Gary Numan - Are 'Friends' Electric?

[yellowpete79]

I wish i heard this 10yrs ago, this is the type of music I like, well from that era anyway. I wish they played something like this in the clubs i go to

[AgentAlloy]

@yellowpete79 10 years ago was 2001 bro, this song is from 1979.

[yellowpete79]

@AgentAlloy Yeah but If I heard it a decade ago i would have lost my shit

[DimitriNakos]

@yellowpete79 Just become a hipster and hang out with them. Still a good song tho.

[yellowpete79]

@DimitriNakos can't mate, my legs are too muscly to fit into the hipster skinny leg jeans :D plus I don't want girls to think im gay

[DimitriNakos]

@yellowpete79 well said sir.

[oct201981]

IM HERE CAUSE THIS IS AN ALL TIME CLASSIC FROM WAY BACK IN SUMMER OF 79 . IT WAS SO DIFFERENT FROM ANYTHING IN THE CHARTS IN THE UK OR ACCROS EUROPE . STILL DIFFERENT AND A MASTERPIECE TODAY

[borellpeter]

Classic new wave, post punk electric song....This album must be one of the best ever with Bowies Low and Iggy's The idiot. I know....we have a couple more of them. FANTASTIC !!!!!

[pommerzig]

ten kawalek to klasyka GN ,nic dodac nic ujac ,zajebisty jest =)

[Hot80s]

((( Gary )))

Nothing like still being the shit after all these years.

[44greebo]

Gary Numan and Tubeway Army came along and re-introduced melody and harmony into a very confused scene. This is a classic that will live with me for ever.

[OutlawMCC]

@44greebo Yeah i agree with you mate, I was once worried that his music would be forgotten after he left the scene

[ZLUGGO]

An absolute classic. Marvellous.

[dhevee2]

this song still give me shivers up my back after 30 years.what a song.noel ryan

[fredyzcool1]

This song is amazing!!!

[PeeingMyOwnBlood]

Got into this by listening to the Information Society cover - great, but nothing can beat the original Numan.

[The096757]

i have been listening to music well over 35 years since i was a kid and this is definitely in my top 10 best songs of all time. it is the best new wave song and one of the best dance songs as this song always made me want to dance. it disgusts me how the programmers in radio then and now (e.g. satellite radio and tv) would not play so many good songs but play the raunchy trash instead.

[Sherali1010]

do you know any song of this type???

[Sherali1010]

shit...i heard this song in Need For Speed Carbon.....Fucking amazing song...  ! ! !=)))

[TheEmilylander]

so many good bad memories but what a revolutionary song- go gary !

[777elicious]

if i was not on drug i will hate this song

[ipodxdude]

@777elicious you should stay away from that shit, its having a serious effect on your grammar

[sunburstcarrier]

@ipodxdude haaaaaaa!!!

[Matt130592]

Gary Numan at Forum tonight!! yh boi!!!!

[666vampTramp]

I remember the days when I was a Numanoid!!

[twilightyip]

@666vampTramp Almost like you're saying it's a past tense time.. hehe

[BlackCobrasTV]

this song never gets old...back in the days, music were so epic and people have brains to compose an epic song. ^_^

[DravenRainrix]

30 something years old an better than anything getting airplay now. All hail the Numan. : )

[HighgateSamphire]

I think that this is the only song in history that has a midway 'talking bit' that I can actually stand... it was also one of the first records I ever bought... it's as fresh now as it was then! It was also ridiculed by people at the time who had mutton for frontal lobes, but what do those types ever know?! Great track, great guy.

[Cristian12685]

Gran canción, lástima que hoy en día ya no exista gente tan creativa.

[SuperDrift12]

Haha wen i first haerd this song i thought it was newer??

[chugaluga68]

haha im 16 and have a mint condition are friends electric 1979 7 inch pictur didc

[Warren242]

Cover Airlane: *ww.youtube.com/watch?v=acTX1p­IurTo

[Beatmyguest001]

30 years old and it sounds like it could have been written yesterday. So ahead of his time, shame it took so long for him to get the recognition he deserves, but atleast more and more people are finding out about the genius that is Gary Numan and I am glad. If only today's pop music was this inventive, creative, interesting and catchy.

[MrMentalMental]

Fringe thanks for letting me find this song

[BrianUllom]

@MrMentalMental Indeed. Great song for a great ep.



[superunt43]

@MrMentalMental Fringe? Man did not mention that, did he?

[TheJustinmyx]

freaking great shit

[xzxrc]

This music is heard improved the real ugly

[TheFaction001]

best song on need for speed carbon. 

