don't forget folk how much hist hen backing band influenced the finished songs.Chris payne here on viola for example.The new kid on the block ade fenton cant even play.
One of the greatest Bowie understudies ever!...just look at how he moves, how every look and stance is calculated... Numan studied Bowie heavily. At first I despised him for being a charlatan but then grew to love his moody cold electronic sound.
Folks I apologise for the poor quality of this video - it was copied via a digital camcorder from an old vhs tape of newman numan, hence it has the splicing in of non music video clips of the aircraft. If I ever get hold of the complete original I will post it. Dr M.
Nope. I think of Brian Eno, Bowie, Sakamoto and the video is Nam June Paik. But I like many of Gary's tunes anyways, I used to get a bit irritated with him, thought he was trying too hard to be bowie, but at the end of the day, all of us are trying to be bowie...............
@mchelo18 I assure you I've never tried to be Bowie. I once tried to be Donald Fagen and Zappa. I just think of Bowie's Bowie centric music videos (life on Mars, Heroes, Rebel Rebel) when I see this.
You are trying to be Bowie even if you don't know you are! :p Kidding, I love Bowie with all my heart, that's why I gush over him. Gary's performances back in 1979-80 were far too bowie-like, even the way he moved resembled Bowie, so yeah, it's hard not to associate one with the other
@mchelo18 Well I can see a connection between Glam rock and the New Wave and early Punk Movement. I'm actually reading a book right now that claims it can all be traced back to Andy Warhol.
@ajboyer The Twisted Tale of Glam Rock by Stuart Lenig. It has a lot of hype and over speculation (like 90% of music history books), and leaves out glam metal, but it's an interesting red. But, it's not the worst book you can take out from MSU's student library.
It makes me sad to watch this and think how music and pop stars have degraded. Lady gaga is considered weird and outlandish, but she is just an attention whore and her videos are just soft-core porn. I wish the 80's would come back D:
love the numan so much. new band MIRRORS take his sound right into 2011 guys, check them out! amazing new material out and a new album 'lights and offerings' next month. i cant frikin wait!
I'll never have the words to explain exactly how I connect with Gary Numan. The emotions I feel when I listen to The Pleasure Principle are sometimes overwhelming. One definition of a "good" song (which is completely relative to the listner), is "a song you wish would not end". Complex, M.E. and Cars are songs which carry me away into space. Far, far away from everyday people.
@GPWS339 Amen. I still remember the first time I heard, 'The Pleasure Principle' - it floored me. Nothing else like it back then, and nothing else like it, now.
i am an artist of .gif animated photos. i have made videos using my animated art set to this song and several other Gary Numan songs. i think you and your fans would enjoy them. they are very different from other youtube videos, very unique. check out my youtube channel :)
But seriously I've never seen liquid eye liner POP so much out on a guy. It looks so good it needs to come back in style for some guys, gay and straight.
With all the black eye liner this man has been wearing through the years I hope to meet him inside a MAC one day ha ha ha haaaaaaaa xD
Wait what am I saying? He's just a dude, and still a straight dude at that. It's more Gemma I'd see, sadly enough, inside a MAC one day, not Gary. He's probably just using the cheap stuff like Rimmel, Revlon, Boots No. 7 eye pencil or somehting like that! And when he finally moves to LA he's gonna be using Cover Girl. Dammit!
They won't come back You know it's always the same And they're sure to forget Saying "everyone lies" So I'm down to this I'm down to walking on air And you're here by my side With all your waving and smiles Please keep them away Don't let them touch me Please don't let them lie Don't let them see me
Haha! I like that! I always felt like Gary's image was robotic, humaniod... this is not an insult! I like it. I understand how someone can feel cold, and disconnected. The world is a cold place. Unable to connect with people is a constant theme in Gary's music, and image. I can't remember the last time I connected with someone. Everybody has their "wall" up. Back to your point, David Bowie also had the "humaniod" image. Gary's the real thing. Bowie is merely acting. IMO
Bowie never tried to look like a machine man. His humanoid image pointed to a different race of beings, aliens, etc, a different kind of humanity. I think Numan tried to resemble an android, not an alien
Tried to copy that look for years.....probably still would if I thought I could get away with it....never had the bottle for the eye liner though....lol
Yes gazing at the LEDs on the hifi while this and many other numan songs slide out of the speakers, yeah man thats how to pass some spare time while alone.
perfectly nude, perfectly identical and perfectly fucking irresistible Justin Bieber clones, uber-radiant and freshly decanted at the Sanctified and Caesarean Vatican Vats of St. Stem Cell - these things, if Numan could've known them, might've made the weirdness a little less Plutonic...but I imagine in this as in all other things, the reality is a bit more complex...
