Gary Numan - Cars HD 

This is a very underrated fact.

If not for Freddie Mercury, you'd be my queen.

Took me a little while, but I see what you did there.

With the amount of likes and comments this main comment has got. Were all still here 2020

Brilliant!

Yep!

or in cars

I've listened to it in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City on my PolyStation II.

Little did Gary know he would still be alive and still performing.Legend and Legend song.🇬🇧👽

Or on their (handheld, no-wires-attached).phones. All very Dick Tracy

Ain’t it, tho?!?!👍

It's from 1980

@@diegodelatorre2343 It's from 1979.

There's also "Computer Games" by Mi-Sex.

this and video killed the radio star

Me too!!!!😊

Same here

You can! Just listen to the music.

59....I feel the same.

61 also, if we only knew then what we learned now.

That’s why it’s so timeless I love it brilliant.

@@kierentari8877 same.. I could listen to it daily and still love it brilliant is the right word

@@michaelfrazia4569 Me too! I get on YT a few times a month and I always listen to 80's music. I'm now 52

This song actually came out in 1979

it doesnt hurt to look like an android!

lol

It was number 1 in the UK IN 1979 ,,,

@@theodoreritola7641 that's great

With the way the world is so F'd up - I'll happily go back to the 1980s

Are friends electric is a better song than Cars though , I t was recorded in 1978 , And Cars in 1979

lol

2056

No experiment for this is history and does it have legal withstanding in a way that residual is a forever and grows as the opportunity to work with sample of promote it is a asset for eternity with some contractual not my business though it is common sense as a lady who is semi educated and experienced in both business and running a my own business and as a barely 19 year as old and new mother and in college online I have no idea how much I could not afford it is your own life and ME TO BE JUDGED FOR THE LEAST OF WHO I AM. I AM HONESTLY TELLING YOU LOOK IN MIRROR TO SEE FOR MYSELF THAT IS NOT A THING OF MYSELF I HAVE BEEN UP TO DATE ON ALL LEVELS GTFOH AND THAT IS TERRIBLE FOR THE SAKE THAT IS OBVIOUSLY NOT THE CASE FOR MY LAWYER IS IN CONSTANT CONTACT OR ACKNOWLEDGE THAT IS FOR ME TO HAVE A PROBLEM IS DEFINITELY NOT A COINCIDENCE FOR MY IMMEDIATE FUTURE TO KEEP SAFE IN FREEDOM AND OTHER THINGS INNOCENT RIGHT THAT IS WHY I'M CHRISTINE LYONS AND INNOCENT AND THE MOST EFFECTIVE CREDIBLE HONEST MOST SUFFERING AND IMPORTANT USEFUL EFFICIENT INTELLIGENT WOMAN WHO HAS NO CONTACT WITH FAMILY FLORIDA ESTHER AMANDA OR ANYONE ELSE IDENTITY THEFT IMPERSONATION AND TAX BANK CREDIT FRAUD AND INSURANCE WELFARE RECORDS SS AND STOCKS O CAN NOT GET SERVICES BEING USED IN SO MANY WAYS. NOT SUFFERING IN SUICIDAL TENDENCY NOBODY IS OF MY FAMILY CUT IT OUT

Interestingly enough most 80s music sounds super retro-futuristic while a lot of modern music tries to recreate that 80s retro-futuristic sounds 😂

@@GenericUsername1388 Yes, and they fail MISERABLY!

When a Gary track was played at the school disco we all danced like robots. Misspent youth.

he changed music

Yeah!!!!!! I agree 💯 Percent

I thought it was made recently when i first heard it a decade ago

Exactly....Lady Gaga jammed that beat in "paparazzi".

The problem is that 80s music mostly sucks

@@rickbrenner7743 Nah man, your taste does

my neighbor collects od rusted car bodys... his name is garry

Perfectly said ! As if this was the introduction style and the tempo settings

@@sawedoffshotgun8462 ‘Like your mother!’ (That’s a patented Gen X response)

Who'd laugh>? And if they did... not worth your time anyway.

57 year old bloke agrees.

@@morbidmanmusic Yep, so true, thank you x

52 year old here. I play this song all the time. 80s were the best

55 going on 56 year old. Great song. Go gen x.

@LES DANZELL I'm still waiting on the promise of the future as envisioned in the '80s. it's now 40 years and counting.

🚗🚓🏎 🎹🎹🔊🎶🎶😋

And this is Gary Numan

@@trespire Where the hell is my flying car? WE WERE PROMISED! We got youtube and twitter instead. We got jipped.

