Sorry, missed this. It is of some comfort to be able to detach emotion, at least for a brief time, which this song allows. Emotions can be painful, so a bit of robotic mindedness can be a bit of a band aid at times.
Ok three things, I wouldn't send my worst enemy to hear what any shrink had to say and secondly, Gary Numan was ground breaking in 1979. Nobody was doing this type of stuff.
Thirdly, go to iTunes and sample the piano version of this song and I will bet you will say that it is among the most beautiful music you have heard. Yeah, he does look kind of "out there" in this video but that was the 80's man. Let me guess, you weren't born yet?
This man was the god of electronic and futuristic sounds back in the early 80s and late 70s,i was crazy for his music and now 25 years on or more i still play his music..
@hasanrolf Your mouth IS our vision. Can you name even one palatable British dish?-no. How many times have you eaten at Kentucky Fried Chicken or McDonalds?(before you answer, I've been over there and it's ALL you greys eat) There isn't a single british eatery anywhere but Britain-no vision. The only brits that badmouth us are the ones who can't afford to move here.
@TheShplaa I'm Canadian and was 12 when I first heard this and still get goosebumps.By the time "Cars" came I started to lose interest shortly after.I still love Gary and think he is amazing *-*
Umm for the audiance of 1979 it was the music of the day, so no were weren't sitting in our mud huts wondering if aliens had landed! Gary Numan still IS a pioneer.. and he's still alive, touring and making music today!
I remember watching cable TV when it first took off here, in TN. Cinemax or The Movie Channel, or possibly HBO didn't have much to run, so the same movies would play daily. In 1980, I was about 6 and this film called "Times Square" was always on. I fell in love with it and it was made at a time when soundtracks were expected to do better than the movies themselves. This one had the Ramones, Roxy Music, Joe Jackson, Talking Heads, The Cure, and this gem by Gary Numan. Bought it on Vinyl, double
Wow all these years I thought he was just some nameless one hit wonder. Fuck the over marketed music industry for branding this guy unfairly. Have you seen how he's portrayed? It's the reason I've missed genius, and my stomach feels sick with guilt. I can hear the influence of David Bowie. I'm thankful Gary had such musical influences because the children of today have nothing, not a damn thing. A beaver, and the country of Cyprus, and all of these parasites from the ghetto aren't music.
@saganemc2 Yeah, u know, buttinvasion. Gary used 2 stalk the band Japan, when they were on their last tour in the country Japan. Its a true story- VERY FUNNEEEEEIIII, look it up in google, I'm not even kidding. U cant make this shit up, Gary, yeah he's coooool and his music's BITCHIN, but honestly, what a DWWWWEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEBBB!!! TeeHEEEEEEEEIII!!!! XoD
this guy is early ENO..make-up..music and all..how you get BOWIE out of this is beyond me..now, i'm not saying this is bad..i like it..but man let's call a spade a spade..he even looks like BRIAN ENO..
@kerstmanneke82 yeah, but if it wasn't for ENO, their would be no GARY NUMAN..same with ROXY MUSIC..no ROXY..no TALKING HEADS..no CARS..no RADIOHEAD..no DURAN DURAN..no ULTRAVOX..no BE BOP DELUXE..no DEPECHE MODE..no HUMAN LEAGUE....on and on we go...but i do like this song..
hate mansons version all you want..but who covers gary numan? only the peeps that realize what good music was...come on..dont give shit to the wrong people..give it to the right people.
@Khongbiet1000.... Yeah I agree .. It's not bad but as in most cases ... Nothing can beat the original... To me that's a proven fact .. Look at all the BS movies that were re- made... I'll take the 70's& 80's versions better then the new .. Cars as well..
David Grohl ... If you ever heard of him ( Nirvana,Probot,Queens of the Stone Age,Foo Fighters) did a cover of this and it's not bad .. I believe it's on the new Foo Fighters album
I personally think that Manson's Down in the park does not have the same charm as this song. I do not like his version nearly as much, even though I am a manson fan.
