Me! I Made a GARY NUMAN Poll! (polling ends 05/15/2007)

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never mind gazza's gasface in the above photo -- VOTE!!

it's also been a very long time since we've had any active threads regarding mr. numan, anyway. and yes, i know that the plan and [i]automatic[/] are compilations (as opposed to proper records) -- don't vote for either one if that bothers you.

Poll Results

Option	Votes
Replicas	16
The Pleasure Principle	8
Telekon	4
Tubeway Army	3
Jagged	2
Sacrifice	2
Machine + Soul	2
The Fury	1
Dance	1
I, Assassin	1
Berserker	0
Pure	0
Exile	0
Outland	0
Automatic (w/ Bill Sharpe)	0
Metal Rhythm	0
Strange Charm	0
Warriors	0
The Plan	0

― Eisbaer, Monday, 7 May 2007 08:03 (eighteen years ago)

His album career is like an inverted U of pleasure for me. I voted for Jagged, but it could easily have been The Plan. I just think the sheer depth of darkness in Jagged appeals to my current sensibility. I don't care what the rest of you say.

― moley, Monday, 7 May 2007 08:29 (eighteen years ago)

Hang on, not an inverted U - a non-inverted U.

― moley, Monday, 7 May 2007 08:30 (eighteen years ago)

I can't imagine too many people voting something other than Replicas or Pleasure Principle. Although to be perverse I've gone for Telekon.

― underpants of the gods, Monday, 7 May 2007 09:05 (eighteen years ago)

Wait, why isn't Hybrid in the list!!? Does it not count because it is only remixes? I love that album! :(

― Trayce, Monday, 7 May 2007 09:35 (eighteen years ago)

I voted for Replicas. I'm boring =)

― Trayce, Monday, 7 May 2007 09:37 (eighteen years ago)

I wanted to vote for the 7" single 'We Are Glass'. :(

― SeekAltRoute, Monday, 7 May 2007 10:07 (eighteen years ago)

So I votes for teh Pleasure Principle. Yes, I'm boring.

― SeekAltRoute, Monday, 7 May 2007 10:07 (eighteen years ago)

"Replicas" gets my vote, but "The Pleasure Principle" and "Telekon" are both great too.

― Geir Hongro, Monday, 7 May 2007 10:48 (eighteen years ago)

I love the way that, in the first post, Gary appears to be looking very apprehensively at this thread.

― moley, Monday, 7 May 2007 12:12 (eighteen years ago)

what is this "The Plan"? I thought "Tubeway Army" was the debut.

― Shakey Mo Collier, Monday, 7 May 2007 17:47 (eighteen years ago)

Between Tubeway Army and Replicas for me. Went for the latter and think I'm starting to regret it. Really like Gary's guitar playing on the debut.

― JN$OT, Monday, 7 May 2007 17:50 (eighteen years ago)

The Plan sounds like Judas Priest.

― dan selzer, Monday, 7 May 2007 17:54 (eighteen years ago)

It's all about Replicas, people.

― Alex in NYC, Monday, 7 May 2007 19:08 (eighteen years ago)

Tubeway Army.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Monday, 7 May 2007 19:12 (eighteen years ago)

I can't imagine too many people voting something other than Replicas or Pleasure Principle. Although to be perverse I've gone for Telekon.

I voted for Telekon, too. Not out of perversity, but because it is genuinely my favorite Numan record. It sits nicely in between the super-androidy early stuff & the more rubbery, Japan-y stuff that immediately follows it (that is, Dance and I, Assassin).

TRUE perversity would be votes for any of the Numa-era stuff. Although I can understand a vote or two for Berserker.

― Eisbaer, Monday, 7 May 2007 20:44 (eighteen years ago)

Pleasure Principle was the first album I ever bought. I got it because "Cars" was so awesome, of course. The rest felt so, so cold . . . it took about 20 years to grow on me, along with Talking Heads' Fear of Music.

― Fastnbulbous, Monday, 7 May 2007 21:16 (eighteen years ago)

The Plan sounds like Judas Priest.

-- dan selzer

You just said that to get me going didn't you dan? There's a thread I started about the uncanny Priest/Numan thing somewhere.

― moley, Monday, 7 May 2007 21:45 (eighteen years ago)

Here 'tis -

http://www.ilxor.com:8080/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=41&threadid=24171

― moley, Monday, 7 May 2007 21:52 (eighteen years ago)

Not one I started after all - and the idea wasn't even mine. Such a narcissist.

― moley, Monday, 7 May 2007 21:53 (eighteen years ago)

I was actually listening to Exile this morning. Well, technically, just one track off it, that being "Dominion Day," which is nice if silly (like most of his work).

― Alex in NYC, Monday, 7 May 2007 23:52 (eighteen years ago)

Hahah oh god I just got the joke in this thread title. I am so dense.

