I remember this brilliant track from Gary Numan back in 1980, at 15 years old thinking this is so totally different from the utter crap that was around the charts, this doesn't date at all. Gary has always been a maverick, the numanoids know that,
40 years ago this guy tore my very soul apart. Screaming for meaning, questioning my very existence, but in a positive way. Still does it to me 40 years later. Gary- you are the tenth muse,
Ditto. First time I saw him was very much the same. He appeared on Saturday Night Live (with Elliott Gould), and the sounds, the presentation, it was like discovering that SOMEONE truly “gets it”! His music brought those feelings into a tangible presence in the world. His music library has been a constant companion ever since.
I saw a video at a cinema. I had no idea who it was so I asked the record store. I still don't know who it was but they said "maybe it was Gary Numan" and said I could return the album if I didn't like it . I listened to it on a mono portable cassette recorder and it was Telekon. And thought "what the hell!", it was nothing like I'd ever heard before. But then I heard the lyrics. That was it. I got a better stereo system and never looked back.
I remember this like it was yesterday! my favourite GN track, wonderful promo video, it sounded like the future of music in 1980! and is still brilliant now,
I don't want to split hairs, Kelly but I Die, You Die wasn't actually included on Telekon upon its UK release. Perhaps you live overseas and have a later copy when it was. Not that any of that really matters. What does, it you rightly call Telekon as an epic album and I still regard it as Gary's finest.
Must have anticipated mobiles. I know we need them these days but god I hate them at times. In my top 5 Numan songs ever and I have revised it many times but this never drops out.
People seem to forget how massive Gary Numan was... between 1979 and 1980 he had 3 number 1 albums and 2 number 1 singles in the UK and great success worldwide. This single debuted in the top 10 directly!
@OnlyGoodMusic_ I haven't forgot. Numan's a bona-fide legend. The stuff he's doing currently is awesome. R.I.P. 'Cedric Sharpley' one of the most underated drummers to ever record. 😔🫡 Never forgotten.
I remember hearing this on the "Top-Forty" Show on a Sunday night. I still to this day remember Tony Blackburn describing it as "Weird and Wonderful" - absolutely true!
Man, this throws me back to being 17 when he first broke out with all this fantastic music and then threw me forward with the masterpiece Savage, this man is amazing!!
OMG, I can't believe I have never seen that video before and I have been a fan since about 1982. WTF! What a great video. I love the Chinese Karate style jacket and red highlights in his hair. How is it that anybody "disliked this?" One of my favorite songs and albums.
It's a Kimono shirt. I got one from a period clothing shop and it cost me a fortune. Kids now won't believe you, but we used to fight over music because we all had our own 'cliques' and styles. Don't know how I wasn't murdered wearing that Kimono walking the streets.🤔
So much disinformation in this specific comment thread. The get up he's in is Chinese inspired but it's not "Karate", Karate is Japanese and younger than Chinese martial arts by at lwast a thousand years. Kimonos are also Japanese and have zip to do with that outfit.
First time I heard him was the Don’t be a dummy advert for Lee Cooper jeans in 1978.....he has such a distinctive voice......I,m a rock fan and don’t own any of his albums but have a great respect for him as a musician
god dammit gary numan this song, m.e., metal, should have been released in the early 90s it would have blown up,, you were way ahead of your time like almost 15 years,,, everyones like cars i love cars,, but there so much more from then..........
Gary was brilliant his history of songs which is rich in music I preferred his old stuff like his best albums stories from dance he also did I assassin down inthepark I wish he would d a berserker ţour2 like.he revisited replicas pleasure principle that would be grand.
Channelling Klaus Kinski, Gary but I wish you'd put the date of rel! I have memories of the UK winter of discontent, 78/79 and then 1980, as a 13 YO, listening to your early albums on my mum's SANYO tape machine, splitting the mono into those early ear pieces. At 4am. In the dark. With frost on the inside of of my bedroom windows. Listening to these masterpieces I'm transported to an era more irksome than this.
I can remember walking up to my local record store and buying Telekon on the day it was released, superb album and packaging, still have it in fact. Always thought this sounded slight faster in the video clip, sure it is but can't think why.
I agree...the Kenny Everett mix was fantastic, this mix was good also but the the single mix he brought out was the least best of the three as I remember at the time.
En 1980 en mi pais ECUADOR (Mitad del Mundo), se escucho el album TELEKON. lo mejor en musica NEW WAYS en esa época y aun ahora no existe otro artista que supere a Gary Numan. Un genio por siempre.........