@ffejgib In a nutshell.....existential angst requited, reminscient nostalgia for real creative music (unlike music now), haunting and mesmeric synthesizer, which hits the amygdala just right, a feeling of acceptance and cameradeship in a dystopian world (unlike the everyday dystopian world), and a bit of Schadenfreude (it's fun to 'watch the humans try to run'), which is id gratification. I am hypnotically drawn to this tune also....so it must be a good functional defense mechanism. Cheers
@raptorjp4 Lol Go take a long walk, Keep walking until you find a big cliff and walk some more. Either that or go find a boyfriend and realize what you're missing big boy ;) x x x x x x x x x x x x x x
Gary Numan is easily one of the best artists when it comes to ingenious lyrics that are also very dark. This man's song is a masterpiece of imagery, while still being highly connotative. That's probably why his music is so unique, and kick ass.
The audience must have thought they were in 'Bladerunner" or something. When to 'The pleasure principles' concert he was touring in Auckland,NZ, about 3 weeks ago. So awesome. Very forward thinking artist. Well ahead of his time.
Gary was wayy ahead of his time ... If he made this album again with the same hits... It would be on the radio all day and then we'd get sick of it...
What a COLD/ DARK place our PLANET would've been without all those UBER ANDROGYNOUS creatures that used to make the MOST fucking MIND-BLOWING music during the 80's ( the BEST fucking ERA in music EVER!!!...) and for some odd reason seemed to REPRODUCE "exclusively" in the "United Kingdom"!!!....
I'm in a fucking TRANCE looking at this SEXIER than FUCK demi-god/pseudo-alien MUSICALLY and VISUALLY BLOWING MY MIND out into another fucking DIMENSION!!!.. What a total MIND-FUCK this is!!!...
After he sings the last line, "a different faces but the words never change," he sings a line that is not in the original lyrics, but I can't make it out. Can anyone tell what that last line is exactly?
After her sings the last line, "a different faces but the words never change," he sings a line that is not in the original lyrics, but I can't make it out. Can anyone tell what that last line is exactly?
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WTF is this crap, Manson shits on this guy aye. Numan is a piece of ass crust compared to Manson. This is desgusting. This Fag is trying to be like Manson and someone as faggish as this Numan thing isn't even close !
@Taliam86 - You *do* realize that this version came first, and that both Manson and the Foo Fighters have done covers of it? Next time maybe you do a little research before you spout off a bunch of insulting nonsense.
Why the hell is manson being compared to numan just cause he copied down in the park.Of course he could never recreate talent because hes a talentless psycho satin worshipper trying to be an artist.Get the hell off this page and go talk about your manson love somewhere else!
I was there...........this was E P I C!!!! GN was the leader of the pack....and when you met him, as I did :-D, a really nice bloke, who seemed a little bit in awe at what he'd created
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manson did a 100% bonus to this song. if this was the only version they would have to get a new singer this guy is a faggot. his moves suck and his vocals are poor for this.
@shirehorse91 It's Numan, plain and simple. Let's not insult with genre specific classifications. I am a Numan snob because I CAN be, he allows me through his body of work.
Gary Numan and spinning gay Pyramids. Lol I like him but that is a cheesy stage complete with spinning gay pyramids. at least these pyramids coulda helped his career a little but, no they just spinned around w/o a care
gary numan is a great song writer but not much of a vocalist marilyn manson is a better vocalist and musician he has worked with trent resnor which is where a lot of his musical talent comes from not to say his pre resnor stuff isnt awesome its just not as dynamic. also the statement that the foofighters version is better than mansons is fucking retarded mansons version is way better and darker manson really captured the depravity of this song in a way that even numan couldnt
@MrWhitneytraylor . Well,when he and Iggy Pop went to Berlin to get "cleaned up" that year,being there influenced his style like on the albums and photographs at that time,you can see it.I think it influenced a lot of the new wave bands image.Mike Score from A Flock Of Seagulls would admit to it.
Christian Death covered this as well as MM. I have always enjoy this version best. Gary took a rather unusual instrument (the Minimoog) and managed to pioneer electronic music as we know it. My hat is off to him.
@JohnnyLovely2 yeah lol! youre right ... this is better way better than Marylyn Mansons version.. I like the Foo Fighters Version though but nothing beats the original..
oh look there's america still the baddest mother fuckers on the face of the earth but without hardly any soul left only an older fuck like me can look back and thank god he's a marine and give thanks that he's a child of the 80's
Wow this guy had some hidden sexiness? What happened to that man? The way he moves at 1:48, the Cars video does not show any of that. And now I can finally see what people were saying about Gary being a Bowie clone, yet so many people tried to be Bowie though back in the day so what was the big day.
Bowie influenced most of the freaks. Velvet Underground, Roxy Music, Bowie, and certain others influenced the freaks.