@@m.kriddick2731 Like I said, sometimes...in order to get to the future...you must go to the past. ;-)

@clowncleaner What was it ? 7 synthisizers. Extravagantly expensive at the time.

@@trespire The innovation. I was 10 years old when I first heard it and it was light years different than anything else on the radio.

I remember seeing the video when it came out (I was 10) and stared because I had never seen or heard *anything* like this before.

@@eileenh28 Non of us had seen not heard 7 synthesizers all at once. The triangular flourescent tubes, the "electric" drums.

Well..., I guess if you'd never heard any of David Bowie's Berlin-era stuff it might not seem uncannily familiar to you, at least.

Иди на плантации работать, monkey

Easy peasy, trippin hard.

Jam on 😊

WHAT ?????? Black Folks only like Rap !!!!!

How cool ❤

I totally concur!

1964-1975 best rock era than disco came

@@vapordreams983Disco had better bass lines.

Welcome! It'll be a great journey.

When did your hearing become impaired, at the beginning of the eighties?

1979, a good year, the year I bought a 1969 Camaro. Quarter mile street racer 👀. 16 year old ... Independent yet many of my teenage friends had muscle cars.

Cars was released a month before Video Killed the Radio Star, aka the first video shown on MTV.

Just so sad that if he came about today he wouldn't be given a second chance

He was probably one of the very first to use those synth sounds it sounds 80s and not the 70s

Yep. He was standing at the door to the Eighties showing people in...

ohhhhhhhh mate imagine on a proper soundsystem

​@@myblues528TECHNICS or KENWOOD sound system I particular.

Yep...this, Video Killed The Radio Star, Computer Games...the electronics went right through you.

I started atcthe Limit and Crazy Daizy in Sheffield on 1980, just as the new synth sounds were hitting the heights- dancing to the new tunes all night was banging

it's 70's

no such thing. it was 1979. I Was there.. literally in the next room~!

Pimp Daddy agrees, far out man.

Please...youre a nutcase

in what way?

Amen Ken, British movies may be for the birds but the British... they have the best Pop & Rock n Roll bands in the whole world.

You are so right 👍🏻

@@patrickciacco1083 gotta thank Kraftwerk.

@@patrickciacco1083 Are Snatch and Lock Stock for birds?

Kraftwerk pretty good too

Keeps me from aging? Lol..I wish..good synth...was ahead of its time..only hit though, right?

"Dark" "Goth" "Vampires" Yep. The connection is clear.

And dark eye liner. I'm 50 and still better at eye makeup than most millennials

It's true...I'm 77 and love him still....

@@cruxivar6026 Excellent but I have to say,it isn't hard is it....Some look ludicrous and they all look the same???

I would say it was Bowie.

A lead-in one could say as far as early eighties music goes.

When I hear this song and pop music I think of the 80's. On 80s stations they will play this as well.

80s was 1979-1993.

❤️/ 1970s music , greatest music era ever

This was actually one of the first new wave songs to chart so this was probably start of 80s songs

The Police

"M" Pop Muzik!!! :)

No... no it's not! Absolutely nothing amazing about it. Fuckin dorks

I classify this as Synth Pop. You are probably right.

I agree with you forrest.in the fall of 1979 I just graduated.my god this song brings back my youth.carefree days!

This is not true.

I concur my dear boy so chap pop in the key 🔑 let’s jam jar this bloody ride

Really? I bet the 2390s will be pretty good

It was fvcking great! New territory instead of product

That’s because the greatest album of all time came out in late 1979.

I live in mine. This song has taken on a whole new meaning.

Good on him for having the presence of mind to lock the doors. I'd imagine some people (myself included) wouldn't have the presence of mind to do so, and would probably get their ass beat. Although, if these guys were really problematic, they would have tried breaking the windows - so you gotta get out of there, fast.

Wow! That gives us a bit of understanding that hadn't been brought up at the timr.

That's correct!..London Is no place to be when traffic backs up!!...Every person for themselves!!!

True!

This was 1979, he was ahead of his time.

He said that the long intro note was simply because he couldn't think of what else to play.

Ever!

Not true. But cool story

Lol great comment, but he does not seem at all like that.

same thing but mine is that mungo jerry in the summer time song,reminds me of being sat at kitchen table eating cereal as a kid while my parents do shit.

It sure was the greatest time ever

Not just the 80's, huge influence on NIN

Not only paved he literally set them in concrete to last for eternity .

