ILM Needs A New GARY NUMAN Thread...

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COUNT DOWN FROM 100!

100. "Telekon", "Dance" and "I, Assassin" are Gazza's "Low", "Heroes" and "Lodger"

― ZionTrain (ZionTrain), Thursday, 28 July 2005 15:13 (twenty years ago)

99. Tintinish behavior: Numan accused of being a spy after plane crash lands in desert

― Boring Satanic Space Jazz (sexyDancer), Thursday, 28 July 2005 15:16 (twenty years ago)

98. "The Need" : File Under Numan's Most Randy Moment.

― ZionTrain (ZionTrain), Thursday, 28 July 2005 15:51 (twenty years ago)

97. "I Die: You Die" submitted by Alex in NYC for consideration of inclusion in the Pantheon of Mankind's Greatest Ever Achievments.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 28 July 2005 16:04 (twenty years ago)

Hm, Alex beat me to the punch there.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 28 July 2005 16:05 (twenty years ago)

98."I Die: You Die" for championing-phonetics-in-the-chorus department: Hraah Dieey, Ahyuh Dieey!

― donut ferry (donut), Thursday, 28 July 2005 16:36 (twenty years ago)

95. "Metal"

― dar1a g, Thursday, 28 July 2005 19:25 (twenty years ago)

Hey, check out the link at the top right-hand corner of this Numan discography. hahahaha.

― dar1a g, Thursday, 28 July 2005 19:37 (twenty years ago)

94. He's one of Britain's top stunt pilots!

93. The lyric: 'My dog goes AWOL I blame you all'

― moley, Thursday, 28 July 2005 21:19 (twenty years ago)

there's a bunch of numan live stuff coming out next month.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 28 July 2005 21:20 (twenty years ago)

about time for a Nu album too surely

92. He named his daughter after Killing Joke's bass player!

― moley, Thursday, 28 July 2005 21:26 (twenty years ago)

91. His career nosedived in the eighties but he pulled himself back up again - just like one of his risky round the world plane trips!

― moley, Thursday, 28 July 2005 21:30 (twenty years ago)

90. "So now I'm alone / Now I can think for myself / About little deals / And SU's / And things that I just don't understand."

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 28 July 2005 21:32 (twenty years ago)

What the hell is an SU anyway?

― moley, Thursday, 28 July 2005 21:36 (twenty years ago)

don't ask gazza -- he doesn't understand it, either!

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 28 July 2005 21:38 (twenty years ago)

> What the hell is an SU anyway?

I read somewhere that "SU" are the initials of an ex-girlfriend.

― Palomino (Palomino), Thursday, 28 July 2005 22:03 (twenty years ago)

"significant uthers"?

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Thursday, 28 July 2005 22:16 (twenty years ago)

89. Featuring the Polymoog Keyboard's Vox Humana preset so prominently in his biggest hit that, as the "Gary Numan Sound", it became unusable for all other artists. (Heard even in isolation, it prompts the immediate comment, "Hey, cool - Cars!")

― Palomino (Palomino), Thursday, 28 July 2005 22:17 (twenty years ago)

88. I don't like the film

― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 28 July 2005 22:20 (twenty years ago)

87. I don't like the actors.

― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 28 July 2005 22:20 (twenty years ago)

86. Pull it all down.

― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 28 July 2005 22:21 (twenty years ago)

85. for ripping off klaus nomi's look for his berserker album cover.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 28 July 2005 22:27 (twenty years ago)

84. "Me and the telephone that never rings"

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Thursday, 28 July 2005 22:52 (twenty years ago)

What the hell is an SU anyway?

I always thought he was saying "issues"?

― Telephonething (Telephonething), Friday, 29 July 2005 01:04 (twenty years ago)

There's more than one - 'little deals and SU's'.

― moley (moley), Friday, 29 July 2005 01:05 (twenty years ago)

83. nash the slash's crazed playing on numan's early records

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Friday, 29 July 2005 01:39 (twenty years ago)

82. billy currie

― ZionTrain (ZionTrain), Friday, 29 July 2005 03:12 (twenty years ago)

81. the numa image

http://musicmoz.org/img/editors/pipvis/numan_tubewayarmy.jpg

― ZionTrain (ZionTrain), Friday, 29 July 2005 03:14 (twenty years ago)

80. Performing "Cars" and "Praying to the Aliens" on SNL in Februaray of 1980 (Elliot Gould was the host). First time I'd ever heard/seen him (Numan, not Elliot Gould).

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 29 July 2005 03:29 (twenty years ago)

79. "We Take Mystery to Bed" is a great, underplayed track that I want to be included in this list.

― Brandon Mitchell (A.H.), Friday, 29 July 2005 06:26 (twenty years ago)

78. "noise noise"

― ZionTrain (ZionTrain), Friday, 29 July 2005 11:18 (twenty years ago)

77. 'Gary Numan. Man he was dope. When we heard Are Friends Electric? it was like the aliens had landed in the Bronx. More than Kraftwerk, Numan was the inspiration. He's a hero. Without him there'd be no electro.' Afrika Bambaataa

― Kent Burt (lingereffect), Friday, 29 July 2005 12:43 (twenty years ago)

76. Numan's images went where Bowie's wouldn't have dared.

http://users.ev1.net/~rgh333/numan/84berserker45.jpg

― ZionTrain (ZionTrain), Friday, 29 July 2005 15:44 (twenty years ago)

re 76: see comment 85, supra.

