Gary Numan - The Secret

Third upload from the Berserker album of 1984. Please give your opinion. Be as relevant or otherwise as you like. Spam your way to my approval should the need grab you. I'm a kind old giant. Youtube takes a dim view of spammers. I think they help make Youtube what it is (to which a spammer would most likely reply "shite" or "fucking your mother").

Category:

Music

Tags:

• 80s
• Gary
• Numan
• Synthpop
• Berserker

[jaxxstraw]

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.

[Currie01]

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.

[DanteBateman]

Personally I think that Berserker is criminally underrated.

[SpeedT03]

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.

[CONSIDERABLYMORE1]

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[AshleyMarkPomeroy]

@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).

[CONSIDERABLYMORE1]

@jaxxstraw fuck off

[CONSIDERABLYMORE1]

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.

[nerdocide]

@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.....

[ronaldtheriot]

Yeah, I thought BERSERKER was a good, solid album.

[smujohnson]

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.

[varanid9]

@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.

[ribogok]

Agree, DanteBateman. It's my fave Numan album after Telekon.

[studio54]

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.