[KIDENVY4]

@TheFaction001 Indeed

[lalala41101]

@crampcake I thought it was bills and essays xD not even close

[Asovito]

Can't get this song out of my head... thanks Fringe!.

[MrMentalMental]

@Asovito awesome series and fitting song

[danboyguitar94]

no offence to all the people who like this song but I think this is quite a bad song even though when i was little i loved this song.

[aabove]

@danboyguitar94 Die.

[kryten77]

It's cold outside ^_^

Awesome voice!!!!! Amazing Synth!!!!!

[killingheroes]

I'm pretty sure it's 'issues' and not 'S.U.s'? I could be wrong, I usually am. If that's the case then somebody please tell what the fuck an S.U. is.

[crampcake]

@killingheroes In the lyrics that come with the album it says 'S.U.s', but I always thought 'issues' was cooler. How he says it. But yeah, I have no idea what it means.

[JarrodCook93]

@crampcake S.U refers to a lady named Sue who he was previously in a relationship with. But I can forgive your confusion as the lyrics to this song change almost everytime you read them. Especially that 'I put one white on line' bit

[aha0085]

this is true outsider's music

[dudesays100]

Sick song, also quite thoughtful and believable to events that happen to some of us.

[TheShplaa]

He looks like john 5 in that picture lol

[TheIncredibleD1701]

Isn't it, "About little deals and issues"?

[The096757]

this song was always a dance song to me. makes me think of being in a bar while checking someone out and feeling a joyous,mellow feeling with this song playing loudly.

[embojitsu]

Gary Numan is fucking cool.

[therealbrooksie]

lil wayne, drake, nicki minaj and justin bieber we know u all disliked this cause u all wanted a guest spot guess what all of us werent even born when this came out suck it

need for speed carbon ftw

[Albnel]

Simply a classic track.

[aaronscrewme]

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.

[VikingSkills7]

@aaronscrewme Well Done. Disciplined Folks Like Yourself are what this World Needs More of.

Yeah, Too many Kids think Rap is Music. Its Fun to see when My "Friends" Mature and Realize who they really are and move on from the "Hyphy" Phase...And Girls have almost No Positive Influences either. (I'm 23). Even for a Metalhead like me, Only 10% of Metal actually being put out is actually worth putting on a CD...

[Johnnywhamo]

@aaronscrewme It's always cool to discover how good some one really is. NA really hasn't a clue to how popular he really is. Personally The Pleasure Principle is my favorite album with Cars actually being my least favorite tune (probably from overexposure I'm sure) Films M.E. great tunes, what am I saying the whole album is brilliant.

[embojitsu]

@Johnnywhamo I wholeheartedly agree with you.

[Numanoid1963]

My favourite all time song...bar none.... :-)

[HawK047]

he maed garrys mod

[aPigeon121]

i think its ïssues"not SUs

[sitemountain]

If ALL of your 'friends' on this site (or perhaps Facebook) were actually fictional & created by a powerful program would it MATTER? If it DOES matter WHY would it really matter if you never KNEW your 'friends' were electric?

-Gary was REALLY ahead of his time back in 1979 wasn't he...

[TheWestfalenstadion]

With D.M. and Kraftwerk the godfather of synth-pop

[andysquirrell]

no, they are not.

joking aside, reading the lyrics i wondered if gazza was asbergers like my son.

yup, he is, hence his question...................

[andysquirrell]

my younger days sent me here, and other places, all in my car.

[biggyrat57]

yeah it's boosh's fault

[CookTheCadaverous]

Like if your here thanx to the mighty boosh!

[WBCRsfinest]

everyone sucks and it is cold outside

[Austintanner11]

i got it from nfs

[cabose2493]

Yeah i didnt discover Gary Numan from Need For Speed either. I discovered him from Test Drive 6 lol

[LordEha]

been looking for this song soooooooo long knew the beat and stuff in my head but forgot who the hell played it FREAKING good give me the shivers every time

[roberine]

Fringe anybody? The fantastic episode White Tulip.

[ConnerMcKay]

@roberine - they have so much awesome music in that show :D that was a great episode.

[sAcRoSaNct17]

@RocketFoxStudio: Quit being a duche! Why should you care where he found the song or weather he's a fan or not. He apparently likes the song, that's what brought him here, so there isn't anything wrong with his taste. So what he's a little delayed, different media tangentially provide sources of music for people to enjoy. I don't see that as a problem at all. It let's the person expand their horizon and it helps the artist. How would you feel if some Mozart fanboy from back in his day call you

[sAcRoSaNct17]

Ahh, takes me back to my stoner days =)

[sleepyfish]

so good.

