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From: dce@hammer.UUCP (David Elliott)
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Subject: Re: Gary Numan's New Record - (nf)
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Date: Fri, 18-Nov-83 13:29:25 EST
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Posted: Fri Nov 18 13:29:25 1983
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My earliest Numan recordings are early Tubeway Army singles from 1978.

My favorite Gary Numan album is "Tubeway Army". The singles mentioned
above are really great, containing the original version of "Bombers"
and other greats. In this early period, Gary was called "Valerian" and
the other two band-members had equally strange names.

These recordings are nothing like anything that came after them. These
are not full of synthesizers. Numan was playing guitar back then and
was really good at it.

I'm not saying that his later stuff is not any good, though. I listen
to my copy of "Living Ornaments 79-80" quite a lot. This is a really
good live album from the 1979 and 1980 tours and has a much more
powerful sound than albums like "Pleasure Principle" and "Telekon".

Has anyone heard the new album? If it's anything like "Dance", I
don't want anything to do with it. By the way, is that really
Gary on the cover, or is it a GI Joe doll?

			David