There’s that “White Car” Trevor Horn sang about on that “Yes - Drama” album in 1980. Supposedly in London in the late 70s, maybe from the money Gary Numan got from, maybe, ironically from his single “Cars” .. he’d drive around London in that White exterior Red interior 1979, I believe, Chevrolet Corvette which is Left side drive and they use Right side drive, of course, in the U.K. A very cool car now but back then it wasn’t so cool, it got boring, the Corvette with no changes for years! The 1982 Corvette change seemed SUPER RED HOT COOL then, now it just seems “blah!”. Weird, right?
Mr. Numan, I've been a fan of New Wave in general since my teens. I'll be 43 (Yeah, I'm really that old but never look it. It's a mixed blessing lol) on the 13th (I was born on a Friday lol.) I have to admit all the New Wave people scared me as a child but I've been lovin' this genre since puberty but I think that's when everyone realizes how great it is and how brilliant you are specifically I think (I mean this as a real compliment) I really enjoy some of your interviews as well. I've only seen a few so far on yt of course. I appreciate your multi-faceted personality... like... how you come off as a young man in the 70s and 80s and how you are now. It's really interesting (in a great way of course.) Forgive me if I'm wrong, this is just from my perspective... but in one of them (you were probably early 20s?) you seemed apprehensive or unsure of yourself but then later on you seemed more sure of yourself.... grinning and the whole thing lol As everyone knows, you've got amazing energy and I love watching your energy on screen and I'm like Wow... what a great talent and a character. These days I've got some serious health challenges I work on each day and one of the many things that's been helpful is your brilliant work. I wish your wonderful family and you continued success and happiness. Thanks Gary!
Tony S check out his Telekon tour from 2009. There is a live record. It’s more updated, but still classic. Also he does this as a cover with Nine Inch Nails. There are some RUclips vids of that colab on stage.
.... I was 19 .... Head full of mushrooms .... Guest listed to see Gary on the TELEKON tour .... Yeah ..... It was ...... Wait for it......... ... LEGENDARY!! .... Bonus points for getting in a food fight with opening band Gary Myrick & The Figures in a DENNY'S at 2am just outside of San Diego........
This is not love This is not even worth a point of view In Echo Park I Pause for effect And whisper 'Who are you?' They crawl out of their holes for me And I die : You die Hear them laugh And watch them turn on me And I die : You die See my scars They call me such things Tear me, tear me, tear me But I have your names Screaming 'You will suffer' And, 'You're all too late' Now I feel young Does everything stop when the old tape fails? They crawl out of their holes for me And I die, you die Hear them laugh And watch them turn on me And I die, you die See my scars They call me such things Tear me, tear me, tear me But I'm still frightened by the telephone
GARY NUMAN FOREVER!!! It is okay GARYi am frightened by the telephones☎️☎️with love from Toronto, Canada I am seeing your amazing Intruder tour on March 112022 I cannot wait 🎶📀Luv Linda xx I hope your family are all healthy !!
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This guy was and still is so far ahead of his times, a true genius.
I really like his new stuff, niche as he is. It's hard to remember he's the same guy.
Defo is
Gary Might be the only reason to risk CoVid to go see.
i wouldn't say still
@@AbsoluteNut1 BIDEN 2024
40 years old and still brilliant
Actually he’s 63, but yeah.. still brill..
@@giovannigee he's talking about the song.
@@FusedMusic ah.. makes sense ;)
I remember this brilliant track from Gary Numan back in 1980, at 15 years old thinking this is so totally different from the utter crap that was around the charts, this doesn't date at all. Gary has always been a maverick, the numanoids know that,
youngster
40 years ago this guy tore my very soul apart. Screaming for meaning, questioning my very existence, but in a positive way. Still does it to me 40 years later.
Gary- you are the tenth muse,
Ditto. First time I saw him was very much the same. He appeared on Saturday Night Live (with Elliott Gould), and the sounds, the presentation, it was like discovering that SOMEONE truly “gets it”! His music brought those feelings into a tangible presence in the world. His music library has been a constant companion ever since.
So ahead of his time.. an inspiration to so many 80s 90s bands and more.
'Telekon' had SO many great songs.
What a beautiful song.
LOVE classic Numan. He has this amazing stoic intensity that is captivating.
I saw a video at a cinema. I had no idea who it was so I asked the record store. I still don't know who it was but they said "maybe it was Gary Numan" and said I could return the album if I didn't like it . I listened to it on a mono portable cassette recorder and it was Telekon. And thought "what the hell!", it was nothing like I'd ever heard before. But then I heard the lyrics. That was it. I got a better stereo system and never looked back.
