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TELEKON contains five bonus tracks which includes an 'A' side, 'B' side singles and an out-take.
1980's TELEKON was Gary Numan's first album after the surprise chart success of its predecessor THE PLEASURE PRINCIPLE and "Cars," its seemingly deathless hit single. Numan could have easily created "Cars, Part II," but chose not to do so. Instead, the songs on TELEKON are spikier and almost willfully abstruse, wrapping Numan's usual J.G. Ballard and Philip K. Dick-inspired lyrics of anomie and isolation in complex synthesizer music. TELEKON often recalls some of the Krautrock bands of the '70s, particularly Faust and the knottier elements of Amon Duul II. In the UK, Numan was still a big enough star that the album's single, the chilly "I Die You Die," was a substantial hit. But the lack of a clever follow-up to "Cars" resigned Numan to one-hit-wonder status for all in the US except his devoted cult following. The CD includes five bonus tracks, including an electronic version of Erik Satie's "Trois Gymnopedies."
Includes liner notes by Steve Malins.
Personnel includes: Gary Numan (vocals, guitar, piano, Mini-Moog, Arp); R. Bell (guitar, piano, claves, background vocals); Christopher Payne (viola, piano, Mini-Moog); D. Haines (piano, Arp); Paul Gardiner (bass, background vocals); Cedric Sharpley (drums, background vocals); John Webb, James Freud (handclaps).
Engineers: Nick Smith, Steve Smith, Graeme Myhre.
Composer: Erik Satie.
Personnel: Gary Numan (vocals, guitar, piano, keyboards, mini-Moog synthesizer, snare drum); Denis Haines (vocals, whistling, piano, keyboards, background vocals); Russell Bell (vocals, guitar, violin, background vocals); Christopher Payne (viola, piano, keyboards, background vocals); Cedric Sharpley (drums, snare drum, percussion, background vocals); Paul Gardiner (background vocals).
Audio Remasterer: John Dent.
Liner Note Author: Steve Malins.
Recording information: Rock City Studios.
Photographer: Geoff Howes.
Unknown Contributor Role: James Freud.
Arranger: Gary Numan.
Re-IssueSpin (9/98, pp.188-189) - 8 (out of 10) - "...1980's lusher and denser TELEKON stayed on [REPLICA's] message...[of adolescent angst/android fetishism schtick]..." Telekon Music | List Price | $11.98 (You save $2.09) | | Category | Rock Albums, Alternative CDs, Rock/Pop, Synth Pop, New Romantic | | Label | Beggars Banquet | | Orig Year | 1980 | | All Time Sales Rank |  8520  | | CD Universe Part number | 1048490 | | Catalog number | 80019 | | Discs | 1 | | Release Date | Jun 23, 1998 | | Studio/Live | Studio | | Mono/Stereo | Stereo | | Producer | Gary Numan | | Recording Time | 73 minutes | | Personnel | Gary Numan - vocals, guitar, piano, Mini-Moog, Arp
Paul Gardiner - bass, background vocals
Cedric Sharpley - drums, background vocals
Christopher Payne - viola, piano, Mini-Moog
John Webb
John Webb
James Freud - handclaps
D. Haines - piano, Arp
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Purchase Telekon CD To buy, Click on price to add to cart | Gary Numan Tubeway Army CD (1978) Bonus Tracks; Reissue
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TUBEWAY ARMY contains a 1978 live recording that was previously available only as a bootleg entitled LIVE AT THE ROXY.
Although Gary Numan is now remembered as the electronic-pop pioneer who penned the futuristic 1980 hit "Cars," Numan wasn't always a synth-rock visionary. Back in 1977, Numan and his band, Tubeway Army, crashed London's punk-rock party with an album and handful of singles that blended the raw edginess of punk with precise, riff-heavy guitar rock and Numan's surreal sci-fi lyrics.
TUBEWAY ARMY was Numan's first album-length recording and finds him just starting to develop the synthesizer-fueled sound that made him a star. While Numan colors a few tracks with a swooshing synth noodles and ominous droning sounds, most of TUBEWAY ARMY is comprised of gutsy guitar rock like "Listen to the Sirens" and "The Life Machine." Powered by surging guitar riffs and Numan's detached, robotic vocal style, the songs stand up quite well when compared ...
| | Gary Numan Replicas CDs (1979) Bonus Tracks; Reissue
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REPLICAS contains six bonus tracks, which include outtakes and UK single B- sides.
