Tubeway Army - Gary Numan - Are Friends Electric

[axlcobains]

i love it but what is it about that is the question ?

[sefarineify]

73 dislikes? Probably from this generation.

[MrSTICKMAN3333]

my favorite gary numan tune. he seems grumpy at 0:14

[ToxicPigZz]

that keyboard player looks like a budding Alan Partridge!

[mwinnful]

@ToxicPigZz AHAAA!

[ToxicPigZz]

poor old drummer thrasing away in the background. They tuned him out completelyall but the basic whacks lol!

[ToxicPigZz]

checkout that old minimoog indeed. cutting edge at that time. the boy dahn good

[TheSilverDubberII]

OH YES!!

[TestTubeBabySpy]

not a bad sound from that old minimoog

[TOMSTAN100]

AMAZING

[anthonynewsome]

a great time for music development & youth culture - OGWT was a vital show for music -

I pity todays youth lost in crass/ignorant/uptight/conserv­ative/homophobic culture -

[The096757]

the guy at 2:05 is so perfunctory while playing his music. one of these guys died. which one was it and how did he die?

[andreyRUS17]

has he a wife?

[andreyRUS17]

has he a wife?

[rhodes4779]

4 July 1979 :)



[MirrorKillMusic]

Is it just me, or does Gary look older there than he does now?

[blbarbieri]

A++ for June 29 1979 birthdays!

[mynameisluigi1]

old grey whistle test, what a fantastic show!

[ColmWilliamson]

Thumbs upo if you searched this video because of some stupid facebook birthday number 1 app.

[DJLooi79]

@ColmWilliamson - July 79 too! An awesome time to come into the world!

[MegaRuss1962]

brilliant live version

[Artyom3400]

а пра чё тут пают? Ви мне не обьесните? пожалустааааа!

[edalby1998]

Thumbs up if you searched Gary numan after watching the mighty boosh! :)

[TerryGibbsWF]

73 people are not electric.

[CatMastermind]

I searched for Gary's music after watching The Mighty Boosh so often.

[bloykunker]

Now THis is a PerforMAnce!!

This BAnd IS Tight!!!!!

[TheBrockrocks]

greatttt but does any 1 know the other version to the song where the girl sings with the background music?????????????? please (: x

[mr2000aaa]

@TheBrockrocks The cold warning/ white noise version

[jwarehand]

@TheBrockrocks You might mean Freak Like Me by the Sugababes, which is a mash-up of Are Friends Electric and Adina Howard's Freak Like Me

[TheBrockrocks]

@jwarehand yep thats the 1 thanks (: x

[TheGuitarRic]

Fantastic! thanks for uploading.

[edalby1998]

The thing about Gary right, is that not only is he a pop star he's got a pilots licence too... Genius!

[leslondon]

Superb - captured the times posturing alienation

[Thenuttyboy24]

i see an earing on his right ear, is he gay?

[kissthebunnie123]

@Thenuttyboy24 If you read his bio he married Gemma, from his fanclub and they have 3 children. I had to look it up myself!!

[koolheadpig]

@Thenuttyboy24 HI Hes married to one of his fans a girl ! But i'm 44 and bout that time 79 to the early 80s at school they would say Right ear right queer !

[dogsbalearics]

i was in maplin in newcastle the other day, and seen this bloke there, he had dyed hair, i thought was strange, but hey you know. hey ho!!!.

torned aroond and i seen the numan tour dates on the t-short, i thought so.

[Sp4nn4rM4n]

like this if you didnt come here because of need for speed.

[GamesFrontiers]

Great song. Apparently Gary is moving to the US soon due to the recent crime wave in the UK. I'm sure being in closer proximity to those world-class hair transplant doctors in California also has something to do with his choice though. Poor Gary and that terrible wig of his...

[sortofsorted]

good music good times! thank you gary ..but his back up artist "nash the slash" surely was an expierience to behold when full of wine and hash!!..

