Premier Hits (Vinyl)

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Gary Numan / Tubeway Army
Premier Hits (Vinyl)

[ Beggars Banquet LP / 2 LP ]

Release Date: Thursday 16 July 2015

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Premier Hits is a 21-song compilation album available for the first time on vinyl. This perfect introduction to the world of Gary Numan is this 2LP set and contains his best-known hits including "Cars", "I Die: You Die", "Are 'Friends' Electric?" and more. This LP also contains four bonus tracks, "Metal", "We Are So Fragile", "Films" and "Me, I Disconnect From You".

Gary Numan has been name-checked as an influence by everyone from Kanye West to Foo Fighters and Queens Of The Stone Age, and an ever-growing list of artists have covered and sampled his music - ranging from Basement Jaxx to Damon Albarn; Afrika Bambaataa to RZA and GZA from the Wu-Tang Clan.

In the U.S., Gary Numan is remembered as a one-hit-wonder, while back home in his native England, he continued to crank out hit after hit and became a superstar in the process. His icy space-age persona and sound may be forever associated with early-80's British new wave (Flock of Seagulls, early Duran Duran, etc.), but he was the originator, and today seems pretty darned original. Numan was a scholar of the David Bowie Ziggy Stardust-era, and used Bowie's space alien approach as a starting point. While retaining his futuristic lyrics, Gary stripped Ziggy's sound free of the distorted guitar riffing and posturing, and replaced it with clinical synthesizers and a standoffish stage persona. His music also gives off a paranoid vibe at times, as evidenced on the hits "I Die: You Die" and "Are 'Friends' Electric?" But Numan's songs can also sedate you ("Down in the Park"), while other times sneak up on you (the unexpected punk rocker "Bombers"). And of course there's his sole U.S. hit, "Cars," which sounds like a not so distant ancestor to fellow futuristic weirdos Devo. - AllMusic

Tracks:

A1. Cars
A2. I Die: You Die
A3. Are 'Friends' Electric?
A4. Down In The Park
A5. We Are Glass
B1. Metal (Remastered 2009)
B2. We Are So Fragile
B3. Bombers (Remastered)
B4. We Take Mystery (To Bed) [Edit]
B5. She's Got Claws
B6. Complex
C1. Music For Chameleons (Edit)
C2. That's Too Bad (Remastered)
C3. This Wreckage
C4. Films (Remastered 2009)
C5. Warriors
D1. Me, I Disconnect From You
D2. Love Needs No Disguise
D3. White Boys And Heroes (Edit)
D4. Sister Surprise (Single Mix)
D5. Stormtrooper In Drag