Along w/ the CARS

@@ziggyzagzi8017 The Cars' _Let's Go_ came out that very same year. It's as synthpunk as you can get ;o) I've been listening to Gary Numan & The Cars ever since 🎹🎸🕺 Strangely enough its also the year Mel Gibson debuted in _Mad Max._ (See my ID photo)

Roxy Music, The Cars, The Saints, The Cure, The Clash, the SOS Band and Toto are the bands from the 70s that I think helped shape the future sound of the 80s the most. Possibly also the New York Dolls but they stopped recording in 1976.

Keyboardist - no fucks given at 1:45

I put this on the record player in 1979=80 at age 5!!

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@van wray un bel gruppo che nel proprio mette il proprio

sounds even better when you here todays CRAP

this is the first song I heard 🎉hum in 20241

Facts💯

Me too!

For sure, what a great time to grow up….

Same

14? Man, that sucks.

My boy you should dive deeper into Gary's music. Look up Tube way Army

🚨CORRECTION: a 14 yr old with EXCELLENT TASTE! 🎶🤘🏼🎶

Let’s all admit it... we lived the experience of this song... FEEL GOOD MIND CONTROL!!.....LOL....😉

Im 29 and grew up around rap and metal and yet I still grooved out whenever this song came on in GTA Vice City. Some people say games are a waste of time but I've had fun, made new friends, and learned about great music through the soundtrack of said games lol.

Stuff like this deserve a platform that would keep them uncompressed.. one would expect something like that to be a thing in 2021 already... WHY CAN'T WE HAVE NICE THINGS ?! (stupid copyright laws and publisher ignorance, that's why... ok, i'm chill now...)

@@lifeontwowheels3104 37 here; Videogames are about escapism, and what GTA did with its radio stations was just a glimpse about the multidimensional escapism videogames are expanding towards (games becoming platforms for distribution of traditional media, hosting video events, live events, socializing features etc. , approaching the kind of complexity stories like "Matrix" hinted about, hopefully without the dystopian aspects, but with unforeseen economic opportunities instead, especially for those materially limited in real life, or physically impaired.

@@Dm3qXY lol

incorrect there is a bass part m8.

@@localresidentofgortonmarke8415 Ok and a bass 👍

@@Redhouse334 so was Cedric Sharply the drummer just a hologram then?

@@davefieramosca6974 probably, unless he's playing electric drums.

4 guys playing a synth, none using more than one hand, one playing with one finger.

It was a mega hit. I you are between the ages of about 42-55 currently, you absolutely remember this hit

@@kevinkelley3657 Im 60....

@@govertverspui No disrespect intended, I like music from a very broad range of years. If it touches you, it is one of yours.

Just the BUICK !!!!!! Got old

One of my favorite songs

Very true. I even have a t-shirt that says that. Aloha from Hawaii

grew up on it, my dad was a Numan superfan lol

@@poanochung-wahlee1567 HELLO FROM TEXAS

@@EarthWindandFirepower0990 aloha brother.

Heck ya, great song,

Ha ha..didn't we all have cassette players with radio on them ? Wow. Seems so strange now. Today's youth have no concept of how much they really have at their fingertips compared to generations past.

More progressive than TOOL

Fear Factory redid this with Gary. It is just as good as this. However I am a person that loves the original over remakes.

i was listening to rush and the police at 12 and my older brother was listening to milli vanilli and jimmy buffet and had the audacity to goof on me for liking this

@@Augfordpdoggie who tf is milli vanilli and Jimmy Buffett isn’t that bad.

I'm surprised to learn that! This song has such a great 80's sound, that I thought it came out, around, 1983-1985.

AMEN . JUST SAYING

@ghosttrain2066 That's true.

70s had a lot of cool songs that where one hit wonders and didn't really get played until the mid 80s. British pop was the bomb!!!

Not as far ahead of Kraftwerk 🤔

OMG! Same! Me and three friends at my parents house, all chatting - with TOTP on in the background - and then this came on: conversation just stopped dead (no mean feat for 4 teenage girls!). We just sat there, mesmerised. Still love this song now. 😊

@@junewatts8809 Wow to think we were both experiencing the same moment in history at the same time! It is a rare event in modern history that a happening can cause millions of people to all stop and stare at their TVs. Usually it is a tragedy, like the death of Diana, or the Twin Towers. At least this was a positive event creating a positive experience and a positive memory that can never ever be changed. I kind of feel grateful for that. Take care.

Some of the earliest New Wave to hit the mainstream airplay.

Same effect on me but I was 12 or 13 watching the video on brand new MTV. I remember this and David Bowie’s “ ashes to Ashes”

Yea,. It. was. so. different. and. ahead. of. it,s. time,. and. where. I. grew. it. in. BR. it. was. wild.

