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Gary Numan
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Isn't it time this artist was better known for more than just 'Are 'Friends' Electric?' and 'Cars'?
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Agreed, Radio Heart, Down in the Park, I die you die. All great songs. It is just a shame that non fans only know him for Cars & Are Friends Electric.
I think with this upcoming Machine Music tour in Summer, it'd be a wonderful chance for fans, and new ones, to see him perform some of his best stuff before he goes to live in America.
Brilliant album though
Laughed my head off when Alan Partridge 'danced' and did air guitar to 'Music For Chameleons'.
I think Numan's later, darker, more industrial work has divided fans, but I find it fantastic all the same.
Such a great moment!
Numan performed MFC on Jim'll Fix It, and the kid who gets to meet him looks so underwhelmed about the whole experience!
I've seen that kid on Numan's official Facebook page.. despite 'looking'underwhelmed he's still a big fan or so it seems
I think his 'Dead Son Rising' album is a return to form. Seems to have finally caught a 21st Century sensibility.
Personally I thought 'Telekon' was his best album. :cool:
He was brilliant @ Sonisphere a couple of years and he looked like he was having a great time as well.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hh1AypBaIEk
Zero recognition from the British Music industry just like Depeche Mode had influences on House music. No special BRITS for them.
I'll go out on a limb here and say my fave albums are Dance, I Assasin, Strange Charm and of course PP
fave live album has to be LO 79 and White Noise
wonder what else he'll do live, I was happy with the Telekon, Replicas and PP Tour, but to hear some more obscure stuff will be brill
You think so? He used both keyboards and guitars in the past and has never been solely synthesizer based.
If anything the fact he can play at festivals like Sonisphere and receive a warm reception shows his broad appeal as an artist.
I know so. Bought his records since I was a kid and even did some work with him over the course of a couple of years. His early Machine trilogy of Replicas, Pleasure Principle and Telekon will never be equalled and it is these records he is respected for today not Dead Son Rising or any of his other "I hate God" nonsense.
Numan is at least more than a two hit wonder...'I die, You die', 'Music for Chameleons', 'Praying to the Aliens', 'Down in the Park'. I have to admit being a fan from seeing the 7" version of Down in the Park pinned to the window of Caroline Music and then told all my friends I had discovered this amazing new artist and I hadn't even listened to the record. Luckily, it actually was amazing and a few weeks later 'Are Friends Electric' was no 1 and I looked like very prophetic.
I went to see him two years ago in Belfast and he was still good.
Yes, that was actually quite brilliant and NIN do a great version of Joy Division's 'Atmosphere'. NIN must be fans of late 70s electronic music!