Gary Numan is so weird, and he doesn't care...because he can't not be. The fact that he could make Thom Yorke run back weeping to Hobbiton just by staring at him - or that he could rupture Moby's necrotic vegan intestines at a hundred paces with a subterranean Moog fugue - or that Gangsta rappin' niggas to this day masturbate to the Rolex-like syncopation of his beats from '79 with the same wistful, unrepentant ardor that possesses the Vicar of Christ when he indulges the fantasy of one hundred
Personally, Complex has always been a favourite of mine... like the sad, haunting sound (almost a Cocteau-Twins-esque feel?... OK that's maybe pushing it)... but would probably agree it's not an obvious single for 1979!
There should have been 3 or 4 singles taken from this album and this should have been 3 or 4. Metal should definitely have been the second. Even Airlane should have been issued.
Complex (G.N) They won't come back You know its always the same And they're sure to forget Saying everyone lies So I'm down to this I'm down to walking on air And you're here by my side With all your waving and smiles Please keep them away Don't let them touch me Please don't let them lie Don't let them see me.............
A better approach to it would be to know the fact that Gary suffers from Asperger syndrome, an autism spectrum disorder which causes restricted social and communication skills... (Like myself..). Once you read about it, it's like everything makes perfect sense... Interesting on how he transformed the syndrome into music (lyrics)... Some call it Sublimation...................................................................
If u think of it numan started off with a punk sound, this was one of the first purely electronic singles, slightly ballard, but showing what synths could do
Complex is one of the best of the old. It kind of defines the whole Pleasure Principle Album. So yeah I'm defiantly not surprised there's over 200,000 hits for this song...
I swear I didn´t heard it since the Eighties. Now I´m 43 and it´s incredible how modern this sound is like. I love the sound of Gary´s voice. Great stuff !!!
Anybody know what's up with that thing he does where his head slowly floats away from the mic until it darts back for the next line? If you haven't noticed it, you're obviously sober.
How beautiful the song sounds.. still now. Surely Gary is a genius. I saw him in Japan in 1980 and totally was blew away! I really share his feelings.
Gary Numan is the god. Listen to Pleasure Principle and decide if you want to take up flying. This album is wonderful to fly to. God bless Gary Numan. The early music is so touching.
like the man said why did they ever bring out this track in place of Metal the line up that would have made him mega would have been " Are friends electric" ,"Metal","Cars" and then a release of "Down in the Park" what a line up
Astonishing line-up: a viola player; a violin player, a black drummer, and a bank of synthesizers weaving around a melodic rock bass! There had never been anything in pop music remotely like it. Numan was reaching so far and so quickly it took the music press (and much of the public) 30yrs to realise what a true original talent he was.
@presutton Many years ago Ced Sharpley (the drummer in this video) was playing with a crappy covers band in a bar in Camden, my band were the support act. I brought him a pint (I was such a Numan fan) he wasn't very nice to me. Stuff him.
@RareEighties Stuff Cedric, although he seems like a great drummer. He looks weird and unattractive in all these old vids on YT anyway. Especially because they stuck that white makeup on him too back in the day, and I'm like dude why couldn't you tell them 'No please don't put that stuff on me'? You know?
What i'm interested in is what other fans were imagining or what setting they were in physically or mentally when they first heard his music,i was fishing north of Winnipeg on a sunset summer evening when i heard this one and i agree Paul Gardiner's electric bass rather than synth bass gave his music a unique funky edge, like he invented the first new wave bass scale ever, the one ballad on here,and it's gorgeous.
Love this song, loved the sleeve photo that's shown at the start too....and if anybody thought the A-Ha video was completely original, watch at 01:53 of this one that pre-dates them
@pdenman the a-ha take on me video was inspired by the animation "commuter" from 1981. That same artist Michael Patterson did the animations. I don't think it was directly inspired by this but it is reminiscent looking . Anyway another way earlier example of animation used in a music video is los bravos- going nowhere from 1967.
