[kj] [OT] Gary Numan

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 He still rocks on stage, IMHO. Check him out the next time he tours, Karen


 

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From: Karen Weil <karen.weil at sddt.com>
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Considering Numan's catalogue, yes. But still glad 
you got to see him. 


 


 


Cheers,


 


kw



  
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I saw Gary Numan at the HOB in 
  LA in 2006; No big crowd, and were waiting for "Cars". Very 
  sad.


  



  


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From: GREG SLAWSON <gregslawson at msn.com>
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  Jul 8, 2009 1:19 pm
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  If any song by the (far far superior) Joke got as much airplay as "Cars", 
  they'd be able to sell out concert halls in the US...
 

  


  From: karen.weil at sddt.com
To: dpeace at suspiria.demon.co.uk; gathering at misera.net
Date: Wed, 8 
  Jul 2009 11:01:22 -0700
Subject: Re: [kj] [OT] Gary Numan


  

  
"The Pleasure Principle" ... 

  
 

  
My sister had this album. I remember spending 
  many hours listening to it, entranced by
 its complexity and coldness 
  (especially "Engineers" and "Conversation"). 

  
(And of course, "Cars" was a hit in the States, 
  so you'd hear that often on the radio in the spring of '80.) Even 
  though I'd already consumed a steady diet of "new wave," by that time, it was 
  like nothing I'd ever heard before. It left quite an impression 
  on one goofy, hyperactive grade 
  schooler.  

  
His image on the album cover also greatly 
  intrigued me; he just appeared so elegant and intimidating.

  
Also, we'd play it loud enough that a neighbor 
  or two came by, complaining it was "too weird."  That was a bonus. ; ) 
  

  
Thanks for posting the 
  press release.  

  
 

  
Cheers, 

  
 

  
Karen W. 

  
 

  
 

  
 

  

    
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    Darren A. 
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Oo. 
    Just had this press release. It’s one of the first albums I actually bought, 
    so I’m excited, given what the did with “Replicas”, but I’m posting it here 
    mainly because Brenda will like
 the last paragraph.

    
 

    
Darren

    
Hungerford, 
    UK

    
 

    
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Gary Numan Album: The Pleasure Principle (30th 
    Anniversary Edition) Release Date: September 28, 2009 08 Jul 09

    
 

    
Label: Beggars Banquet  Live Dates: The 
    Pleasure Principle Tour 2009 Nov 17, Brighton Dome; 18 Southampton 
    University; 19 Cardiff Sub 29; 20 Sheffield Corporation; 21 Manchester 
    Academy; 23 Cork Pavillion; 24 Dublin Tripod; 25 Leeds Academy; 26 Edinburgh 
    Picturehouse; 27 Glasgow ABC; 28 Sunderland The Campus; 29 Norwich UEA; 30 
    Wolverhampton Civic; Dec 1.

    
Cambridge Junction; 2 Nottingham Rock City; 3 
    London Indigo

    
 

    
Gary Numan's classic, influential album, The 
    Pleasure Principle is being re-released as a double CD edition (featuring 
    demos and B-sides on the bonus disc) 30 years after it debuted at Number 1 
    in the UK charts. The singer's single from the album, 'Cars' also climbed to 
    the top of the charts, an achievement he's celebrating with a 16 date UK 
    tour starting in mid November.

    
 

    
The Pleasure Principle was the point where Numan 
    became a huge international solo star, reaching the Top 10 in the States 
    with 'Cars' and Top 20 with the20album. Given the conservative nature of the 
    music scene in America at that time and the fact that the LP didn't even 
    feature any guitars, let alone conventional song structures ('Cars' doesn't 
    even have a chorus), this is one of those special moments in pop music when 
    a new idea breaks through all the boundaries. The Pleasure Principle 
    pioneered electronic pop music on a new scale, becoming a much bigger hit 
    worldwide than Kraftwerk or anything from the Bowie/Eno 'Berlin' trilogy. 
    And the fact that it was so different and had such a major impact in America 
    (crystallised when Numan performed 'Cars' and 'Praying To The Aliens' in 
    front of 40 million people on the Saturday Night Live Show) means that 
    there's a direct link from The Pleasure Principle to the new musical forms 
    that were born in the USA over the next decade - namel  y hip hop, 
    industrial and techno.

    
 

    
As the NME recently noted, 'every hip-hop 
    production titan ever – notably Dr Dre – has nicked the opening beats from 
    the track 'Films'. The likes of Timbaland and The Neptunes' minimal pop – 
    comprised of just exquisitely produced drums and simplistic synthlines – are 
    heralded as been futuristic genius in the 21st century; The Pleasure 
    Principle s hows that Gary Numan was doing the same thing 3020years 
    previously. His influence on hip-hop, while rarely recognised, is enormous. 
    His influence on electronic music in general is unparalleled.' When GZA of 
    the Wu-Tang Clan's covered 'Films'

    
last year, he was actually taking hip hop back to 
    its roots as the track features one of the original break breats (in fact it 
    features on the hugely influential, Ultimate Breaks & Beats compilation 
    series) . Former Sex Pistols manager Malcolm McLaren recalls his first 
    encounter with hip hop in the early '80s: 'I remember hearing Gary Numan's 
    'Cars' and looking at this madly volatile black crowd in

    
  the middle of the South Bronx – my first 
    visit to witness a party that I was invited to by Afrika Bambaataa. I, a 
    naïve white honky, thought that it was in some apartment building, but it 
    turned out to be this massive debris site and there in the middle of it was 
    these guys telling their stories, freestyle, to Gary Numan's 'Cars'. My 
    thoughts were interupted when waves parted in the crowd like the Red Sea and 
    there, in a pool of light on the floor, came characters who started to spin 
    and break dance.

    
I'd never seen anything quite like it, I thought 
    it was amazing.'

    
 

    
In industrial music both Nine Inch Nails and 
    Marilyn Manson have namech
ecked Numan as a significant influence, with the 
    former currently performing the track 'Metal' on his tour. 'After hearing 
    'Cars' I knew I wanted to make music with synthesizers,' says Reznor. 'The 
    Pleasure Principle is fucking great because it's so cold sounding.' 
    Meanwhile, techno pioneers ranging from Carl Craig to Juan Atkins were 
    grabbed by this strange, futuristic music, creating a relationship between 
    Numan and dance music that has spawned the likes of the Basement Jaxx's 
    'Where's Your Head At' (samples 'M.E.' from The Pleasure Principle) and the 
    'Cars'-mutating 'Koochy' by Armand Van Helden. As the newly reformed Devo 
    recently commented, The Pleasure Principle is, 'so original and cool and 
    ground breaking and in a way classic. Like, it still sounds great today 
    .

    
. .

    
 

    
-Ends-

    
 


    



    

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