboard Hot Dance Club Play chart and number eight on the Cash Box Top 100.

The band then performs in the main hall of the Wallenstein Palace, surrounded by lit candles and candelabras.It received considerable radio promotion in advance of its late 1994 UK release, hitting the airwaves at a time when many people started to get Christmas song fatigue. Jennifer Nine from Melody Maker viewed it as "a brightly hopeful, wafer-thin compendium of standard League traits, including that pocket calculator-powered "funky" breakdown. And the (then) mixers du jour Utah Saints sprinkled their magic dust over what was already an accomplished slab of gorgeousness to churn out an even bigger dancefloor stonker. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.

Then there is the tendency to fiddle with the original to such an extent it almost becomes unrecognisable from the outstanding original. Another NME editor, Paul Moody, viewed it as "sublimely clumsy" with "this killer Human League chorus all over it, the sort that rings around your brain like a nursery rhyme from Mars. In his weekly UK chart commentary, James Masterton said, "It may not be the biggest new hit of the week but it is certainly the most significant", concluding with that it is "sounding like typical Human League of old".David Sinclair of The Times commented, "All the familiar components are here join-the-dots tune, danceable synth-pop arrangement, catchy bubblegum chorus but the result sounds disconcertingly like the Human League by numbers. Tell Me When" became the Human League's most commercially successful single in nine years and reintroduced the band to many of the British general public. Tell Me When" is a song by English synth-pop band the Human League, released in December 1994 by East West Records as the first single from their seventh album, Octopus (1995).