The Pleasure Principle

3.5/5. Not necessarily groundbreaking but it’s a fairly solid new wave record with an interesting soundscape.

Fun concept album that was ahead of it's time.

Synths were great. Rude but probably has been said before that his voice was often the worst part of the song. But sometimes it created a character for a song that felt fun and unique. Would want to see some of my favorite artists sample from this. 5.5/10

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This sure is new wave. It went right through me, which either means it's genuinely not compelling to me or I need to give it another couple of listens. I was relieved when it got to "Tracks" and there was a drum buildup. I've heard "Car" before, but in the context of this album I swear the same synth riff was used already. I'd be halfway through a song on this thing and thinking "Gosh, I can't wait for this to be over," then the song would end and I'd go "Wait, that was it?" Maybe I'm just not a new wave person.

Brani Preferiti: - nessun brano preferito Note: Non sono un grande fan di musica elettronica, ancora meno di suoni synth.

Cars is a bona-fide hit. The rest is terrible. It all sounded the same. It almost feels like he only wrote 1 song. 1/5

great album

Fand ich richtig kacke.

Interesting synth, pretty mellow at parts

Now this is one dope album

Man I wish I could have heard this one in the full context of when it came out. Top music, top album cover too.

Synths!

Album 214 of 1001 Gary Numan - The Pleasure Principle Rating : 3 / 5 Favorite Track : Cars (of course) I can enjoy this since it is not pure electronica. More New Wave and a pretty fun album. Some strings thrown in here and there and a couple of catch tunes. With the big hit, Cars, coming near the end. A good listen.

Enjoyed the elctornica and of course the favorite banger of the album, Cars. Seemed ahead of its time with nothing short of what I'd describe as experimental sound

I hear a lot of samples that came from this album and influences on later albums.

Just not my type of music. I recognized the track “Cars” which was pretty cool. The synth sound on this record is iconic. I’ll give it an extra star for being influential and pretty ahead of its time.

I liked this, I was born a little too late to truly appreciate Numan when he was popular and I was only 6 when this was released. I’ll give it a 3/5 just because it didn’t make the earth move for me but I enjoyed listening.

Любопытно

I wanted desperately to give this album a 3, but man does it really go on for too long which knocks it down to a 2 in my view. I think the sounds and synths are really innovative and I do like the overall tone of the album, it’s just so fucking long and it’s the same synth-y whine and wail over and over again. We also listened to this while driving an incredibly windy and steep roadway in New Zealand which probably didn’t help my patience. How did “Cars” become a radio hit? What a weird song.

I adore the early synth sounds and particularly because here they are put in a relatively conventional rock form. Not fond of Gary's voice, but it is his own. Definitely a trailblazer for the likes of OMD, early Human League, Depeche Mode. It's got Cars and M.E. High 3 stars.

Kinda okay & fun.

It's a little kooky, a little strange, but well created and sounds really good. His voice is a little off-putting, but it works well for his style. I ended up tuning out for over half the album. I like it, but it becomes really good background noise.

Pretty clever. An álbum called the Pleasure Principle that seems devoid of pleasure but somehow upbeat.

It's interesting, but not for me. I think it would work great as a soundtrack for a movie, tv show, videogame, etc. In insolation, like just sitting and listening to this whole album, it's a bit too much. Rating 2.4 and rounding down to 2.

1977 and using no guitars. Cool to see the beginnings of new wave and synth pop. A little monotonous for me- decent background music.

Indeed sounds influential, but that kind of music has been done better in later years

as a die-hard Bowie Fan I should not like this (he copied him) but I kind of do? I mean it's very obvious on songs like M.E. but still they are bangers...

A well done example of its genre.

Pop con sintetizadores. No está mal.

Synth-popnew wave, pero un poco rollo y repetitivo.

This is a fine album, maybe Numan's best. Replicas high points are higher than the high points here but Pleasure Principle is more consistent. Favourite songs. Metal, Complex, Tracks, Conversation. 4 stars

This album sounds like what would have happened if the beatles were locked in a studio with a casio keyboard for a year. Not unlistenable but overly simplistic. Which is probably why, much like the beatles, it appeals to the masses. I don’t think I would go out of my way to listen again.

Not for me

I liked the song "Conversation". It resonated with me more than the rest of it. The album was interesting and nice to listen to throughout.

Cool retro spacey feeling Worth a listen, seems a perfect precursor to the 80s A little repetitive at times but I didn’t mind

Pioneering robot music with soul. Loved it. Daft Punk have tried to emulate ever since.

It definitely had that 80s sound. I knew the song Cars. The album consists of more songs like similar to Cars. It was not particularly entertaining.