[twothirdsdutch]

Are Friends Electric, JPC? If they weren't it would have been a year. 

[Warren242]

Cooles cover: +ww.youtube.com/watch?v=acTX1p­IurTo

[TheJazNetwork]

This Song Inspired The Theme For The IT Crowd :)

[whathehellohmygod]

@TheJazNetwork thats why i'm here

[garynumanfanforever]

Gary Numan 32 years later you are still my God! Awesome man and musician.

[ProductionsTecno100]

vengo del ned for speed carbon yheaaaaaa

[PhlogistonTheory]

Turn-of-the-decade pop music that would usher in a decade of fantastic pop music. I don't what you say, the 80's reinvented pop music, and this song is legend.

[tycoenzo]

music Need for Speed Carbon

[RavenAtlantis]

@tycoenzo thats were i herd this song... fell in love with it

[TheMJDance47]

@tycoenzo on psp

[DaRWiG1]

ahh... the birth of the synth!...

[hot2bop]

to sophiethefairy i remember this 1st time around and it was THE song that turned my head all those years ago. still a fan to this day, thits is the song that pricked my ears and made me take notice !! Enjoy

A must live!!

[NikSudan]

This song is such a classic. And I love how the lead synth player shows absolute no interest in anything going on.

[CountZero78]

@NikSudan It was Numans idea that no member of the band smiles or show any sort of emotion during performances. It was what set them apart from other seventies acts at the time, and a stroke of genius at the time.

On the whole this is my favourite version - visually and audio. I love the bass in this version. If only I could get a clear MP3 version of this performance.

[MrSlitskirts]

Great live version that compliments well the recorded/video version. A good example of how a basic minimalist classic look stands the test of time; regards.

[TECKMASSE]

oh realy good song !!!!

[malcolmsnake]

Gary is the MASTER!

[adi77077]

I remember buying this as a 15yr old when it was first released back in the UK, dreaming of buying my first synth.... oh fond memories, but thx to Gary it started a life long passion of electronic music and a few keyboards later!

[camouflagecamaro99]

Cool. I wasn't born in the 70's and I first heard this song on nfs carbon, But i think that was a remake.

[millybags]

I particularly like the drumming, I was 7 when this came out

[Angrykitty19]

Reminds me a bit of the I.T Crowd intro :P

[IVerbYourNoun]

@Angrykitty19 The IT crowd intro was actually modelled on this =D

[cherjam1]

@Angrykitty19you mean the IT crowd intro reminds you of clasic music

[MrShreka]

AVE IT GAZZA!!!!! are you listening 'One Direction'.... lol, listen to the master

[MrShreka]

long live the numan. Nowadays the kids would get so confused listening to this proper music and lyrics they would do more than shit their pants!! Back in theday all my mates thought i was weird listening to this instead of dancing to kajagoogoo!! whos had the last laugh. brilliant , lifelong tunes..

[3m0skatiish]

im 13 and i listen to bands like bmth bfmv alot of "heavy" bands , but i still LOVE gary <£

[jackjude]

Synth-ROCK !!!

[fable2omg]

@jackjude New-wave..

[jackjude]

@fable2omg ....yeah I know, I'm referring to the fact this live version is a particularly sanguine version

[fable2omg]

@jackjude I sucks at guessing games lol

[tipsy1973]

I see there is Billy Curry fresh from a dead ultravox incarnation just about ready to create Visage with Midge The future lead of Ultravox

[vorkutaman]

the bird is hot in the advert at the begining.

[doguss95]

70 people are amish thumbs up if u agree

[magpie1892]

70 people aren't electric. 70 people need to go and buy Cher Lloyd's album most expeditiously.

[circusmort]

@magpie1892 70 people have no friends, electric or otherwise.

[magpie1892]

@circusmort lol

[human200freedom]

what a freak

[IGPXtremeI]

@human200freedom YOUR A FREAK, FREAK

[bbnbabun]

Thumbs up if you're here because of The IT Crowd!

