Probably my favourite SINGLE of all time by any artist. 'Cars' and 'Complex' from 1979 had made a HUGE impression on me and I couldn't wait to hear Gary Numan's new material. I clearly remember the day I bought the single, on the week of its release. May 1980. The first time I'd bought a single BEFORE it was in the charts. As a 15 year old school boy I was ridiculed mercilessly for liking Gary Numan but I learnt at an early age it's best to take no notice of what other people think!
It's funny how now adays listening to Indie rock stations, all of this keyboard driven music is making a come back. Just had to wait 40 years. Gary Newman only started out wanting to make enough money to buy a corvette. Awesome
My Primary School teacher always played music (usually excellent classical stuff) as we trooped into Assembly every morning…. one day he played Numan😳😳🙏!! BEST TEACHER ….ever!!! Thanks
My mother helped me make this outfit, I wore it to high school in a "farm town" in S. Michigan. I was voted "Most Unique" of my graduating class, couldn't have been a better compliment.
Just saw Gary this past Saturday. He was amazing as always but what stuck out were the number of young people at the show. His music seems to have caught on with a new generation and that makes me very happy.
I remember being in a pub in East Leake, Notts, and someone put this on the dukebox. I was 12 then, in 1979. I nearly swallowed my crisp packet whole - it was a new world. I'd never heard ought like it and it changed me and my mates forever. A new age had begun. This was closely followed by Visage, Fade to Grey and Ashes to Ashes by Bowie. God, what a time.. and I feel so privileged to have been there, when it happened.
You are so lucky. I wish I was I was born in 60s like you so I could have experienced his music when it first came out. I also wish I was never a fcking yank Lol and was in the UK like all the cool and sensible people.
Mid 1979 when Are Friends Electric and autumn 79 with Cars by Numan, then Buggles ‘video killed the radio star’ and The Police was the start of the shift away from 1970s disco and punk music, into the new wave and electronic pop stuff. Summer 1980 was start of the 80s properly with Ashes to Ashes by Bowie topping the charts in August.
Gary Numan is hands down one of the most underappreciated musicians of all time. This song is phenomenal... he's made other good stuff other than just The Pleasure Principle. A truly innovative musician who should've received more recognition for his work... although, Musicians still know and appreciate him. I hated Beck when I saw him at Riot Fest, but it was pretty dope that he at least brought Gary Numan on stage to cover Cars.
Absolutely spot on He’s a classy guy very humble. This is a great 👍 tune. He just released a brand new song and video “Intruder” it may be better than “Cars”
When I was about 11, Vice City came out and it had a song called "Cars" by some dude named Gary Numan. I really liked the song and so did my buddy. So we went to his place and went on his computer and typed "Gary Numan" into Limewire. "We Are Glass" was the first one we clicked on... I became obsessed in that moment. Since then, I've listened to every album of Numan's. "We Are Glass" will forever be one of my favorites.
@@jcd1970 True. I've had some "interesting discussions" with people who love the GTA franchise over the years, which tends to color my thinking. Maybe I'll tone down my remarks a bit.
Yeah I feel you. I've been doing 80's music lately solely because of Vice City. Really glad I got an early introduction into this type of music when young.
10/10.... Gary Numan is one of the artists that defined the future of popular music... right from the first time we heard Gary in Tubeway Army back in the late 70's we all knew something had changed forever... Cars and We Are Glass are music industry anthems that will last the test of time. still just as good now as when they were 1st released.
I can get enough of those soaring, haunting synth lines in this song. It's just perfect. They remind me of a theremin in the way that they sound like a ghost choir.
We are young we can break Watch us fall We can take some train Down to the sea We are glass, we are glass We are real you can touch Just for now And then say 'Hey you, which way is down' We are glass, we are glass We are strong we run though We have time And to you I'm just One of those boys We are glass, we are glass We are cold We're not supposed to cry But it's all just a thought So here am I We are glass, we are glass They run fast Impressions of the floors inviting Stay with me, stay with me They run past With telephones they scream Well would you turn all this down Turn all this down You are replaced you are you And our dreams are real And dreams are all we need We are glass, we are glass We…
Jordan Peele's film "Us" must be inspired by elements from these, or something that inspired these. Also hear "Down In The Park", and Tubeway Army - "Are Friends Electric?" Very scary, and somehow rings true, on some level.