I still love this after almost 30 years,m,good music never diesakes me feel 18 again,,going to see him tonight in glasgow s ABC,30 years after i saw him at the apollo
I know it's so sad. It's a visual medium with so much opportunity for creativity. I swear every vid now days begins and ends with the hiring of dancers to shake their asses in the camera. Probably when vids were just starting out there wasn't as much corporate control.
@Gwynarra Yeah tell me about it how come the promo videos from the 70s and 80s look so much better and more interesting than those of todays when back then they basically had NOTHING? Promo Videos from Black Sabbath and Alice Cooper and especially Grace Jones and David Bowie. All of those people had better videos for promos decades ago.
I still love him to this day and have always loved his music since i was in my teens, used to get one of my mums friends son to take me to his concerts !!
great album all around. first album I ever really played over and over. I like every song on the pleasure principle. he reminds me of sam neil (sp) the actor.
Whenever I've heard Gary Numan interviewed he's always been very modest. He did some really great music and came up with some of the best synth riffs ever.
Metal's the winner if you're sitting there, smouldering with resentment and plotting revenge on an uncaring world you don't quite fit into. But if you're cobbling together a schizoid strategy of withdrawal, Complex wears the crown. It's a coin toss whether this or "Please Push No More" is my favorite Numan song.
Thanks for posting it up, DrMorbeus. I never knew there was a video.
When you're sitting up at 2 AM on Saturday night, realising you have gadgets instead of friends, nothing quite fits the bill like early Numan. Turn all the lights off, bask in that LED glow, and start tracing the shape of your (possibly permanent) social isolation. You, and the telephone that never rings. ;)
You really know how to paint a picture friend. The government controlled Movie, Music, Education and Media want an isolated society, a society more controllable when original ideas float out the window and are replaced by what the box feeds you. Even my kids are different to the way I was at their age, I had 20 odd mates, granted we slowly drfited apart when women and kids came into the equation, but my kids, and their school buddies, against my wishes, sit with their playstations and Xbox's.
This is the best Gary Numan that was and ever will be. So sad he couldnt stay like this.....seems so beautiful....and true. Sincere! Mxxy
DominionDayME 6 days ago
My only happy moment in my youth.Very special.
Pauliina1965 2 weeks ago
don't forget folk how much hist hen backing band influenced the finished songs.Chris payne here on viola for example.The new kid on the block ade fenton cant even play.
rockcityaudio 3 weeks ago
I love them. I wish I could have seen them playing live in 80's. I wish I was born in 80's, or 70's.
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@leonakita cold, removed, sleek, beautiful....two shades grayer than swagger. Evoking the heart of Lugosi.
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One of the greatest Bowie understudies ever!...just look at how he moves, how every look and stance is calculated... Numan studied Bowie heavily. At first I despised him for being a charlatan but then grew to love his moody cold electronic sound.
leonakita 4 months ago 3
@leonakita bowie should still sue him for his outright charlatonism!
leonakita 3 months ago
Folks I apologise for the poor quality of this video - it was copied via a digital camcorder from an old vhs tape of newman numan, hence it has the splicing in of non music video clips of the aircraft. If I ever get hold of the complete original I will post it. Dr M.
DrMorbeus 6 months ago 2
i have always loved the violins in these tracks and they are nothing like bowie at all...
zogzogable 7 months ago 2
i have always loved the violins in these tracks
zogzogable 7 months ago
@DimensionsofChange
Nope. I think of Brian Eno, Bowie, Sakamoto and the video is Nam June Paik. But I like many of Gary's tunes anyways, I used to get a bit irritated with him, thought he was trying too hard to be bowie, but at the end of the day, all of us are trying to be bowie...............
mchelo18 8 months ago
@mchelo18 I assure you I've never tried to be Bowie. I once tried to be Donald Fagen and Zappa. I just think of Bowie's Bowie centric music videos (life on Mars, Heroes, Rebel Rebel) when I see this.
DimensionsofChange 8 months ago
@DimensionsofChange
You are trying to be Bowie even if you don't know you are! :p Kidding, I love Bowie with all my heart, that's why I gush over him. Gary's performances back in 1979-80 were far too bowie-like, even the way he moved resembled Bowie, so yeah, it's hard not to associate one with the other
mchelo18 8 months ago
@mchelo18 Well I can see a connection between Glam rock and the New Wave and early Punk Movement. I'm actually reading a book right now that claims it can all be traced back to Andy Warhol.