Calling this emo or goth is like calling E.A.Poe either. Those are labels slapped on tweener lifestyle options one may obtain in complete sets at the mall--music, clothes, makeup, books--probably all at one shop to better aid the obese 12 year old who hates his parents, on whose credit card it is all being purchased. This guy was creating music like this when there was no label for it. At least give him credit for what your generation sorely lacks: originality and creativity.
@nauort23 This certainly is NOT emo or goth, it was slapped the title of new wave or avant guard in the same vein as klaus nomi who was popular with david bowie a few years prior. I was born when tubeway army made their first album and a year old when I was very aware of this song and liked it even at that age. There is a resurgence of an audience for Gary because of his appearance and being mentioned on the Mighty Boosh. I miss real synthesizers that the 70's was all about. Today's sound muted
I, Partridge - track 2 !
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Sorry, missed this. It is of some comfort to be able to detach emotion, at least for a brief time, which this song allows. Emotions can be painful, so a bit of robotic mindedness can be a bit of a band aid at times.
ngogol 3 weeks ago
I'd love to of been at that concert !!
TheSeanryan24 3 weeks ago
I've still got this on 12"
TheGodParticle 3 weeks ago
Ok three things, I wouldn't send my worst enemy to hear what any shrink had to say and secondly, Gary Numan was ground breaking in 1979. Nobody was doing this type of stuff.
Thirdly, go to iTunes and sample the piano version of this song and I will bet you will say that it is among the most beautiful music you have heard. Yeah, he does look kind of "out there" in this video but that was the 80's man. Let me guess, you weren't born yet?
mdboucher 1 month ago
@mdboucher Totall agree about that piano version. It's gorgeous.
grafittix 1 month ago
@mdboucher his look is amazing!
saganemc2 4 weeks ago in playlist Favorite videos
like if you were brought here by the foo fighters cover of this song!!!! :)
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DrinkDrankPunk72 1 month ago
we are unworthy
saganemc2 2 months ago in playlist saganemc2's favorites
Gary is the one and only !!!!!!!!!!!!!
MysteryBreath2302 2 months ago
This man was the god of electronic and futuristic sounds back in the early 80s and late 70s,i was crazy for his music and now 25 years on or more i still play his music..
seamed100 3 months ago 5
well thats the yanks 4 ya... all mouth an no vision
hasanrolf 3 months ago
@hasanrolf Your mouth IS our vision. Can you name even one palatable British dish?-no. How many times have you eaten at Kentucky Fried Chicken or McDonalds?(before you answer, I've been over there and it's ALL you greys eat) There isn't a single british eatery anywhere but Britain-no vision. The only brits that badmouth us are the ones who can't afford to move here.
saganemc2 1 month ago in playlist Favorite videos
Its so unfortunate that everyone in America who actually knows who he is only remembers him for cars
TheShplaa 3 months ago 4
@TheShplaa I'm Canadian and was 12 when I first heard this and still get goosebumps.By the time "Cars" came I started to lose interest shortly after.I still love Gary and think he is amazing *-*
ellzedd41 4 weeks ago
@TheShplaa Speak for yourself, I remember a LOT more than that!
ihatestupidsignups 2 weeks ago
Umm for the audiance of 1979 it was the music of the day, so no were weren't sitting in our mud huts wondering if aliens had landed! Gary Numan still IS a pioneer.. and he's still alive, touring and making music today!
grendel149 3 months ago
I remember watching cable TV when it first took off here, in TN. Cinemax or The Movie Channel, or possibly HBO didn't have much to run, so the same movies would play daily. In 1980, I was about 6 and this film called "Times Square" was always on. I fell in love with it and it was made at a time when soundtracks were expected to do better than the movies themselves. This one had the Ramones, Roxy Music, Joe Jackson, Talking Heads, The Cure, and this gem by Gary Numan. Bought it on Vinyl, double
blindlemonfishbone 3 months ago
Wow all these years I thought he was just some nameless one hit wonder. Fuck the over marketed music industry for branding this guy unfairly. Have you seen how he's portrayed? It's the reason I've missed genius, and my stomach feels sick with guilt. I can hear the influence of David Bowie. I'm thankful Gary had such musical influences because the children of today have nothing, not a damn thing. A beaver, and the country of Cyprus, and all of these parasites from the ghetto aren't music.