syntax error HTTP Status 204 (all style no substance?) 404 Pleasure Not Found Trying hard to reboot this review through failure-safe mode. But bugs keep coming up. It's always annoying when machines resist you. You end up believing they're doing it on purpose against you. The thing is, machines don't have any volition on their own--at least as far as I know. And when you finally admit it, that's also when you realize projecting your own emotions onto them was a pretty pointless affair--not to mention an all-too-human reflex. "What was I thinking? Why did I get all riled-up? It's just a dumb machine...". This is how those confrontations between man and its faulty mechanical tools always end: with a "why bother?" attitude. *The Pleasure Principle* suggests those lines of thought to me. There lie both its success and its failure. I can project all sorts of strong emotions onto Kraftwerk's own robotic music, for example--fascination, joy, sadness, anxiety, excitement, pleasure... But I can't do this with this album, even if it owes much to the German krautrock/kosmische legends itself. And maybe it's because, at the end of the day, there's not much to the music played in it. HTTP Status Code 204? All style, no substance? Kraftwerk is not the only reference point that belittles *The Pleasure Principle*. Likewise, synthpop pioneers who had their heyday a few years after Gary Numan can provide a lot of different emotions for me. Most of the songs released by Depeche Mode between 1984 and 1990 do that for instance. And quite a few other key tracks by Human League, Heaven 17 or even Pet Shop Boys do it as well. Heck, even Pete Shelley's synth-heavy *Homosapien* sounds more interesting to me--an underrated album in the Buzzcocks frontman's solo discography if ever there is one. Should I mention Joy Division and New Order, finally? Nah. I think most of you people get the picture now... Beyond those admittedly very subjective leanings, here is the main point I want to underline here: behind the robotic facade, all those acts wrote tunes with a LOT of harmonically enticing flavours. Of course, Gary Numan came before all of those acts, at least--so there's that pioneering aspect to take into account, I guess. Under that light, maybe I shouldn't care if he was a far less skilled composer and songwriter. But in that case, well... Kraftwerk. Kraftwerk will always have the upper hand when it comes to decide who were the real pioneers. They were there when this whole matrix-thing started. Heck, they ARE this matrix. Other reference points that make *The Pleasure Principle* sound a little secondary in retrospect are later "industrial" acts such as Killing Joke or Nine Inch Nails. Trent Reznor is a huge fan of Numan, I hear. Yet Reznor also harnessed a "punk" energy to take his mechanical anthems to a whole other level... In comparison, *The Pleasure Principle* only rarely succeeds in offerring such added dynamics to its MS-DOS aesthetics. It's basically a "program" followed to the letter. Chords and harmonies don't matter that much, only the sonic landscapes do. And since the energy is lacking, what do we have left, really? On an intellectual level, I understand all of this is probably the point of this album, ironically: it's so ascetic, harmonically speaking, so repetitive, and so "radical"--in a way--that some listeners surely can't help being drawn to those "songs". To me, they're more *snippets* of tunes than full-blown ones--vague sketches that rarely go somewhere interesting beyond a couple of hooks here and there. But I get the idea. My gut feeling tells me that those enamoured listeners are more interested in textures than in compositions, and more power to them if they find those sorts of textures in this album. But that's a "power button" I don't feel like I need to push myself. Fans always rant about how "groundbreaking" this record is, but once again, when you enjoy acts such as Kraftwerk or Silver Apples, that adjective sounds a little exaggerated at best. What *really* happened here is that Numan hit the charts with "Cars", and popularized those cold, mechanistic aesthetics for a lot of folks that had never been exposed to them before. Maybe even "rock critics". Which is a very different thing. That very subject of "Cars" 's commercial success brings me to the main issue I'm having when the time comes to consider this LP as an "essential" one. "Cars" follows "Conversation" in this record, and if you listen to those two tracks one after the other, it soon becomes abundantly clear that they use... a) The same instrumentation. b) The same sort of "melody" on synths. c) The same sort of drowsing pace. d) The same sort of high-pitched, somewhat grating vocals. e) And that they can trigger the same sort of boredom, especially since ingredients a) to d) are to be found *everywhere* in the album (save for Bowie-indebted "Complex", with its violins and violas). By the point those two *very* similar track appeared on side 2, I had already given up all hope of getting excited. I was going through the motions, just like Numan does. The question is: where's the line between radical conceptual drives and pure *laziness*? Musically speaking, *The Pleasure Principle* sounds very lazy, and the need for mechanistic repetition can't fully justify such laziness. Besides, that's a flaw that does not convey the idea of a mechanical force to reckon with anyway. It's a very *human* flaw. Oh, the irony. Understand me: robotic music *must* be repetitive, I get that. But there are ways to be repetitive and yet hypnotize the listeners, instead of lulling them to a muddled sort of slumber. Hypnosis brings you to heightened awareness. Drowsing slumber does not. By the way, machines are also pistons and turning cogs and spinning wheels. This is how they can get sexy in their very own way. But this machine here doesn't have any of those contraptions. It's basically inert. Sure, that's where a more conscious sort of irony lies--the one conveyed by the album's title, here associated with such wonderfully evocative artwork. I *also* get that this juxtaposition is no coincidence here--that it's part of Numan's thematic "program" and how it relates to tecnological advance and what it does to the human body and soul--how it can actually threaten them. But it's so easy to turn off the screen, stop this album from playing, and get on with your real life. It would be much more interesting--and perverse!--if something in this LP prevented you to do that. Because of stronger hooks. Because of a mesmerizing harmony. Because of a sudden chorus that blurs the limits between man and machine--even if it only does that ephemerally. Lost of other acts pulled it off, even if their sounds are a little "dated" now. So why not Gary Numan? Mark my words, it's not only the sound or the music that are awfully dated in this record. It's also the whole concept itself. Now we know how much of our lives is deeply intricated with technology. Numan's music actually hearkens back to a time when such deep interaction didn't exist. And by refusing to engage a lot of his listeners through more imaginative music, Numan's efforts look a little pointless and void today. Plus, there's nothing uncanny about his robotic caricature--none of the anthropomorphic features that can make you reflect and ponder about our own mechanistic drives, and none of the emotions we project onto technological tools on a daily basis now. And as a result, the whole endeavor risks turning into an innocuous roleplay--one that isn't really fun, to boot. Listen to Kraftwerk's "The Robots", and you'll probably understand the sort of fun I'm talking about here. In comparison, *The Pleasure Principle* suggests nothing--neither fun nor death drive, nor... real pleasure. It puts you at a distance, just like this cover suggests. But it's too much. And all that's left is an idea. Another reason why Numan's music sounds so neutered and *quaint* to this listener's ears today. Including this LP in my list of potential candidates for my own ranking, because it's still a cultural milestone (mostly thanks to its commercial success at the time). But I doubt this album will make the final cut. CCleaner will probably have deleted it as a useless file in my Temp folders by then. 2.5/5 for the purposes of this list, rounded up to 3, and translating to 7.5/10 grade for more general purposes. Next, please. Number of albums left to review: 434 Number of albums from the list I find relevant enough to be mandatory listens: 263 Albums from the list I *might* include in mine later on: 136 (including this one) Albums from the list I will certainly *not* include in mine (many others are more essential to me): 170

one good song in an album exploring how the first computers can make sounds. felt like a crappy early 80s horror movie soundtrack at times

Honestly kinda stinky

The problem with the album is, like a lot of the "one hit wonders," the 'hit' is so catchy that it overpowers the other songs. The other songs are like the David Bowie tone poems in his Berlin trilogy, but they overstay their welcome and they feel more like "hey what can I do here...?" So they sound a bit more noodle-y. I get that he was there at the start of electronic music, but it just never gets anywhere. And the one song "Cars..." there's a countermelody going on whereas the others just sound... underdeveloped. You just wish the other songs sounded more like "Cars."

It all kind of sounds the same, like slightly different versions of Cars. I thought Observer might be an alternative recording of the track when it first started playing. I mean, I guess this was a turning point in electronica and new wave, taking pure machine (or close to it) from bands like Kraftwerk and making it softer and poppier. It's fine and all, but I'm ready for a new album (not by Gary Numan).

Along with Kraftwerk and Ultravox, this is where synthpop and electronic indierock started. Love it!

Interesting album with some good songs and one great one

Few nice hits like Metal, but many songs are quite dull and meaningless

Nope. I won't be listening to this again.

