Telekon + 6 Bonus Tracks - Gary Numan

Not for grown ups. (1257 words)
by MisterReview - written on 20/10/09 (Very useful, 60 readings)
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doubt this album would work today. It lacks the sophistication, artistically and technically that is demanded of consumers today. It worked back then because it, or should I say G Gary Numan was different and fresh. I like this album, but it sounds stale when I compare it with what was emerging - bands like Duran Duran, Depeche Mode, Human League (post Travelogue), Ultravox (post John Foxx). Quite simply it hadn t moved on since its predecessor, The Pleasure Principle. The album opens with the dire This Wreckage and you immediately know that Numan is about to have a moan about something. It is a slow dull track. Whether the synths arpeggios at the beginning are ...

The Pleasure Principle + 7 Bonus Tracks - Gary Numan

Complex? No it is rather simple actually. (1170 words)
by MisterReview - written on 20/10/09, updated on 17/11/09 (Very useful, 55 readings)
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contains the following 11. Random 12. Oceans 13. Asylum 14. Me I Disconnect From You 15. Bombers. The review will only consider the original album tracks G Gary Numan is an electronic artist whose fame was at its peak in from 1979 to 1981, the year in which he retired . He started out as a punk and, as Tubeway Army, they cut their first album of that name. Which hada punk edge to it - during those recording sessions he found a synthesizer in the studio which influenced his next album Replicas , which included the massive hit Are Friends Electric? which hit the radio waves in the Summer of 1979. Numan s sudden leap to fame meant he had to bring out an album to ...

The Pleasure Principle + 7 Bonus Tracks - Gary Numan

Gary Numan (169 words)
by LukeAndrews - written on 27/11/08 (Very useful, 28 readings)
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is no exeption. g Gary Numan is the silliest musician ever to rise to fame. Immortalised by this album he now tries to distance himself from, cars is inevitably the song people now about, and in case there was any wonder, its this album you will find it on. SO.... is it any good? in my opinion, its ok. he is yet to gather any ...