aaronscrewme 3 months ago
@aaronscrewme YES!!!!! some content from the land of the aware!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thank you for your realization, pass it on.
saganemc2 3 months ago
TeeHee Numan used to stalk David Sylvian, and accosted him once in a car park for COCOASHUNT. TeeHeeTeeHeeeeeeTeeeeHEEEEEIII!!! XoD
ariesscorpiorising 3 months ago
@ariesscorpiorising cocoashunt??
saganemc2 3 months ago in playlist saganemc2's Favorited Videos
@saganemc2 Yeah, u know, buttinvasion. Gary used 2 stalk the band Japan, when they were on their last tour in the country Japan. Its a true story- VERY FUNNEEEEEIIII, look it up in google, I'm not even kidding. U cant make this shit up, Gary, yeah he's coooool and his music's BITCHIN, but honestly, what a DWWWWEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEBBB!!! TeeHEEEEEEEEIII!!!! XoD
ariesscorpiorising 3 months ago
the only live version of any song i like better than the original
saganemc2 3 months ago
@saganemc2 I also agree
bbjewell1981 3 months ago in playlist gary newman
22 spores
saganemc2 4 months ago
Gary's got mad dancing skills.
Hipkiltat 4 months ago
absolutely sexy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
saganemc2 4 months ago
22 people have broken ears.
pspiddy 4 months ago 2
manson's single version is awful, but live version is the best i heared.
TheBloney 4 months ago
I love this song, Foo Fighters do a version of it on a bside, original is the best though, as always
TheRobash 4 months ago
I guess I was born too late.
loungeandrocker 4 months ago
This is on the (first) X-Files album, this is intense as good as the X-Files album version.
trespire 5 months ago
@PoserExposer awesome username!!!
saganemc2 5 months ago
He does make some Bowie-esque facial expressions(esque?)
saganemc2 5 months ago
Slow Metro?
skyehoyt1971 5 months ago
Funny thing: the one Marilyn Manson song I liked turned out to be cover:-)
gluserty 5 months ago 2
this guy is early ENO..make-up..music and all..how you get BOWIE out of this is beyond me..now, i'm not saying this is bad..i like it..but man let's call a spade a spade..he even looks like BRIAN ENO..
801liveable 5 months ago
@801liveable But this guy is Gary Numan. GARY NUMAN
kerstmanneke82 4 months ago
@kerstmanneke82 yeah, but if it wasn't for ENO, their would be no GARY NUMAN..same with ROXY MUSIC..no ROXY..no TALKING HEADS..no CARS..no RADIOHEAD..no DURAN DURAN..no ULTRAVOX..no BE BOP DELUXE..no DEPECHE MODE..no HUMAN LEAGUE....on and on we go...but i do like this song..
801liveable 4 months ago
@801liveable dont you mean no kraftwerk no gary numan?
RealMusicTV 4 months ago
@RealMusicTV yeah, i can see KRAFTWERK, also..i guess they just slip my mind being such a big BRIAN ENO, fan...
801liveable 4 months ago
hate mansons version all you want..but who covers gary numan? only the peeps that realize what good music was...come on..dont give shit to the wrong people..give it to the right people.
NayveeMan 5 months ago
@Khongbiet1000.... Yeah I agree .. It's not bad but as in most cases ... Nothing can beat the original... To me that's a proven fact .. Look at all the BS movies that were re- made... I'll take the 70's& 80's versions better then the new .. Cars as well..
jayman6677 5 months ago
still crazy after all these years....
dfizz27 5 months ago
I think he looks like a better version of Alan from two and a half men. :)
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Bradedfacemeat 6 months ago
I was fortunate to see Numan on this tour in Cleveland, OH. He was a great showman and the stage setup was crazy cool!
MightyHickory 6 months ago 2
@MightyHickory It was a great show! Too bad the sound cut out partway through this song.
Cassaendra 6 months ago
David Grohl ... If you ever heard of him ( Nirvana,Probot,Queens of the Stone Age,Foo Fighters) did a cover of this and it's not bad .. I believe it's on the new Foo Fighters album
jayman6677 6 months ago
@jayman6677 Thanks for the info fella.
Just listened to it.
It's ok,but lacks Gary's distinct melancholy.
Original is the best.
Thanks again.
khongbiet1000 5 months ago
I personally think that Manson's Down in the park does not have the same charm as this song. I do not like his version nearly as much, even though I am a manson fan.
