The Pleasure Principle
Very soon after Replicas was released, Gary Numan hit it big again with his album The Pleasure Principle. A seminal album which delivered his second number one single, Cars. The second single from The Pleasure Principle was Complex, a beautiful song which reached number six. Pretty good, but I'm sure that if Gary had chosen Metal as the second single, he would have been looking at his third number one single after Are "Friends" Electric? and Cars.
Lucky I have plenty of cyborgs around the house to get today's blip posted before 6.30 am.
Bonus tracks:
Metal cover by fellow Numanoid, Nine Inch Nails' Trent Reznor.
Gary performing Metal live with Nine Inch Nails; a birthday treat arranged by Numan's wife because Numan is such a huge Nine Inch Nails fan.
We're in the building
Where they make us grow
And I'm frightened by
The liquid engineers
Like you.
My Mallory heart
Is sure to fail
I could crawl around the floor
Just like I'm real
Like you.
The sound of metal
I want to be
You
I could learn to be a man
Like you.
Plug me in
And turn me on
Oh everything is moving.
I need my treatment
It's tomorrow they send me
Singing 'I am an American'.
Do you?
Picture this
If I could make the change
I'd love to pull the wires from the wall
Did you?
And who are you
And how can I try
Here inside I like metal
Aren't you
All I know
Is no-one dies
I'm still confusing love with need.
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