This song was the apex of the Goth club last night, sad as it was.
d-null
11-02-2010 12:28 AM
...in a long coat grey hat smoking a cigarette...
AsianDivaGirlsWebDude
11-02-2010 12:55 AM
OMD, and YMO, were also good synth bands of that era...
OMD:
YMO:
YMO w/ Ryuichi Sakamoto:
ADG
harvey
11-02-2010 01:26 AM
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Originally Posted by digitaldivas
(Post 17662000)
This song was the apex of the Goth club last night, sad as it was.
I'm a huge Gary Numan fan, and the guy is uber cool, once I bought "Exile" the record that contains this song and it has the URL for his official site, ran by himself and his wife (I was shocked). So I wrote him a mail telling how much I enjoyed that record (dunno why, was the first and last time I did that) and out of the blue I got a little box with some merchandising, a really nice hand written letter where he told me he moved to the country with his wife and some personal stuff and a signed copy of Telekon . He also told me he was really happy to have fans in Argentina and asked me for pictures of Buenos Aires to put in the site, which I sent (no idea if he added them).
Anyway, thank you for the thread, I need to find where the hell did I put that letter! :)
There was a special edition of that which had an interview where he talks about basing the concepts upon Phillip K Dick's "Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep" (of which the film Blade Runner was based upon)
Spunky
11-02-2010 06:02 AM
Seen him in concert way back when.was a bit of a snore fest from what I remember
Sarah_Jayne
11-02-2010 10:51 AM
I have seen him twice in concert and he is still amazing. The last concert was him just playing the whole of Replicas. It was just amazing.
Sarah_Jayne
11-02-2010 10:53 AM
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Originally Posted by harvey
(Post 17662119)
I'm a huge Gary Numan fan, and the guy is uber cool, once I bought "Exile" the record that contains this song and it has the URL for his official site, ran by himself and his wife (I was shocked). So I wrote him a mail telling how much I enjoyed that record (dunno why, was the first and last time I did that) and out of the blue I got a little box with some merchandising, a really nice hand written letter where he told me he moved to the country with his wife and some personal stuff and a signed copy of Telekon . He also told me he was really happy to have fans in Argentina and asked me for pictures of Buenos Aires to put in the site, which I sent (no idea if he added them).
Anyway, thank you for the thread, I need to find where the hell did I put that letter! :)
He likes interacting with his fans to the extent that he married one of them.
Caligari
11-02-2010 10:57 AM
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Originally Posted by Sarah_MaxCash
(Post 17663629)
I have seen him twice in concert and he is still amazing. The last concert was him just playing the whole of Replicas. It was just amazing.
Replicas was the album with Down In the Park, Are Friends Electric etc, thanks for bringing that up!
Sarah_Jayne
11-02-2010 11:38 AM
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Originally Posted by Caligari
(Post 17663669)
Replicas was the album with Down In the Park, Are Friends Electric etc, thanks for bringing that up!
Yes, indeed it was and it still sounds good today.
MrBottomTooth
11-02-2010 11:50 AM
For some reason I was thinking of Randy Newman.
Caligari
11-02-2010 12:01 PM
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Originally Posted by MrBottomTooth
(Post 17664017)
For some reason I was thinking of Randy Newman.
LOL don't give him any ideas he might do a cover of the entire replicas album Randy Newman style:1orglaugh
God i can hear it in my head now and it won't stop:helpme
NaughtyVisions
11-02-2010 01:12 PM
I love this, too. Fear Factory covered "Cars," and had Gary Numan sing on it and appear in the video:
harvey
11-02-2010 03:45 PM
btw, a great version of "Down in the Park" by FooFighters. I don't know what record is it from, I've it in the X Files soundtrack