[aforanti]

Man I hate these adverts before vids. Anything that is advertised I will go out of my way not to buy it!

[okaytrees]

@aforanti get an adblocker for your internet browser

[rg2027x]

@aforanti same...lol. won't ever do business with the shit ever

[FrisianDude]

@aforanti Heh, nice. I tend to forget those who advertise on YT, though. Maybe I should keep a list.

[AlbaGoBragh]

@aforanti I agree with you 110% but if YouTube doesn't bring in money some how they we won't have a YouTube and that would suck worse.

[skipitou]

The IT Crowd sent me here !

[2cutthroatterrorist]

nice!

[sulli97]

Why does he have a model D and a polymoog?

[ScottishJapanese4eva]

Im a 1 year old teenager, and I hate the shit we got to listen to nowadays, like no one understands me and I wasnt even born then but Im listening to this music like now! give me a congrats :D or what about a medal :D.

fuckin jokes people hate when, people say shit like that, nothing makes you special just cause u listen to good music in 2011

[leonakita]

@MrNige62 lol @ that, sorry...but Numan can't hold a candle to Bowie, pal

[TheWestfalenstadion]

with D.M. and Kraftwerk the godfather of synth-pop!!!

[polartech]

Amazing! ;-)))

[NumanFolder]

You know it's difficult to imagine life without the ol' bastard!

[harrietcow]

4:29 Gary looks scary!

[LadyLalaChloe]

oh no.. my mother got me liking him.. -.-

[neltex7]

nfs carbon best soundtrack

[kryten77]

Its cold outside

[coetmor]

When muttering into the microphone was cool...

[Varlot15]

is that wooden sythesyser a moog (prodigy)?

[puterzhome]

The trouble is that Numan thought he was the 2nd Bowie. FAIL

[sophiethefairy]

I'm 16, I wasn't even born then, and I've just discovered his songs. l think this song is great, and a lot better than the stuff we get in the charts these days. It just goes to show how really great music can stand the test of time.

[ComputerGrant]

@sophiethefairy I was about 10 when me and my best mate started enjoying Gary Numan. This track and Cars were mega back then. We really enjoyed the album The Pleasure Principle. Years later and I still have tons of his stuff on my PC. Jagged is a much more recent album and pretty cool too. Peace youngster. Be brave enough to always follow your heart. It's the only way to truly enjoy life.

[sophiethefairy]

@ComputerGrant That's awesome! Thanks I appreciate it. I've always thought that there's not really much point in doing something if you don't enjoy it :)

[simonturner73]

@sophiethefairy do you know The Human League they were good too try looking for Keep Feeling) Fascination or Together In Electric Dreams i know loads of other bands from the 1980's if you want to know any other's just send me a message :)

[wandov8]

All the Glory to Minimoog

[Commodore64Dude]

I got this on my iPod! Love it!

[IwontConform]

i dont mind this use of technology where you have analog synths and mostly acoustic instruments or electric instruments.But this crap today where everything is electronic,including the drum track,i cant stomach it.I want to hear real musicians playing real instruments,not the product of one man sitting at a console.The late bob moog himself was impressed with numan`s creative use of his innovative synth designs

[magpie1892]

This kicks it big time.

[LiteracyLabyrinth2]

This is the proper version of AFE not all these industrial makeovers of recent times. Greatest song and best version is on Replicas album. A wall of sound - synthesizers ARP polymoogs, moogs and minimoogs

[ShadyPastel]

He always reminded me of a Thunderbird. This is not a negative comment btw. I was a bit of a fan in the 70's and it's kinda interesting watching him again all these years later. Kinda underestimated really.

[elviejo1997]

best time to listen to this is while walking down empty streets surrounded by gray skies and heavy fog where you can only see like a foot ahead of you

[BORROVAN26]

I never usually say anything about the dislike bar, but 66 people are shite

[skinzabout]

He was the BBC this morning,This song is about Robotic prostitution!!Wicked

[Charlytrippo]

hahahah, considering we got internets and social networking sites now... This song was waaaay ahead of it`s time. lol.