Maskedfreakinabox 6 months ago
he looks so awkward
xcrunkxcorex 6 months ago
@xcrunkxcorex thats what made these guys like him and dudes later into the 80s so interesting!
TooL1993 6 months ago
I cannot find a psyciatrist that can tell me why this is so good.
ffejgib 6 months ago 10
@ffejgib In a nutshell.....existential angst requited, reminscient nostalgia for real creative music (unlike music now), haunting and mesmeric synthesizer, which hits the amygdala just right, a feeling of acceptance and cameradeship in a dystopian world (unlike the everyday dystopian world), and a bit of Schadenfreude (it's fun to 'watch the humans try to run'), which is id gratification. I am hypnotically drawn to this tune also....so it must be a good functional defense mechanism. Cheers
ngogol 3 weeks ago
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ngogol 3 weeks ago
Why is this giving me a boner?
killmrmanson 7 months ago 11
@killmrmanson bad news, YOU'RE GAY !
raptorjp4 1 month ago
@raptorjp4 bad news?
deathtothemushroom 1 month ago
@deathtothemushroom Very Bad...
raptorjp4 1 month ago
@raptorjp4 little homophobic are we?
saganemc2 1 month ago in playlist Favorite videos
@saganemc2 Nope, not accept gays, is not being homophobic :DDD use your little brain ;)
raptorjp4 3 weeks ago
@raptorjp4 lol bad news? lol I'm gay and I don't regard it as bad news...
RidingMad125 3 weeks ago
@RidingMad125 hahahahahah SHAME ON YOU GAY HAHAH LOL
raptorjp4 3 weeks ago
@raptorjp4 Lol Go take a long walk, Keep walking until you find a big cliff and walk some more. Either that or go find a boyfriend and realize what you're missing big boy ;) x x x x x x x x x x x x x x
RidingMad125 3 weeks ago
@RidingMad125 Okay... so if you're gay, everyone must be gay?? that's sooooo stupid, INSANE MIND....... YOUR BRAIN IS FUCKED, BYE GAY !!
raptorjp4 3 weeks ago
@raptorjp4 Lol of course i don't think like that, Mind you can catch it from us!!! Bloody idiot
RidingMad125 3 weeks ago
Christian Death had a good cover of this, it is almost as old as the original so not many people know it.
Gazerich 7 months ago
@Gazerich Sorry pal.I have to say CD's version is good.
Just Not As Good as the original.
Thanks for the heads up though.
khongbiet1000 6 months ago
Gary Numan is easily one of the best artists when it comes to ingenious lyrics that are also very dark. This man's song is a masterpiece of imagery, while still being highly connotative. That's probably why his music is so unique, and kick ass.
LegalFuhrer 7 months ago 2
When I first heard Tubeway Army I loved it, when I first saw Blade runner I loved.
Critics hated both, how wrong they all were? Numan and Blade runner are now part of our everyday lives. Our friends are now most certainly electric.
BULLETPROOFGONG 7 months ago 2
When I first heard Tubeway Army I loved it, when I first saw Balde runner I loved.
Critics hated both, how wrong they all were? Numan and Blade runner are now part of our everyday lives. Our friends are now most certainly electric.
BULLETPROOFGONG 7 months ago
everyone just forgets about the steller cover done by the foo fighters?
doggeydump 7 months ago
The audience must have thought they were in 'Bladerunner" or something. When to 'The pleasure principles' concert he was touring in Auckland,NZ, about 3 weeks ago. So awesome. Very forward thinking artist. Well ahead of his time.
datsun1601 7 months ago
Gary was wayy ahead of his time ... If he made this album again with the same hits... It would be on the radio all day and then we'd get sick of it...
jayman6677 7 months ago
@Discle.... You make a grown man cry ....
jayman6677 7 months ago
im A Huge fan of Down In The Park of Numan
RylanGreer 8 months ago
I love this song. And its proof of, if you're a good enough lyricist and songwriter, it doesn't matter how fucking tonedeaf you are, it's gonna work!