Has some cool ideas, but I’d rather listen to something that builds upon those ideas.

It's ok, but a bit too much of the same

Weirdly boring

Gets on my nerves and feels a bit edgy

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Meh. Synth of the 80s. Its distinctive, but repetitive. Cars is a great track, but the rest of the album isnt memorable. 3/5

Liked only a couple songs

Ahead of its time. Few good tracks. Not my style.

Marcus Parks was right - Gary Numan has layers! This was very surprisingly great. Plus what an awesome jacket he's wearing on the cover.

It was good!

Not bad, but a bit repetitive

Didn’t realize how classic this album was! M.E. being a standout thus far given it’s influence on EDM on Where’s Your Head At.

this is an album to listen to before you die. Numan was treading his own path long ago and all the better for it.

Great sound

Poor mans Kraftwerk, can hear his influnces in loads of music but has an annoying voice and face.

Some great tracks. And some that sound like they're background music for a Blake's 7 episode

Most of this album is just a prelude to Cars

I listened to this album last year (for the first time), I had only been familiar with Cars. It all sounds quite dated now, (which it ironically tried to sound futuristic), but I overall enjoyed listening. I dig the cover artwork too. 3.5

Gary Numan once held a door open for my sister at a hotel in Edinburgh. That’s all I’ve got. Clearly influential and I do love to recognise a famous sample but it doesn’t really do much for me

Lots of great tunes throughout. It's a very influential album which still sounds unique and identifiable after all this time. It was clearly a massive influence on the vapourwave aesthetic, too. A little bit one note, but a great album.

Music lovers shouldn't underestimate the importance of Gary Numan. The robotic early-synth style was phenomenal back in the days while it might seem a bit 'And what's the big deal about it?' now. The music is synth-based but not completely electronic yet like it would be in the 1980s. "Conversations" is phenomenally great. But in a way, Gary Numan is a one-trick pony. This album and the two Tubeway Army records seem interchangeable. I'm not sure if you are not better suited with the LP Replicas if you want to get into his stuff. Shout out to Cedric Sharpely, his drummer here who shows why drum machines will always be boring. Check out his first band Druid who would've been stars of the genre if they just had stepped some two years or so earlier into the scene.

Wild that this came out in '79! Ahead of it's time for sure. I knew Cars, but crazily I don't think I'd ever listened to this whole album before. Or if I had, it was absolute ages ago. Anyway, this album fuckin' kicks IMHO. Feels like New Wave by way of Kraftwerk, which is very much up my alley. Sweet bass lines, hella Moogs, random viola to spice things up... Hard to call this anything but pure synth-pop deliciousness. Just gonna go ahead and call this a 5 because I feel like it.

Defines the 80's synthesized sound. Every track sounds the same to me. Is this where EDM germinated? I think so.

one of those albums whose influence you hear everywhere in modern music, but it does nothing for me. everything is just... boring as fuck. it was probably revolutionary when it came out but this just seems like the most basic synthpop music. every song sounds like it should be playing in the breakfast club opening credits. Rating - 4.4 Favs - Cars - M.E - Me, I Disconnect From You

The Pleasure Principle is the debut solo album by English new wave musician Gary Numan. This synth-pop/new wave album was Numan's most electric sounding project and has science fiction themes. Gary went solo after the final album Replicas performed decently well for his previous band Tubeway Army. The Pleasure Principle let Numan expand on the new wave music he wanted to make. This easy-listening album for robots had a great collection of tracks and the percussion was top notch. It was critically acclaimed, but commercially people thought it was a one-hit wonder. I recommend this album.

Better than I anticipated. Really cool vibe...not a huge fan of his voice, but I get over it with how much the rest is amazing. 4/5

REALLY enjoyed this album. Had only heard a handful of Gary Numan’s songs, will be looking into his discography!

6/10. This is exactly the album I expect to hear when the Wikipedia article puts the genres as Synth-Pop and New Wave

Is it unfair to call this a one-hit wonder album? 6/10

Aggressively '70s, in a good way.

IDK If i remember listening to this, but it's too high energy to be backround music. I'm sure I'll go to **** for saying this, but 2 stars.

HERE IN MY CAR, I FEEL SAFEST OF ALL, I CAN LOCK ALL MY DOORS, ITS THE ONLY WAY TO LIVE IN CARS. You know how that song is now stuck in your head and you hate it? Yeah imagine a whole album like that. Mediocre, repetitive shit.

Fine but not mindblowing. Has its moments. Best tracks: Cars, Airlane, Complex

Having only known Cars, this was an intriguing prospect - also the first non-guitar album I've had. At the time it must have sounded like the future, but in retrospect the sound palette is quite limited, both in terms of the synthetic noises and the melodic structure. Cars is a clear stand out, with Metal and Complex also notable, but I fear the rest ofbthe songwriting just isn't that memorable. When he gets it right though, it's clear why he was so popular at the time.

It's all highly experimental and very serious. The experimentation I liked; the self-seriousness I found a bit off-putting.

Aside from the track Cars, this is very forgettable and unbelievably samey 80s pop synth. I didn't like it in the 80s, and 40 odd years later I still don't like, with Gary's vocals being a Marmite love it or hate it thing.

Like the soundtrack to an 80s movie loved it

Very samey, not keen on his voice.

i like synths but not much else the last song was kinda scary and cool but i wouldnt listen to it again

Gary Numan is best remembered for Cars and Cars rules. The Pleasure Principle has some of the most straightforward synths combined with the finest new wave instrumentation. Tight drums, groovy basslines, sleek guitars. All of these back up the spectacular synthlines that make the album so damn good. It's clear that Gary Numan had a clear grasp on what made synthpop and new wave so good, and right on the jump too.

Cool d’album, on sens les débuts du New Wave mélanger avec les synthétiseurs electro de l’époque, très chouette tout ça mais un peu long

3.5

PREFS : TOUT MOINS PREF : RIEN

I can't explain, but this music feels so at home inside my head.

I can see what they’re trying He got a lot out of cars

This is a pointless and boring record. Hears cars froma mile away and to my surprise...

Had a really futuristic vibe to it. Pretty impressive stuff but really not for me.

Genres: Synth-pop, new wave Formed: !979 solo album whilst still with Tubeway Army. Run time: 17 songs, 1 hour, 8 min The debut solo studio album by Gary Numan. (He was the former frontman of the new wave band Tubeway Army.) Spotify: Least popular song: 87k Most popular song: over 88M I loved track 9, “Cars”, I loved the sound of the synthesisers, but I can only put up with one track of Gary Newman’s monotonous voice. It really just needs some variety, otherwise it might as well be a robot. Perhaps it is. Listen Again?: No My Rating: **

Brings back some good memories!