DimensionsofChange 8 months ago
@DimensionsofChange book title?
ajboyer 7 months ago
@ajboyer The Twisted Tale of Glam Rock by Stuart Lenig. It has a lot of hype and over speculation (like 90% of music history books), and leaves out glam metal, but it's an interesting red. But, it's not the worst book you can take out from MSU's student library.
DimensionsofChange 7 months ago
Numan es uno de los dioses de mi religión
scanner1978 11 months ago
d wuevossssss
robertoalmazansales 11 months ago
all these Numan songs have a kind of mysterious, mystical quality...if i could float in space i would have the same feeling....
mazingerZful 11 months ago
RIP Cedric Sharpley - Bloody Top Drummer.
dinotaylor1 11 months ago
@dinotaylor1 He's dead now?!
jrmetmoi 11 months ago
love alcatraz electro , and there song recognition, its very newman esque
antoniotarver 11 months ago
It makes me sad to watch this and think how music and pop stars have degraded. Lady gaga is considered weird and outlandish, but she is just an attention whore and her videos are just soft-core porn. I wish the 80's would come back D:
point7lead 11 months ago 44
@point7lead
Yeah, everyone fapping all over Gaga while people like Numan and Bowie were doing shit like that already 30 years ago.
viktorgorchev 7 months ago
@point7lead 1979!!
n64wilbert 5 months ago
@point7lead i wish people gave a damn about what they listen to.
chyman 2 months ago
love the numan so much. new band MIRRORS take his sound right into 2011 guys, check them out! amazing new material out and a new album 'lights and offerings' next month. i cant frikin wait!
JoeCollins91 1 year ago
I'll never have the words to explain exactly how I connect with Gary Numan. The emotions I feel when I listen to The Pleasure Principle are sometimes overwhelming. One definition of a "good" song (which is completely relative to the listner), is "a song you wish would not end". Complex, M.E. and Cars are songs which carry me away into space. Far, far away from everyday people.
GPWS339 1 year ago 9
@GPWS339 Amen. I still remember the first time I heard, 'The Pleasure Principle' - it floored me. Nothing else like it back then, and nothing else like it, now.
indiwise 1 year ago
@GPWS339 that's exactly what i wanted to say....but you said it first!!!!!
mazingerZful 11 months ago
@GPWS339 That's how I feel about Aircrash Bureau, the best one.
jrmetmoi 11 months ago
@jrmetmoi Aircrash Bureau... my favourite Numan song!
smujohnson 1 month ago
@GPWS339 couldn't agree more
smujohnson 1 month ago
This was the first song I heard in my first car when I was 16! 1983! I love Gary Numan, I've been listening for 28 yrs, CONSISTENTLY!!!
MrWowforever 1 year ago
i am an artist of .gif animated photos. i have made videos using my animated art set to this song and several other Gary Numan songs. i think you and your fans would enjoy them. they are very different from other youtube videos, very unique. check out my youtube channel :)
DarkAngel0ne 1 year ago
But seriously I've never seen liquid eye liner POP so much out on a guy. It looks so good it needs to come back in style for some guys, gay and straight.
jrmetmoi 1 year ago 3
With all the black eye liner this man has been wearing through the years I hope to meet him inside a MAC one day ha ha ha haaaaaaaa xD
Wait what am I saying? He's just a dude, and still a straight dude at that. It's more Gemma I'd see, sadly enough, inside a MAC one day, not Gary. He's probably just using the cheap stuff like Rimmel, Revlon, Boots No. 7 eye pencil or somehting like that! And when he finally moves to LA he's gonna be using Cover Girl. Dammit!
jrmetmoi 1 year ago
this is good music and it dont matter what da fuck ya call it
ya like it or ya dont ,but i love it
by the way telekon song is xlent
deewane45 1 year ago 2
this is good music and it dont matter what da fuck ya call it
ya like it or ya dont ,but i love it
deewane45 1 year ago
adrianwsi 1 year ago
Telekon was the first album I ever bought when I was 12, absolutely fantastic stuff
grumbeast 1 year ago
Gary really is a sexier, better looking version of Data from Star Trek The Next Generation back in the late 80s.
jrmetmoi 1 year ago
@jrmetmoi
Haha! I like that! I always felt like Gary's image was robotic, humaniod... this is not an insult! I like it. I understand how someone can feel cold, and disconnected. The world is a cold place. Unable to connect with people is a constant theme in Gary's music, and image. I can't remember the last time I connected with someone. Everybody has their "wall" up. Back to your point, David Bowie also had the "humaniod" image. Gary's the real thing. Bowie is merely acting. IMO
GPWS339 11 months ago
@GPWS339 Hey regardless I want both of them in my bed!
jrmetmoi 11 months ago
@GPWS339
Bowie never tried to look like a machine man. His humanoid image pointed to a different race of beings, aliens, etc, a different kind of humanity. I think Numan tried to resemble an android, not an alien
mchelo18 8 months ago
This is almost the worst song I've ever heard and worst video I've ever seen.
lqr824 1 year ago
wow, there actually is a video to this!! Such amazing song....
