Gary Numan - This Is New Love

[starshiphonda]

I have always loved this song.

Pity the album wasn't more of a hit,its got some great tracks on it.

[CONSIDERABLYMORE1]

i have to say its one of my fave tracks. i wish they would tell us which bassist played which track on this. my guess is this was Martin Elliott, but I might be wrong. I played bass at the time so loved playing along to tracks from this era, which I suppose makes me biased. a lot of the jazz funk influenced stuff at the time was awful, slickly produced rubbish, whereas Numan managed to keep it credible, dark and forboding. Only now are people giving this album the credit it deserves.

[jsrl317]

The slap bass kicks serious ass

This is one of his best albums and a fucking cool as song. I love Numan.

[razoulinou]

Best song ever. Ok not really, but I like it, I really do. I can't stand the slap bass, but, hey !, IT'S GARY FUCKING NUMAN !!!!! He's the only one who can use slap bass and stay elegant.

[replicas11]

slap and bass mince what the fuck you talking about it was a quality era a change from his 1st few albums but still quality it just took a little time to listen to; you were probably into HA HA by then you plastic fucker.

[BurkeHare1]

Numan was a pioneer.

Pity he did that 80's thing and ditched his beliefs for slap bass and guitar mince.

[gealaltr]

Followed the lad since the start. He's always wanted to get 'darker' and has over the years because that is what he wanted. He only did 'Are Friends' because at the time it was do it or get lost! Listen to the advert of the time that he did for Lee Cooper jeans! He has not change fundimentally listen to all his albums I'll bet he could do a darker 'are friends electric'

[MadIIMike]

Best song EEeeever!

not really.. but i wanted to post it. xD

[EscherVox]

Heh, I actually had lost track of Gary after the I, Assassin record. I had thought he wasn't making music any longer until I heard this song on my local college radio station... At first I was like "FEMALE vocals???" There was no question who it was though - even before I heard Gary's voice. I think out of all the songs where he had female vocals, this one and "My Breathing" are the only two where it really WORKED for me.

[AndrewAnthonyHyde]

Although "Your Fascination" and "Call Out The Dogs" are quite cool too. I like the combination of Gary's slurred drawling and Tessa's ever so slightly hoarse vocals (like when she sings that "every little girl is welcome here" bit). She's not just any old backing singer, she's something special, yet she never upstages Gary, she just refines the songs.

[Ilikenuman]

this is wierd, she says "picture a man when the heart beat stops"

those were lyrics in a song he cut from the warriors album.

if you buy the song on CD youll hear it, its called nameless and forgotten

[razoulinou]

@Ilikenuman I haven't noticed this. Thanx. Interesting.

[DerVampyrEngel]

class track class track especially this extended version

[ufo5440]

See, he really started getting stupid with his music with that slap bass sound. He should've stuck with his moogy sounds and cool drumbeats like Pleasure principle, Tubeway Army, Telekon, albums like that. Then it got even more crazier with his changeover to Marilyn Manson/ NIN stuff. He needs to make an album dedicated with new stuff similar to his old stuff again; it'd bring a lot of his old school fans back to listening to him again.

[cabbage190569]

I like your idea but I also like the slapped bass sound and his new sound. Don't agree he started getting stupid, just experimental and it works for me. Would like some reworked old songs on a new studio album though (with his 'new' sound).

[carbide12]

@cabbage190569 His album 'Hybrid' does update some of his older stuff.

[themachman1969]

good song,not one of his best.check my channel to see him perform it,thanks.

[sportandmovies]

These boys of passion

Will rule the world

Put their fingers in a dyke

"Well you know it's what she needed..... berserker brilliant album ...... pure is still the best garys done

[Ilikenuman]

funny thing is, in the warriors album he did a song called The rhythm of the evening and in that it said "these boys of passion are nothing more than faggots"

[AndrewAnthonyHyde]

I may be wrong but I seem to remember that the "boys of passion etc." quote from This Is New Love is another Burroughs quote, from The Wild Boys maybe. Or is only the 2nd verse in My Breathing ("I remember this one patrol, been liberating river towns & picked up the sex skin crawl") a direct quote from that book?

That bit in Rhythm Of The Evening might be a direct reply to the hated Steve Strange's song The Pleasure Boys, who knows ...

[GaryNuman1958]

"Best song EEeeever!"