Instantly recognisable for anyone of my age from the UK. I like a bit of electronic music, but this left me a bit cold. Which is a little ironic perhaps. It's OK and I might just listen to it again maybe, but it didn't grab me and make me want to play it again straight away.

Wonderfully crafted album, from whence the electronic sound was new and relied much more heavily on artistic talent than loops and samples. Numan is a pioneer in the field. As an aside I had no idea that the Chemical Brothers' "Where's Your Head At?" sampled Numan, the riff being from M.E. featured in this album.

My rating Is nothing more than lies How did this man create such a futuristic album in 79??? Is he a time-traveller? Not super-mine music but 4 as it is a solid album where everything is very good.

Top 3 Songs: 1 - Cars (9) 2 - M.E. (5) 3 - Tracks (6)

O álbum é bem interessante de fato, não vou dizer que tenha as mais belas composições que eu já ouvi, mas é bem melhor que outras coisas que eu ouvi nesse site, então tudo bem. Ouvir o sample de "Where's your head at?" me deixou bem feliz. Estou passando da metade e já se tornou um álbum chato. Enquanto o Homework do Daft Punk é repetitivo, ele ainda consegue passar uma boa vibe em sua repetição, é dançante e tudo mais, e de vez em quando entra algum novo elemento na música que a torna mais interessante. Enquanto isso, The Pleasure Principle é repetitivo, não é dançante, e quando um novo elemento entra na música não a torna mais legal, pois é um elemento simple e chato. Nada contra progressões de acorde simples, mas isso aqui é irritante, sem graça. 5/10, pela inovação talvez, alguns sons legais, a bateria (que é talvez a melhor parte) e só.

I like the overall tone of the album and I quite like his voice, but I wish there was less droning. There's a decent bit in a lot of songs where it feels like nothing is happening, which sucks, because I do like the sound of this album, but sometimes the songs get a little boring. It wasn't a rare occurrence that I would sit there and wait for a song to do something. I think Cars does the best job of avoiding this, which is probably why the song is so big. On a side note, I recognized M.E. instantly but couldn't figure out how I knew it, but I learned it's sampled in a Basement Jaxx song. Just a neat little discovery. My favourite songs were Metal, M.E., and Cars.

Important at the time but fundamentally only one song I enjoy listening to.

There were a lot of influences to be sure (Electronic and Glam) but Gary took it to another realm. Tbh this is really a continuation from Tubeway Army. Really got me into Synth and I'm still listening today. It's about the whole pose as well as the music. Good to see a lot of Retro bands too. You can catch taglines here and there from other records where they've pinched a synth scale.

Nothing specific sticks out, not opposed to the album tho. Mid

Pitkäveteinen ja tylsä. Voin kuvitella olleen tyylissään edelläkävijä muttei se silti iske kasarin lapseen.

Jaha semmonen. No ei se ihan paska ollu

The heavy synth glam sound is cool.

I didn’t love all of this but it was cool

Classic stuff from the Numanoid

Not sure an album that is all variations of annoying electric music and a grating voice suddenly works for Cars but I think that's the one hit. Final iteration that works or nostalgia? Didn't have much fun on the train

So this is what space music sounds like! Woah!

After absolutely amazing opening 'Airlane' everything else is bound to be a little disappointing - but what a beautiful disappointment it was! Dark, uneasy and totally captivating.

I had strong Kraftwerk vibes from the beggining. Nothing suprising considering release date. Classic synthpop sound. Some tracks were a bit new wave/post punk and I like that little bit of diversity

9/10 awesome album! a little repetitive at times but still a fantastic experience!

3.5

yeah yeah yeah

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Even though the effect of the album is a cold, sterile, robotic feel, what sets it apart is the use of (mostly) live musicians playing the music,,,or at least the impression at times - a point & violin break, a bass line, a drum fill. Not unlike the early 3 album run of Eno's vocal albums, this give a certain opposing or unconscious humanness to the proceedings at times. This welcome intrusion prevents the album from becoming too sterile and is a major factor in it's longevity.

I've heard this before because I fucking love cars. It's one of the best songs of all time. I could ramble for days about how much I like that song. M.E is pretty good as well. Don't remember the rest, only that it didn't hold up to the singles. Ok. It's just shit new wave tbh, and listening to it as part of this list makes it clear just how little he strayed from the new wave centre. Numan can't sing, and you could list him in the credits as "barely adequate generic new wave singer #666". It's really dated by 2023 standards, but I'm guessing it was also dated just a few years after its release anyway. The sci fi theme is cool at least, and enough of it sounds like cars that it kept me mildly entertained. I'll never listen again but it gets a 3/5 overall.

A great album, consistently interesting musically and lyrically.

Definitely feels like a middle-ground between the experimental kraut-rock that was perhaps losing steam at the end of the 70's with some new wave oriented pop that was taking form at the time. I don't think it's as interesting as the best exemplars of each genre, but it's still quite good for what it is.

I mean it’s ok,the album feels pretty samey.Cars is amazing but I could take or leave the rest of the album.

Enjoyed listening to one of the earliest electronic albums for what it was. Not sure any more than a few od the songs stand up on their own nowadays.

Really enjoyed it will listen again.

Unbearable when sober

the string section of Conversations was the only good part in the entire album. 4:19 to 4:37, 18 seconds of beauty was all I got out of this I had to pause the music and walk away during several times Genuinely a terrible experience

I get why Gary is so influential to electronic music and the culture in general. Debut album that throws away all conventions, no guitars in favour of full synth programming. This is in 79. Total trailblazer.

For a split second after being generated today’s album, I thought to myself that I hadn’t heard much Gary Jules. Then I remembered that Jules and Numan are actually different words, and so they’re more than likely different people. Let’s listen! Songs I already knew: Cars Favourites: Cars I was hoping to enjoy this a lot more than I did. 80’s synth pop is usually something I love, but this mostly just didn’t hit for me. Cars is a very catchy song, but that was unfortunately where the fun started and finished. It was interesting to hear M.E. as I instantly recognised the synth - it was later sampled in Where’s Your Head At by Basement Jaxx. The Gary Numan version though, aside from that synth lock, was quite uninteresting. Overall, I loved Cars, but one great song does not a great album make.

Great one - definitely a vibe. Love the synths

Every song sounds like an intro to “Cars.”