Thank you!
X
AlouaisA 1 year ago
wish he would come back to Toronto!
MochaLiLy71 1 year ago
lol vince noir
tubecritic101 1 year ago
saw him live twice,, awesome
rockyouwanna 1 year ago
I never gave this man the proper credit he deserves...(seriously...pure freakin; genius)...my apologies, Gare..(no shit)...
wraithofbodhi 1 year ago
@wraithofbodhi so true..........
alexandre74456 1 year ago
@wraithofbodhi Either did i till i had a chance to see him preform in Toronto and he real blew me away. great preformance.
moecreek70 1 year ago
@moecreek70 I'll bet! He pretty much a genius. Glad you got to see him...
wraithofbodhi 1 year ago
But it's Gary Numan and string instruments! win-win-win
witchbabywiggbat 1 year ago
Tried to copy that look for years.....probably still would if I thought I could get away with it....never had the bottle for the eye liner though....lol
1numanoid 1 year ago
It is not about corporate control, everyone are allowed to give burst of their creativity, it's just artists became numb-headed
Ac1dJazz 1 year ago
too bad the sound isn't very good .......... the layering in this song (along with many GN songs) is amazing
c0d1n3 1 year ago
This is the Gary Numan version of Heroes just like Down in the Park is his Tom Sawyer. Wrap your mind around that one.
DimensionsofChange 1 year ago
The Pleasure Principle was and still is Numan's best album.
TIMOTHYSAARINEN 1 year ago
Gary Numan is so creepy looking, It's wonderful
damonskates 1 year ago
who would have thought that you could do that with that. just stunning deeply moving, perhaps a brave insight into the man himself?
jji1967 1 year ago
i have always been a gary numan fan
thornberry291 1 year ago 3
Yes gazing at the LEDs on the hifi while this and many other numan songs slide out of the speakers, yeah man thats how to pass some spare time while alone.
realitylicker 1 year ago
It's Trois Gymnopedies 3rd movement
Written by Eric Satie
Think it's a b side of We are Glass
It's also on the remastered Telekon CD Album
Tony2002td 1 year ago
can someone please help me?
gary had a 'b'b side called gym neposio(sp)
which record was it from and where is it on youtube?
keilub 1 year ago
A beautiful song.
DrMorbeus, I think Films would have been a better single than Metal. But like you I agree that Complex should not have been a 7".
It is a beautiful track, just not a single.
Jarren202 1 year ago
Luv!
Missanasoria 1 year ago
I paused a few times at the beginning of the vid and saw that the writings on his plane says: "Numanair - G. Numan". I hope I'm not wrong ;)
electrogirl2007 1 year ago
pt. 2
perfectly nude, perfectly identical and perfectly fucking irresistible Justin Bieber clones, uber-radiant and freshly decanted at the Sanctified and Caesarean Vatican Vats of St. Stem Cell - these things, if Numan could've known them, might've made the weirdness a little less Plutonic...but I imagine in this as in all other things, the reality is a bit more complex...
mlugo808 1 year ago
Gary Numan is so weird, and he doesn't care...because he can't not be. The fact that he could make Thom Yorke run back weeping to Hobbiton just by staring at him - or that he could rupture Moby's necrotic vegan intestines at a hundred paces with a subterranean Moog fugue - or that Gangsta rappin' niggas to this day masturbate to the Rolex-like syncopation of his beats from '79 with the same wistful, unrepentant ardor that possesses the Vicar of Christ when he indulges the fantasy of one hundred
mlugo808 1 year ago 62
@mlugo808 that's an incredible take, thank you you get it!
cbmdg8551976 1 year ago
@mlugo808 heh heh heh heh!
jrmetmoi 1 year ago
@mlugo808
Wow that weirdly fit perfectly with the beginning of the song ...