By that time Kraftwerk already did change the music industry. The world was just slowly adapting. :)

I agree. I heard it was especially hard in Britain at the time and the systematic rejection by the music industry establishment was difficult for Mr. Numan.

Yez it started new wave dance craze by the wea dancers

@@MinekEzQM *The Robots* :)

I remember first time hearing this song and it was so different!!! Loved it then & still do today ✌️✌️✌️

Always have been and always will be awesome

Yes you are so correct 😇

Check his duet with his daughter on My Name Is Ruin! Pure 💛

So have you!

@@TheGoodReverendSatan I will sorry for late reply just seeing this

@@laramiefj40 😂👌🏻🙏🏻❤

GTA as a whole has the greatest soundtrack ever. Vice City was my least favorite.

¡Las de GTA Vice City son las mejores de todas! Nunca pasarán de moda, son lo máximo 💪

Damn I remembered This from the game too!

I feel the same. I love it and I am the same age as you. It never gets old. Only we do. Hahaha 😂

Ditto, both off you two. This was massive, still is.

wait'll we finally get a good mass-produced jet pack song will still be good

Played in the days when MTV was "MTV"!!! LOL

Nothing like hearing great things ab someone i’ve always admired! imo there’s no better comment than an _in real life_ first person account. Even if it’s bad news sometimes it’s still simply _NICE_ to hear the up close TRUTH! Anyway. So _your’s_ is the best of the best 🏆 since you met him in person & you said all the lovely things ab Gary which i am so tickled to know! Somehow gratifying to realize that at least _HOPING_ for the best is never the wrong thing to do. TY much for your input! 🤟🏻🕊️💕

@lauriedavis5946 haha no worries he really was incredible to meet and watch live

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Me too!

In my music world it would be a masterpiece but I don't like the goofy gameshow breakdown between versus like at 0:52

Minority opinion there. It perfectly blends the versus together. It’s as essential as the rest of the ingredients in the song.

@@latenightlogic 😄

That part is really cool.

Don't worry there are plenty of us who appreciate the magic of outros

Yes

Tommy vrisetti mission

Me

Very well stated. Rock on.

good comment the 80's were the best decade for adventurous exciting music still sounds as fresh as a daisy!

Best era for music period!! I really miss the 80s and MTV!!!👍🏼

80s kid forever ✌️

Totally agree with you Eric what a magnificent decade of music we can reminisce about 💓🙏

The most fitting comment

I guess she shouts Cars!

Sandra that's how you know it's a good song because you couldn't stop listening to it over and over and over again, because it gave you a certain kind of feeling that only this song could give you.

Lmao

She has a better memory than joe deminta biden

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🖤🖤🖤🖤

Thank You 😌

i listen to this in my car all the time

Meanwhile, not the first car one in the video

I remember it well as my final year of primary school. I'd'a been maybe 12

thank God!!

My Sharona

2020 on RU-vid.

I'm old

Long Live and Prosper bros and sis fellow 80s Gen! A great life experience we've all been through up to this moment in time! All our Praise to The Creator of All!

I was 12

Had the single in 81.

Slow motion intro. Amazing.

My favorite part of the whole video!!

The black to red was pretty bad ass toooooooo.

He perfected the reverse mic drop

The Italian pinch

Yes that was so meaningful

Hello bryn

Liam Gallagher no bad

@@DCul strange you got so butthurt about a percussion instrument...

Secret: Tambourine is the best metal percussion.

😆😆 That's 'cause Gary was already doing MTV before there ever was an MTV I don't know which was the first music video I ever saw. The earliest ones I can remember are Duran Duran's _New Moon on Monday,_ & _I Can Dream About You,_ from the movie _Streets of Fire._ I didn't see MTV for the first time until '83

This is the first video I remember seeing where someone commented that this is the first video they remember seeing.

how many do you actually remember seeing?

I remember watching the first video ever played on Mtv, "Video Killed The Radio Star"

Nick I remember seeing what I thought was the 1st video on MTV In the Air by Phil Collins

I remember a silver label on black vynyl 45. Top 40 on Radio 1. Classic. Wore the grooves out!

I’m 56 as well and can totally relate 👍🏻

Yes! Isn't music great that way?

Agreed

I'll be 60 next June 10. This song was released in the US in early 1980. Better than anything out there today. Posting 3-8-23. Happy 65th to Gary Numan, and many more!

Friday night videos were awesome. We couldn’t afford cable and this was the only way to see the latest videos if you couldn’t get mTv.

@@JenSell1626 Jealous of the fact you got to experience Michael Jackson, Gary Numan and Prince when they were in their prime.