Meh, I wasn't too impressed. I had heard one of these songs on the radio, Cars, but every song sounded a little bit like it. Kind of repetitive sounds and vocals. I was familiar with some of his more recent stuff. In fact I have one of his songs "liked" It's a TOTALLY different style than this album was. Much more sinister and dark. He was actually here a couple weeks ago with Ministry!!! I really should have gone. Oh well.

Classic Numan

I admire this record for being consistent to a very particular vision, and reaching an apogee in "Cars", which is eternal. None of the rest grabbed me, sounding like recipe experiments for the classic single, though I enjoyed the clean and charged romantic mood of the record, and think "Engineers" is a beautiful closer. 2 would be cheap, though I only liked maybe three songs wholeheartedly. Spotify crapped out as it reached the end, leaving me with the message "Couldn't find "gary numan"". I'll leave it at that.

really enjoyable *mood* on this album, like Replicants it's all the same tune but it's a great tune

Enjoyed it and remember some of these songs but didn't realize this came out in 1979.

this is an interesting album. new wave with industrial elements. you can definitely see the influence this album had on nine inch nails’ debut album “pretty hate machine”. i found it to be an enjoyable listen. i am impressed and now think i should delve further into gary numan’s catalog. highlights: “metal”, “m.e.”, “tracks”, “cars”.

Well, that was fun. Not much more than that other than Cars was always an ‘80’s favorite even if it was technically from ‘79.

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My initial thought when this album started was that I was going to hate this. But I didn't hate it.

Gary Numan was clearly a genius. Still sampled to this day, he created some groundbreaking sounds. He is the sound of the 80's

Decent but ultimately uninteresting

Framúrstefnulegt á sínum tíma, en aldrei neinn hittari fyrir mig.

elektronista mässytystä heh, ei tarvi muuta sanoa...mutta sanonpahan vaan.. ÄLÄ LAULA PERKELE!!!!!!!! ei tarpeeksi laiskaa...KUUNTELEN MUSIIKKIA.. BLING BLONG TIETSIKKA ÄÄNIÄ......... JA SYNTIKOITA... ÄLÄ PILAA... how is music made from past? still sound in the future.......impossible..... airlane

I didn’t vibe with this at all the first time I heard it but enjoyed it a lot more today (the perks of listening on decent headphones I guess). His voice can be a bit grating at times but the synth sounds are pretty great, and it varies from some really fun tunes to some darker, atmospheric stuff (the last track in particular is a big tonal shift and really effective). I still didn’t love it, but who knows what I’ll think next time

NB

Cars is an overplayed song now and this album is shite.

Eurgh. The quirky electro sound is cool for a track or two, but then gets so so repetitive. M.E. does sound quite good, but that's only because other people have done better things with the one bit of synth that he really gets right. Cars is the famous one, it's a bit janky isn't it? Everything feels like it goes on too long, and it's all the bloody same. 2/5, verging on a 1.

Album art looks like something out of a B movie horror film. This feels like proto-electronica. If this guy was making music today he would be making similar stuff to Zed or The Chainsmokers or something. It's not terrible but I don't like it a whole lot. This has that "Here in my car" song so it carries this album from a 2 to a 3

fine. not a fan of the tinny british yell-singing. props for instrumentals and having Cars on there.

I listened to this, and listened again, and listened again, and every time I like it more. So 4 stars for those lovely synth sounds, I'm sure this would have been tricky to put together with the equipment of the day. Gary Numan doesn't have the greatest voice but suits this fine.

Not into synthesizer rock or pop or whatever you call this. Thought many of the songs blended together. Cars so overplayed when it came out, I still hate the song to this day. Actually I would like to take the time to call out the Detroit rock/classic rocks stations of the early to mid-80's. Thanks for killing every big hit at the time by playing ad nauseam. Not for me. Did not enjoy. Won't relisten 1

Fun fact: This album invented the flanger. Idk if it’s true but it’s used enough on here to be. 2

2 Got this guy confused with Randy Newman at first and was really confused when the album started. Anyway, I’m not familiar with Gary, but from what I heard here it seems like he was majorly influential on the upcoming new wave scene. That being said, I think Kraftwerk had already been doing this kind of thing for a few years now. Maybe they were an influence on him, maybe they just sound similar due to the limitations of early electronic music, either way, I think I enjoyed Kraftwerk a bit more. Whereas their album felt like it had a sense of atmosphere and innovation to it, this just kind of sounds like one long electronic loop… like seriously, there were multiple moments where the next song kicked in and I was like “Isn’t this just the same beat as before?” I might be exaggerating a bit when I throw that kind of claim out typically, but I am 100% earnest when I say it here. Bum BUM Bum. Bum BUM Bum. Bum buuum Bum. Bum buuum Bum. You can hear it, right?? Didn’t hate it, but it’s not for me. I’ll stick with my TRANS. EUROPE. EXPRESS.

Fun electro, interesting sounds, influential, but sort of dull.

This was a rocking little record. I didn't say 'Newman!' once.

Mot my favourite kind of music but I enjoyed some of the songs.

This is excellent and groundbreaking stuff, which is something that's especially obvious after seeing him perform with Trent Reznor and understanding his influence on so many other artists I love, like the Smashing Pumpkins. I'm not really a fan of his voice, but it fits the android theme and the music is phenomenal.

Every song sounded like “cars”

Honestly shocked at how much I enjoyed this album. The whole album has a very specific sound with the synthesizers often using the same voice, and I think put through effects pedals. I love that he uses a real drummer as it really adds a different sound to the usually synthpop sounds. Complete banger.

I LOVE GARY NUMAN HERE IN MY CAR I FEEL SAFEST OF ALL

GN might belong in a book called "1001 One-Hit Wonders You Can Definitely Avoid While You're Alive" but it certainly doesn't belong in one with this particular title.

Weird, repetitive, not catchy, not a nice singing voice. Yet kind of intriguing anyway? It’s definitely atmospheric, and as much as I don’t care for his voice it adds to that nervy, icy vibe that the whole album has. I wouldn’t listen to this again but I can appreciate what it’s going for. Frankly baffled he got a #1 in the UK off of this though. What is going on on that weird island. Best song: Random

So fun. The seemingly robotic sounds are hypnotic

Synths! Bass! One word song titles! Eyeliner! The sample from Where's Your Head At! It's all here!

I was honestly expecting more of this

very gay

This came as somewhat of a surprise. I only knew Cars but the other songs ive heard in one way or the other, mostly through samples. That makes it a very influential album, not just because of its early use of digital instruments. Loved it a lot.