(as much as i heart the "berserker" look, it really is a nomi ripoff -- and twas bowie who sorta launched mr. nomi into america's consciousness [via bowie's 1979 SNL appearance].)

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Friday, 29 July 2005 16:05 (twenty years ago)

hstencil -- what live stuff is this? Living Ornaments '80?

― donut ferry (donut), Friday, 29 July 2005 16:11 (twenty years ago)

I was thinking that SU's were something out of Philip K. Dick, but it looks like the old girlfriend theory is correct.

"For instance, the talking bits in afe are absolutely personal. They're about two specific women . The S.U. line in the song is a reference to Su Wathan, Who worked at Beggars Banquet. We had an odd little arrangement at the time which I was too immature to deal with or understand. The 7.4 mentioned at the start of the spoken part applies to the 7th and 4th letters of the alphabet - G.D a women called Gail Deal. She was an ice skating instructor and one Su`s friends, who slept with me one night and then wasn't interested at all after that. It was the first time someone had done that to me and I got pathetically hurt, But in a chauvinistic kind of way, I`m ashamed to admit."

― Kent Burt (lingereffect), Saturday, 30 July 2005 02:33 (twenty years ago)

donut - yes.

― hstencil (hstencil), Saturday, 30 July 2005 02:45 (twenty years ago)

75. the fact that his crazed drug and cheeseburger intake resulted in i, assassin!

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Saturday, 30 July 2005 03:57 (twenty years ago)

74. the fact that the i, assassin cover proved that mr. numan was inspector gadget (before inspector gadget was inspector gadget)!

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Saturday, 30 July 2005 03:58 (twenty years ago)

73. LIVING ORNAMENTS 80 IS COMING OUT HOLEEE SHIT.. HSTENCIL MADE MY DAY!

― donut ferry (donut), Saturday, 30 July 2005 07:08 (twenty years ago)

beggars is also re-releasin' 79 and 81.

― hstencil (hstencil), Saturday, 30 July 2005 19:24 (twenty years ago)

Actually those have already been reissued.. as i have them.. Maybe they're finally getting U.S. distribution though, as I had to order them through BB's UK website the past year.

― donut ferry (donut), Saturday, 30 July 2005 19:31 (twenty years ago)

But '80 was the one where the master tapes were supposedly lost, so hearing that it's now coming out is good nows, nonetheless.

― donut ferry (donut), Saturday, 30 July 2005 19:31 (twenty years ago)

yeah this is all beggars us, ie i'll be seein' 'em in the warehouse soon.

― hstencil (hstencil), Saturday, 30 July 2005 19:36 (twenty years ago)

i am also looking forward to living ornaments 80 -- hard to imagine that it could be any better than 81, though (since 81 is IMHO one of the best live albums ever).

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Monday, 1 August 2005 04:22 (twenty years ago)

72. The drums on "Listen to the Sirens" are weird.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Monday, 1 August 2005 04:33 (twenty years ago)

71. "my car slides" is the great forgotten numan track (even among numanoids)

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Monday, 1 August 2005 04:37 (twenty years ago)

70. The drum break on "Listen to the Sirens" is weird.
*snare snare snare snare sn-sn-SNARE*.... "OOONH!" *PZZZZZ Pzzzz pzzzzzzzzzzzzzz*

― donut ferry (donut), Monday, 1 August 2005 04:39 (twenty years ago)

71. "my car slides" is the great forgotten numan track (even among numanoids)
-- Eisbär

Not by me! I spent ages trying to find that track on vinyl back in the day. To no avail.

70. The drum break on "Listen to the Sirens" is weird.
*snare snare snare snare sn-sn-SNARE*.... "OOONH!" *PZZZZZ Pzzzz pzzzzzzzzzzzzzz*
-- donut ferry

Donut, I sampled that drum break I liked it so much. I AM KING NUMADROID.

― moley (moley), Monday, 1 August 2005 05:49 (twenty years ago)

Is it best just to get all three Living Ornaments CDs?

― mzui (mzui), Monday, 1 August 2005 17:35 (twenty years ago)

Well, none of them suck at all. (I have the LO 79/80 two-fer album, so I can vouch for 80 being good as well.) So, in a word, yes.

If you're poor and you have to pick one.. go with '81.

― donut ferry (donut), Monday, 1 August 2005 18:05 (twenty years ago)

But man, those trousers!

― mzui (mzui), Monday, 1 August 2005 19:37 (twenty years ago)

four months pass...

It's interesting... I put on 'Pure' for the first time in about a year and was immediately blown away by how DARK the first, title track was. I have several observations.

First, have you noticed how Numan never, ever goes wrong when selecting the first track on any given album? Doesn't he always pick the heaviest track? It's a real genius, an unfailing instinct.

