For the first time in nearly half a decade, Numan, to a large if not total extent, recaptured the sense of compelling darkness at the heart of his music on Strange Charm....
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New Anger 10/22/1997, Yahoo! Music, Richard C. Walls
This is edgier than one expects from Numan--living up to its title--and recommended to those unfamiliar with his post-early-'80s...
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An early shot fired in what seems to have been the First Annual Gary Numan Comeback Tour, with Gazza declaring himself alive and feisty to all and sundry. New Anger was a...
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Numan has mentioned that he had a terrible time with his deal with IRS, and this live album reflects that. Poorly produced and unenthusiastic, definitely the worst of...
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Without a doubt, Numan's high mark is his early period, which ended around 1983. Having said that, one can't expect any groundbreaking material from The Other Side of..., a...
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Rialto's Archive, Vol. 1 is a 16-track collection that balances live versions of greatest hits and latter-day studio recordings from Gary Numan. Certainly, this is the kind...
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Greatest hits remixed -- certainly not a new or novel concept, but being that Gary Numan's work is known for being experimental, The Mix is not such a bad idea. If you're a...
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The most popular of all the Gary Numan albums is undeniably 1979's The Pleasure Principle. The reasons are simple -- there is not a single weak moment on the disc, it...
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Gary Numan's follow-up to the flawless The Pleasure Principle was 1980's Telekon. Although it was another mega-hit back home in England (his third consecutive number one...
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The 1984-era entry in the regular series of official Gary Numan live albums comes across as a mixed blessing in ways, but actually ranks as one of the better efforts. The...
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Instead of returning to his groundbreaking, retro (by today's standards) synth work of the early '80s, Gary Numan tackles twitching electro-rock reminiscent of Nine Inch...
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Changing his image to a second-rate Bryan Ferry on the cover was one thing (Numan himself later admitted it just made him look like "the man who lost it all at Monte...
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Exile Extended is an extended (hence the title) version of Gary Numan's 1998 release, Exile. The subject is dark and conceptual, dealing with good versus evil and a timely...
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Recorded live at the Labbatts Hammersmith Apollo (London, England) on November 12, 1994, Live Dark Light is split 50/50 between newer material and old-time favorites by...
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After bottoming out professionally and critically with the failed 1992 sellout Machine + Soul, Gary Numan officially began his comeback with Sacrifice, an album that found...
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Remodulate: The Numa Chronicles is a two-CD retrospective covering Gary Numan's output for his own Numa label from 1984-1995; however, fans looking for a concise overview of...
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Gary Numan is, quite simply, an innovator. New wave and synth pop would never have existed without him. The British synthesizer wizard is also incredibly prolific, and in...
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A compilation of both sets of tracks recorded by Gary Numan for the John Peel radio show in England, along with a set of Pleasure Principle-era live cuts from a Wembley...
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Lightning must have struck Numan for this album -- he either wanted to be Janet Jackson or Prince, or both. The backing vocalists wail on, the music thumps along in a...
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Originally released in 1984 on his own Numa label, Berserker is one of the most synthesizer-heavy albums from Numan's mid-'80s period, with tracks like "My Dying Machine,"...
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It was an indicative situation for Numan's commercial fortunes at the time: A year after the Strange Charm album appeared to little attention outside his dedicated fan base,...
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In the U.S., Gary Numan is remembered as a one-hit-wonder, while back home in his native England, he continued to crank out hit after hit and became a superstar in the...
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One has to give credit to an '80s new wave musician who can adapt and create contemporary-sounding music. There are icons from that era who continue to release new...
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Gary Numan didn't invent the idea of synth-pop--Germany's innovative Kraftwerk had a high-tech electronic sound half a decade before Numan's first Tubeway Army album came...
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The early 21st century has seen a new legion of rock groups emerge, that have obviously studied the electronic/robotic new wave sounds of the late '70s and early '80s. As a...
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Former Be Bop Deluxe leader Bill Nelson was brought in to produce this album and provide some soaring lead guitar work, but his collaboration with Gary Numan was beset by...
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