Don't think so....Friday Night Videos premiered summer of 1983. MTV premiered in 1981.

@skaryguy71…right dude. And I’m sure the late night on Friday and Saturday variety show “Night Flight” shown on the USA Network pre-dated MTV (by a handful of months). They were another source of music videos but I’m not sure if they referred to them as that then. I vividly remember seeing some ta-tas in psychedelia on Zeppelin’s “Whole Lotta Love” video. For a 15 year old up at midnight on a weekend it was awesome !

I miss those MTV video's, 80s not like the music today..

Cocaine is a hell of a drug lol

@@fadingworld5569 thanks for sharing. I was a young woman of 18 in 1982 and I have great memories of being a young adult through the 80's. Lots of clubbing was had as well. ☺

God knows the lame acts of today could use a little of that weirdness.

@@Lori5564 Same here. From Michigan, stationed in San Diego in the early to mid 80's...What a time to have lived through.

We weren’t weird, we were 4kng ace, this song is proof. Compared to the dogsh!t ‘artists’ of 2022, we had it sewn up, done.

Ummm, I was there, high school class of 1983, and, much as I'd love to agree with you, I can't. In 1980, the Cold War was going stronger than ever. After some peace efforts in the 1970s, led by people like Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan got elected. He and Britain's Margaret Thatcher ramped up production of nuclear bombs. The very real chance of a global thermonuclear war loomed over our thoughts about the future, every single day. Check out the lyrics in many classic songs of that day, including Tina Turner's "Neutron Dance", The Kinks' "Ape Man", and Prince's "1999". The whole punk movement, and its New Wave offspring, came out of the wrack and ruin of the British manufacturing economy. I lived in Cleveland, Ohio and our steelmaking city was dying as Reaganomics took over and allowed American manufacturers to ship their living-wage jobs overseas. And, here in the U.S. at least, the huge generation before mine, the Baby Boomers, had taken all the good jobs that were left. Not for nothing did my generation embrace the moniker, "Generation X". Compared to those who were young in the 1950s and 1960s, we had less opportunity, a falling standard of living, more pollution, and the dawning realization that the simple optimism of the Age of Aquarius was not going to solve the world's problems. Thankfully, any time there are young people, there IS optimism. The '80s were a great decade for music, but at least partly BECAUSE of all this pain, not in spite of it. I'm just glad the threat of nuclear annihilation has receded. Global warming seems so much more survivable. Nostalgia just ain't what it used to be!

@@Sagenmrr Certainly. Many UK acts had some very bleak songs coming out at this time. Big Country with Steeltown for example. Billy Joel with Allentown. Midnight Oil with Beds Are Burning. It was a time of high inflation, diminished prospects, and the very real possibility of nuclear war. At the same time new technology was taking the world by storm. Very similar to the current era.

No, I thought of Kraftwerk and others.

fuck yeah.. ill never not love this tune

Yes!

i was not alive

I can't really say anything being a zoomer, but I'd say that it still feels very different today because of the enigmatic lyrics and random hits of the drum(? Piano?)

This thing goes from infinity to beyond

Asenath So tru! 😍

Nothing like a robot! LOL

That's was the thing in 80s music videos..

I'd let him fly my plane,l' m a pilot too,crash landed a hang glider 'anlandugen veg von gehen ist gute landun'

Asenath , thinking maybe he grew up, ck rendition w/nin if u haven't already

Even now days

It still is, nobody is doing this anymore.

This is a song of 2020 the end of 1979

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I wish they made songs now like this album. It’s so perfect

Good ear...me too it's details like this that truly put shivers up your spine and puts this tune amongst the greats.

Joe Kelly - I hear ya. Me too at 2:45 is just awesome from the time I heard this until this very day. Just so cool. You take care and stay safe😷. P.S. - I know there are many Kellys out there. My mother is a Kelly by birth.

So happy I'm not an anomaly with that pad. Absolutely beautiful and so hauntingly futuristic. The power of the Moog synthesiser.

Have you heard the swirling sound he plays on the moog at 3.40. Why he never had that earlier in the song and not as the sound fades I will never know.

gary09 lane yes it's a phaser effect and it comes in around 2.40 it just seems you can hear it at 3.40

+ShockTroop - I know, right? That was a workout. He started losing his timing there towards the end, but came back around to finish like a champ. He's a badass tambourine player. lol

He's VERY serious about it. I was a teenager when these videos came out but cracked up laughing watching this one 35 plus years later. All the serious men in eyeliner!

He also plays guitar!

That was a pretty sweet tambourine solo, after all.

@@richardmensinger1799 And piano.