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Music CD - Gary Numan: The Pleasure Principle
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Music CD: The Pleasure Principle
Artist: Gary Numan
List Price: $11.98
Our Price: $7.88
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Manufacturer: Beggars UK - Ada
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Tracks:
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1. Airlane
2. Metal
3. Complex
4. Films
5. M.E.
6. Tracks
7. Observer
8. Conversation
9. Cars
10. Engineers
11. Random
12. Oceans
13. Asylum
14. Me! I Disconnect from You
15. Bombers
16. Remember I Was Vapour
17. On Broadway - Gary Numan, Leiber, Jerry
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0607618001025
Format: Original recording reissued
Label: Beggars UK - Ada
Manufacturer: Beggars UK - Ada
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Beggars UK - Ada
Release Date: 1998-06-23
Studio: Beggars UK - Ada
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Spotlight customer reviews:
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Customer Rating: 
Summary: Principally pleasing
Comment: Although not painted in colors as vibrant or cohesive as those of his previous album, Replicas, The Pleasure Principle still holds up as a steadfast highlight of Gary Numan's prolific career, sporting his trademark of introverted and occasionally sociopathic lyrics, all of them bearing the unselfconscious quirks recurrent in the majority of 70's synthpop. Themes of alienation, dehumanization, machination, and other not so funny "-ations" penetrate the slick, synthesized hooks and live drumming throughout the album. In one of its particularly high points, "Metal", Numan confides a state of utter submission ("We're in the building/where they make us grow") while the mood turns reclusive and resentful in "M.E." ("I turn off the pain/like I turned off you all"). In the melodically infectious and subsequent hit, "Cars", not a bit of resistance remains against total isolation ("I can lock all my doors/it's the only way to live"). Asperger's syndrome aside, though, the album remains one of Gary Numan's best works and an ideal starting point for the uninitiated.
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Summary: Solid Synth Pop
Comment: Short and sweet, this is a really nice album. Heavy synthesizers, euro-rock from the end of the 70s. Sounds dated and experimental but great if you can get into that sound. I always enjoy listening to this one. (But most of my friends and associates do not!)
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Summary: My pick for best synth album of all time
Comment: Forget the hit single, forget everything you may have heard about Numan's career after the release of this epic and just jump into it. It is a great retro ride into the dark heart of cold war synth pop and nobody has ever done it better than this.
5 stars!
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Summary: A True New Wave Genius
Comment: "The Pleasure Principle" is the album that contains Gary Numan's biggest chart hit, "Cars". And "Cars" is the only commercial-radio-friendly song on the album. The other tracks, however, are works of pure genius, especially "M.E.", "Engineers", and the masterpiece "Tracks". "Tracks" might be the best two minute song I have ever heard.
Numan is only now being credited for his work practically inventing the entire New Wave movement, and this album certainly stands the test of time as one the classics of the genre. Order it without hesitation, slip on your headphones, and prepare for a real listening treat.
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Summary: best album ever
Comment: Someone once asked me what my favorite album of all time is. That is of course a very difficult question to answer. But I'll have to choose Gary Numan's The Pleasure Principle because it is the only album of which I've been in continuous possession of for the past 25 years; first as a cassette and then a CD. I can't say that of any other album and I've listened to hundreds. If you like this record then go get Replicas and Telekon. If you like those two then try out I, Assassin.
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