[cola414]

This was ahead of it,s time in the day!!I remember thinking WTF but loving it at the same time so gotta bow to the Numan!!

[taradoherty1]

absolute magic

[Seelkadoomof1995]

One reason for falling deeply in lovewith Nfs Carbon was this song. I disabled all the other songs and I was racing listen to this. Good old times...

[JailGuitarBill]

Great clip, yea and it was live !

[jaggass]

are friends electric? my favourite song

[fasthandslow]

I remember watching this; I recorded it on an old Tandy tape recorder with the microphone hanging down by the TV speaker. I think it was the same year as I saw Tube Way army at W-ton civic hall OMD supported. Does anyone remember the Lee Cooper jeans ad ‘DONT BE A DUMMY? I’m sure it was Gary Numan who sang that. Thanks for the upload

[glaeken14]

I like to much

[Marc7665]

I still can't get over that guy at 3:40 messing up! On a live performance too! LOL

[jaggass]

wow its live. Why did most artist mime on totp?

[Enshidia]

Love the dude having an orgasm as he plays the synthesiser.

In reality though, this performace is amazing of the original song, I'd think better.

[edcatmull]

My friends are electric it came as a shock to me!

[marmalade2301]

... /watch?v=kGSajAGg9h4 ...

[KingOfBev]

Moog-tastic.

[jayman6677]

To me ... The begining of the techno genre..

[dominichound]

Sounds like crap

[steornhugh]

I loved Bob Harris introducing acts like this - so much better than totp etc. at the time.

[Ajboi89]

Haha, Need for Speed Carbon.

[OliverLam1984]

NFS Carbon : Own The City

[coltsuperocean10]

..at that time in 1979/1980 this song and Cars were fucking brilliant!! I was 10 at the time but these songs stuck in my head, and I love them to this day!! Brilliant songs!!

[hairycub69]

One of the reasons why this song is so special. It was No.1 in the UK pop charts for four weeks in July 1979. Take a look at the charts of those weeks. NOTHING sounded like this. This kick started the idea of synth based music AS commerical pop music. Then the charts were filled with OMD, Human League, Depeche Mode, Soft Cell, Ultravox (MK II) etc. A great era of music to investigate, check out and enjoy. Bearhug. Tx

[drprecious]

@hairycub69 I agree with you. I'm still nostalgic about this kind of music: Love DM and all the 80-90 era. I'm 45 and I'm still spending a lot of my time listening to this Specila music!! LOVE

[LillemanShift]

@drprecious man, know ya some more songs like this one? ima a bit younger than u but i still love them a lot!

[MrAngleman63]

I think one of the synth players is Billy Currie from Ultravox/Visage.

[Numanchels11]

love it love it love it!!!!!

[WildBuck007]

Most people nowadays would shit their pants if they realised how hard it was to make this type of music back then.

But they did a damn good job making it look easy. =D

[leonakita]

@WildBuck007 ask ENO, he was doing it a decade prior to this! and I agree.. now any assclown with a midi can do this shit... thats y keyboard/synth players are a dime a dozen

[BananaJSSI]

@WildBuck007 You said it!

[StikManJones]

@WildBuck007 rofl a simple synthesiser required specific knowledge of how to work each transistor and could be as big as a room. also to change the pitch they had to alter the soundwaves by hand. Now all people do is use a computer and move some buttons up and down......

[WildBuck007]

@StikManJones

Indeed, masturbation has come a long way hasn't it =D

[StikManJones]

@WildBuck007 Fleshlight <3

[WildBuck007]

@StikManJones

lol ya goof, I meant this music. But whatever floats yer boat XD

[fable2omg]

@WildBuck007 I love twisting analog knobs, play with envelops, you know with all the filters, I prefer polyphonic synthesizers from the 80's than the monophonics from 70's even if they are heard to be the ''best''.. Playing music wasn't THAT hard to the point of shitting in their pants.. Recording it needed a studio unlike today, but it wasn't epicly hard, you just needed the money.. that is why there wasn't that much bands. It was more of a business back then.