Issued in 2008, this expanded edition of Gary Numan's groundbreaking 1979 synth-pop album, REPLICAS, presents an entire bonus disc of alternate takes and rarities, essentially revealing an early version of the classic Bowie-gone-robotic record. In addition to punchier renditions of "Me! I Disconnect from You" and "Are `Friends' Electric?" the second CD also includes excellent non-album tracks, most notably the coldly funky "Only a Downstat."
As early as 1977, English pop savant Gary Numan was crafting forward-looking new wave rock that was light years ahead of the punk being offered by his contemporaries. Bravely going against all current musical fashion, Numan blended science fiction themes and tales of urban paranoia into concise pop songs that combined Kraftwerk-like electronics with glam-era Bowie. REPLICAS, his second album, was his first recording to fully incorporate a synthesizer into the pop/punk guitar framework that he explored on his debut, TUBEWAY ARMY.
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| | Gary Numan Pleasure Principle: 30th Anniversary Edition CD (1979) Bonus Tracks; Reissue
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THE PLEASURE PRINCIPLE contains seven bonus tracks which includes demo out-takes and `B' side singles.
Gary Numan's most commercially successful album is, perhaps unsurprisingly, his least representative disc. Powered by the hit single "Cars," arguably the first British synth-pop song to dent the US charts (M's "Pop Muzik" came out around the same time), THE PLEASURE PRINCIPLE is a striking turnaround from the guitar-powered, Joy Division-like post-punk of his old band Tubeway Army. Aside from Paul Gardiner's bass and some percussion, every instrument is electronic.
To denote their futuristic simplicity the album's 10 songs are given one-word titles; they're all built on the same layers of analogue synthesizers and futuristic, dystopian lyrics. The album's resulting numbing quality is also pretty much its point. This Cleopatra reissue has seven bonus tracks, including demo outtakes, live tracks, B-sides, and, oddly, a song from a seven-inch single given away with the first pressing of Numan's next album, TELEKON.
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The 2002 Remastered version of I, ASSASSIN includes seven bonus tracks, original and expanded artwork, a 20 page booklet and extensive sleeve notes and lyrics.
After the spare and lengthy reflections and dislocated experiments of his excellent Dance album, Gary Numan made a return to a more focused approach with I, Assassin, which turned out to be his last truly great album for many years. Much of what would characterize his later music in the '80s did start to show up here, to be sure, but instead of the formless flailing all too apparent on Warriors, and especially on Berserker, Numan's work here with modern electronic funk combines his early rigor and to-the-point rhythms with a deft, creative hand in the arrangements. "White Boys and Heroes," the brilliant opening number, remains one of his best singles, featuring fretless bass work from Pino Palladino (long before both it and him had turned into rent-a-clichés), and set against droning, distorted vocals and doom-laden keyboards. The vaguely Asian (or at least the group Japan)-inspired textures of Dance linger on in songs like "A Dream of Siam" and the title track (the latter possessing a captivating hollow-drum-punch introduction), ...
| | Gary Numan Warriors CD (1983) Bonus Tracks; Remastered
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The 2002 remastered version of WARRIORS includes six bonus tracks, original and expanded artwork, a 20 page booklet, and extensive sleeve notes and lyrics.
Former Be-Bop Deluxe leader Bill Nelson was brought in to produce this album and provide some soaring lead guitar work, but the collaboration with Numan was beset by difficulties involving Numan's ego and approach to recording. While Nelson's production is evident on many tracks and his guitar is heard in several places, much of this is business as usual (a B-side, "Poetry and Power," features more Nelson and has gone on to a great deal of popularity, especially with the Gravity Kills cover on Random). The science fiction influences here are Robert A. Heinlein's The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress and Harlan Ellison's "'Repent, Harlequin!' Cried the Tick-Tock Man." While there is some evidence of confusion as to his direction, the music and songwriting has more energy than anything on the predecessor, I, Assassin, with some genuinely engaging moments along the way. ~ Steven McDonald
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| | Yes Tales From Topographic Oceans CDs (1974) Bonus Tracks
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For prog rock's detractors, Yes's TALES FROM TOPOGRAPHIC OCEANS is the genre's nadir. For admirers it is an artistic pinnacle. Whichever camp you're in, it is hard to deny the sheer chutzpah necessary to undertake this sprawling epic. Though broken up into four sections, TALES greeted 1973 listeners as a single composition spread across four sides of a double album. This was unprecedented in the world of mainstream rock. For the band, it was the closest they would ever come to a true fusion of classical structures and themes with rock-oriented instrumentation and sensibilities.
The lyrics are typically elliptical and spiritually oriented, and many a bad trip was probably launched by trying to interpret them. The real pleasure ...
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