This is HEAVY funk. Calling it "80s" is insane. Numan's untutored style is the key to his incomparable style. This album is fucking brilliant! And he was at the head of PPG Wave technology if memory serves.
I bought the Eagle Records reissue of this which was surprisingly not considered an import in Canada for $12.99. I used to listen to this a lot during the age of 18 or 19, it relaxed me. I would never recommend this to anyone else as I don't really consider this a great album, but probably for nostalgia and other reasons, this is one of my favourite albums to listen to. This is song is also pretty good. Definitely a unique sound to this one.
Zaine Griff, check him out on a You Tube search, from 1983 singing Ultravox's 'Passionate Reply" I think Numan ALMOST signed him to Numa Records in 1984, and he SHOULD have instead of that awful lineup that he chose.
this is the intro the metal.. then mixed with sister surprise.. then with Machine+soul thrown in. As much as i love gary numan.. theres nowt impressive about this song compared to any others.
For me, this was Numan's last "real Numan" album up until Sacrifice (with the odd tune from Metal Rhythm keeping me interested). I love the fact that Numan was still doing his own thing with Berserker.
I bought Berserker at the time, lost it long ago, haven't heard it for ages. It's pretty awful ain't it? The slap bass, girl singers, Gary's bizarre crooning "in the club style". Eep. Listening to it reminds me how I felt in general then; that there weren't any good musical *styles* around; pop was all tinkly DX7s, rock was hair metal, there wasn't a genre for Gary to slide into. It took the evolution of dark music styles in rock before there was a home again for him.
@jaxxstraw I prefer the darker style, also, but there always seems to be something missing in his later works (except for "Dark" and a few others). This has always been my complaint with NIN, even though I love thier style, there's just no substance, as they say. As embarassingly "night-clubby" as Berserker was, at least some of it fulfilled what it was aiming for.
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CONSIDERABLYMORE1 2 months ago
This is HEAVY funk. Calling it "80s" is insane. Numan's untutored style is the key to his incomparable style. This album is fucking brilliant! And he was at the head of PPG Wave technology if memory serves.
CONSIDERABLYMORE1 2 months ago
@CONSIDERABLYMORE1 There's some really good PPG Wave action on The Fury as well - it's got a distinctive sound (must have been dead new in 1984).
AshleyMarkPomeroy 2 months ago
Yeah, I thought BERSERKER was a good, solid album.
ronaldtheriot 1 year ago
I bought the Eagle Records reissue of this which was surprisingly not considered an import in Canada for $12.99. I used to listen to this a lot during the age of 18 or 19, it relaxed me. I would never recommend this to anyone else as I don't really consider this a great album, but probably for nostalgia and other reasons, this is one of my favourite albums to listen to. This is song is also pretty good. Definitely a unique sound to this one.
smujohnson 1 year ago
2:10 I love that blue machine..
zaphid 3 years ago
Personally I think that Berserker is criminally underrated.
DanteBateman 3 years ago 12
Agree, DanteBateman. It's my fave Numan album after Telekon.
ribogok 2 years ago
Who is singing the part about "show you religion?" If that's Numan, never heard anything like it from him before or since.
mstcrow5429 3 years ago
Zaine Griff, check him out on a You Tube search, from 1983 singing Ultravox's 'Passionate Reply" I think Numan ALMOST signed him to Numa Records in 1984, and he SHOULD have instead of that awful lineup that he chose.
studio54 2 years ago
this is the intro the metal.. then mixed with sister surprise.. then with Machine+soul thrown in. As much as i love gary numan.. theres nowt impressive about this song compared to any others.
Ilikenuman 3 years ago
For me, this was Numan's last "real Numan" album up until Sacrifice (with the odd tune from Metal Rhythm keeping me interested). I love the fact that Numan was still doing his own thing with Berserker.
SpeedT03 3 years ago 3
I bought Berserker at the time, lost it long ago, haven't heard it for ages. It's pretty awful ain't it? The slap bass, girl singers, Gary's bizarre crooning "in the club style". Eep. Listening to it reminds me how I felt in general then; that there weren't any good musical *styles* around; pop was all tinkly DX7s, rock was hair metal, there wasn't a genre for Gary to slide into. It took the evolution of dark music styles in rock before there was a home again for him.
jaxxstraw 3 years ago
You remind me of my course tutor at college. You both hate 80s music.
I'm ever so sorry for reminding you of your past.
Currie01 3 years ago
@jaxxstraw I prefer the darker style, also, but there always seems to be something missing in his later works (except for "Dark" and a few others). This has always been my complaint with NIN, even though I love thier style, there's just no substance, as they say. As embarassingly "night-clubby" as Berserker was, at least some of it fulfilled what it was aiming for.
varanid9 1 year ago
@jaxxstraw :
Linn Drum > Drumagog
Chorus & Gated Reverb > 4 or 5 db of dynamic range on a master
DX7's > played-out Fantom and Triton workstations
Girl singers > Autotune, Melodyne, and other terrible T-Pain sounding garbage
Slap bass > Dropped A tuning
Club crooning > than screaming about M&P not loving you, cutting yourself or other cliche angst
Hair metal which I dislike but still... > emo rock, fake punk rock, "hardcore" screamo, anything on Rise Records
80's music rules.....
nerdocide 1 year ago
@jaxxstraw fuck off
CONSIDERABLYMORE1 2 months ago
We serve you, just for now.
numan06 3 years ago 2