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''Human's Lib'' is the debut album by British pop musician Howard Jones. It was released in March 1984〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Howard Jones Discography – Albums )〕 and entered the UK Album Charts at the no. 1 spot, spending a total of 57 weeks in the charts. The album sold 100,000 copies in its first week of release〔 and has been certified 2× Platinum by the BPI for sales in excess of 600,000 copies.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Certified Awards Search )〕 The album went gold in many European countries and was a big hit in Japan and also went gold in the US. Four songs from this album were released as singles in the UK, all of which reached the top 20: "New Song" peaked at #3,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Chart Stats – Howard Jones – New Song )〕 "What Is Love?" at #2,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Chart Stats – Howard Jones – What Is Love )〕 "Hide and Seek" at #12,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Chart Stats – Howard Jones – Hide And Seek )〕 and "Pearl in the Shell" at #7.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Chart Stats – Howard Jones – Pearl in the Shell )〕 "New Song" and "What Is Love?" also made it into the Billboard charts in the US-going top 30. "Equality" was released as a single only in South Africa, as a commentary about the policy of apartheid there at the time.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Howard Jones Discography – Singles )〕 At the beginning of the NCIS episode ''Detour'' someone in the NCIS office shows his Human's Lib t-shirt. ==Reception== In a contemporary review for ''The Village Voice'', music critic Robert Christgau panned ''Human's Lib'' as a "revolving self-help manual" marred by Howard's "ressentiment" and unadorned synthpop.〔 ''NME'' said, "It's as hard to distinguish his music as it is to distinguish it from your carpet; conveniently, though, the lyrics are printed on the inner sleeve so that we may fully appreciate the complete lack of any novel observation in the songs... What's so amusing about Jones' songwriting is the glib manner in which he brandishes threadbare platitudes as unique insights."〔 Mike DeGagne of Allmusic was more favorable in a retrospective review and wrote, "the tracks on ''Human's Lib'' are energetic and colorful" and that "the album still holds well".〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Human's Lib」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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