John Foxx Plaza

[spirosavvinos]

THANK YOU MIUCCIA<3 for bring it back

[RaineFallsX]

Why couldn't I have known about this before Prada?!?!

Brilliant track.

[KooshieAlmond]

prada brought me here too. great song, sounsd very futuristic

[matsuchan92]

Prada brings me here :b

[satyros2]

thamk you

[nigelartist1]

Metamatic is one brilliant album and this is one brilliant song.

God bless John Foxx.

[Marcuskristicus]

Geez how good would it have been in the late 70's and early 80's with all this stuff coming out?

[sudokuwkroku]

awesome. music from another world. :o

[djmusicjac]

awesome, love it

[lucaschiavoni]

genius, The Father.

[xesionprince]

This is mad, this is brilliant

[Ori0n1975]

What a beginning to such a great album. The synths just scream and cut like a chainsaw on this whole album. Love the synth sounds on this album even more than Gary Numan's first 2.

[vespasianlegx11]

@tordoff i agree had this album and this is the track i played the most .

[khorrumg]

Ice cold...frozen electronic stuff....thats what I remember from my youth listening to this stuff...its so so dated but its music period which was lost....these people were clever by half.

[TheDobleQ]

Some people of my country said: Gary Numan or Johnny Foxx?... Frankly Dear, I Don't give a damn.Both are great.

[spagnogulan]

This man invented the eighties!

[spagnogulan]

This man invented the eighties!

[iainwish]

Had the haircut and dressed like this.....

[jrmetmoi]

@iainwish Hopefully you looked hot doing thta!

[jrmetmoi]

@Marmiteums I think Gary set his music to sci fi that was Blade Runner-like, and John Foxx set his music to the Crash novel, and that's all it was.

[mfactor88]

@jrmetmoi oops Blade Runner was 82 Numan was 79 and even earlier. Foxx/ Metamatic 80 almost a parrallel evolution. they both had a bleak electronic sound Foxx even more so as he was solo by then. but hey still love em both, have all/most of their stuff. remember then it was all ORIGINAL. m49 i really was there :)

ps Systems Of Romance is still my favourite album of all time

[jrmetmoi]

@mfactor88 The Back To The Phuture gig with John Foxx and Gary Numan is happening in London at Troxy by the Limehouse DLR station. Are you going? I will try and see what I can do...but money's too tight to mention I can't EVEN QUALIFYYYY for my pension! LOL

[jrmetmoi]

I like Kraftwerk especially Trans Europe Express a lot but I swear I prefer Metamatic and the first Ultravox! album to them.

[tompom89]

John Foxx is a Doctor of Synth

[mfactor88]

3am saturday morning june(winter here)1982, mist on the road coming home from a nightclub in sydney. all windows open,still hot from from the beer and 4-5 hours of dancing, literally steaming. this song cranked to earbleed level on my cars stereo, sitting at a set of lights, the look on peoples faces as they walked past. unforgetteable m49

[SPFXsynthesisers]

I first heard the album metamatic when I was a kid,my mate played it to me on tape and said it was his sisters,it was a copy and had no description of the band name etc.I had no idea who was behind the music but the tracks stayed in my mind especially New kind of man.Fast forward 25 years in amsterdam stoned looking through a records and I come across an album called metamatic with the track listings and I thought Fuck me this must be it.And it was.What an album amazing stuff.

[xyaqua]

It's been 30 years, and i still have this wierd feeling i am not appreciating the song for its fullest art. John Foxx, (Dennis Leigh) is te guy credited forinspiratin by the greats- the godfather of electronica- Gary Numan; Pete Shelley; OMD; the Police,

they all point to this guy. He's beyond genius, one of the rare directors of the art.

[paulwady]

@xyaqua Very accurate description. Saw him perform Metamatic at the Ica a few years ago in London. He spent an hour just answering questions from the stage. An underestimated genius. Very well read.

[martynpank]

@paulwady I saw him doing 'The Golden Section' & it was shit! (Apart from 'Pater Noster) Metamatic is EPIC! U R so jammy! LOL!

[johnied8509]

this is my first time hearing this song I like it.

[jaxxstraw]

Sounded so futuristic back then- now, it's comforting nostalgia.

[myownservant]

Brilliance

[TEEC4C]

SO DARK . . . SEE WHERE NUMAN TOOK HIS IDEAS FROM . . . BRILLIANT

[bleble6666]

@TEEC4C From Wikipedia:

"Foxx was accused in some quarters at the time of imitating Gary Numan"

[joeletts]

Try they both read JG Ballard

[EdWood2006]

What's the bass synth? It sounds really liquid.