athriaxo 1 year ago
@mlugo808
apt comment
Anthonybradley67 11 months ago
@mlugo808 Holy fu*kin shite!!! That was AWESOME Lugo!!!!!!!
mrghin22 11 months ago
@mlugo808 he's actually a pretty normal chap, very private and somewhat shy....google some interviews.
leonakita 4 months ago 2
Love this track, love you Gary. : )
numanettetrish 1 year ago
Personally, Complex has always been a favourite of mine... like the sad, haunting sound (almost a Cocteau-Twins-esque feel?... OK that's maybe pushing it)... but would probably agree it's not an obvious single for 1979!
tablergogs 1 year ago
There should have been 3 or 4 singles taken from this album and this should have been 3 or 4. Metal should definitely have been the second. Even Airlane should have been issued.
irskezvezdash 1 year ago
Wow brings back memories , thanks heaps
bRoWnEyE1367 1 year ago
gdominus 1 year ago
A better approach to it would be to know the fact that Gary suffers from Asperger syndrome, an autism spectrum disorder which causes restricted social and communication skills... (Like myself..). Once you read about it, it's like everything makes perfect sense... Interesting on how he transformed the syndrome into music (lyrics)... Some call it Sublimation...................................................................
gdominus 1 year ago
@gdominus Really??! did not know that. Are you sure or is that an assumption!?
cbmdg8551976 1 year ago
sounds like it was recorded using a 1970's tape recorder held up to a television.
Telekon5 1 year ago
Thanks for the upload. Great song!
scorbieholic 1 year ago
i just love this guy
seamed100 1 year ago
If u think of it numan started off with a punk sound, this was one of the first purely electronic singles, slightly ballard, but showing what synths could do
TheMarcwar 1 year ago
wonderful track, still fresh after all these years. Real music unlike most the tripe of today we are hearing.
runty111 1 year ago
Plus if I'm not mistaken that's actually him flying the plane too in the video...
khaos526 1 year ago
@khaos526 Your not mistaken, Gary's a pilot too.
Telekon5 1 year ago
Complex is one of the best of the old. It kind of defines the whole Pleasure Principle Album. So yeah I'm defiantly not surprised there's over 200,000 hits for this song...
khaos526 1 year ago
After 'Cars', this IS the best song on the album. Also, following a rocker with a ballad makes sense.
DocWyoming 1 year ago
I swear I didn´t heard it since the Eighties. Now I´m 43 and it´s incredible how modern this sound is like. I love the sound of Gary´s voice. Great stuff !!!
MrFrankS66 1 year ago
Wistful today. I'm not sure if that was how it was when it was released.
I agree with the comments too. Funny, it feels only like yesterday to me.
MarkMuses 1 year ago
All of Numan's 'warmer' sounding Moog synths just lift me up into the sky, right into space and make me want to take off like a spaceship!
No I'm not high, I don't even do 'high'! LOL LOL
jrmetmoi 1 year ago
His best I adore it
rustylegiron 1 year ago
I love it
rustylegiron 1 year ago
Great video
indigo419 1 year ago
Great video
indigo419 1 year ago
@DrMorbeus: I think Metal did get a promotional release, there's an official video floating around on Youtube.....
BluDevil93 1 year ago
Undoutedly one of Numan's greatest songs.
edmund184 1 year ago 9
Fancy a new version, I just added one as respose to this.
johnvid 1 year ago
im 46 now i still remember when this came out 9th sept 1979
soundmanhaven1 1 year ago
One of my favourite Gary Numan songs.
bananasplitsable 1 year ago 3
Anybody know what's up with that thing he does where his head slowly floats away from the mic until it darts back for the next line? If you haven't noticed it, you're obviously sober.
milsp 1 year ago 2
How beautiful the song sounds.. still now. Surely Gary is a genius. I saw him in Japan in 1980 and totally was blew away! I really share his feelings.
hideyo 1 year ago 4
Gary Numan is the god. Listen to Pleasure Principle and decide if you want to take up flying. This album is wonderful to fly to. God bless Gary Numan. The early music is so touching.
wabbits23 1 year ago 2
like the man said why did they ever bring out this track in place of Metal the line up that would have made him mega would have been " Are friends electric" ,"Metal","Cars" and then a release of "Down in the Park" what a line up
splodgeness7 1 year ago
numan had a good one ..but listen to kraftwerk album after album of perfection - true godfathers of synth
faceinembryo 1 year ago
genius mr numan.......genius
jothewaiter100 1 year ago 2
This song is cool
slashxes 1 year ago
ORALE Q ROLA ESTA CHIDA
elmcmaru 2 years ago
Astonishing line-up: a viola player; a violin player, a black drummer, and a bank of synthesizers weaving around a melodic rock bass! There had never been anything in pop music remotely like it. Numan was reaching so far and so quickly it took the music press (and much of the public) 30yrs to realise what a true original talent he was.
presutton 2 years ago 34
@presutton
Werd.