I saw Numan at the hordern pavilion in Sydney Australia his first concert in Sydney and Cars was very big at the time late 70s I would have been 13 or 14 yrs old . I am 57 today. I was taking photos and security told me to stop it and then Mr Gary pipes up " you can take photos" I'm sure he was talking to me, lol.
In these early videos he always comes across as frosty and intimidating but apparently it was just a persona to help him cope with shyness and stage fright. I wonder how many at the time knew that underneath the persona was a really genuine, warm and friendly guy.
I have choreographed to about of 8 of Gary’s songs. This is my favorite. He is an amazing performer. I brought my dance company to see a show. They are 1/3 of my age. They said it was the best show that they had ever seen. Love, love, love❤
I loved this style of bringing synthesizer piano sound to the forefront rather than guitars, especially by Gothic punk rockers who display snobby artistic facial expressions, but only the British can come up with musical expressions like this, I doubted Numan would be American when I heard his songs. The mood and lyrics are often spacey psychological curiosities, an escape from the same old same old conventional world we are often exposed to. He's very talented in my opinion
I went to Gary Numan's first visit to Japan for a performance in Tokyo. It was the front row. It was a dream. I especially like this song very much. Thank you for uploading🥰💞
Outstanding song, my mate who now stays in Vancouver saw him a few weeks back, he knew that I was a Numan fan from 1979, his words were, I didn’t know how good he was was. He said that there was a lot of youngsters at the concert who came out saying how much they loved his music, tells you that the guy still has it
What a song.What can I say ? Incredible - perfect Numan. Melody after melody. Great voice and the rhythm guitar on the last verse is sublime. Listen to it !!!. Classic. Hands down blows everything from the time out of the water
How damned blessed were us Brit teens who made it onto the Brit pub/club scene of the '80s? So many favourite tunes from a decade of magical music never to be repeated in my lifetime ❤🔥❤🔥❤🔥
One of the major pioneers of the synth movement in the late '70s and into the '80s; I couldn't help thinking how radically different it was to "Cars" (and anything else at that time, thankfully!)
Crickey! Cant remember how many times i went to Gary, travelled all over the UK to his concerts? As a 16yr in old in 1979 right up to the my last one, The Fury tour at Manchester Apollo in 1985. Met some good friends too over them years, which im still in touch with. Even had a tattoo of Numa on my arm which i still have to this day haha!.
It’s just uncanny how this song still sounds futuristic 40 years later.
The New Wave were The Futurists. They came and left and we'll never catch up.
Hell yeah!
The genius of Numan. Synths sounds great. We are glass...Numan is!
Your right it does I remember the day it was out on single and it still sounds Awsome today..
I. Flores S what happen to all those years ?
Probably my favourite SINGLE of all time by any artist. 'Cars' and 'Complex' from 1979 had made a HUGE impression on me and I couldn't wait to hear Gary Numan's new material. I clearly remember the day I bought the single, on the week of its release. May 1980. The first time I'd bought a single BEFORE it was in the charts. As a 15 year old school boy I was ridiculed mercilessly for liking Gary Numan but I learnt at an early age it's best to take no notice of what other people think!
i received the same ridicule at school as a 13 year old, but i just remember thinking "you are the boring ones liking your Genesis and ABBA"
Me and my mates at school were Numanoids.Powerful force.Even the heavy metal fans respected us-1980-85
You were ahead of your time bro
and the music sounds like it could have come out just today
It's funny how now adays listening to Indie rock stations, all of this keyboard driven music is making a come back. Just had to wait 40 years. Gary Newman only started out wanting to make enough money to buy a corvette. Awesome
My Primary School teacher always played music (usually excellent classical stuff) as we trooped into Assembly every morning…. one day he played Numan😳😳🙏!!
BEST TEACHER ….ever!!! Thanks
The future-40 years ago!
Je l'écoute beaucoup
My mother helped me make this outfit, I wore it to high school in a "farm town" in S. Michigan. I was voted "Most Unique" of my graduating class, couldn't have been a better compliment.
Niceone,how long have you been a numanoid
Just saw Gary this past Saturday. He was amazing as always but what stuck out were the number of young people at the show. His music seems to have caught on with a new generation and that makes me very happy.
Dude! Im getting ready to see him in Boise on September 7th. Im. Stoked.
Because His MUSIC IS TiMELESS and EFFORTLESSLY SEAMLESS
Yes me too and I agree.
Critics gave him Hell at first .
@@martincaughlin5478 And where are those critics, now?
Gazza's had the last laugh!
