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kysmet
(Central Florida)
Posted: Dec 27, 2012 - 11:34
 
Yes! I wish I could blast this right now but I'm at work. I still have the 45 of this that I bought as a kid and still play it every once in a while.

raga
(Italy - Como)
Posted: Nov 26, 2012 - 02:46
 
 Proclivities wrote:

Yes, there was great music in the '80s.  This is a good tune - even if it seems a little silly by today's standards.  By the way, most of the hairstyles and clothes of the 1960s and '70s were pretty silly as well, but no one here seems to want to admit or remember that.
hippies kansas
 
Kansas ? Why Kansas???
 

baddog8it
(Vinyl Suburbia, MO)
Posted: Aug 23, 2012 - 18:00
 
Takes me back to memories of my freshman year in college.  We pledges made new lyrics for this song and sung them while working during hell week.

Tippster
(Washington, DC)
Posted: Aug 23, 2012 - 17:59
 
This song came out in 1979!

FamilyMan
(Continent's edge)
Posted: Jul 23, 2012 - 08:25
 
Back in the day, Vin Scelsa - WNEW in New York - played this song in a set which included Steve Forbert's "The Oil Song" and NRBQ's "Get That Gasoline".   I don't exactly remember the contemporaneous events that prompted this set, but I imagine that the price of gasoline was getting way out of hand - piercing the $1.00 per gallon mark.

Proclivities
(Carrboro, NC)
Posted: Jul 23, 2012 - 08:22
 
 Patti wrote:
Ah - the '80's.  Bad hair, bad clothes, but great music all around.  I fell in love with electronic music then, along with my late husband, and continue to this day as I listen with my daugher. 
 
Yes, there was great music in the '80s.  This is a good tune - even if it seems a little silly by today's standards.  By the way, most of the hairstyles and clothes of the 1960s and '70s were pretty silly as well, but no one here seems to want to admit or remember that.
hippies kansas

kysmet
(Central Florida)
Posted: Jul 23, 2012 - 08:04
 
Love this song. I still have it on 45 from when it came out.

Easyrider
Posted: Apr 19, 2012 - 08:05
 
 Easyrider wrote:
No expense spared on the album cover,then?
 



The album release date was 1979 .

Patti
(the 'burbs of so cal)
Posted: Apr 19, 2012 - 08:04
 
Ah - the '80's.  Bad hair, bad clothes, but great music all around.  I fell in love with electronic music then, along with my late husband, and continue to this day as I listen with my daugher. 

Easyrider
Posted: Apr 19, 2012 - 08:02
 
No expense spared on the album cover,then?

drsteevo
(Location Location)
Posted: Apr 19, 2012 - 08:01
 
I remember listening to this as a kid.  I always turned it up as loud as I could stand it.

HIGGS_BOSON
Posted: Mar 18, 2012 - 15:50
 
How can you tell Monopoly is an old game?
There's a luxury tax and rich people go to jail.  -C&L 

sajitjacob
(Christchurch NZ)
Posted: Mar 18, 2012 - 15:49
 
I heard that Trent Reznor cites Gary Numan as an influence, and that Gary Numan cite's Trent as an influence, this is interesting isn't it? umm yes. Am I being a bore? Yes, yes I am. I'll shutup now. Oh look it's the 'pickups. playing Growing Old is Getting Old how appropriate.....

rdo
(DC)
Posted: Mar 18, 2012 - 15:44
 
 redstorm wrote:

Pure guilty pleasure, sorta like a audio snickers bar
 
nothing guilty about it, it's just great

salzburg4321
(Salzburg, Austria)
Posted: Dec 14, 2011 - 09:08
 
Love the blue eyeshadow and suit. Perhaps hard for some to understand how this kind of music was revolutionary for its time.

huebdoo
(San Fran)
Posted: Dec 14, 2011 - 09:06
 
Cheesy?