[WildBuck007]

@fable2omg

It wasn't easy. If you dealt with these machines you wouldn't think this. Even the cost aside. You had to adjust for hours what would take a few clicks these days.

I can't say it was so difficult as it takes knowing how. If you never ridden a horse. You would think it very difficult. Riding one everyday is not easy. But not really hard until you got thrown lol

[fable2omg]

@WildBuck007 I never said it was easy, Old analog synthesis need to heat before you can tune them, there's just everything that detunes on them, considering they are the hardest to handle, As I said, you needed a record label to record anything, because they had the expensive hardware to record the sound, but that wouldn't be the artist's job anyway, you are right by saying that you need to learn it first, but after that it's just routine getting in the studios tuning to each others and play.

[sirgazza]

@WildBuck007 Very true! Hard to credit it now, but at the time this was unique and sounded genuinely groundbreaking. I remember my dad had just parked up somewhere just as it came on the radio and we stayed in the car to listen to it, spellbound. Ok, the man can't fly planes and may have a dodgy political outlook but, yes, this was cool as back in '79!

[WildBuck007]

@sirgazza

Only stuff I know about Gary is he is an atheist with a voice that speaks out against a variety of social problems covered up by most religions these days.

But other than that I couldn't say more about him on a personal level.

[baktru]

So this is what it sounds like when the Borg make music :)

[leftfootlouie]

but I like the scenery

[garynumanfanforever]

33 years on and still sounds fucking awesome!

[63saruman]

Awesome¡

[spottydogg]

A young billy Currie from ultravox on synths!

[kiwifucker1]

you see ..the pendulum swings...what once was strange

[fetischterranova]

superb moog action

[ThePodboj]

awesome!

[godisdeadagain]

he is as great a lyricist and any rock artist. 

[ahernandez4110]

wtf he is a reptile, look at his eyes shifting.

[cappin]

@ahernandez4110glad you're on it mate

[leatherfacefan1974]

i wish it was like back then where synthesisers and bass guitars could live in harmony

[sofiabailote]

the guy in the keyboard look like christian bale!

[SkateHomeless]

Look at Cedric on that kit, it's all just effortless to someone like him...

[a1fresc0]

Looks like 62 Gen-Y's don't get Gary Numan!. Totally, like, wateverrrrrrr!

[CONSIDERABLYMORE1]

This is so fucking brilliant it is hard to describe. Not a sequencer in sight, tight as a gnats chuff, and most of the LA/NYC black superstars of the forthcoming decade watching with pens at the ready.

One of the most important musical performances in the history of the form.

Billy Currie at 3:17 is the greatest visual moment since Presley first gyrated those hips.

[CONSIDERABLYMORE1]

This is so fucking brilliant it is hard to describe. Not a sequencer in sight, tight as a gnats chuff, and most of the LA/NYC black superstars of the forthcoming decade watching with pens at the ready.

One of the most important musical performances in the history of the form.

[staffsmole]

Cedric on the drums was simply superb.

[RMcMahon100]

Gary Numan is doing a DJ set with Ade Fenton in London in a couple of weeks, the show's at XOYO, is anyone going? it's gunna be big, really good line up!

[Stakker]

@RMcMahon100 I played keyboards in one of the support bands and it was a great night. Found Gary surprisingly chatty backstage, we talked about Trent Reznor, Soundtracks and his work with Ade Fenton. I then surprised Ade when I told him I had a few of his techno vinyls at home from my DJing days. lol. Made my day!

[SonicsTheMan]

oh wow, gary numan's well cool

[wolfmang22]

he sounds so awesome thank you far factory for doing a song with this wonderful sounding man damn he's good

[Kwales66]

fuk this is good ! xxxxx

Moog heaven.