They played music videos at the cinema??
I remember this like it was yesterday! my favourite GN track, wonderful promo video, it sounded like the future of music in 1980! and is still brilliant now,
This guy is EPIC!!I LOVE his music!!!ALWAYS have!!
Many things in life make me happy. But very few as happy as the Telekon record makes me.
Dear Kelly,
Gary Numan's Telekon is no doubt brilliant, however I worry it's such a dark record. What else do you listen to?
I don't want to split hairs, Kelly but I Die, You Die wasn't actually included on Telekon upon its UK release. Perhaps you live overseas and have a later copy when it was.
Not that any of that really matters.
What does, it you rightly call Telekon as an epic album and I still regard it as Gary's finest.
@Talorc MacAllan 🙏 I like that.
@Talorc MacAllan
It's such a fine album that every time one plays it, it always sounds like the first time it's been heard.
It's totally mesmerising.
I own the original on vynil
This is Gary at his ultimate best,what a song and if looks could kill........
“But I’m still frightened by the telephone” may be the best lyric ever
Nope. That would be "he made his home in a fish's abdomen"......lol!!
I think he's singing "But I feel frightened by the telephone."
Yes. Watch his mouth. He clearly forms the letter F instead of S.
Must have anticipated mobiles. I know we need them these days but god I hate them at times. In my top 5 Numan songs ever and I have revised it many times but this never drops out.
Thank God we have texting now. Just sayin'.
Sadly a very underrated Numan rockin' classic.
Reminds me of 80's movies, somehow a mix of _Terminator_ and _Breakfast Club_..?
This song is not underrated, this is an classic.
People seem to forget how massive Gary Numan was... between 1979 and 1980 he had 3 number 1 albums and 2 number 1 singles in the UK and great success worldwide. This single debuted in the top 10 directly!
@OnlyGoodMusic_ I haven't forgot. Numan's a bona-fide legend. The stuff he's doing currently is awesome.
R.I.P. 'Cedric Sharpley' one of the most underated drummers to ever record. 😔🫡 Never forgotten.
40 years later and still one of the very few artists to treat electronic music as a genre, not a 'style.'
Bloody hell 1980 here we come...
The Best Single. Period.
Gary Numan sets the standard for timeless music signed your greatest fan
I remember hearing this on the "Top-Forty" Show on a Sunday night. I still to this day remember Tony Blackburn describing it as "Weird and Wonderful" - absolutely true!
Que música maravilhosa ❤
To my six year old eyes this was the coolest guy there could ever be
My favorite Numan song
Just discovering Gary Numan now; only knew him from Cars... And i am obsessed!!
Cars isn't even one of his best songs. Gary has so many great songs. Please keep exploring.
Welcome to the club!
@@AbsoluteNut1 Cars is a great tune, he also has many others
*To me, this is his best song.*
And here we are. Still here. Classic song.
one of the most beautiful end of a Gary Numan song
The piano that descends into something uncertain and eerie, love it
Such a classic. Takes me back to 1980. My older brother introducing a six year old me to Numan's music. Fantastic days!
You were soooo cool. For a six year-old.
I swear his music gets better with time.
This is very true of this song and my appreciation of it. Today it sounds like the brilliance it is.
Been a fan of GARY NUMAN since I was a teenager
What a song. Can’t BELIVE it wasn’t played more at the time. Amazing man, thank you!🙏
this would have been a bigger hit if radio 1 had bothered to play it
How has there never been a full-on metal version of this? This song was -built- to be metal...
You might enjoy this version: ruclips.net/video/tqq7cCGGl0Q/видео.html
Man, this throws me back to being 17 when he first broke out with all this fantastic music and then threw me forward with the masterpiece Savage, this man is amazing!!
Gary`s a true original. He`s influenced many artists on the musical spectrum, from Prince to Alice Cooper.
Cooper’s “Clones” is SOOO Numan
Trent Reznor!
Even Dave Grohl from Nirvana and The Foo Fighters. And not surprisingly Lady Gaga.
Wonderful music I listen gray numan since 1980 old fan of gary ♥️🙂🎶👍
Amazing memories of being young listening to this guys songs.
OMG, I can't believe I have never seen that video before and I have been a fan since about 1982. WTF! What a great video. I love the Chinese Karate style jacket and red highlights in his hair. How is it that anybody "disliked this?"
One of my favorite songs and albums.
