JG Ballard on Synth Britannia - Gary Numan's Cars

[djmusicjac]

i totally agree gary was 100% synth totally perfect

[DanielBowden1975]

@djmusicjac Kraftwerk hated him cos they thought he just ripped em off but the problem was they were taking years at that point to knock out a album (Sublime them albums are) & he was doing it without all their tech. Don't forget people us Brits are the best at taking something & putting it on a different plane. Give back to the people who invented it & blow em out of the water.

[smurfblood]

Idiots! He clearly contradicts the narrator's interpretation. "Cars" is nothing literary nor profound. Just about how he feels safer in one - where no street hoodlums can kick your ass.

[blueingreentrain]

@smurfblood he didn't actually mention Ballard did he. Punk was more seudo intellectual if anything, attached to leftist politics, situationism, Ballard etc.

[smurfblood]

@blueingreentrain No but the narrator did. Besides, I think Numan is a tory.

[cypionate011]

has far as I'm concerned ,it is a good excuse to see the drop dead gorgeous Gabrielle Drake.and I'm all for it.

[Pookatube]

Is that Mike Myers as Gary Numan?

[profquatermass]

Anyone got the full length video of this song?

Everyone else is only showing the video without Gabrielle Drake.

[RicardosRealm]

The Gabrielle Drake clip is taken from an old 70's BBC documentary on JG Ballard. The clip never had anything to do with Gary Numan until some bright spark on Synth Britannia decided to brilliantly combine the images with Numans song.

[FredericDaguerre]

@RicardosRealm

Thank you for sharing this.  I'm not terribly familiar with Ballard, unfortunately, but I've seen this documentary several times and have always been perturbed at that part. Thank you for the clever commentary.

[sdfnjss]

Is that Gabrielle Drake in the car with her long legs.

John Foxx Lancashire accent nice.