[nthbnk83]

A perfect ice cold slab of synthetic futurism.

[martynpank]

Wish JF would contact me - pank100@yahoo.co.uk 

[martynpank]

The best rack off the best album ever made!

[jokingpants]

Metamatic was a great album, but let's no pretend it was high art!

[EdWood2006]

@jokingpants Well what is?

[xyaqua]

Dennis Leigh- this album was your artistic best of the 70's-80's. Lyrics were excellent, music was okay- the dry- minor sounds were so evocative.

_The Garden_ was your best musically. The production on _This Jungle_ still rocks my world even in 2010. That's pretty cool. Love just about everything you've done, musically and graphically. If you ever come to Chicago- i'll take you to lunch or grill you a great dinner!

[thornbrain]

I love discovering under-appreciated masterpieces from the 70s and 80s. A friend introduced me to "Underpass" late last year, then on a whim I bought the full Metamatic album. Just listening to this one song sold me for the rest of the album (including the great bonus tracks). I'm going to be listening to this for decades. These are some of the most amazing sounds I've ever heard on a record, vibrant analog synths or not.

[shanemc68]

The last album he did with Ultravox is effing incredible!!!!!!!! Systems of Romance

[ohare100]

are we not foxxy

[tordoff]

@ohare100 D.E.V.O

[rhinehund]

The first album I ever bought, still love it!

The King

[shefju]

Now where is that superb album by John, I know I've got it somewhere. It's on a funny looking thing called a musicassette. Good job I've got an old thing called a music centre to play it on!!

Can't wait. No doubt I'll find some Numan as well.

[jaketyja777]

Had this album...Chicagoans or former Chicagoans remember Wax Trax, record store?

[hornetobiker]

I was brought this when I was in an adolescent psychiatric unit when I was 15. This would've been great on liquid cosh but we were always in solcon when could have appreciated it. Ha ha haaaa.

[khorrumg]

I remember listening to this alone in my house over one Christmas in the dark....and cold at home...it was just the MOST atlospheric sound anyone has come up with EVER!!!!

[waheex]

so good. synths are fantastic

[djh1sla1]

This is such a tune.........

[tordoff]

This is without doubt THE best track of its time (by anyone) I recall the first time I played the album back in 80, this was the first track and I was simply blown away.

[jrmetmoi]

@tordoff It is really good but He's A Liquid is better.

[martynpank]

@tordoff You R so right!!!

[c5h5no2c]

@tordoff ......... I TRULY AGREE!

[neonsolaris]

I am soo glad other people feel the same way as I do about John Foxx. His words are wonderful.

[pomomatthew]

This is what I consider to be the first impressionistic pop song. The rote description of a scene set to synthpop. It's about the coldest italy ever felt, and it's all the better for it.

[mutepg58]

that's an absurd statement.. as much as i can appreciate foxx, exaggerating things does no one any good.

[tordoff]

@mutepg58

any other recommendations from that period to make a comparison with, i'd be more than interested to seek them out?

[PROBEMANTIC]

Another classic track from possibly one of the best albums ever, John was the original one and best of the lot! Countless followed, none could match.

[sneakyalien]

This guy is from the future forever.Amazing talent copied by Numan and countles others.Thank fuck he left Ultravox Foxx's music is superior in every way to Ultravox's music.Lets face it the guy is a fucking genius-I know that word gets bandied about alot these days mostly about tits who are anything but genius but Foxx is a true genius.You will be hearing his tunes forever.

[silmalila]

Sneakyalien,

I started listening to John in the 70s, and still remember every word to every song he ever wrote.

How right you are my friend.

[Railcoach679]

John Foxx is God

[TheOpenmind7]

@sneakyalien  YES!

[Cougari72]

The break away from Ultravox was not so bad was it?!

[khorrumg]

Ahh the classic frozen electronic sound was really Foxx's own sound....ala Kraftwerk of course

[pdvphilipdd]

Foxx's music was/is great,years ahead of it's time.

[asxtc]

He's a liquid.

[silmalila]

I am the blurred girl.

[silmalila]

Oh I think I love you!

I am a huge fan of John's, and have been waiting for more posts...

...thank you thank you thank you!

[zurapDOR]

I forgot how avant-guarde and thrilling this song is, When it came out I played as DJ, people were baffled. I'm still, almost 30 years later.

Thanks for posting.

[Tazz77]

Great sound and cool lyrics too.

[nath21650]

This is an awsome song from a brilliant album, Metamatic.