Gary Numan

Gary Numan – Dead Son Rising – 2011 Gary’s like an old friend that you never want to invite over. He’s difficult and he thinks he’s better than everyone else, or that HE came up with the ideas first and, therefore….and you just can’t shut him up.But, he’s a good Continue Reading

Gary Numan – Pure – 2000 Numan wasted little time building on the success of Exile. Okay, three years. But what a nice three years those must have been. Numan excoriated many of his fans’ beliefs on Exile, attacking God and had his biggest success in a while. So, after Continue Reading

Gary Numan – Exile – 1997 Exile opens with the industrial return-of-Jesus-Christ song “Dominion Day”. It’s angry and ominous, almost confessional, bleak and harkens back to the previous album, Sacrifice, as a template for Gary’s revitalized direction. In other words, the funk is dead, bring on the dire.Once again Numan Continue Reading

Gary Numan – Random & Random 2 – 1997 & 1998 I’ve never covered “tribute” or cover albums before. In 1997 I was in a now defunct record store on la Cienega Blvd in LA. I don’t even know how I ended up in a conversation with the girl working Continue Reading

Gary Numan – Sacrifice – 1994 This is not your father’s Gary Numan Record. Forget all that you know or knew of the former Mr. Webb. The saxophoniness? Gone. The futuro-electro-funk? Swept away.Gary’s got inspiration and it’s from God and that dark sludge we call the 90s.What I am actually Continue Reading

Gary Numan – Machine + Soul – 1992 Dammit, dammit, dammit. I’m gonna listen to this all the way through because that’s the task I have presented myself. But…well, let’s just let Gary speak for the record:“I convinced myself [that Machine and Soul] was all right, that it was a Continue Reading

Gary Numan – Outland – 1991 First off let me say that there is nothing inherently “wrong” with Outland. Some songs, like “Soul Protection” are actually just fine. They are cold, industrial piffle, but they don’t out and out suck.It’s the most Sci-Fi of Gary’s Groove-Metal albums. But it’s not Continue Reading

Gary Numan – Metal Rhythm – 1988 Once again I joined the Columbia House Record Club. Or maybe it was another one. Back in the summer of ’88. The promise of 8 or 12 free cds was too enticing. Never mind the high cost of subsequent CDs. or that if Continue Reading

Gary Numan – Strange Charm – 1986 I had no idea, in 1986, that Gary Numan was still recording and releasing full length records. I am willing to bet that most people in the US felt the same way that I did. And yet, here he is, pumping out another Continue Reading