Second, how heavy is he? After several years of listening to black metal, I thought it would sound a little lighter. I think his great skill in making music sound so profoundly, intensely angry without actually displaying any anger in the emotive, singerly (as a singer would) sense is quite mysterious and has something to do with the implacability of an anger with intensity but no warmth or defensive aggression. Hmmm.

My partner, who listens to extremely heavy (rocking heavy) music walked in and said 'this is really full on'. It is isn't it? Even compared to Whitehouse for example. He always has been this way? I thought as a teenager, and still think many years later, that my main interest in Numan is his astonishingly out there, unique personality, and his amazing capacity to express it without holding back, except for that Numa period in the 80's.

― moley, Tuesday, 20 December 2005 08:48 (twenty years ago)

I'm not surprised he was a bit of an idol for me when I was 15. What else is he saying from Tuebway Army to I, Assassin, and then again at last on Exile and Pure, but something along the lines of 'Here I am, yes, I'm totally weird, but I'm holding nothing back any of it, and what's more I'm not diluting any of it: now I will devote all my not inconsiderable musical talents to creating my unbridled personality all around you as vividly as possible'.

― moley, Tuesday, 20 December 2005 08:53 (twenty years ago)

It kind of makes him a bit of a role model in my view.

― moley, Tuesday, 20 December 2005 09:01 (twenty years ago)

seven months pass...

hey colin, which version of "my car slides" was it that you were trying to track down? part one (which has the fretless bass) or part two (which sounds like some sorta numanoid-mutant level 42/"soul makossa" thing)?

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Monday, 24 July 2006 07:01 (nineteen years ago)

eleven months pass...

Eisbär, belatedly - I like one with the descending sax line, can't recall if it has fretless but I think so. The other one that I've heard is slower, more dolorous. I like the upbeat one. As a rule, I prefer upbeat Numan to downbeat, except for the last album, which I just dig like it was a kinky woman, downbeat or not.

― moley, Monday, 16 July 2007 09:19 (eighteen years ago)

I love "Prayer for the Unborn" y'know. It's a great "fuck you, god, you completely evil asshole" because his wife kept miscarrying. Really sad but somehow uplifting sounding too.

"Hybrid" is great, I do love that Flood production.

― Trayce, Monday, 16 July 2007 09:46 (eighteen years ago)

69. the DJ introduction to "Cars" in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City

― abanana, Monday, 16 July 2007 10:10 (eighteen years ago)

the sleeve notes to Telekon (a recent purchase) note that the silver thing he is holding on the inside cover is, in fact, part of him mum's hoover.

http://www.remindmetosmile.com/index.html (warning, midi)

btw, wikipedia mentions the SUs:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Are_'Friends'_Electric%3F

― koogs, Monday, 16 July 2007 10:41 (eighteen years ago)

seven months pass...

interesting that 'The Pleasure Principle' came out around the same time as Foxy's 'Party Boys' because the latter's title track has a very similar synth bass to that on 'M.E.' - wondered if one followed the other or they were both getting the same idea from the same source. it's only a three note hook but surely too close for coincidence.

― blueski, Tuesday, 11 March 2008 15:13 (eighteen years ago)

Hey I was listening to that Tubeway Army rec just last night!

― Myonga Vön Bontee, Tuesday, 11 March 2008 17:15 (eighteen years ago)

five years pass...

https://scontent-a-lhr.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn2/p320x320/1209348_567007703359067_1229225085_n.jpg

be afraid ..

― mark e, Thursday, 12 September 2013 20:32 (twelve years ago)

arse

https://scontent-a-lhr.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn2/p320x320/1209348_567007703359067_1229225085_n.jpg

― mark e, Thursday, 12 September 2013 20:33 (twelve years ago)

moley v. otm in this thread

― combination hair (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Thursday, 12 September 2013 20:37 (twelve years ago)

Dear Gary,

I know I should have brought earplugs to your show in Eugene, but I must express my dissatisfaction with the sonic overkill that your sound guy indulged in on Aug. 29th. Even though I fled the hall after the first couple of tunes and spent the rest of the show in the lobby, my ears are still ringing loudly two weeks later. I can accept some responsibility here, but I don't understand why you would turn it up to arena levels in a 300-person room. It sounded like piercing, pummeling mush.

Yours in fandom,

Sleeve

― money, chicken and other DNA (sleeve), Thursday, 12 September 2013 21:46 (twelve years ago)

Second, how heavy is he?

It really has to be emphasized: Numan is fucking heavy as shit all through tubeway army, replicas and PP. like sabbath melvins trio-era crimson heavy. That toothsome weight is kind of his primary appeal for me!

― i believe we can c.h.u.d. all night (Jon Lewis), Thursday, 12 September 2013 21:52 (twelve years ago)

that's not wayne hussey in that photo is it?

― i'll be your mraz (NickB), Thursday, 12 September 2013 22:33 (twelve years ago)

oh yes ...

― mark e, Thursday, 12 September 2013 22:33 (twelve years ago)

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