Seriously - this song will last the ages ... how many snyth bands took birth after hearing Gary and the Tubeway Army. I can clearly remember hearing him for the first time from an LP my brother brought back from the UK to our little town in isolated British Columbia where all we heard on AM radio was "Clap for the Wolfman", "Snow Bird" and "Wreck of the Edmund's Fitzgerald".

This music is timeless to me... will always remember pulling out the album - dropping the Nad needle on it and cranking up the Sansui's way up for this ... 

There is a great rendition of this on YouTube with Nine Inch Nails with Gary ... simply amazing live performance actually :) 

tutakea
Posted: Dec 14, 2011 - 09:03
 
love it! this is sooooo silly. soooo absolute nonsense and so absolut 100% eighties. purepurepurepure fun, nothing more, nothing less

Sasha2001
(I can see Zabars from my window)
Posted: Nov 12, 2011 - 16:19
 
Yes it's cheesy in the RP context. But as a 9-year-old, nothing could have felt better then lacing up new new roller skates for another Friday night at Interskate 91. No piece of music made me feel more bad-ass in the Spring '82.


allabout
(Perth Western Australia)
Posted: Oct 12, 2011 - 02:55
 
Ho Hum

Siete
Posted: Sep 10, 2011 - 14:54
 
 iggam wrote:
If this came out today, you'd just call it Interpol
 
That's hilarious!


GarageDragon
Posted: Aug 10, 2011 - 06:06
 
For some reason, I always thought this was Devo.

JBarDom
(Mexico)
Posted: Jul 09, 2011 - 21:31
 
{#Motor}{#Dancingbanana}{#Cheers}

StoneyG
(Just east of The Rockies; north of the 49th)
Posted: May 07, 2011 - 15:49
 
This song probably drives me nuts more than any other song I've heard on here.  I suppose it had it's place in it's time and all, but in this case I really could give a f*ck.  Just repititive and annoying.

bam23
(Berkeley)
Posted: Mar 05, 2011 - 12:46
 
 Droidac wrote:

The rating is at 6.9 - that's pretty darn close to "Quite Likeable". I'd say that speaks for itself!
 
I'd say it speaks to collective nostalgia for the early teen years of the reviewers. Upon reflection, my assessment of this tune only decreases my tolerance for it. Ratings alone do not define quality, probably in everyone's opinions, based on specific examples of dreck and crap that is elevated by pools of others.

iggam
(Chicago)
Posted: Oct 30, 2010 - 14:37
 
If this came out today, you'd just call it Interpol

cohifi
(Denver)
Posted: Sep 28, 2010 - 22:47
 
 On_The_Beach wrote:
Cheesy, disposable 80s Electro-Pop; not great, not terrible; it is what it is.
 
If only cars were the same!  See how far we've come........unrateable


Casa_Blanca
(I love Essex)
Posted: Jun 25, 2010 - 02:10
 
 On_The_Beach wrote:
Cheesy, disposable 80s Electro-Pop; not great, not terrible; it is what it is.
 
I don't think so, 'cheesy', disposable, are you sure? I don't think you have you really thought about it have you, eh? come on admit it, you know I'm right don't you, deep down, come on, what do you think?, go on, what ga recon eh?


garycha
(Bristol, UK)
Posted: Jun 25, 2010 - 02:01
 
'79-'80 what a year.  This was a pioneering track and still has a unique quality that is instantly identifiable.

Albert1967
(Leusden, the Netherlands)
Posted: Jun 25, 2010 - 01:57
 
 jools wrote:
Great, classy and classic 80s track.
 
Stuff I listened to when I was in my teens: great the, Memory Lane now.

Hannio
(Austin, TX)
Posted: May 24, 2010 - 06:08
 


sirdroseph
(Tokyo)
Posted: May 24, 2010 - 06:05
 
Hmmm.........I will allow it.....this time!{#Snooty}


Giselle62
(California's Cental Coast)
Posted: Apr 22, 2010 - 17:29
 
this was the one of the first whole albums i bought. I like hearing this song every once in a while—missed it earlier today.