I remember being in a pub in East Leake, Notts, and someone put this on the dukebox. I was 12 then, in 1979. I nearly swallowed my crisp packet whole - it was a new world. I'd never heard ought like it and it changed me and my mates forever. A new age had begun. This was closely followed by Visage, Fade to Grey and Ashes to Ashes by Bowie. God, what a time.. and I feel so privileged to have been there, when it happened.
You are so lucky. I wish I was I was born in 60s like you so I could have experienced his music when it first came out. I also wish I was never a fcking yank Lol and was in the UK like all the cool and sensible people.
I couldn't agree with you more
Mid 1979 when Are Friends Electric and autumn 79 with Cars by Numan, then Buggles ‘video killed the radio star’ and The Police was the start of the shift away from 1970s disco and punk music, into the new wave and electronic pop stuff.
Summer 1980 was start of the 80s properly with Ashes to Ashes by Bowie topping the charts in August.
💚🎶
It too guided my taste in decent music…. .
This song doesn’t get the recognition it deserves
@@tonyrobertson1085 I don’t mean when I y came out I mean now with non Numan fans
Gary has written over 400 songs so…
Gary inspired more artists than his pure record sales would suggest.
A true pioneer of modern music.
Yes he did why not too.
Gary Numan is hands down one of the most underappreciated musicians of all time. This song is phenomenal... he's made other good stuff other than just The Pleasure Principle. A truly innovative musician who should've received more recognition for his work... although, Musicians still know and appreciate him. I hated Beck when I saw him at Riot Fest, but it was pretty dope that he at least brought Gary Numan on stage to cover Cars.
He may be underappreciated by the general public, but far from it by his peers.
So many artists list Gary as one of their biggest influences.
Absolutely spot on He’s a classy guy very humble. This is a great 👍 tune. He just released a brand new song and video “Intruder” it may be better than “Cars”
I agree with you 100%. He deserves so much more recognition !!
Wow, I'm not a Beck fan either, just doesn't appeal to me but I would have lived, breathed and died to see him bring legendary Gary Numan on stage.
ok
If Gary had emerged 5 years later he`d of ended up a global superstar, Way ahead of the rest.
He smokes every band from 1990 up.👍
That fantastic outfit. That's what I'll be at Halloween. 1980 Numan!
I was a Tubeway Army soldier 💜 borstal memories
👍🏼
One of Numans best songs imho - criminally underrated artist.
At least he gets the credit he deserves now thankfully
When I was about 11, Vice City came out and it had a song called "Cars" by some dude named Gary Numan. I really liked the song and so did my buddy. So we went to his place and went on his computer and typed "Gary Numan" into Limewire. "We Are Glass" was the first one we clicked on... I became obsessed in that moment. Since then, I've listened to every album of Numan's. "We Are Glass" will forever be one of my favorites.
It's the advantage of those born later that they have decades of good music available to them. Game quality, sometimes not so much.
@@akiramenai4973 On the other hand, it's always good to see a younger Gary Numan fan, regardless how they found his music.
@@jcd1970 True. I've had some "interesting discussions" with people who love the GTA franchise over the years, which tends to color my thinking. Maybe I'll tone down my remarks a bit.
Welcome Aboard, you have impeccable good taste 😎
Yeah I feel you. I've been doing 80's music lately solely because of Vice City. Really glad I got an early introduction into this type of music when young.
Words fail to express my feelings 🙏 Mr Numan ✌️ 💙🤘🏴🇦🇺
I just saw Gary in concert a few weeks ago and I'm very happy to say how happy I am to have seen Gary in concert a few weeks ago
as alwyz BRILLIANT, just fucking brilliant
Everything he does is golden!
Incredible piece of art!
i just cant get over how cool this is
so true me! we are speaking facts
Anyone in quarantine watching the memories 😀
Yep. Just watched People Mi-Sex. Ahhh the good old days
Yep, sure am
Absolutely!!!!
In yep with beer.remember the nite club days
Copy That :)
I have two copies of this, one to play the hell out of, one in the vault
Same xx
I did that with my Bowie stuff ☺️
Original vinyls, 1 CD set untouched, 1 CD set abused 😆
10/10.... Gary Numan is one of the artists that defined the future of popular music... right from the first time we heard Gary in Tubeway Army back in the late 70's we all knew something had changed forever... Cars and We Are Glass are music industry anthems that will last the test of time. still just as good now as when they were 1st released.