@Sarah's Riding The Storm Wave. I am sure it was cute, but maybe it just looks better on people with short hair. ;)
Idiots with no taste in music
@Miss Sarah StormInATeacup I had a white jump suit, blue belts with platinum hair with a blue streak, Happy days , really miss them. lol.
It's a Kimono shirt. I got one from a period clothing shop and it cost me a fortune. Kids now won't believe you, but we used to fight over music because we all had our own 'cliques' and styles. Don't know how I wasn't murdered wearing that Kimono walking the streets.🤔
So much disinformation in this specific comment thread. The get up he's in is Chinese inspired but it's not "Karate", Karate is Japanese and younger than Chinese martial arts by at lwast a thousand years. Kimonos are also Japanese and have zip to do with that outfit.
First time I heard him was the Don’t be a dummy advert for Lee Cooper jeans in 1978.....he has such a distinctive voice......I,m a rock fan and don’t own any of his albums but have a great respect for him as a musician
one of my favorite Gary Numan songs
Thanks, Gary...1979-2019 fanatic, and on...🎶🎹🎶
March 26, 2022. I will finally be able to see you in concert. so very happy!!
One of my favourites from this era - with Jim Kerr and the Simple Minds providing the handclaps, if I remember.....
God, I WISH it was 1980 again......
Awesome track and a super cool image by Gary
This song is absolutely diabolical!!
This is indeed one of his best tunes, along of course with Are 'Friends' Electric and Cars too. Thank you!
god dammit gary numan this song, m.e., metal, should have been released in the early 90s it would have blown up,, you were way ahead of your time like almost 15 years,,, everyones like cars i love cars,, but there so much more from then..........
A legend.
No doubt.
I saw Gary a few years back. Great gig! He performed this for the encore.
Going to see Gary
On Friday in .Sheffield 2nd time this year can't wait.
Gary was brilliant his history of songs which is rich in music I preferred his old stuff like his best albums stories from dance he also did I assassin down
inthepark I wish he would d a berserker ţour2 like.he revisited replicas pleasure principle that would be grand.
@@fismith3488
Thanks for your reply i bet he was awesome all well have
got the second best thing i have got it on dvd so thanks again.
The First TRUE TECHNO.MASTER👍👍👍💕💕🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰
Brilliant Gary as always. Love seeing you in a Kung Fu suit back in the day Mate.
This is the best song ever, fact, don't argue no point.
So timeless, sheer genius ❤
The amount of Garys concerts i went to back in the day are well in double figures, the last being The Fury tour at Manchester Apollo in 1985.
I was there 👍
Still in love with Gary Numan
Such an unforgettable song and video. The Corvette Stingray is quite something as well.
Next to Cars, I die you die. What a day, can't keep up with all the Numan excellence.
As before, this is his third best track after Are Friends Electric and Cars. Thank you!
And yes so it is too of course!
Some of my favourite Dick Wallis photos of Gary are from this era. Used to love him in those glasses❣❣❣🕶🕶
Man that vett though...even better he painted it pink. Can't stop lovin it.
Channelling Klaus Kinski, Gary but I wish you'd put the date of rel!
I have memories of the UK winter of discontent, 78/79 and then 1980, as a 13 YO, listening to your early albums on my mum's SANYO tape machine, splitting the mono into those early ear pieces. At 4am. In the dark. With frost on the inside of of my bedroom windows. Listening to these masterpieces I'm transported to an era more irksome than this.
Is it wrong to still be in love with Gary Numan to this day?😁💞
No.😂
I remember first hearing this song back in the day and thinking, the future of music has arrived! Gary what a boss, a legend!
I can remember walking up to my local record store and buying Telekon on the day it was released, superb album and packaging, still have it in fact. Always thought this sounded slight faster in the video clip, sure it is but can't think why.
The video is an earlier audio version of the song, compared to the single release which is very slightly slower paced.
My all time favourite song and I love this earlier "video mix". Very similar to the Kenny Everett show mix, but very different from the single mix.
I agree...the Kenny Everett mix was fantastic, this mix was good also but the the single mix he brought out was the least best of the three as I remember at the time.
Absolute favorite. Thank you, thank you.
2 simple words for this man SYNTH KING
Wonderful!! Love you!! Thank you!!!!
Such a very underated artist ! . Very clever man musically :-)
Love this one! Nice Mr. Newman!!!
En 1980 en mi pais ECUADOR (Mitad del Mundo), se escucho el album TELEKON. lo mejor en musica NEW WAYS en esa época y aun ahora no existe otro artista que supere a Gary Numan. Un genio por siempre.........
