Gary Numan-Conversation

[poppa8169]

He has kind of Bing Bang Theory look to him heh? I used to have this ALBUM though, Life was so simple then.

[leslielove]

since 1979

[SuperTruthPrevails]

And we are not Gods...

[RichD1423]

I bought this album (yes, ALBUM) when it came out. I just started getting back into Gary Numan and forgot all about this song. Easily one of the true gems on this album. Just a brilliant song.

[211bill]

How long could you dance to this ???. Probably forever.

[intheyears79to81]

One of the best songs of all time, there is not a band/artist in the history of music who have made a sound like this.........truly unique and pure genius.

[MisterEvasion]

Conversation is a long track, but there's not a dull moment. I consider it the highlight of the album. It's a song that I would think evoke envy and applause from Kraftwerk. Though Kraftwerk created interesting coloring books, Gary Numan created interesting crayons to go with it.

[vespasianlegx11]

instantly takes me back to 79 when me and my two mates used to listen to this every fri /sat night .great memories wish i could bring those days back .

[AeiaSSJ4]

great song great album. my 2nd fav next to Observer. College memories

[lairmoretti]

lembro muito de minha mocidade..

[CONCERT72]

Is FANTASTIK :)!

[passiontwist]

I used to sit and listen to this over and over, just staring at those scribbled white lyrics on that blue cardboard inner-liner. My dad got this because of "Cars", but I liked it all. Never really was a GN fan, just loved this album.....great childhood memories.

[DimensionsofChange]

This is the Gary Numan equivalent of Aja.

[divisionmagus]

this song is a dark rocker...very very cool!!!!...it is even a bit funky.....!!!!!!this gentleman..was...years and years ahead of his...time..!!!!!!!and still puts out incredible music....check...out his songs.,..."haunted"...and "jagged"....just deadly/cool/./......Gary Numan..produces...rock and roll...for...secret agents and assassins....everywhere,....!!­!!

[OralAgreement69]

i like the end when the synthesizer sounds all menacing

[chuckd1966]

BAD ASS

[leslielove]

back in 1980 in travis afb the youth center had a jukebox with tons of gary numan songs this is one of my fva since 1979

[vermillionsnake]

oh it's so easy..... to listen to this song. Ear candy.

[patandkeith03]

Excellent excellent excellent excellent brilliant song. I love it, in case you wondered.

[P8290970]

What really pisses me off is that Gary Numan is only remembered for two songs...Cars and AFE but he's made literally hundreds of gems...But I guess its better to be remembered for two absolute classics than nothing !!!!

Another thing that pisses me off is why so many people like the Pet Shop Boys, They are SO fucking bland.....These people should try Numan, But I guess it might be too much excitement for them to handle !!!

[vermillionsnake]

@P8290970 you're so right. His best songs are the ones the masses don't know about. As for the pet shop boys, well.........

[alkurik]

gooood what else is there to say

[kenotram]

been listening to this since 1979 , love it, what happened to this guy?

[jubjub2112]

@kenotram I'm going to see him perform the entire Pleasure Principle album tonight at the El Ray in Los Angeles . . . He STILL kicks ass live!!

[venom3114]

so far ahead of his time....

[titatus08]

Gary Numan marcó una época para mi. Mis gustos musicales nunca fueron los mismos desde que lo conocí. Qué calidad!

[emjay946]

struggled for ages to get that minimoog sound, till i was told it was mic'd up through a roland jazz chorus guitar amp, this whole album is a treasure chest of good memories for me thanks for posting

[blodachia]

This whole album was created way ahead of it's time I wish Gary got the credit he deserved instead of becoming some pilot engineer.

[MrSYSTEM20]

@blodachia pilot engineer ??? he doesn't fly anymore...

however, he never stopped making music...infact..

he's coming to America for the Pleasure Principle Tour

this October.

[StyrbjornStarke]

This is synth at its absolute best, cant believe music like this doesnt get the attention it deserves

[80s2Heart]

Get high and this song is even more enhanced. But a masterpiece regardless. 

[indecisiveassasin]

@80s2Heart listening to any Numan song stoned will sound like heaven ;)

[vatalic]

My fav song of alltime

[TopNotchCrimes]

mini moog !

love gary numan !

[jubjub2112]

Whoever posted this amazing album . . . THANK YOU!!! Brings me right back to my jr. high and high school days! Bitchin!

[spiney199]

Groovy

[69ove69]

Numan on rautaa-silloin, ja nyt!!

[freddyrude63]

i remember buying this album.still have on the old cassette tape.gary sounded good then ............and still does.

[80s2Heart]

Great synth!!!

[fuckamericanidiot]

not particularly no, why?

[deewane45]

no matter what you play its gonna sound like something else,that said this is still f...ing good tunes

[Polgani]

I always study with this song, and it doesn't distract me

[hyperdriveguitar]

We are only boys-still

[shefju]

A classic. Numan forever.

[vermillionsnake]

my favourite gary numan song, i have been listening to this since I was13 yrs old and still listen regularly now! Love it.

[euroyankee2003]

@vermillionsnake Hey bud, when you were 13 I was 7... and I remember listening to this with my father in the Los Angeles suburbs... I haven't heard it since then!

[jrmetmoi]

@euroyankee2003 You need to thank the heavens for Youtube then because this is a gem!

[MisterEvasion]

Saw him in the Telekon tour at the QE Theater in Vancouver in 1980. This was easily the most memorable concert I attended from the period. This song was played and well... you have never experienced anything so cosmic. The whole concert was certainly not a slapped together whisk tour thing. It was a carefully crafted series of visual candy that made me think the Pink Floyd concert that I saw after seem like a stale cake which we were presupposed to give unreserved accolade.

[philcooper]

One of my all time favourites.

Best album EVER!

[DerVampyrEngel]

Oh it's so easy

When parts take over

My conversation

Is nothing more than lies

You're just the viewer

So cold and distant

I've no intentions

Of saying "I love you"

[whereangelsplay1]

that sooooo could be used for an 80s Atari game tune

[Cleooo1981]

We are not gods

We are not men

We are not making claims

We are only boys

[alkurik]

almost mistical , very good song

[Realworstnightmare]

Sounds alot liek Metal, same note.

[CrashandBurnTwitch]

Did you even listen to both of them? He's right. They have the same build up keys in the main riffs of the song, along with Observer.

Listen to the main riffs of Metal, Conversation, and Observer. It has some of the same notes. That's why they are so easy to play on a keyboard. It's basics.

[fuckamericanidiot]

all the songs aside from complex sound similar really, just compared to say, the similarity between observer and cars, this sounds hardly anything like metal. i was pointing out annoyingly that the same 'note' doesn't really mean anything

[CrashandBurnTwitch]

Actually it does mean something if you play an instrument. if you played keyboards, you'd see that the same notes in diffrent patterns makes the songs easier to play by ear. Just like with playing guitar, the same chords such as the E and D are used in a majority of punk rock songs. Don't know if you play guitar or keyboards or not, but that's what I mean.

[GiorgioLohner]

Love this song, one of the best of all time.

[ItsTheInvasi0n]

cannot wait to hear this played live.