Northernmight 8 months ago
Foo Fighters version is pretty awesome too
GreenDayDookieDemos 8 months ago
What a COLD/ DARK place our PLANET would've been without all those UBER ANDROGYNOUS creatures that used to make the MOST fucking MIND-BLOWING music during the 80's ( the BEST fucking ERA in music EVER!!!...) and for some odd reason seemed to REPRODUCE "exclusively" in the "United Kingdom"!!!....
petermurphreak 8 months ago
@petermurphreak A Man , Amen, brother ! YEAH! I LOVED his TELEKON...! :)Z
VictoryBarry 8 months ago
This is cool but Manson's is better. Well both are different :))
Man666Son 8 months ago
I'm in a fucking TRANCE looking at this SEXIER than FUCK demi-god/pseudo-alien MUSICALLY and VISUALLY BLOWING MY MIND out into another fucking DIMENSION!!!.. What a total MIND-FUCK this is!!!...
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After he sings the last line, "a different faces but the words never change," he sings a line that is not in the original lyrics, but I can't make it out. Can anyone tell what that last line is exactly?
Discle 8 months ago
After her sings the last line, "a different faces but the words never change," he sings a line that is not in the original lyrics, but I can't make it out. Can anyone tell what that last line is exactly?
Discle 8 months ago
@Discle I can't quite figure that last line out, either. "You alive will make me cry?" I'm pretty sure it's "You (two syllables) will make me cry."
jdx1138 8 months ago
I hate to break it to you "Taliam86" but this is Gary Numan's song from the early 80's and Marilyn Manson did a cover of it many years later.
astrogirl59 8 months ago 2
That guy sure does love triangles...
h4ck3rpunk 8 months ago 2
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WTF is this crap, Manson shits on this guy aye. Numan is a piece of ass crust compared to Manson. This is desgusting. This Fag is trying to be like Manson and someone as faggish as this Numan thing isn't even close !
Taliam86 8 months ago
@Taliam86 - You *do* realize that this version came first, and that both Manson and the Foo Fighters have done covers of it? Next time maybe you do a little research before you spout off a bunch of insulting nonsense.
scarletine 8 months ago 2
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Taliam86 8 months ago
He's my hero, I play my Roland SH101 and pretend I'm Numan I don't care what my American friends think.
ACEDIMEMUSTAINE 8 months ago 3
sexay
ficsci 8 months ago
Why the hell is manson being compared to numan just cause he copied down in the park.Of course he could never recreate talent because hes a talentless psycho satin worshipper trying to be an artist.Get the hell off this page and go talk about your manson love somewhere else!
crjdemte 9 months ago
@crjdemte couldn't have said it better myself
ACEDIMEMUSTAINE 8 months ago
2:42 :-)
TheInvolvement 9 months ago
I was there...........this was E P I C!!!! GN was the leader of the pack....and when you met him, as I did :-D, a really nice bloke, who seemed a little bit in awe at what he'd created
TheTimDear 9 months ago
I was there...........this was E P I C!!!! GN was the leader of the pack....and when you met him, as I did :-D a really nice bloke
TheTimDear 9 months ago
Early Gary Numan and real early Human League Rule.
LORDGOAT1976 9 months ago
Rumour has it that in a Spinal Tap-esque balls up, the stage dominating pyramids came a bit short of the mark...
d51386 10 months ago
If you known this before, Manson cover sound lame. GN is the MAN
zimadude99 10 months ago
21 people went outside when the rape machine _wasn't_ looking the other way
sumkunol 10 months ago
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manson did a 100% bonus to this song. if this was the only version they would have to get a new singer this guy is a faggot. his moves suck and his vocals are poor for this.
Eyeslayer 10 months ago
For the audience in 1979 this show must have been very very modern & futuristic. Gary Numan was a pioneer.
kzbxvz 10 months ago 33
@kzbxvz It was, trust me.
Toxinomist 7 months ago
@kzbxvz its still modern and futuristic to me in 2011 because music is just now starting to take sound as this, In my opinion atleast.
thinkaristocrat 5 months ago
@kzbxvz It still is futuristic and modern..and actual people played the instruments,not a computer.
PoserExposer 5 months ago
@kzbxvz it still is
kerstmanneke82 4 months ago
@kzbxvz It isn't futurism, rather it's cyberpunk. Numan is drawing on artists like JG Ballard and playing with scifi imagery.
shirehorse91 3 months ago
@shirehorse91 It's Numan, plain and simple. Let's not insult with genre specific classifications. I am a Numan snob because I CAN be, he allows me through his body of work.
saganemc2 3 months ago in playlist saganemc2's favorites
@saganemc2 I'm referring to his motivation. No one is being insulted.
shirehorse91 3 months ago
i love Down In The Park of Numan , i hate Down In The Park of Manson
240SX77 10 months ago 155
@240SX77 mansons is ok but he is no numan
sportandmovies 6 months ago
@240SX77 Manson is a poser of Alice Cooper.. Numan is unappreciated.
zjbeast 6 months ago
@240SX77 Manson is a poser!
zjbeast 6 months ago
@240SX77 I like the Manson version because that's what led me to discover the real one.
