Of course, Caeiro was a heteronym of the ever morphing Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa who allowed his art be communicated by a series of fictional characters, depending on his state of mind. That things are really what they seem to be, and there’s nothing to understand ” according to Alberto Caeiro in ‘ The Keeper of Sheep‘. Tomorrow I probably would have another top 10.How can it not know what it is? “ It’s stranger than every strangeness……. Great mix of new sounds and old Numan IMO

More scary Numan, diving into Religious territory more deeply. I used to love this album tho.Ī great track from the album where he finds himself again. :^) I would like to see him go back to this era and redo some of these songs, there is some good material that got lost in process of making them. Shorter single version, lip synched on TOTPsĪ track off of Metal Rhythm, the best overall effort in the late 80s/early 90s sound Under appreciated track off of Strange Charm I was just really getting into Numan at the time, and this song came out, BLEW.ME.AWAY.Īctually was released as a single in the US, I had a copy.

Of course, Numan hiring Billy Currie of Ultravox to play with him on The Pleasure Principle made an impact on his sound also.įor anybody that cares, here is my official top 10 Gary Numan list of songs that aren't Cars or Are 'Friends' Electric? In no particular order. What he was trying to do was what John Foxx/Ultravox were doing, mixing traditional guitars/drums, etc with electronics, you can hear it here. Interesting thread over here about the influence Gary Numan had on Prince.Īs far as the Bowie/Kraftwerk angle, Numan says yes he was a Bowie fan, but more of the earlier stuff, he had probably more influence on his shows (think Ziggy) than his sound. Back in the day, I was also a big Prince fan, and in the 80's I liked Numan's sound when he went more that way, except the Prince cover's themselves, they were horrible. In fact, my Son went to see him live last night in Ashville NC, wish I could have gone. I got shit in the US for liking some weird UK singer, who looked and sounded strange, not like the Doobie Brothers, Loverboy or Journey. He came out and said he wanted to be a pop star, and at the time, that was frowned upon in the press. One thing he has always said was that he got to number 1 in the UK without the press, and they hated him for it.

Just a few, He was a cheap Bowie/Kraftwerk rip off, he was a Tory, he didn't pay his dues, he was arrogant (actually he was scared shitless/Asperger's). I didn't know NiN was influenced by him.Īlso, dude is funny and modest in this What's In My Bag? video. I wish new NiN sounded as good as the more industrial tracks here (most of the album really) like ' I Am Dust' | ' Love Hurt Bleed' | ' Here in the Black' | ' We're the Unforgiven'. Sort of an impulse purchase without listening to a single track, but now that I've listened to it 3 times, I am loving the gothic/industrial vibes. Came up on the Quietus review and was sold. So I quickly checked on my phone for a review of whether this was a way-past-their-prime mediocre album from a legend. Seriously, watch those Britannia music history docs (the fight between prog rock and punk is great), they're really fascinating. Then I saw him on the BBC 4 Synth Britannia documentary. I was a 90s kid, so I was late to the party and only had heard the most popular of his songs through cultural osmosis. That name sounds familiar.wait, a new album from this dude?

I was at a HMV and happened to notice a Gary Numan album on the charts section.

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