I was shocked by the musicians who STARED THE CAMERA DOWN! wish they'd all done that. i'm surprised i've never seen that in a music video before or since!
@@hawkweedofficial2925 of course they are acting out being pkd deckard & batty type android/replicants. would be cool if other acts tried this kind of staredown it seems pretty new wave punkish.
In Brazil few know Numan. I had a party and put it on the playlist and it was a success. When I said that this song was from the 70s, nobody believed it. I'm going to create a fan club to see if we can bring him to Rio de Janeiro.
@@davidwilkinson3329 yes, true... Feels like both a futuristic utopia and apocalypse..🖤 I first heard this in 1979, imagine how many times I’ve heard it!
THIS IS MY FAVOURITE VIDEO OF ALL TIME. Numan had only a handfull of great tunes all in the early days. But they were truely great , along with their image and cold stone faced looks they deserve their place in history. Tubeway Army were cooler than cool. And Gary has lived off that for 30 years. Genius !
I'm 46 yrs old, have been listening to his music since i was 12, Gary and his band were many years ahead of their time, LEGEND :0) Even my 7 yr old son loves this song, he's a great little Numanoid
It changed everything for me when I was 10 in 1979, it’s kept me on course for electronic synth music to this very day to which I’m now 52 , thanks Gary 👍🏻😊
This melody of this song is so beautiful and perfect, it can just about make tears come to your eyes. I never get tired of hearing it...it's incredible...thank God for G. Numan and what he has contributed to music and thank God for you loyal fans who buy his albums and encourage him to keep on making more songs. This is the quintessential, difinitive song the synth was "born to play", to me.
I was 14 when this came out and this was the coolest thing I'd ever heard because it sounded like the future. Listening to it again in 2021, it still sounds like the future - it's a timeless piece of music and Gary and the band still look as cool as all get out today!
Came out in ‘79. My girlfriend at the time went out and bought the 45 for me. Timeless and still very powerful in 2022. A bit like the original Blade Runner.
I was 20 when this came out, my God we were lucky to be young at this very special time in history. I wish that I would have appreciated the moment of these days more than I did. What a wonderful time to be young!
Im so glad i found gary months back he is the best thing i ever seen and a beutiful man and can never be forgotten along with cedric sharpley and everyone else #tubeway army for life like if you are a hardcore numan fan!!!i am
He didn't go anywhere except L.A. He's still making albums and has been for over 30 years. He just came out with a new one in 2017. He is married with three children. Look him up.
Check out the track 'My Name Is Ruin" and the last album "Savage'' .. The last album has all the classic Numan trademarks, with massively polished production. Pure class.
Dr. Stephen Stokes DC he reminds me of Sheldon Cooper made to look dark. It seems so innocent now, but was so goddamn new and cool then! He's on tour now. He looks different, 40 years will do that to you, but he's still really cool!
Those two guys plaing the synths in this clip (Chris Payne on the right, Billy Currie on the left) wrote the well-famous electronic classic "Fade to Grey".
I remember when Gary and his army first burst on screen... Pushing past punk, Grease, rock and disco to No 1.. It was 1979.. A new electronic era had begun.
Freezing night time fog hangs low over dystopian inner-city landscapes as tail-lights flicker and disappear on overpasses to nowhere, during the smoky winter of our discontent: 1979. [Thanks for the Up.]
His backing group all looking for a camera to stare at and look 'serious'! This was the 70s and 80s. Only Gary mastered it by looking away from the camera. Anyway, in 1979 I seen Tubeway Army on TOTPs playing this, was blown away. Got the bus into town on the Saturday to buy it, it was on picture disc, all sold out!! Memories. This is 'Classic Numan'. It all went tits up with 'Dance'. His first four albums, never bettered.
I've always been strictly into rock and roll but damn it there is just something about this it just draws me in. This is just fucking beautiful and I would gladly tell any of my friends I just love this, I wouldn't give a damn what they would think
This video is so goddamn awesome. Better than any conceptual video you could come up with. Gary was so far ahead if his time. Cedric Sharpley and Paul Gardiner laying down a fat rhythm and those synths are heavy as fuck.
It was during the "hiatus" between John Foxx leaving Ultravox and Midge Ure joining. Gary was a big Ultravox fan so it was quite a big thing for him to have Billy in the band. And I think Billy was glad of the work - at this point in time no one knew if Ultravox were even going to carry on.
I have played this tune probably hundreds of thousands of times in my life and never get sick of it and watching this vid makes me buzz even more. Thanks for posting it
@@KittyCatFurbabiesMaria1972 You’re welcome... I was that uncommon HUGE Numan fan then here in America, still are! “Cars” was somewhat popular here, but American punk/new wave dominated.
This is awesome Those synth sounds are iconic and majestic - from the main riff, to the break-down, to the chorus and then that soaring long synth note that goes up and down - machine rock Nice guitar on this too ... Brilliant album too ...
totally weird and unusual, that, and the alien sound totally attracted me for all my life, love it as much now as i did in 1979. it was because of Paul Gardiner i decided i was a Bass Player, and i still am. i still play Paul's wonderfully inventive basslines as much as i can, trying to get all his nuances and styles and feelings just right. Thanks Paul, Thanks Gary, Thanks Dramatis and Thanks Moresynth for posting :) Mark_The_Bass
A 20 year old kid he was here...it's his composition, his musicianship, his stage persona.....this is something a kid made in his room....pretty fckn impressive.
He designed all the incredible light shows of his tours, and produced these albums. Eventually he learned the internet, graphic design, self management, and several albums in early 2000’s he played everything and engineered and released on his own label.
Notice the way it sounds so maleish? Gary recorded this on the MiniMoog; all synth parts are played on that one synthesizer; multi-tracked of course. The Mini filters were overdriven which gave it its balls. It's been 40 years later and the MiniMoog is still a much sought after instrument; it's like the Stradivarius of synthesizers. Thank you Gary for this immortal song.
LOL - Yes, I think this performance is one of the most extreme in terms of the 'paranoid staring psycho' approach. I remember Gary stating that at the time ('79) the charts were full of bands that would come on stage and jump around and smile non-stop for 3 and a half minutes. He just wanted to do something different, and it fitted the mood of his music. And it worked.
Saw him numerous times in the early 80s good see billy on snytb , saw him with his vox buddies few times as well , who remembers Nash the slash , covered in bandages
I knew Nash, met him at Peppermint Lounge NYC 1981. We corresponded often, I saved all his letters. He was a huge musical inspiration to me. That rare music/performance pioneer.
geez takes me back .....reason why I loved it then and even more all these years now ..never ages !!! after all this time .bands trying but will never be the same
Dean Thyer For a synth track, one that I would rate alongside this (from the same era), is Heroes - David Bowie. Brian Eno playing the haunting synth line, and great guitar riffs of Robert Fripp. Worth checking out if you've never heard it Dean!
apparently the back story was the band found out at the last moment they werent getting paid for this performance and were pissed off because they had no idea how they were going to pay for their hotel room. Hence their expressions.
Holy crap, some parts almost made me think I was about to hear a Prodigy song. Toast to the pioneers of electronica that came before. I must have been about 2 years old when this was released.
This song and Replicas are, I think, the ones that are his greatest when he performs them live. I'd love to see him one more time in concert before he decides to quit touring, whenever that might be.
First ever single I ever bought. Listened to it so much I had to get it out a couple of years ago to remind myself which was the A side! I just adore this song. Always have, always will.
+Bree Stone I remember buying it as a 7 inch vinyl and playing it time after time after time. It was the sound of the future. It was wonderful. Still is.