TK2692 5 months ago
where is the button for epic? Sounds like fu**in Kraftwerk Blues!!
Keysforjourney 10 months ago
I still think he should have quit making his own songs and joined Frank Zappa's backing band. The world would be WTfuck
DimensionsofChange 10 months ago
Gary Numan and spinning gay Pyramids. Lol I like him but that is a cheesy stage complete with spinning gay pyramids. at least these pyramids coulda helped his career a little but, no they just spinned around w/o a care
espinozafn 11 months ago
@espinozafn It's not like the pyramid was gonna or even should turn into rape machine right on the stage, am I right or am I wrong?
jrmetmoi 11 months ago
gary numan is a great song writer but not much of a vocalist marilyn manson is a better vocalist and musician he has worked with trent resnor which is where a lot of his musical talent comes from not to say his pre resnor stuff isnt awesome its just not as dynamic. also the statement that the foofighters version is better than mansons is fucking retarded mansons version is way better and darker manson really captured the depravity of this song in a way that even numan couldnt
EvolvedHuman 11 months ago
@EvolvedHuman fuck off idiot. manson is a shit vocalist, i can say that and ive been a manson fan since 1998.
hes great but a shit vocalist.
nic1357 10 months ago
my dad listen to him when i was like 3.... im 34 now and still love some of his stuff... cars is what most people know of him.. very cool
jdubs4201 11 months ago
He's so unbelievably badass. I love Numan, I think he's brilliant.
Beatmyguest001 11 months ago
@MrWhitneytraylor . Well,when he and Iggy Pop went to Berlin to get "cleaned up" that year,being there influenced his style like on the albums and photographs at that time,you can see it.I think it influenced a lot of the new wave bands image.Mike Score from A Flock Of Seagulls would admit to it.
1ssjesus 1 year ago
Christian Death covered this as well as MM. I have always enjoy this version best. Gary took a rather unusual instrument (the Minimoog) and managed to pioneer electronic music as we know it. My hat is off to him.
drzomb77 1 year ago
just my option....im a child of the 90s not the 80s soo that may be one BIG reason...
TinkerStinkersDaddy 1 year ago
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Gary Numan, I'm always in the moog :D
Sstrikerful 1 year ago
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The Marilyn Manson one is way better!!!
TinkerStinkersDaddy 1 year ago
@TinkerStinkersDaddy Are you kidding? Gary Numan is a legend, Marilyn Manson's version is annoying
JohnnyLovely2 1 year ago 5
@JohnnyLovely2 yeah lol! youre right ... this is better way better than Marylyn Mansons version.. I like the Foo Fighters Version though but nothing beats the original..
s81166 11 months ago 2
@TinkerStinkersDaddy Marilyn what ?
Only Gary Numan´s Down in the park is the real one, the better one !
DJGOMMY62 1 year ago
He reminds me of Bowie during his Berlin era circa 1977.
1ssjesus 1 year ago
@1ssjesus yeahh you're right !!!
MrCamacho75 11 months ago
Gary Numan rocks!!
1ssjesus 1 year ago
Gary Numan kicks so much ass. He's the godfather of industrial music and an inspiration to many.
ChainsawSolly 1 year ago
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love this track. check out new track by MIRRORS - INTO THE HEART! absolutely amazing tune! youtube channel - M1RRORS
JoeCollins91 1 year ago
Your thru to the next round..
Mint.
954blade02 1 year ago
I really like this song I first herd it when Manson did a cover <3
gravesarelove 1 year ago
Go on gazza
baldenscare 1 year ago
omg this singer is alan from two and a half men :D
berzerker11 1 year ago
TRON
juanpa19 1 year ago
LOVE this song.
Lyco499499 1 year ago
wwwaaaayyyyyy ahead of his time..
kokopelli1967 1 year ago
a true original just like bowie makes modern music seem so stale and corporate
DICKENS81 1 year ago
@DICKENS81 Exactly.