RallyCat909 1 year ago
@presutton you are very right Gary Numan will still be ahead of time 100+ years from now!!
FranzifromMulberrys 1 year ago
@presutton Nice comment but Cedric Sharpley isn't black just because he has an afro.
LetzRock1 1 year ago
@LetzRock1 Then he's mixed race/biracial then. Then by a far stretch after that Cedric would have to be Jewish.
jrmetmoi 1 year ago
@presutton Many years ago Ced Sharpley (the drummer in this video) was playing with a crappy covers band in a bar in Camden, my band were the support act. I brought him a pint (I was such a Numan fan) he wasn't very nice to me. Stuff him.
Numan himself, however, is a real decent bloke.
RareEighties 1 year ago
@RareEighties Stuff Cedric, although he seems like a great drummer. He looks weird and unattractive in all these old vids on YT anyway. Especially because they stuck that white makeup on him too back in the day, and I'm like dude why couldn't you tell them 'No please don't put that stuff on me'? You know?
jrmetmoi 1 year ago
@presutton He was waaaaaaaaay ahead of his time!
Luvyahbaby 1 year ago
@presutton great comment your exactly correct
moecreek70 1 year ago
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@presutton Cedric Sharpley, the drummer isn't black
paintedship 1 year ago
ellis dee
calyx06 2 years ago
What i'm interested in is what other fans were imagining or what setting they were in physically or mentally when they first heard his music,i was fishing north of Winnipeg on a sunset summer evening when i heard this one and i agree Paul Gardiner's electric bass rather than synth bass gave his music a unique funky edge, like he invented the first new wave bass scale ever, the one ballad on here,and it's gorgeous.
heimbecker11 2 years ago
i'd forgotten this one, very haunting!
Gary, you got me into synths, cheers!
PhobiaGuy 2 years ago 3
Love this song, loved the sleeve photo that's shown at the start too....and if anybody thought the A-Ha video was completely original, watch at 01:53 of this one that pre-dates them
pdenman 2 years ago
@pdenman the a-ha take on me video was inspired by the animation "commuter" from 1981. That same artist Michael Patterson did the animations. I don't think it was directly inspired by this but it is reminiscent looking . Anyway another way earlier example of animation used in a music video is los bravos- going nowhere from 1967.
paintedship 1 year ago
Gary hasnt updated his website in over a month. Has something bad happened or is he just taking holidays and Im over reacting.
JarrodCook93 2 years ago
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garbage audio. you should not be alive.
MegaDumkopf 2 years ago
the viola is talking... sobbing...
sedg 2 years ago
had my first beer 74 on these guys
00659p 2 years ago
wtf? do you remember your first beer??
losmononos 2 years ago
@losmononos ,I do and I am nearly 50 years old. I also remember listening to Numan in the 70's.
BIGBROTHERiswatchinU 1 year ago 2
brought this 0n a 45 when i was 13 in 1979 still love it today
zygoninvader 2 years ago 5
THANK YOU FOR POSTING THIS!!!!!!!!
patslover 2 years ago 2
new wave rocks
foppa123 2 years ago
Simply beautiful.
swalk813 2 years ago 3
I still love this after almost 30 years,m,good music never diesakes me feel 18 again,,going to see him tonight in glasgow s ABC,30 years after i saw him at the apollo
2006ganthony 2 years ago 5
video is cool, but audio is shit.
MegaDumkopf 2 years ago 6
Agree, what is the source?
AppleOfGlasgow 2 years ago
Brilliant album! Met Gary Numan and Tubeway Army September 13 1980 they were fab, shame about Paul Gardiner he was lovely!
Numaness 2 years ago 2
This video is INFUCKINGCREDIBLE!!! What ever happeded to MTV?!
gonetubing99 2 years ago 4
I know it's so sad. It's a visual medium with so much opportunity for creativity. I swear every vid now days begins and ends with the hiring of dancers to shake their asses in the camera. Probably when vids were just starting out there wasn't as much corporate control.