[Mozyoz]

@emmyrenny no I really couldn't care less. if you look at the comments posted before mine, listeners said how they enjoyed hearing it back in the 80s. I'd only ever heard covers of this tune that aren''t anywhere near as good as the original and when I heard it all the way through for the first time recently, over 25 years after it was released, I really enjoyed it. My comment was directed at the original listeners...

[Mozyoz]

@CALUSNYKOW so it's stood the test of time...

[emmyrenny]

@Mozyoz or you're just looking for likes...

[SKOTP69]

This is precisely the kind of "Cold Wave" Electronic Music I was listening to on brilliant sunny spring-time days like this back in '86!

[Mozyoz]

I'm listening to this in 2011 :D

[CALUSNYKOW]

@Mozyoz so fuckin what??

[MrLouis2865]

one of the songs...u love at first listen. ahead of its time.

[kssidyn]

Me encanta Gary es tan lindo..*O*

[Rock4070]

thumbs up if need for speed carbon for the psp brought you here

[chupaweboz]

@Rock4070 No



[Rock4070]

@chupaweboz ok i respect your opininon

[therookpiece]

@chupaweboz That's no from me, too. My original vinyl showed me the way.

[RocketFoxStudio]

@Rock4070 if a video game 30 years later is your only way to hear such good music then you have only luck to discover it and not any actual good taste to begin with. Numan > Need for Speed. Get it? got it? good.

[Rock4070]

@RocketFoxStudio i didn't ask for your goddamn sarcasm nor ur opinion

[RocketFoxStudio]

@Rock4070 none of asked you for what games you played. :P

[phailez]

@RocketFoxStudio Shut the fuck up, you weren't born knowing the song you pretentious asshole.

[RocketFoxStudio]

@phailez no, but neither did I play one game, heard a song I liked, and then acted like a fake Numan fan who only knows that one song and tried to get thumbs up when no one else here mentioned NFS carbon. If you hear good music, where you found it doesn't matter. So go get thumbed up elsewhere. :P

[phailez]

@RocketFoxStudio How can someone be a fake fan? You either like something or you don't, if they do like one song logic says that they would continue to listen to their other songs. And before you assume as much no I didn't discover Gary Numan from need for speed.

[CaptainAppleManFilms]

Awesome. :D

[rose99942]

Way ahead of his time

[fulcrum300]

@rose99942 way.

[superearthbender]

Weird. Not too bad, though.

[4umariana]

that is not the original cover to replicas...gary numan and tubeway army no such thing!

[4umariana]

gary looks like an icon in this picture...maybe a legnd with such a worthy track..gary numan has never sounded or looked as good as on that cover of replicas maybe age has no kindess.

[Taud]

@4umariana the white light used in this helps to hide imperfections on the face, its used a lot in photo shoots and movies...etc as well

[JRHartly1984]

@DollWillKillYou Yes, time moves on, that doesn't necessarily mean things get any better. This is how "Are Friends Electric" should always sound IMO. I don't think the NIN inspired piano version is any better than Numan's original; in fact it's not as good and the way he performs it live isn't as good as it use to sound in the early 90s. Of course I have my opinion, you have yours, and that's fine. People are entitled to their opinion.

[JRHartly1984]

@DollWillKillYou Yeah, I know but he doesn't play it like THIS anymore! Still love the man's work.

[JRHartly1984]

If only I could go back in time and see Numan during this period of creative brilliance...

[zedster911]

Hey... thats him...Nash The Slash..... amazingThanx for that Letzrock1

[zedster911]

Honest??? we thought it must have been one of the group... what was his stage name?

[RocketFoxStudio]

this replica's version of A.F.E. song has best atmosphere.

[zedster911]

Remember seeing them live at Preston Guild Hall in the late 70s early 80s.... an amazing set/show..... all the musicians were on their own podiums all at different levels... there was a support act who came on in an invisible man type mask and black suit with a big box and played a violin through a modular synth in the box... any one know who this guy was????????

[irishcowboy42]

@zedster911 billy currie :-)

[LetzRock1]

@zedster911 I think you're talking about Nash the Slash. He played an electric violin in some of Gary's songs on tour. If you look up Micromusic - The Joy Circuit he plays near the end.

[zedster911]

Lee Cooper Jeans, NME, Manchester Victoria Station, Manchester Poly in the late 70s, wishing I was proficient on my 21st Birthday pressy (Roland System 100 Synth) wishing, wanting, hoping... those are my memmories

[PandaBamda]

I love this man (In a totally heterosexual way)

[qooq88]

this guy was one of the best back in the day, one of the best songs ever made

[valerieshelby]

he looks like mikey from mcr

[UnTrustMeNow]

@valerieshelby

Piss off...mikey looks like him.