Enjoyed listening but don’t think I will return to it.

Really interesting sound. It gives me stereotypical space movie vibes. The album cover is cool; it clearly inspired more modern bands. Fave track(s): Metal

One or two great songs

The basic sound of it I really do enjoy, as well as Gary’s voice! I think almost all the songs are just underbaked and could really use more vocals. I feel like there could’ve been a really great album here if executed better. 6/10

Robot music. It’s good, but it feels like background music, not a huge amount of diversity in the tracks. Interesting to see how it clearly influenced the following decade of music though! Fav tracks: They were pretty much all the same Worst tracks: They were all decent

Cool synths, and I like the “wtf is up with this pyramid” cover

The album certainly gets it's point across with being robotic and cold. Since I wasn't alive for it, it's difficult to tell how this hit the zeitgeist at the time but everything I know retroactively would suggest that it pretty much set the tone for the 80s where there was hope that the digital age would free us but at the same time bend us to the will of our corporate overloards. It's kind of a bleak experience and lives as an interesting precursor to the post history 90s where a lot of these feelings solidify. Effective as it is I can't say I care much for the style though.

I can’t think of an album that had a bigger influence on 80s new wave than this one. Metal, M.E., and Cars are all classics that still go hard, the latter propping up the weaker back half after the overly long Conversation and weak ending of Engineers. Despite the album as a whole maybe over staying it’s welcome, there’s some days I just replay songs like Metal over and over again because it won’t leave my head.

A pioneeer, a legend and its all great :)

A fascinating album with great playing, interesting melodies, and surprises in each track. It is so much more than just the radio hit (Cars).

Some recognisable sounds in here, but I found it all a bit the same throughout

I can see why people like Numan, and I can see why it's on the list. Just not really for me.

CARS!!!! And some other songs that are cars but worse

Not really into this. Went in thinking it would sound more like the Cars. Not sure because of the era, or because, well, Cars. Not surprising that I did not enjoy the album as the Cars song I never really liked either.

Did not enjoy. I'm sure Gary's work was revolutionary for the time

Really dug the sound of the album.

I like synthy type stuff but i havent really listened to much besides like thom yorkes "anima", so this was pretty cool to listen to, will listen to this one again. Songs that stood out to me. Airline, Metal, Films, M.E., Conversation, Cars, Engineers. Overall great album first listen.

This is a decidedly cool album, and deserving of its place on the list. Gary Numan was really ahead of his time, and this must have sounded pretty revolutionary in 1979! The combination of synthesizers and Numan's flat affect voice invoke post-modern anomie in a way that clearly led the way for so many other electronica artists. That said, as with much new wave, it's not the easiest listen. It lacks the subtlety of later New Order or Soft Cell, giving it a challenging and edgy feeling. It is also lacking in human feeling, which is 100% the point of the album, but keeps it out of 5 point territory for me. 4/5 in recognition of its importance and place in the genre.

4/5 I actually really liked this. Yea it was repetitive, but that's kinda the case with techno. I have kind of a soft spot for techno about AI. It's always kinda dark and post apocalyptic and with techno music in the the background it's so irreverent. That's ai, not AL lol. I mean have an *even bigger weakness* for AL. It was good. I'll listen to this again.

Urgh, what's with all the experimental instrumental guff lately? Not as good as Bowie but better than Zappa so a straight 3 it is. Won't relisten and wish this hadn't dragged on so long. Ah well.

Surprisingly a well structured album experience, not what I was prepared for

Favorites: -Oceans -Asylum

Listened to this album travelling yesterday and very much appreciated that it's innovative for the era. Gary walked so others can run but it just didnt quite hit for me.

有点瘆人

For some reason, when I saw the name Gary Numan this morning and looked at the album cover I felt like I knew something of his, but couldn't place it. Upon listening to the album, it is the song Cars. It has been in movies/commercials/and TV shows in the past. Gary Numan is a synth pop artist who is accredited with helping to jumpstart the shift to electronic music in the 80's. It is easy to hear how influential his music was to so many artists who came after him. This music is very synth heavy, and he uses an interesting effect from time to time where he feeds his synthesizer through a guitar effects pedal. All of this while a drum machine beats along in the background, and Gary delivers his almost robotic vocal delivery. There is another sound he achieved in the song Engineers that almost sounded like robotic birds or something. There was a lot of experimentation going on on this record. Apparently Gary liked to dress as an android, and it even had a persona. This sounds like the music that Robots would bang to. And I mean that not in a bad way. This music would sound right at home on a 80's - 90's sci fi tv series. Overall, not a bad listen. I can see how influential this music was. Not something I would put on every day, but not something I would quickly switch off either if it was playing. Favourite songs: Cars, Observer, Metal, Bombers, M.E., Asylum Least favourite song: Engineers 3/5

Gary Numan breaks off from the Tubeway Army and predicts the future. The Pleasure Principle is a masterwork of synthpop, setting a precedent for the coming decade, robotic and alien but somehow not overwhelmingly cold…it’s pure genius.

Pas vraiment ma tasse de thé. J'ai trouvé ca long pour un one-hit pour etre franc... 2.35

Quite intriguing. Didn't expect to like this at all, but it was pretty hypnotic from the word go. Fab background music for working - which is high praise from be, not an insult. Will definitely go back to this.

another just kinda bland cool album. good songs but nothing special about it. wouldn’t surprise me if this was revolutionary for it’s time though

I never really cared for his vocals.

Some of his later material, such as "Pure," is so much better.

Yine zamana yenilmiş bi albüm. Synthesizer kullanımı ilginç olsa da baydı normal olarak. Hatta dümdüz synth taşıyor şarkıları. Bu yüzden de repetetive olmuş. Like, noo you cannot just play around with the sythesizer and call it a song?! Remarkable birkaç şarkı: -M.E. -Cars Mid (4/10)

İlginç bir eserdi diyebilirim. Tarz bana hitap etmese de yeni şeyler deneyip elektronik ortamda oluşturulan sesleri bu derece kullanıp, değişik lyricler yazılmış olması ve bunun o yıllarda ilk defa denenmiş olmasını appreciate etmem lazım. Ama bütün albümün belli ses patternları üzerinden gitmesi ve her şarkının kendi içinde repetitive olması hiç hoş değildi. Belki beğenmeme nedenim günümüz müzikleriyle karşılaştırmam, ama albümün bu kısmı beni hem çok sıktı hem de çok yordu ve bir yerden sonra bütün şarkılar aynı gibi gelmeye başladı. Relatively speaking, Conversation parçası aralarından benim için sıyrılan parça oldu, onun dışındakiler çok da ilgimi çekmedi. Overall: 5/10 Lyrics:3/10 Notability:6/10 Harmony:6/10 Dipnot: ALBUM KAPAĞI COK KORKUNÇ, AMAÇ NE ?? NİYE??