I can get enough of those soaring, haunting synth lines in this song. It's just perfect.
They remind me of a theremin in the way that they sound like a ghost choir.
Gary's voice is so unique. No one else could sing the way he does.
Surely not 😊
well, brian eno--the anxiety of his influence.
Loved him from the first time I heard him in 79. Going to see Gary on my birthday on Tuesday in Liverpool. So f**king excited, eek!! 😁
Man I wish I was with you watching Garry grew up listening to him happy birthday all the best from Australia 🦘
Watching Gary, again, this Sunday. I’ve been a fan since ‘79. AFE. This is in my top 10. Brilliant track. 👏👏👏
I love this song. It's 2024 and I have only just heard it 😊
Omg hello! I’m just listening to it now too!
Welcome to the GN fan club!!! Been listening since the early 80s when it hit US shores!!! Love his early tracks. Telekon album is the best!!!
We are young we can break
Watch us fall
We can take some train
Down to the sea
We are glass, we are glass
We are real you can touch
Just for now
And then say
'Hey you, which way is down'
We are glass, we are glass
We are strong we run though
We have time
And to you I'm just
One of those boys
We are glass, we are glass
We are cold
We're not supposed to cry
But it's all just a thought
So here am I
We are glass, we are glass
They run fast
Impressions of the floors inviting
Stay with me, stay with me
They run past
With telephones they scream
Well would you turn all this down
Turn all this down
You are replaced you are you
And our dreams are real
And dreams are all we need
We are glass, we are glass
We…
I thought it was "They run fast impressions of the wars inviting..." but I could be wrong.
Jordan Peele's film "Us" must be inspired by elements from these, or something that inspired these.
Also hear "Down In The Park", and Tubeway Army - "Are Friends Electric?"
Very scary, and somehow rings true, on some level.
The keyboards supply an exhilarating thrill in this fabulous number. Still in my charts after all these years!
Possibly the best song he ever did. Also love the fact that he had a suit made to match the cover of the Telekon album.
Remember buying this on 7". Loved this, used have a record session playing this, The Human League, Duran Duran, Japan, Ultravox - such a great era!!
OMG. What a blast from my mis-spent youth from the 80's. What a great time to have been youthful. I'm sorry for the kids now.
Still get shivers listening to this....I was only 17
A truly outstanding song.
Numan could sing "Now I am an elevator" and it would still sound cool and futuristic.
We are GLASS
Here again 3 weeks later
I think that the song "thought she'd be mine "has so much class and style , beyond all they accomplished, this song is a masterpiece
I saw Numan at the hordern pavilion in Sydney Australia his first concert in Sydney and Cars was very big at the time late 70s I would have been 13 or 14 yrs old . I am 57 today. I was taking photos and security told me to stop it and then Mr Gary pipes up " you can take photos" I'm sure he was talking to me, lol.
Still jamming out to this in 2023! 😊❤🎉
In these early videos he always comes across as frosty and intimidating but apparently it was just a persona to help him cope with shyness and stage fright. I wonder how many at the time knew that underneath the persona was a really genuine, warm and friendly guy.
Amazing tune still in 2022 , loved Numan since Tubeway Army days...
I never get tired of hearing this early ‘80s gem. And those visuals were some of the coolest from that era.
Definitely one of Numan’s best ever.
Gary will live on in the hall of fame forever. His influence on music is as important as the Beatles
I couldn't agree with you more
This is one of the best songs Gary has ever done. I'm surprised it never became the huge hit it should have been.
Same here
Was in Australia
My hero Gary numan fan since 1978,intruder album no1 on its release 40 years after Telekon? No other artist would come close to this
I have choreographed to about of 8 of Gary’s songs. This is my favorite. He is an amazing performer. I brought my dance company to see a show. They
are 1/3 of my age. They said it was the best show that they had ever seen. Love, love, love❤
Still the King of the synth,
Brilliant Gary! Brings back memories when this track was released.
This is the song that changed my life in terms of music and my love for synths.
Outstanding artist. Love the spacey sounds and beaming synth.
Nearly everything he did back then was like this. Just fantastic and a huge influence on music
UNDERRATED
It’s great seeing all these videos I’ve never seen before,
I loved this style of bringing synthesizer piano sound to the forefront rather than guitars, especially by Gothic punk rockers who display snobby artistic facial expressions, but only the British can come up with musical expressions like this, I doubted Numan would be American when I heard his songs. The mood and lyrics are often spacey psychological curiosities, an escape from the same old same old conventional world we are often exposed to. He's very talented in my opinion
Remember being on the dance
floor at Rotters, Manchester dancing to this what a tune!
