TUBEWAY ARMY - ARE FRIENDS ELECTRIC?

[Ruine8971]

Waz 8 when this came out.Always loved it,

Still one of my favourite tunes.. Been sampled many times, sugarbabes, freak like me. actually not bad

[Robertcotton]

majorsnag dont worry!

I swapped an original version of "spiral scratch" for it! 

[kezie666666]

brill track luv it

[tickedoffnow]

I luv this song

[AQUAVIVARIA]

man aint seen this version b 4 AWSOME !

[dvdfrnzwbr]

BEST SONG EVER PERIOD!

[konnichiwaneku]

back in the day, one would get beat-up for admitting to liking this music.

[MrWinterton1]

grew up on this,,, excellent :-)

[LORDGODSIRALEXFERGIE]

This is great - but I saw him performing it recently on youtube and he had the most outrageous wig on. I cant understand why he doesnt just shave his head and be respectfully bald! Its not the 70's any more. He would have more street cred if he looked like richard fairbrass. - Wonder what happened to HIM!

[mrbokka11]

classic thanks gary ....

[offthelinegt]

.. Billy Curries facial expressions lol Genius tho

[Robakus07]

Zajebista muzyka. Słuchałem jej 25 lat temu, dla mnie nigdy się nie zestarzeje!!!

[Robakus07]

Zajebista muzyka. Słuchałem jej 25 lat temu, dla mnie nigdy się nie zestarzeje!!!

[BenniCrookston]

So is his old grey whistle test place important because I saw a video of Dire Straits playing there as well

[youtrojaxtube]

amazing!

[capricious71]

They played this live on Whistle Test (the video's here on Youtube). Someone's put the studio version audio over this.

[centellas07]

Este video es excelente!!!....y el sonido de la canción también!!!...¡Me gusta mucho!!!

[missmarypickford]

when he first came out with this, all my friend, including me, hated him. we thought he was a bad bowie rip off. the thng was,  his songs were really good. well, about till 'shes got claws'...

[cherrytreeandon]

deffo classic newman. bought a copy of hope bleeds (manc acad 2002) & was really impressed with the newer bits, all round top entertainer!

[gallafey]

Gary N uman & The Tubway Army , it's 1979 and Electro Pop has finelly arrived and by the of the mid 1980s there are meny electro pop acts such as yazoo eurythmics soft sell OMD & Pet shops boys

[blakat69]

friend that i'd left at inthe hallway "please sit down" a candle lit shadow on a wall near my bed you know i hate to ask but are friends electric? you see mine's broke down and now i've no one to love so i find out your reason for the phone call and smiles and it hurts and i'm lonley and i should never tried and i missed you tonight so it's time to leave you see it meant everything to me

[blakat69]

it's cold outside and the paint's peeling out of my walls there's a man outside in a long coat,grey hat,smoking a cigarette now the light fades out and i'm wondering what i'm doing in my room like this there's knock on the door and just for a second i thought i rememberd you so i'm alone now i can think for myself about little deals and s.u.s and things that i just don't understand like a white lie that night or a slight touch at times i don't think anything to you so i open the door it's the

[lefrauens]

"I don't think I mean anything to you." I wish I knew the rest of the words...........rocks.

[blakat69]

hey i put the hole song

[clevergirlrocks]

I can easily say that this is my favourite song of all time!!

[weirdsvillelife]

Yeah i agree pondscum. The blue album [ the 1st album as i know it] and replicas are the best Tubeway army/Numan albums by far.

[GWM4GWM]

I wasn't quite ready for that kind of music when this record was originally released. It was a huge hit in Britain, they played it on Radio Luxembourg all the time and I have come to love it.

There are probably dozens of remixes but the best one (apart from the original version) is by Renegade Soundwave, and was released as a B-Side of one of the singles in the early 90s, I believe.

[smithdvr]

takes you back to the synth seventies

[rumbear]

Awesome song, always loved it. Excellent clip quality too, best I've seen I think.

[rtypedave]

GReat tone

[johnnyblunder]

Ye good stuff, seen Numan last year live still brilliant after all those years, the wigs just got bigger, more grunge guitar now.Mind you have you tried sourcing a minimoog dating back to that era...Thousands they cost.

[AnnaKey23]

''So I opened the door..It's the friend I left in the hallway''-great daze

[HarryUpHarry]

I cannot understand why nobody is watching this. It's a classic.

Nice post, excellent quality too for an OGWT broadcast

[pondscum77]

cheers --PONDSCUM.

[Morgazmz]

@HarryUpHarry ya not wrong Harry and the video is the best I could find too, well done mate, i was just about to do the same thing when I found you already.. ahaha thnx for this !!!

[12340garth]

That was awesome, the audio was execellent, saw this band twice in the 80's and you did them proud my friend!!!

[pondscum77]

cheers - (pondscum)

[TaraTownsend]

Thanks for posting, I like your version the most. I really like this, it's so haunting.

[majorsnag]

Fuckin' Gary numan...twat, this was a top single though which i had on picture disc n' swapped, get this, for Anrchy in the uk, sex pistols on EMI! swapped that for a fag at school...please what am a like! lol

[pondscum77]

now thats a good swap. cheers (PONDSCUM)

[HarryUpHarry]

Like a man in a long coat, grey hat smoking a cigarette?

[srduke]

@majorsnag We all had our "little moments" when we were at comprehensive school mate!