Sonne beaucoupc comme son époque, mais à la fois très avant-gardiste. Clairement une grande inspiration inspiration pour la scène indie/synth pop.

Synth pop primigeni en el seu estat més fred, robotic, impersonal... i creatiu. Aquí, a més, està 'Cars', un dels grans temes del génere. Tot i que faria uns quants bons discos més, mai milloraria el que va presentar aquí i a l'anterior 'Replicas' amb Tubeway Army. Però en aquests dos anys va excel.lir de forma magistral

Iconic

Really liked this. Important and excellent. Can hear so much of what came later in it. Cars.

Phew, it may be that the album was at the forefront at the time of appearance. Listening to it today, hearing 15 times the same song (well almost) has been a challenge. Not my kind of music, can do without that.

It's fine

The album sounds interesting at first, with the synth waves from the 70s, but it quickly becomes boring and mundane as the album progresses.

Didn’t listen

This didn't capture me at first but the back half, and the last four tracks in particular, grabbed me more. I'll likely give it another listen sometime.

Oh yeah

I mean…. What can I say; I’m an absolute sucker for synth! This was such a fun, great album. 4. 1. Cars 2. M.E. 3. Airlane

way too 80s space-y for me. I like Cars but a whole album of this is aggressive.

A few tracks in, without look at the track list, a song came on and I was l8ke "this is the Cars guy right?" But it wasn5 Cars, then the album got different and weird and fun, theeeeen "Cars" cane on. I had fun. Good synth sound that set in place a lot fo vibes that evolved into music I really dig today.

An extra star because of Cars. But every song is exactly the same: and that's not a good thing.

I honestly don't know what to say. Synth sounds, Britishness and strange compositions in one weird blend. 'Conversation' is catchy, but I really don't know what's going on. Boy this was weird. I think I liked it?

Gary Numan is one weird musician. And I’m all here for it. Released in 1979 this is truly ahead of its time. The lyrics are really fun to dive into, focusing on robotics and “modern” technology with Numan at times sounding almost like an android himself. Especially the surprisingly heavy “M.E.” (I had no idea this is where Basement Jaxx sampled from) and the hit single “Cars” are standouts, but The Pleasure Principle is just a parade of well crafted beep boop-sounds and tight drumming.

Too much Gary Numan all at once. Love Cars obviously. On Broadway was a super fun cover. I like the overall sound, but listening to the album all at once is just too much.

Something cool sampled this

Karakteristieke robot tunes maar eigenlijk ook wel heel mooi. Duidelijk wat Kraftwerk inspiratie

Enjoyed this one a lot more than I expected. To say this album sounds ahead of its time is an understatement - it actually sounds timeless. The production is slick without being indulgent, and even though Numan’s whole laconic automaton gimmick wears a bit thin at points, the overall sound of this record is such a breath of fresh air in the context of the late 1970s. Strangely enough, I never noticed how much this record clearly influenced Wire’s 80s output, with the monotonous, pulsing synths interspersed with catchy hooks. It’s really awesome, basically.

when I saw this I was like "Gary who?" But as soon as I realized it was the Cars guy I was pretty stoked. This was a fun album. Love that synth pop, new wavey stuff and have never heard any of Numan's other work.

Synthy synths, like this already! I like his voice too, fits the music perfectly. Great album from start to finish, 4/5!

Liked it.

This is a very interesting album! The synths and lyrics give the songs almost a kind of dystopian grimy vibe. Cars is very cool, M.E. also, the rest is kind of retreaded water, not bad, but done better on the record in other songs. Definitely a record I need to listen more, and especially other works from Gary Numan and Tubeway Army. Key tracks: Airline, Metal, Complex, Films, M.E., Cars 8 out of 10

just not my thing

Needs more cowbell

It’s like a refined Kraftwerk: made more palatable for the ears of the masses. On the whole, it’s aged like the finest of wines. Cars, in particular, sounds very ahead of its time. I can imagine this album being played in a dingy back alley bar in Blade Runner Although he appears particularly concerned about the pyramid, he is dressed for the occasion

Synth-pop/new wave pioneer. Years before any Human League, Duran Duran etc. 80s music in the late 70s. Pop music. But too weird to be pop music. He really has a sound… Some of the more missable tracks on the album sound like the big hitters. Blends into one but not in a conceptual way, more of a lack of ideas way. Boring. Big tunes nonetheless. S.O.T: -Metal -M.E. -Cars 3.5/5

Very much enjoyed !

Some good tracks, endearing use of technology but too stale and similar for it's playlength

Absolutely defining electronica 4.4

Un album qui rappelle un peu certains projets de Sparks. Il n'y a pas de hasard, leur musique s'inscrit dans le courant débile-pop.

Une chose est sûre, Gary n'a pas très bien compris le principe de plaisir, avec cette heure de musique angoissante qu'il nous offre dès l'entame de la semaine.

Some bad background 80s music. It's not the worst in the world but it gets annoying.

His big hits are hits for a reason - the other stuff is dark and odd

Allt í lagi. Þekkti Cars og ekki 1 annað lag.

Nah. 3 songs in knew it wasn’t my thing.

What a great album this is. The bass, drums and analogue synths provide a wonderfully warm soundscape on which Numan's chill android voice intones his Philip K Dick suffused tales of future alientation.

This is definitively not my favorite genre, but this album gave me pleasant sensations. Like listening to some lo-fi compilation on youtube or something like that.

That's a very heavy dose of New Wave. Glad I listen to it but I problem won't ever again.

Cars is such a great new wave pop song, but most of the rest seems like atmospheric sci-fi soundtrack. It gets tiresome.

Great synth album.

It's a good album. It's actually close to great. Except it's a few songs too long, and since all the songs are so similar to each other, that really shows that you could've cut down a couple of them and not missed much. But all of the songs, even if they're similar to each other, are really good with that synth driving the beat.

interesting to hear the influences on some future music, but this doesn't do much. It's a 2 because it isn't actively dreadful.

It’s New Wave nirvana! Not the band, the metaphysical concept. I was impressed with the surgical drumming on this record and found a few new tracks to augment my love for Gary, but I’ve got to subtract a star for his vocal delivery. It’s like someone asked him to sing like a nerd.