I just want to go back!!! This era was sensational and I don't think alot of people were ready for Gary as if he was from space! An amazing artist.
This is better than the shit in 2022 !! Gary Numan's music has always been COOL !!!😎😎😎🎹🎸🥁🎶
Hi I Recommend an indie rock song and video called 'looking into the mirror' by Robert Nix
I went to Gary Numan's first visit to Japan for a performance in Tokyo. It was the front row. It was a dream. I especially like this song very much. Thank you for uploading🥰💞
Hi I Recommend an indie rock song and video called 'looking into the mirror' by Robert Nix
A charismatic legend who's style, originality and energy will never be surpassed.
Going to see this legend live with my 18-year-old Nephew this Sunday in Los Angles.
I am proud too say!! I was at they gigs!! Mint!!!
Still fresh as it was when it came out, love it❤
I was addicted to Numan when I heard 'Friends' on TOTP in 1979, aged 15.
Followed him ever since.
This was a fantastic single.
The first time I heard this on the radio it was like being transported to another planet in the future! Still gives me goosebumps!
Outstanding song, my mate who now stays in Vancouver saw him a few weeks back, he knew that I was a Numan fan from 1979, his words were, I didn’t know how good he was was. He said that there was a lot of youngsters at the concert who came out saying how much they loved his music, tells you that the guy still has it
Great song and I love "cars" as well
great stuff in deed
Still an amazing song 40 years on!
And still sounds like the ‘future’ now 👍🏻
Definitely a Classic!
0:14 one eye...... agree!!!!!!!
I keep coming back... What a tune 😻
Gosh this brings back memories. I was lucky enough to see Gary live after this came out in Australia. Never forgotten.
Should have been his 3rd Number 1 from that era.
yup... and only a BBC ban of the video (to violent) stopped it getting higher
@Sarah's Riding The Storm Wave. BBC banned it for the smashing of the tv's
What a song.What can I say ? Incredible - perfect Numan. Melody after melody. Great voice and the rhythm guitar on the last verse is sublime. Listen to it !!!. Classic. Hands down blows everything from the time out of the water
Brilliant
Hands down, this is the best track i have ever heard, and it has mesmerised ever since
Gary Numan's first 4 albums are my favorites of all time. I like all his others, too.
Meant so much to me those LPs
How damned blessed were us Brit teens who made it onto the Brit pub/club scene of the '80s? So many favourite tunes from a decade of magical music never to be repeated in my lifetime ❤🔥❤🔥❤🔥
Best decade of music ever. Absolutely magical.
I used to listen to this over and over when i was a kid. just awesome.
This transports me back to my youth so instantly each time I hear it. I've been a Numanoid since 1978 and still love his work..
Omg still love this
Me too :-)
One of the major pioneers of the synth movement in the late '70s and into the '80s; I couldn't help thinking how radically different it was to "Cars" (and anything else at that time, thankfully!)
This guy and Kraftwerk pretty much created this
awesome Futuristic Music. I love it. I sure do miss
it.
I like Gary numans songs too
Great Federation Trooper Costume from Blake 7 in this one... Gary had/ continues to have such a good look
2022 and still sounds great.
Masterpiece from the best era of music ever.
Listened to this song on my record player for hours and hours back then. Still have that record.
Crickey!
Cant remember how many times i went to Gary, travelled all over the UK to his concerts? As a 16yr in old in 1979 right up to the my last one, The Fury tour at Manchester Apollo in 1985.
Met some good friends too over them years, which im still in touch with.
Even had a tattoo of Numa on my arm which i still have to this day haha!.
Genius work mate!! Still relevant today.
Gary is a gift from God I’m not sure we deserve
Magical sounds
His best song, ever. Sends shivers up my spine!
A Great time to be around for music and this production is a reflection of the time from punk to synth to new romantic
Been a fan since 79 and still love this man. Can't wait for the new release and live shows again once the corona is beaten.
Numan is a God
From 3:43 that - in my view - is the best outro to a song ever! I absolutely love this song, and all the early Numan stuff.
... astonishing
Gary Numan is god.
He is literally the human embodiment of cool. Godly, charismatic, in a package of authenticity. The~ artist.
Love love love - PLAY IT LOUD ♥
Wow! Such an incredible song!
Utter brilliance!