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
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Listening Post – Gary Numan – Random & Random 2(Tribute)
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
Listening Post – Gary Numan – Sacrifice
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
Listening Post: Gary Numan – Machine + Soul
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
Listening Post – Gary Numan – Outland
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
Listening Post – Gary Numan – Metal Rhythm/New Anger
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
Listening Post – Gary Numan – Strange Charm
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
Listening Post – Gary Numan – The Fury
Gary Numan – The Fury – 1985 Another year, another Gary Numan record. Time to LiveBlog. 1. The Fury – Maybe the ugliest and least interesting songs I’ve ever heard. Filled with samples from, what else, “Blade Runner”. Funny, Gary was a harbinger of that movie, calling his skin jobs Continue Reading
Listening Post – Gary Numan – Berserker
Gary Numan – Berserker – 1984 After 6 years and 7 albums Gary and Beggar’s Banquet parted ways. Why not? They barely promoted the last album and the one before that only slightly more. How fickle this industry.So he started Numa Records, went back in the studio and came out Continue Reading
Listening Post – Gary Numan – Warriors
Gary Numan – Warriors – 1983 Wow is this bad. What happens if you’re Gary Numan and you just made an album with a terrific fretless bassist (The Underwhelming I, Assassin featuring Pino Palladino) but you don’t have that brilliant musician for your next record? You make another one just Continue Reading