― Trayce, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 00:00 (eighteen years ago)

tough one. I picked Replicas just because I heard it first. I like it, Tubeway Army and The Pleasure Principle pretty much in equal measure. Dance, Telekon and especially I, Assassin sadly collect dust on the shelf. Though I think I really like Telekon.

― will, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 01:37 (eighteen years ago)

Replicas.

Before there was ILM, I had no idea that anybody anywhere cared about him after The Pleasure Principle. Honest.

Also, I never even heard of The Plan until now. (And I suddenly want to hear it, oddly enough.)

― xhuxk, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 01:41 (eighteen years ago)

The Plan is Tubeway Army's earliest stuff, most of which not released till 84. Described as "early punk demos" I'd say, with my limited knowledge of such things, there's definitely some NWOBHM going on, but with a glammy ultravoxy sci-fi thing, and no or little synth action. Most of it's just a bit new wavey, a bit rock, a bit roll.

― dan selzer, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 03:54 (eighteen years ago)

wonder what kind of hair dye numan uses???

― Mike McGooney-gal, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 03:58 (eighteen years ago)

Well, I'm not gonna pretend I'm a big enough fan to bother voting. But "Praying To The Aliens" came up on shuffle-play on the weekend and took me by surprise and blew me away temporarily.

― Myonga Vön Bontee, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 04:51 (eighteen years ago)

I'm thinking the question is: who's his wig-fitter and why haven't they been fired?

― will, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 13:21 (eighteen years ago)

I heard Dance today for the first time, having only known the singles from it, and those only vaguely. Two decades I've stayed away from this record because of the pisstarded cover.

Gyah it's so good! I had no idea! He really does this drifting art-funk Japan thing almost better than Japan does. And it strikes me as deliberately uncommercial compared to the four records that preceded it. I mean, the other four are pretty much hookathons. Dance is just sort of a series of swatches of downcast colors and textures. I love it-- maybe it's Numan's equiv. to Pornography.

Surely it ends here, though-- I mean, I don't need to bother with I, Assassin now do i?

(And I think I'll vote Replicas but I wanna mull it over some more).

― Jon Lewis, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 00:39 (eighteen years ago)

Surely it ends here, though-- I mean, I don't need to bother with I, Assassin now do i?

i think that you should -- like dance, but a little funkier/hookier. kinda like prince sitting in & jamming w/ japan.

― Eisbaer, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 00:42 (eighteen years ago)

All I have is Scarred, a two disc live album that came out a couple years ago that I got for free from the college radio station I worked at. I like it, except for the really distracting cowbell on "Cars." Anyone want to let me know how good an overview that is of his work?

― Jeff Treppel, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 01:36 (eighteen years ago)

I love the way that, in the first post, Gary appears to be looking very apprehensively at this thread.

i think that he's afraid that someone is gonna vote for the fury or machine + soul.

― Eisbaer, Saturday, 12 May 2007 14:47 (eighteen years ago)

Replicas.

― zeus, Saturday, 12 May 2007 14:55 (eighteen years ago)

I VOTED FOR REPLICAS TOO CUZ THAT IS MY VERY FAVORITE GARY NUMAN ALBUM.

― scott seward, Saturday, 12 May 2007 15:00 (eighteen years ago)

Machine + Soul 2
The Fury 1

ok, it looks like we have some jokers here who voted ...

― Eisbaer, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 03:35 (eighteen years ago)

otherwise, i'm not too surprised. though if one was gonna vote for any of the numa-label shit, i would think that berserker or strange charm would be more deserving than the two that DID get votes ;__;

― Eisbaer, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 03:37 (eighteen years ago)

A good result. Cheer up, Gary, two votes for your most recent effort. Turn that frown upside down mister.

― moley, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 04:40 (eighteen years ago)

why so glum, chum?

― Eisbaer, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 04:58 (eighteen years ago)

Srsly why wasnt Hybrid included?

― Trayce, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 06:28 (eighteen years ago)

Srsly why wasnt Hybrid included?

ok, since you asked ...

i only include comps in my polls when any of the following apply: (a) much of the material on the comp isn't available anywhere else; (b) to not include it would be misrepresentative of the artist's body of work; and/or (c) it has become accepted as part of the artist's canon. i didn't think that hybrid fit any of those criteria (since it's remixes of numan's earlier work), while the plan (which is a compilation of his original demos) and automatic (which is a compilation of numan's work with bill sharpe) did. i don't really like to include albums of remixes, though i can be convinced to do so in the future (esp. if the remixes are radically different than the original versions).

― Eisbaer, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 08:54 (eighteen years ago)

The most surprising thing here is that the three albums to get the largest number of votes didn't share every single vote between them. :)

― Geir Hongro, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 10:17 (eighteen years ago)

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