LOVE THIS VIBE! | Are Friends Electric - Tubeway Army (Reaction) 

45 years ago and still giving me goosebumps. 🎹🖤🎹🖤🎹

I’m going to see him live in two weeks! I’m so excited!

I was obsessed by Gary Numan/Tubeway Army when this came out - I was 8 !

This song was way ahead of it's time. This song gets in my soul.

RIP bassist Chris Cross 3/25/2024. He'd also played for Ultravox and Visage.

Song is about robot prostitutes and yes at 45 years old it was way ahead of it's time. 😂 Good reaction video thanks for checking out this criminally underrated artist who is still going strong 👍😁🤓

His biggest hit Cars is one of the most iconic and defining songs of the 80s

Acoustic drum kit being played by Cedric Sharlpey 🤘

For about four albums at that time Numan was my go to music. A true outsider. He's certainly not everybody's "cup of tea"... Thanks for the reaction.

This band was a huge influence on other bands, notably, nine inch nails as well as others. Its very "white" and synth heavy but at the time (late 70s early 80s), it was super original

Best song ever

One of the most extraordinary and under-rated songs ever written. It sounded like nothing that preceded it, and does not get the full credit for the later electronic music it inspired. Numan was so in tune with the instrument he used (Minimoog/Polymoog) and created atmospheric alien soundscapes that were incredibly original sounding without over-using the synthesizer as many of the more enthusiastic electronic music pioneers had done ... e.g. big filter sweeps "because we can". Numan on this song uses the Moogs to fill the speakers with the warmth of mass strings, though the main preset used is the Vox Humana setting on the Polymoog, chorused and run through a guitar flanger. With this wall of sound in place, he still fielded standard pop instruments in front of it: bass, drums and guitar. And then there is the beautiful but simple lead melody behind each sung line, with that extraordinary "wrong note" in the second note of the two-note sequence at the end of each line, which Numan has cheerfully admitted was meant to be a 4th but was incorrectly input on the sequencer as a flattened 5th ... and it sounded so good he left it in after that. Sometimes genius needs a little luck too.

Don't do cars! That's all anyone ever doest of him and so I thank you for doing this track. Numan is the most underrated and influential artist of the last 50years. You need to deep dive into his work I'd say try metal and M.E. For starters! 😊

As a Numanoid he is one of the fathers of electronic music since the late 70s and still going strong

Quite by accident, the man born Gary Webb discovered a Mini-Moog synthesizer in the studio where he was recording his first album. It led to a quiet revolution. This was a No.1 hit in the UK (he followed it up a few months later). Bad decisions cast him into oblivion as the decade progressed, but he's now acknowledged as a pop pioneer.

It just seems so amazing - and somehow really nice - to watch these bright young Americans "reacting to" (enjoying?) songs that defined my British childhood 400 years ago! (It feels like it's been that long some days when the old bones are creaking a little bit when it's time to get up ;)

The Telekon album is an absolute masterpiece.

Officially this song is credited as Tubeway Army not Gary Numan, though it is obviously him

This song was wrote in 1979 and classic Gary Numan it is set in the future where humans interact with Androids, in this case synthetic prostitutes. The line "mine broke down so there's no one to love " how far are we away from that now lol? Brilliant vision .

Gotta do “Cars” by him,it’s a dance classic,or it was back then.

I remember being hooked on this song when playing NFS Carbon

You must watch the live version it is amazing. Love the 80’s ❤

This is actually a song by Tubeway Army, of which Gary Numan was a member. I have a 12" inch single (Vinyl record) that has an extended version of Cars by Gary Numan and the B-side is Are Friends Electric by Tubeway Army.

Gary Numan is a legend..Check out M.E by Gary Numan or Films..Also Music for chameleons…The man is the King of Synth mate,end of… Great reaction video and all the best from the U.K🇬🇧🇺🇸👍

It's my understanding that this is two songs put together, the lines that are sung were one song and the spoken parts were another. A most excellent (newer) version of this song can be found here under the title 'Gary Numan 'Are Friends Electric?' AllSaints Basement Sessions'. Thanks for the video.

I suggest you get a patent on that smile man.

Only you could break down this song so perfectly. Impressive. Gotta say, you're better than me, J! 💯

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Yes indeed, Jarvis has a gift for interpretation. Sit tight Jarvis! There's another flaming track from this album coming to your way soon! As usual, fantastic program and a penetrating analysis!

Thanks!

Damn you pick good ones

Timeless classic.

The reason "Friends" is in quote marks in the title is because "Friends" is the word Numan used for robots in a few of his songs. This will matter especially when you get around to Down in the Park.

Check out newer Gary, such as My name is ruin, his newer work is even better than his older classic works!

The only song I recall from him is Cars.❤

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Originally comprised of two unfinished songs but man it is still so good .... Even after 45 years .... Brilliant.😊😊

Ther is also a great version of this by an older Gary Numan - part of the all Saints sessions - if you have time - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-22Z4Tv1zn-s.html

This song is actually about sex robots in a futuristic world. He has an interview on YT explaining if he told top of the pops at the time he said "they would never had them on the show to perform "Are friends electric"

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