Droidac
(Blacklight District)
Posted: Apr 22, 2010 - 13:01
 
 bam23 wrote:
Why? This was no good when released and time has not been kind. Obviously, the majority of commenters do not agree, but there has never been anything about this piece that I liked. Oh well.
 
The rating is at 6.9 - that's pretty darn close to "Quite Likeable". I'd say that speaks for itself!


bam23
(Berkeley)
Posted: Apr 22, 2010 - 12:50
 
Why? This was no good when released and time has not been kind. Obviously, the majority of commenters do not agree, but there has never been anything about this piece that I liked. Oh well.

On_The_Beach
(Vancouver BC, Bud)
Posted: Mar 21, 2010 - 22:33
 
Cheesy, disposable 80s Electro-Pop; not great, not terrible; it is what it is.

jools
(Brighton UK)
Posted: Feb 18, 2010 - 08:09
 
Oh - sorry forgot to say that Are Friends Electric is tons better IMHO.

jools
(Brighton UK)
Posted: Feb 18, 2010 - 08:08
 
Great, classy and classic 80s track.  What is the problem?!!!!

Bosami
(Deep in the heart of nowhere)
Posted: Dec 17, 2009 - 12:47
 
 Proclivities wrote:
Your husband and mother-in-law were performing with Gary Numan on SNL and you had to stay home and watch it on TV?{#Eh}

 

{#Shifty}   That is classic!

Proclivities
(Carrboro, NC)
Posted: Dec 17, 2009 - 12:36
 
 denmom wrote:
I like this song, but I'll forever associate it with watching him perform on SNL with my boyfriend (now husband) and his mother.  After watching him, she said "I think we've been had..."  I didn't agree, but it was a classic comment.
  Your husband and mother-in-law were performing with Gary Numan on SNL and you had to stay home and watch it on TV?{#Eh}


DavidS_UK
(Central England, UK)
Posted: Nov 16, 2009 - 03:23
 
Oh those heady late 1970' and early 80's....

rez
Posted: Oct 15, 2009 - 15:52
 
redstorm wrote:

Pure guilty pleasure, sorta like a audio snickers bar


Nothing to be guilty about. This is a seminal track, though judging by the comments not everyone "gets it".


rocklandlove
(Hudson Valley, New York)
Posted: Oct 15, 2009 - 15:45
 
you CAN'T be serious...

DaMoGan
(Body on the east coast, Mind in the west coast.)
Posted: Oct 15, 2009 - 15:45
 
My memory of this is from going roller skating in the Midwest (US) in the early-ish 80s!

redstorm
(East Coast!........ Lou!)
Posted: Sep 14, 2009 - 02:08
 

Pure guilty pleasure, sorta like a audio snickers bar

hasben
(Muskogee Oklahoma USA)
Posted: Aug 13, 2009 - 14:11
 
 cathenley wrote:
Where were you when this song came out? 

I was living in Seattle, worked for WEA distributing (music distribution).  He was considered new wave...
 

Thirteen years from retirement, which happens in 2 weeks, 2 days.  Yeah!  (I've heard better on RP)

crockydile
(I miss Excelsior!)
Posted: Aug 13, 2009 - 14:11
 
 mgoldman wrote:
In the Likely event that I go to Hell, this will be the music that will playing 24x7.
 
We'll be waiting for you. hehe. {#Fire} {#Devil_pimp}  {#Fire}

denmom
(Connecticut)
Posted: Aug 13, 2009 - 14:10
 
I like this song, but I'll forever associate it with watching him perform on SNL with my boyfriend (now husband) and his mother.  After watching him, she said "I think we've been had..."  I didn't agree, but it was a classic comment.



rdo
(DC)
Posted: Aug 13, 2009 - 14:10
 
A timeless classic.

Middleton
(along for the ride)
Posted: Aug 13, 2009 - 14:10
 
This totally makes up for the crappy day I've been having!!!     {#Bananapiano}

crockydile
(I miss Excelsior!)
Posted: Aug 13, 2009 - 14:09
 
I remember a friend of mine playing this tune on a toy keyboard back in the 80's...we were all playing D&D at the time. Hasn't aged well...