forgetting i had seen and commented on this FOUR YEARS back i called up this song.I watched the video and do you know what?.... my feelings and sentiments were EXACTLY the same, WORD FOR WORD!!.
You guys are nuts! This is one of Numan's best tunes, from a musicians standpoint. Of course, I'm a bass player and any bass player in their right mind is gonna love this one. And by the way...Guns are cool... The idiots who sometimes improperly use them are the problem.
Yeah the entirety of the album has some wonderful bass from Palladino, same with the previous "Dance" with Mick Karn. Come to think of it, the albums from Dance to Berserker have some great bass and beats.
Wow and I just realized your comment is 13 years old...I was in high school at the time and only knew Numan from "Cars" in GTA Vice City. Time flies. As Numan himself said in "Crash": "Don't things change?"
gary numan is a legend i just got into him a couple of months ago, his old stuff is gr8 but his new electro industrial metal sound is just unbelievable! if i can get into him being a 19 year old teenager with no numan roots many of you will now! if you like NIN u will like gary numan!
I was born in 1980 so I had never seen this video before.I wish the Eighties would have had more videos like this one.I wish that The Human League would have had videos like this one.
IIRC 26th August 1982. this was the TOTP video for his song - i dreamed that i still have this episode on DVD which had included Sting's 'Spread a Little Happiness' and was this the real promo that TOTP showed.
Actually, I remember seeing Devo perform "Freedom Of Choice," on the The Merv Griffin Show. Now that was pretty interesting to see Mark Mothersbaugh in a dog chain, on an afternoon TV show. LOL!
Awesome song..nothing around like it before or after sound and style-wise..........I was very pissed off with my Mum after this seeing this vid as she wouldn't let me dye my hair blond....LOL....thanks for posting...
this was when numan was living in LA briefly. this is the cali dez. what are the complaints? that he's posing w/a gun? maybe he has more in common w/ted nugent than either nu's realize. i've always liked this video. very different.
Love the clash between cold electro and jazz throughout this record - but the video, holy cow this one is really a directing and fashion fail. It should have been much darker and smoky. Looks like he was already transitioning over to that whole 'Warriors' look.
Have not seen this before, but I am sure there is another TOTP special version of this song, with him in his gangster suit. Know there was one for Music for Chamelions, but hey 22 years ago, maybe Im getting old and forgetfull
American TV would have NEVER played a song that had that long of intro, or sounded like this in the 80's. Americans were ripped-off with the MTV/Record Company monopoly. At least we had Night Tracks.
yeah, like Charlie Murphy said on Chappelle (about Prince): "the dudes who looked the most like a bitch were the ones who got all the women." that was how it was back then, it's true.
Why do I get the feeling that the reason for Gary's baldness problem and reliance on hair plugs was all of that bleaching which does keeps lifting out the color of the hair too much?
No, that has nothing to do with it. I used to bleach my hair every month when I was young & been dying it different colours shades for years & still do although a lot less & now 58, no loss of hair at all. it's a well known fact though that many men develop a receding hairline & eventual loss of hair but has almost always an hereditary factor (the royals for e.g) I understand the hair transplant Gary went through was extremely expensive & painful too. I can't help but think he had it over done a bit though but can always give it a trim if he wants to :)
ah look it's Gi Joe lol funny video what was Numan thinking when he did this we take mystery new york vid was great this soo cheesy but then again rare vid and a good song. Thanks!!!! Music for chamleons video was brill during the 82 era better than the cheesy warriors album lame
Yep! 😅 To add to what you said (for those who haven't read Praying to the Aliens): He got guns as soon as he initially moved to California... because he thought it was the thing to do in the US... then got rid of the guns when he almost shot his own mother. She's headed to the kitchen or something late at night during an extended stay. Gary was in his bedroom (and naked), and when he heard noises, he didn't even get dressed; he grabbed his Beretta semi-automatic and left the bedroom to investigate. Ended up naked in the hallway or whatever and holding his own mom at gun point. She's yelling "It's me! It's me!" Then he got rid of the guns. It amazed him that he could easily own and carry guns in the US... when he once got arrested in the UK for "loitering" with a baseball bat. Another true story. Female police officer arrested him after checking out his new Ferrari and seeing him with the bat (just tapping it on his feet and/or the grass) while his then-girlfriend grabbed some food inside the nearby diner. He told the officer to leave his car right where it was, but she had it picked up, too. When he finally got released and got his car back, it was obvious that cops had taken it for a joyride. 🤦🏻♀️ I haven't read [R]evolution (second autobiography) yet, but I will soon.
You know at the beginning of this vid I'm just now noticing that Gary actually did and could grow some facial hair but I wonder why he doesn't like it or ever grow it out proper? I don't mean like a grizzly bear hermit but like some of it?
tits up? if it were not for pino palladino's fretless playing i doubt numan woul have gotten as much consideration as he did for this..numan himself said that palladino was a key influence in this album...now after that (1982) Then it was down hill
this is a great song -- it kind of sounds like Prince (which is a GOOD thing) -- but Jesus, Numan is RIDICULOUS in this video. running around in the savannah with machine guns like some sort of pre-Guy Ritchie British gangsta?!? WTF was he thinking?!?!?
This sounds absoulutely wonderful. Unfortunately the video is a bit disconcerting; It conveys to me a lone nutter; He was bullied and friendless at school, but guns make him feel powerful. He now plans to take revenge on the world through a Michael Ryan style massacre.
Ask the BBC and the Top of the Pops production team, they where the ones behind it and not the official video - there was never one:) Let's say it's an outstanding track, interesting blend of funky bass, screeching synths along with some brilliant jazzy saxophone played by a master musician called Dick Morrisey that should have never been released as a single.
