Tell Me When

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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. As it was the first commercial release in the UK by the band for four years it is often incorrectly described as a comeback as many people erroneously believed the band had disbanded in 1990. 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".

Music Week rated the single five out of five, describing it as "pristine synth pop as a deep Oakey lead and girl harmonies make this the most joyful single of the week. 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). Dave Thompson of AllMusic said it echoes earlier material, likening it to " Fascination" and " Mirror Man".But isn't that what the League have always had, in abundance, with more than a modicum of electronic auteur thrown in?

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. 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. He went further, saying that "the real difference is found in the vignette-esque lyrics and the more complex vocals.

It opens with Catherall and Sulley in the Wallenstein Gardens, where leaves are blowing upwards instead of downwards. 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 the video, well-known sites in the city can be seen, as Wenceslas Square, Prague Castle and Wallenstein Garden. 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. The song fared well on the Mainstream Top 40 chart, where it peaked at number nine on 22 April 1995.