I bought the TPP album when I was 13 because of Cars....and hated it! It stayed in my album collection for a few years, unplayed until one day I listened to it again and LOVED IT!! Something about the sparse synths like Speak & Spell and Dare, just really pleases my ear. I'm 57 now and still listen to it on Spotify when making that dreary journey on train to work.
TPP is a Marmite album, certainly, as it is quite extreme in its individualistic sound. I adored it in 1979 and I still do, although I'm aware it's imperfect: using the same synth sounds for pretty much every track is a Numan quirk that we can hear on many albums. Not the same sounds across albums but within each one. But he chose some good sounds to (over) use on The Pleasure Principle, with the Polymoog's 'Vox Humana' preset being imitated by many synthesists to the present day.
@@RebeccaTurner-ny1xx TPP is simply sublime. The fact that it uses Vox Humana throughout is why it is arguably the best Numan album of all time. Gary, Paul, Chris and Cedric built the foundation for some knockout pieces (Films, Metal, Conversation) and this "band" setup is what his recordings miss nowadays... and not forgetting Billy's input, of course.
![Gary Numan (London 1981) [11]. Films](/img/n.gif)
Films has become my favourite track on The Pleasure Principle... that beat... and those massive Moog sounds... just magic.
Cedric was amazing & such a sad loss, I can hardly imagine how it affected Gary & fellow band members (And of course his family) R.I.P Dear Cedric ❤xx
Seeing Gary in Sheffield for the 45th Anniversary tour 😊
But didn't he retire from touring in 1981?
@@RebeccaTurner-ny1xx You joke, yes?!
@@lancegfoin9117 Oh yes.
I bought the TPP album when I was 13 because of Cars....and hated it! It stayed in my album collection for a few years, unplayed until one day I listened to it again and LOVED IT!! Something about the sparse synths like Speak & Spell and Dare, just really pleases my ear.
I'm 57 now and still listen to it on Spotify when making that dreary journey on train to work.
TPP is a Marmite album, certainly, as it is quite extreme in its individualistic sound. I adored it in 1979 and I still do, although I'm aware it's imperfect: using the same synth sounds for pretty much every track is a Numan quirk that we can hear on many albums. Not the same sounds across albums but within each one. But he chose some good sounds to (over) use on The Pleasure Principle, with the Polymoog's 'Vox Humana' preset being imitated by many synthesists to the present day.
@@RebeccaTurner-ny1xx TPP is simply sublime. The fact that it uses Vox Humana throughout is why it is arguably the best Numan album of all time. Gary, Paul, Chris and Cedric built the foundation for some knockout pieces (Films, Metal, Conversation) and this "band" setup is what his recordings miss nowadays... and not forgetting Billy's input, of course.
@@lancegfoin9117 I agree, it's a perfect album without one filler track.
Films was the 1st song I heard from GN & it changed me.
Films should have been released as a single (rather than Complex)!
Apocalyptic... made any t hing Berlin Trilogy sound like noodling