ChainsawSolly 1 year ago
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I was down in the park with a sweet young boy.
richarddvijay 1 year ago
I was down in the park with a sweet youg boy.
richarddvijay 1 year ago
Gary has been a lifelong inspiration for me. Love this live performance!
ryanfreer77 1 year ago
Gary's a really strange chap. wonder if he attended the riots the other day in London.
wanagi006 1 year ago
oh look there's america still the baddest mother fuckers on the face of the earth but without hardly any soul left only an older fuck like me can look back and thank god he's a marine and give thanks that he's a child of the 80's
db0311usmc 1 year ago
oh look there's a rape machine il go outside if it looks the other way!
whereangelsplay1 1 year ago
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How can you say anyone done this justice and compare (re-visits) this is a "Tubeway Army" song & so it will remain
DChomeboy1 1 year ago
How can you say anyone done this justice and compare (re-visits) this is a "Tubeway Army" song & so it will remain
DChomeboy1 1 year ago
You can watch the humans try to run....
milkbone28681 1 year ago
no way is this guy human, he's a machine
XDhairyeyeballs 1 year ago
ahh. the days when music was played with one finger...
mensamoo 1 year ago
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This sucks! Mansons' version is better!
soulshaker205 1 year ago
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This sucks! Marilyn's version is better!
soulshaker205 1 year ago
How can you even attempt to call this emo. It sounds nothing like Bobby Vinton
DimensionsofChange 1 year ago
so freakin cool !!!!!
bolmsp 1 year ago
今から30年前のゲイリー・ニューマンの来日ステージを、ぼくは死ぬまでわすれないだろう（レレッ？どこかで聞いたような？でもほんとうなんだもーん）。
メカニカルでありながら、温かいサウンド、心をなくしたようでありながら心に訴えかけてくるゲイリーのヴォーカル。
彼の美学（と言っていいのか？）にこてんぱんにやられました。
ま、ニッポンにこんな芸術家が現れるには、あと100年はかかるだろうね（なんちゅういやな言い方をする奴でしょう！）。
MarioMizune 1 year ago
Girls Under Glass are the only ones who did this song any justice, the only way a great EBM band could.
TancerFang 1 year ago
Just spellbinding is all I can say
Luvyahbaby 1 year ago
Gary has actual swagger in this footage. But what I want to know is if he still has that today?
jrmetmoi 1 year ago
@jrmetmoi not really, now he just does moody evil, i find it annoying
fuckamericanidiot 11 months ago
@fuckamericanidiot But he still looks hot doing moody evil. He has great legs and a tight round ass. Now those are NOT annoying! LOL
jrmetmoi 11 months ago
Wow this guy had some hidden sexiness? What happened to that man? The way he moves at 1:48, the Cars video does not show any of that. And now I can finally see what people were saying about Gary being a Bowie clone, yet so many people tried to be Bowie though back in the day so what was the big day.
Bowie influenced most of the freaks. Velvet Underground, Roxy Music, Bowie, and certain others influenced the freaks.
jrmetmoi 1 year ago
Calling this emo or goth is like calling E.A.Poe either. Those are labels slapped on tweener lifestyle options one may obtain in complete sets at the mall--music, clothes, makeup, books--probably all at one shop to better aid the obese 12 year old who hates his parents, on whose credit card it is all being purchased. This guy was creating music like this when there was no label for it. At least give him credit for what your generation sorely lacks: originality and creativity.
nauort23 1 year ago
@nauort23 This certainly is NOT emo or goth, it was slapped the title of new wave or avant guard in the same vein as klaus nomi who was popular with david bowie a few years prior. I was born when tubeway army made their first album and a year old when I was very aware of this song and liked it even at that age. There is a resurgence of an audience for Gary because of his appearance and being mentioned on the Mighty Boosh. I miss real synthesizers that the 70's was all about. Today's sound muted
moxie96 1 year ago
imagine what it felt like to hear this music in 1979... in context with what was being played at that time. Blew me away, and I will never forget !!
wrightymark 1 year ago
I love that he dances.
MochaLiLy71 1 year ago
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Foo Fighters did it better
400batman 1 year ago
@400batman LOL, WTF, the foo fighters are shit compared to a pioneer like numan.
zipppit89 1 year ago
Just saw him on his Pleasure Principles tour, this song is great live! :D
kexyl 1 year ago
He reminds me of a new wave Neil Young...
Love it!!
ybzoc1965 1 year ago