Gary Numan - Trois Gymnopedies (1st Movement)

[ChrissieBana]

Wow... Interesting.

[slimboy1927]

wasn't this the b side to "we are glass" i had this on picture sleeve single quite wierd and strange.

[spooksixsix]

@slimboy1927 yes. spot on. in my opinion this is as good as the a-side.

[Numanoid1963]

I dont care what any one else says..Numan is the bollocks...:-)



[MrGSPSoftware]

famous song

[mazingerZful]

Satie would have been proud of Gary.....

[upfrontbear74]

Love this, anyone got the Dominic Miller version, which I also love.

[RFBI65]

Great and spheric arrangement! Haven't heard that for ages. It was a single's b-side, wasn't it? Excellent!

[lukawski100]

not interesting

[Shtove]

I find this cheesy.

[tadpole1492]

This is one of the most amazing covers of this timeless masterpiece from a very underrated artist, thank you for your music Gary :)

[telekon01]

@tadpole1492 well said!!

[darkglobe09]

beautiful piece of music such an underated guy

[marypunkidol90]

Fantastic....

[bryson1962]

I first heard this when I bought the Telekon LP, it was the first piece of music that got me switched on to classical. Thank you very much Mr Webb.

[MrHopeTelevision]

normally I dont like sincere rubbishy renditions of classics, and this is the case in point

[timothyj1966]

always like this version....music can be revamped ...case in point.... down in the park..which can easily pass for modern classica,

[01glennie]

this version or Erik Satie's version ,well I love them both they are at piece with each other stunning Mr Numan with the modern twist.

[soundmanhaven1]

lovely piece...

[gabriel776000]

Blasphemy

[afrosharpner]

@gabriel776000 <> what you talking about willis !!!! Blasphemy my arse, i sense that you don't like change,

[MrFrendan]

A gorgeous composition and rendition! Shimmers like an earful of diamonds

[GoodFellaTommy]

This is classical, brilliant.

[finditfuckitforgetit]

@GoodFellaTommy Yeah, great! I just happy to listen to it...

[TheAtma]

@GoodFellaTommy Heh this is simplified absolute adagio.

Far from classical. The original Satie piece is classical romantic.

Satie > Numan

[polarbear242]

@TheAtma

Er....the Gymnopedie is from the modernist era in classical music, not romantic.

[TheAtma]

@polarbear242 Incorrect. Erik Satie was a figure of the impressionist and early minimalist era, which is essentially late romanticism.

Remember, his contemporary, friend, and rival was Debussy.

[Geisttanzer]

@TheAtma I don't think Satie is classical (he was expelled 2 times from the conservatory, though in his later years he studied some classical contrapunct, but, all in all, he doesn't have a very "classical" approach to music) and he definitely isn't a romantic, even though he lived the life of a romantic (died of cirrhosis) his music didn't have much to do with any artistic movement that existed at that time, I definitely think the term modernist, "avantgarde",if you please, fits him much better

[Geisttanzer]

@TheAtma I might be wrong about classical, since it's such an ecompassing word, but I think it's a fact that he's not a romanticist, speaking of Debussy, did you listen to his orchestrated versions of the Gymnopédies 1 and 3? Supreme

[TheAtma]

@Geisttanzer Well yes, he wasn't part of the classical period. After all, the classical period had come and gone by the time Satie was born.

The interesting thing about modernist music is that it's presented as an alternative to romanticism by emphasizing "science", industry, and or breaking of norms.

Satie would be a good example of an early Avant-gard composer, though I really think "impressionist" fits him quite nicely.

And yes, that arrangement is great.

[Geisttanzer]

@TheAtma Just want to add, I understand that by "classical" you didn't mean of the classical period but rather refered to scholarized music, which is what people means most of the time when they say classical, and that's where I meant he's not a classical musician, since he has a much more instinctive approach to piano than scholarized musicians do, that's why his contemporaries considered him "clumsy" and saw his harmony as "erratic".

[TheAtma]

@Geisttanzer I assumed that's what you meant, but I wanted to clarify.

There's a great anecdotal story involving Satie and Debussy. Debussy claimed that his music lacked form, so Satie wrote for Debussy a suite of music called "Music in the form of a pear".

In the Satie museum, there's a winged pear sculpture which is a reference to this exchange.

Despite his unconventional approach, I'd still label him as a pre-modernist, avant-gard, impressionist.

[METALSTYGIAN]

just an abstract comparison,smarty

i also like to time warped on occasion

[METALSTYGIAN]

Satie was cut from the same stone as Gary, two very unique genius minds reflect each other

Amazing!

glad i was around for this innovation back then

[zetanik]

In 1888?

[MrFrendan]

@zetanik What do you mean?