Gwynarra 2 years ago 43
@Gwynarra Yeah tell me about it how come the promo videos from the 70s and 80s look so much better and more interesting than those of todays when back then they basically had NOTHING? Promo Videos from Black Sabbath and Alice Cooper and especially Grace Jones and David Bowie. All of those people had better videos for promos decades ago.
jrmetmoi 1 year ago 2
@Gwynarra Sadly all too true... all too true..
Naggarmon 1 year ago
@Gwynarra Chris Cunningham. Look him up.
twiggy120 1 year ago
@Gwynarra Sex appeal compensates for the lack of actual musical talent.
PAVN 1 year ago
@Gwynarra Yeah, but its also the dumbasses that support and buy that crappy music
junkyturd 1 year ago
wow still relivent
scooptdoo 2 years ago
new age ?
lente175 2 years ago
awesome paul gardiner too...
MrLobotomize 2 years ago
i love this song, with it i remember things :S
slashxes 2 years ago 3
I still love him to this day and have always loved his music since i was in my teens, used to get one of my mums friends son to take me to his concerts !!
hodgietwo 2 years ago 2
great album all around. first album I ever really played over and over. I like every song on the pleasure principle. he reminds me of sam neil (sp) the actor.
this actually kinda chokes me up a bit.
phlather 2 years ago 3
nice video
morgangamer22 2 years ago
Whenever I've heard Gary Numan interviewed he's always been very modest. He did some really great music and came up with some of the best synth riffs ever.
capricious71 2 years ago 10
Here, here - with absolute accord...
DawnenAut 2 years ago 2
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this song it's the better
slashxes 2 years ago
...its epic...
xoxVampireSKiTtLexox 2 years ago 5
the audio sux but this is a quality song
captain1scarlet 2 years ago
The quality isn't great, but I like the track.
Wankshaftsbury 2 years ago 2
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transexual
laser5890 2 years ago
you mean androgynous, he isn't a transsexual
fuckamericanidiot 2 years ago 8
Metal's the winner if you're sitting there, smouldering with resentment and plotting revenge on an uncaring world you don't quite fit into. But if you're cobbling together a schizoid strategy of withdrawal, Complex wears the crown. It's a coin toss whether this or "Please Push No More" is my favorite Numan song.
Thanks for posting it up, DrMorbeus. I never knew there was a video.
GlueberryGoo 2 years ago 7
GlueberryGoo. Brilliant !!! Your comment is pretty much spot on but brought a big smile to my face. Complex suited my teenage paranoia perfectly.
deanooss 2 years ago 4
Ah, someone else loves that Numan flavour!
When you're sitting up at 2 AM on Saturday night, realising you have gadgets instead of friends, nothing quite fits the bill like early Numan. Turn all the lights off, bask in that LED glow, and start tracing the shape of your (possibly permanent) social isolation. You, and the telephone that never rings. ;)
GlueberryGoo 2 years ago 54
AMEN to that.Great comment.....I know that feeling too.
TheAlienFan 2 years ago
Wow, I know exactly what you mean :o
Crovie 2 years ago 2
Exactly!
MagentasTurn 2 years ago 2
@GlueberryGoo yeah i can identify.all too true
warsaw117 1 year ago
You really know how to paint a picture friend. The government controlled Movie, Music, Education and Media want an isolated society, a society more controllable when original ideas float out the window and are replaced by what the box feeds you. Even my kids are different to the way I was at their age, I had 20 odd mates, granted we slowly drfited apart when women and kids came into the equation, but my kids, and their school buddies, against my wishes, sit with their playstations and Xbox's.
dublintoffee 1 year ago
Numan looks like a badass.
EnDZYm3 2 years ago 4
years ahead, METAL is one of my favs and more recently andy grey's mix of prayer for the unborn.
he's doin really well in LA with NIN
i have a good feeling gary numan will be back ,,big time,
emjay946 2 years ago
Ahead of his time.
Cotoredondo 2 years ago 3
He is sooo cute!
UKSazzy67 2 years ago 3
but thats klaus
maciejoooooooooooooo 2 years ago
Thank you DrMorbeus - under rated songwriter & misunderstood artist - this has always been one of my favourites. I loved everything up to Telekon.
PHUKMLtd 2 years ago 3