[MrJjjudge]

hey people the guys still doing it its happening right here right now!!!.. stop living in the past go see him live its like he is back with tubeway army. check out the levis add tubway army done yrs b4 this!. 4 now me i disconect from you

[25ghr]

I had a Black shirt and tie and black jeans like Garys , my Dad hated the look, and said Gary was a pasty faced poof , This song is still fresh , and I was a big fan of Gary back than, is it that really that long ago happy days

[flasherkn]

gives me back memories from when i whas a child =D

[drunkoncustard]

Fuck, this is so good.

[iliketowatchsowhat]

@drunkoncustard yes,yes it is.

[RocketFoxStudio]

Are 'Friends' Electric? 4 broke down.... and now they've nothing to like.... :P

[TheBeatlesRUL3]

Am I the only one that thinks Gary Numan sort of resembles David Bowie?

[MrJjjudge]

@TheBeatlesRUL3 no even bowie thought th@ lol big split between em @ the time but r m8s now.

[SonOne68]

fracking good! Old and new, GN has it still. I was 11 or 12 when I heard this. nothing sounded like it, and it kind of freaked me out. Been hooked ever since.

[m149598]

4 people need to be electrocuted.

[djmusicjac]

@m149598 or sent to space

[djmusicjac]

wow wow wow AWESOME SPACE SYNTHPOP, cosmic synthpop, galactic synthpop. Total synth and spacey sounds. MASTERPIECE

[aidanthemaster0393]

this is awful. 

[marinobus2201]

Need for speed Carbon has a good taste of music

[comeonboeltsy]

@marinobus2201 Jesus Christ I knew I recognized this song from somewhere hahahaha

[TheOwlking1996]

Love it!

[SolsburyHill22]

They don't make them as good as this anymore....well they sample them...thats it...oh how "modern" music is complete shit.

[gekkenhuis32]

@SolsburyHill22 true!!!

[utubesux691]

UNREAL BRILLIANCE!!!!!!!!!!!!

[ozithortitan]

FUCKING GENIUS!!!!!!

[NeroUnstable]

@Failingexposed so what? i done 1 summer concert and a christmas concert playing cars by gary numan

[t1nman91]

does anyone else think Wolf Parade sounds alot like him. The vocals i mean

[325crew]

You know i hate to ask, but are facebook friends eletric?

[NeroUnstable]

im playing this in a summer concert!!!!

keyboard/piano

c g bsharp f c g bsharp fsharp and then e

then the G F then C

heh heh heh

[kourosh825]

why not



[ahotpig]

Nfs carbon comes to mind...ahh good times back in tha day.

[p3rfectlon]

Electric * dame Droid

[p3rfectlon]

Are friends eclectic ? Aka Facebook MySpace YouTube

[kipitoff]

never ages. amazing

[THEelbarto24]

The IT Crowd

[GwB1967AR]

PLAYSTATION2--> My kid discovered this video after play hours the game-> "CARBONO"

[carltheplasterer]

one word..............

fookingfantastic!

[240SX77]

i live in france i am soon 18yo and i am fan of Gary Numan

[stopthesoftkill]

@240SX77 well, if you're French, that means your opinion doesn't count about anything, ever.

[16NostalgicdreamS]

@stopthesoftkill damn, thats pretty brutal lol

[logitechnc]

@stopthesoftkill rofl

[LadyKrasnyi]

Need for speed carbon

[TheKatkatty]

love this song im only 13 lol

[HighgateSamphire]

The funny thing is, it is cold outside...

[littleboeep]

No weed No fun

Know weed Know fun...

[5674jt]

Need for speed carbon

[littleboeep]

Can this ever get old?

[MidnightinSavannah]

@littleboeep Not to me!



[JRHartly1984]

Gary Numan invented music : FACT!

[dtsherman1]

Phenomenal...boundlessly innovative and ahead of its time; influential in ways that defy any genre...

[lilstooge1r]

I fucking love this song it brings me back in the 70s but i was born in1997 :)

[SirDrCool]

@lilstooge1r 13/14 year olds who listen to good music.. love it.

[lilstooge1r]

thats a mean cunbia

[69drown]

i totally agree replicas pleasure principle telekon + herb = audio orgasm

[littleboeep]

cept everything sucks witout any herb......anyone agree, let me know........

[SirDrCool]

@littleboeep not everything. sure it enhances a lot of things. but people shouldn't be dependent on it to have a good time.

[littleboeep]

laying out in the sun in 34 degree weather. had to hear some gary...thank God i'm drunk!

[littleboeep]

Thanks i always wondered what he meant by S.U.'s.