Gary was sent from above to save us all. I’m not even half joking
Love your music...
The way he as his face is brillaint .
Our voice sounds good together
This is my favourite by gary
Every album Gary has wrote has been a masterpiece best musician in the business all the best for the new album Gary no1 around the world.
The track that got me hooked! Please do a 21st century version!!
Man In A White Car. When Yes writes a song about you at 22 or 23, however short that song may be, you're doing pretty well.
Astonishingly great track. A one off. Who else sounded like this?
Gary Numan is like my beloved friend John Dunsworth (Mr. Lahey) a legend.✌
I would have loved this song even before I knew English 😍🥰❤️
Love this!!
There’s that “White Car” Trevor Horn sang about on that “Yes - Drama” album in 1980. Supposedly in London in the late 70s, maybe from the money Gary Numan got from, maybe, ironically from his single “Cars” .. he’d drive around London in that White exterior Red interior 1979, I believe, Chevrolet Corvette which is Left side drive and they use Right side drive, of course, in the U.K. A very cool car now but back then it wasn’t so cool, it got boring, the Corvette with no changes for years!
The 1982 Corvette change seemed SUPER RED HOT COOL then, now it just seems “blah!”. Weird, right?
Listening to it now 😮 away before it's time
We ❤❤❤❤you Gary.
Mr. Numan, I've been a fan of New Wave in general since my teens. I'll be 43 (Yeah, I'm really that old but never look it. It's a mixed blessing lol) on the 13th (I was born on a Friday lol.) I have to admit all the New Wave people scared me as a child but I've been lovin' this genre since puberty but I think that's when everyone realizes how great it is and how brilliant you are specifically I think (I mean this as a real compliment) I really enjoy some of your interviews as well.
I've only seen a few so far on yt of course. I appreciate your multi-faceted personality... like... how you come off as a young man in the 70s and 80s and how you are now. It's really interesting (in a great way of course.) Forgive me if I'm wrong, this is just from my perspective... but in one of them (you were probably early 20s?) you seemed apprehensive or unsure of yourself but then later on you seemed more sure of yourself.... grinning and the whole thing lol
As everyone knows, you've got amazing energy and I love watching your energy on screen and I'm like Wow... what a great talent and a character. These days I've got some serious health challenges I work on each day and one of the many things that's been helpful is your brilliant work. I wish your wonderful family and you continued success and happiness. Thanks Gary!
Gotta love a bit of Numan 👍🏻
So nice!
My teen idol right there ❤️
He went 'loopy' after a while but this and all his stuff from those days are simply gold.
Outstanding! An awesome!
Got it all on vinyl.
One of my favourites...A revamped industrial version of this would be appreciated. .. 😊
I'm sure it exists somewhere.. maybe a cover
ruclips.net/video/VdQJtSNHZ8A/видео.html
You're welcome.
Tony S check out his Telekon tour from 2009. There is a live record. It’s more updated, but still classic. Also he does this as a cover with Nine Inch Nails. There are some RUclips vids of that colab on stage.
@@cinsationalcinema1776 Thankyou 😊
@@calebfuller4713 no Sir, I thank YOU...;)
.... I was 19 .... Head full of mushrooms .... Guest listed to see Gary on the TELEKON tour .... Yeah ..... It was ...... Wait for it......... ... LEGENDARY!! .... Bonus points for getting in a food fight with opening band Gary Myrick & The Figures in a DENNY'S at 2am just outside of San Diego........
This is not love
This is not even worth a point of view
In Echo Park I
Pause for effect
And whisper 'Who are you?'
They crawl out of their holes for me
And I die : You die
Hear them laugh
And watch them turn on me
And I die : You die
See my scars
They call me such things
Tear me, tear me, tear me
But I have your names
Screaming 'You will suffer'
And, 'You're all too late'
Now I feel young
Does everything stop when the old tape fails?
They crawl out of their holes for me
And I die, you die
Hear them laugh
And watch them turn on me
And I die, you die
See my scars
They call me such things
Tear me, tear me, tear me
But I'm still frightened by the telephone
I'm surprised this video was uploaded 2 years ago, I'm lucky to have gotten to know such a great synthpop Artist...
phat synths
kick ass Duranie bass
whats not to like
GARY NUMAN FOREVER!!! It is okay GARYi am frightened by the telephones☎️☎️with love from Toronto, Canada I am seeing your amazing Intruder tour on
March 112022 I cannot wait 🎶📀Luv Linda xx I hope your family are all healthy !!