I first heard this record in 1979 when I had just started my senior school and Gary Numan appeared on ‘Top Of The Pops’. At the time the sound of Gary Numan’s music was really something quite new and (as I’ve mentioned before) the use of the synthesiser particularly the Moog (as invented by Robert Moog) was a new instrument, which was being used to very dramatic effect by musicians like Gary Numan and later OMD and the original incarnation of The Human League.
I had a copy of ‘Replicas’ which was the concept album that Gary Numan had written from which this was one of the songs and the dark vision of the future which he presented where the aliens had replaced God, vicious machines patrolled the parks committing crimes at night to provide ‘normality’ and where people had ‘electric’ friends, was something that was greatly enhanced by the cold and mechanical nature of the music.
As I grew older and met my friend Melanie at the local youth drama group who was a true Gary Numan devotee I began to hear more and more of his music and come to love it more and more. This song however was my introduction to Gary Numan and will be forever my favourite Tubeway Army song.
Now listen to the song…
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