I started listening to this album fully thinking that this would be an instant 5* for me. I absolutely adore Gary Numans sound that almost feels trademarked. The low droning Vox Humana synth sounds, superb melodies with the Polygoog over the top of simple structured songs. I'm a bit more acquainted with his later work and what I've found during my several listens of this album over the last two days is that Numan has become a much better songwriter over the years. I really enjoyed this, but not all songs are of the highest caliber like Metal, ME, Cars; or than a lot of his later albums.

Cool, experimental. Important. It was interesting hearing this early version of new wave music, but the songs themselves were a bit too meandery for my taste.

Did not realize he was the original writer of Cars.

There are definitely some good elements to this album and some nice sonorities and all. But I feel that some beat can be a bit repetitive sometimes and I was not 100% of all the atmospheres that were present. Small 3.5 tho

Very surprised by this album... Some uniqueness about it. The Beatles on a synt? Musically very interesting and nice to hear... But don't remember any track after listening. Still good 3.5/5

Album feels like he ran out of ideas and just repeated M.E. and Cars

I liked a lot of this. You can see how good he would get later in his career. Cars and Metal are the clear standouts. A lot of the rest felt like filler. But considering the year, I think it's forgivable.

I enjoyed the synth music, got a little too repetitive after several tracks

1.5/10

Pretty dull, probably sounded ahead of its time, but is now over 40 years old. He's not a great singer, and all the songs sound kind of the same. Not a worthy inclusion in my opinion

Very enjoyable.

Superb

I do love me some new wave and synth music so as far as albums go this is right up my alley. I don't always like Gary Numan's singing style, but the instrumentation is just pure 80s and I love it.

Loved this album from start to finish. How have I never heard this before? Not a duff track to be heard. I think this will quickly become a favourite!

Not for me.

Some nostalgia there. Unexpectedly, still stands up very well.

I only really knew “Cars” before this, the album is kind of more of the same, which is not necessarily a bad thing

Strongly enjoyed, and fully in love with ME, Films and Cars. However, the tone of the album doesn't stray far from a particular sound. While it was innovative at the time, it doesn't make for an album you go all the way through!

4/5. A fairly enjoyable album with a few duds but mostly the aesthetic makes up for it.

Oye, este es un clásico inmediato

7/10

Here at my desk, I heard the same song 10 times, I guess that it’s good if you don’t really care, thanks no.

Cool album but I just couldn’t enjoy it. I find the voice annoying

So, this is an album of songs that sound like Cars, except the other songs aren't as good as Cars.b

2/17, 12%

This was good, very consistent, I like how it became calmer towards the end, kind of weird too

Great album, that’s all I’ll say.

good, mature electronic music

Can tell it was a foundational album. Not bad

cars is great but the album gets monotonous quick

I'm no expert on synth music, but I feel like this is pretty darn exemplary for the genre. Great listening!

one of my favorites i’ve gotten recently.

Cars is an absolute banger! Cool sound on this album but not enough to bump it over a 3

Not my style, but some okay stuff.

Cars is a classic but the rest of this album felt like a riff on a twilight zone intro song, and that isn't exactly a complaint, but in terms of this being a pleasure principle, there wasn't a lot of pleasure being had. Sorry Gary.

I think the guy who wrote the blurb on Apple Music must be a huge fan, describing it as this seminal proto-new wave project. I mean I get it, but it's just not terribly exciting. It's a cool album for sure, lots of robotic synth-y stuff going on, but most of the tracks drone on at the same pace for a bit too long. A couple tracks I dug, but nothing that really stopped me in my tracks. Favorite tracks: Metal, Complex, Random. Album art: Really, really love this. Honestly I was looking forward to getting this album since I first saw the cover. Future man contemplating The Shape. Like a sterile, retrofuturistic version of pondering the orb; reminds me of that picture of Trump and the Saudi's whatever orb they had going on. Gary looks terrified of the power of the pyramid on his desk. 3/5

Great 80s synth-pop

Still sounds like the future.

Very synthy. Very steril. Very cool 😎

When I first saw this album I was annoyed because it looked like another boring one however the songs were diverse and I did not expect the variety of them. I didn’t hate!

so many disparate thoughts... the entire album sounds like the soundtrack to a low budget local access tv show from the early 80s. but I kind of like it. but I also sort of think it's not that good at all. I mean, we're all here for "Cars" right? it's a classic, my entire elementary school would sing it at lunch. but again... the entire album sorta sounds like an extended remix of Cars.... what's going on here? I love the spacy synth sound until I don't. I like the acoustic drums and bass, making this a real rock band that just has no guitar and a weord robotic singer with not much range. I have never been able to pull this one together - clearly. I suppose I'll admit that I just occasionally enjoy the weird almost amateurish simplicity here despite its repetitive nature. 6/10 3 stars.

There is plenty of ear honey here and it's quite revolutionary but it also becomes boring at times.

Trodde jag skulle tycka om det mera men helt solid ändå

Chill och swag

Suprising amount of the band uses regular, non-synthetic instrument for an artist whose image relies so heavily on being robotic. Banger btw

Banger...

I have never heard Gary Numan before and I really liked it. I can definitely see how innovative and influential it must have been at the time. Nowadays it’s still enjoyable and sometimes surprising. In particular I was impressed how they used layers of synths as guitar riffs. Cars is the obvious hit here but I think M.E. is my favourite. I’ll be definitely coming back to this. 4/5

Well I guess that is where that Basement Jaxx sample comes from.

Прослушано! Очень неплохо, под настроение. Немного затянуто.

Ultimate sounds of the 80s! From now on, whenever I'll be watching any movie, that takes place in those times, I'll be subconsciously waiting for this album to be in the background. The record was surprisingly entertaining, every songs stands on its own, fitting in the album, but also being unique. Each song has that weird quality of tracks from 70s and 80s, where they perfectly fit for a long car ride, suitably during the night. Electronic sounds, usually a little overwhelming, were really on point on this album, especially on tracks like "M.E." and "Conversations". I really liked this record, even though its not my favourite type of music. Synth pop at it finest!

New Wave is not really my jam, but this is fun enough. I did not know "Cars" was Gary Numan, killer song. Not the worst by any means.

I know the song Cars, I've tolerated the song Cars, but it never made me want to listen to more songs like Cars. Thoughts on the album cover: is this guy thinking about how he's gunna shove that triangle up his own ass?

Didn’t expect to like this but I did.

It really does all kind of bleed together after a while. An album better appreciated for its influence than it is to listen to.