
Gary Numan - The Pleasure Principle (1979) [1998]
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http://rapidshare.de/files/1727798/1979_-_The_Pleasure_Principle3.rar.html1. Airplane [Instrumental]Up until Gary Numan I associated synthesisers with either art/prog rock bands, disco or spaced out funk made by PaliamentFunkadelic.
This album changed all that.
After hearing the song Cars on the radio and then seeing the video on tv I HAD to have this album. Gary Numan was too strange for me not to like and this album is what got me into electronic music.
Like the previous album Replicas, The Pleasure Principle's feel is cold,emotionless and even more robotic sounding, but a lot more dancey. Drummer Cedric Sharpley and bassist Paul Gardiner made an incredible rythm section. Listen to Airlane, Metal, Films, Observer, and of course Cars and tell me you won't want to move! Nearly all the songs on the album features the soaring string synth sound and the distorted bass synth sounds. I have to admit listening to it now, those two particular sounds seem a bit overused. There are no guitars on the album...Numan was out to show that synths could stand on their own.
The ballad Complex is hauntingly beautiful with it's eerie soaring synths and violin(viola?). I even detect a bit of emotion in Numan's voice toward the end. The M.E. is great but tends to get a bit tedious as does the Conversation. Conversation does feature some interesting violin/viola by Rrussell Bell or Billy Currie...or perhaps both?
Engineers features a marching drum beat with machine like noises in sync.
Also included are some instrumentals and some live tracks which are also included on Living Ornaments79. You get a lot for your money on this cd.
The Pleasure Priciple is what opened my ears to other great electronic artists like Kraftwerk,Ultravox, John Foxx, Visage, The Human League, OMD and so many others.
This is truly an electro classic, get it.
2. Metal
3. Complex
4. Films
5. M.E.
6. Tracks
7. Observer
8. Conversation
9. Cars
10. Engineers
11. Random [Instrumental]
12. Oceans [Instrumental]
13. Asylum [Instrumental]
14. Me! I Disconnect from You [Live]
15. Bombers [Live]
16. Remember I Was Vapour [Live]
17. On Broadway [Live]







