FIRST TIME REACTION!! - Gary Numan - Me, I Disconnect From You - Deep DIve
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- First time reaction to a Gary Numan deep cut from 1978. Come see the birth of an important artist.
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Check out the other 2 gary numan vids we did.
Checked them all out. I concentrated on the older stuff as it fits my age. I'm old school, don't get me wrong the stuff he's doing now is excellent, in fact I watched him doing Down in the Park with the orchestra and I swear I was moved to tears. Brilliant version.
Your examination of Cars brought back memories. Brilliant to see the boys, Paul Gardiner, RRussell Bell, Ced Sharpley, the God that he is Billy Currie of Ultravox. They looked the Dogs Nads blew me away as a kid.
Keep up the excellent work and your enthusiasm and little dances (Cars) have been noted.
@@NoConceptofTheft Thanks for rocking with us and the positive feedback.
If you revisit Gary, try "Down in the Park" by Tubeway Army. It was featured on the soundtrack to Times Square, a pretty much forgotten movie from 1980. The movie wasn't great, but the soundtrack was outstanding! If you like Punk rock.
@@dranet47 Thanks for the recommendation!
@@dranet47 I do remember watching it at the time but yes, I had forgot about this one.
Good call
So glad you chose the live video because it shows a more authentic version of Gary Numan than Top of the Pops ever could. Guys, I was THERE! This tour was amazing. In 1979 I was 14 and I went to the Bristol gig, which wasn't filmed (as far as I know) - but the stage setup was the same as in this video, and it was an overwhelming, visceral experience for me. I'd never seen a live band before (well, not an amplified one anyway, just choirs and orchestras), and it blew my teenage mind. I got totally obsessed with synths after that, and I have a small home studio where I like to create my own music. I've done my share of touring too, with blues bands, various other genres and also a prog band with whom I recorded - I've had an interesting time. I often thank my parents for encouraging me to learn piano, but if I'm honest, that single Gary Numan gig was an equally important trigger for my love of music - which is a treasure and a comfort to me still in my late 50s. Gary remains a great musician to this day. Long may he sing.
thanks for the feedback and sharing your journey with music. awesome story!
Best version of this in my opinion.
First concert I went to back in 1980 and the most recent concert last year was to see this guy.
Awesome!
Me,I disconnect from you was never released as a single, it was a track from the album Replicas,from which the track Are Friends Electric was a massive hit for him in 1979.If memory serves me correctly it was number 1 on the uk charts for 3 weeks. Cars was his second song to hit number 1.He released cars under his own name "Gary Numan" because he thought the band name "Tubeway Army" sounded a bit to "punk" and by that time the punk scene was all but over in the UK.Thanks for the videos guys,really enjoyed watching them.👍🤟
Thanks so much for all that additional context! Hope to hear from you on our video for my name is ruin.
Are Friends Electric? was number one for four weeks in the UK.
One of my all time favourite songs. A true outsider. Thanks for the reaction.
Saw him on this tour in 1979m in Coventry. Blew my mind! Indescribable genius...
thanks for sharing that!
The rawness and sheer power of the synths in this performance have yet to be beaten. #Numan4Life
I was at the Aylesbury Friars gig in 1979 with my brother (RIP).
It blew me away
I didn't realise he had so much swagger
Look how HAPPY he is! Bopping away to Numan. That's what it's all about!
hell yeah! Hope you see us rocking to My Love Is Ruin too!
Love listening to songs like this that never made it big in the US but were big elsewhere
Definitely! It's fascinating.
Not a hit but a well known Numan and band or better yet original Tubeway Army song if you like so lol.
You guys are deep diving the music of my life, at least the goth teenager I was on the inside back at the start of the eighties. Still love Gary Numan!
Thanks for checking us out. We hope to do songs that no one else does like this one.
I saw that tour.
Tower Theater in Upper Darby outside Philly in Feb. of 1980. Wonderful!
In case anyone is wondering, this live version of the track was the B side to the Complex 12 inch single.
Thanks a lot for the info!
Billy Currie on lead keyboard, awesome!! 👍
I like this song. I am a bit surprised that he wasn't more popular but then again this song is from 1978 so his sound was ahead of the times. That kind of music was popular in the 80's and when MTV was big. If this song came out and was on MTV in 1983 it probably would of been a hit.
This song is from 1979 not 1978
mindblown performance 👏
The lyrics make more sense now than they did back then
i was 10 years old when asked my mum and to take me at birmingham odeon . my dad did
His first hit in England, " Are Friends Electric, " was his biggest single over here.
Did you know that the first major tour Numan did, they had a support band that went on to do quite well. lol.
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark.
I did not! Would love to check them out.. got any recommendations?
@@THEDEEPDIVE Hey. Any of their early stuff.
The later stuff is good don't get me wrong but I prefer the earlier stuff. "Electricity" "Messages" "Red frame white light" "Dancing" Their first studio album. oh yeah, I like "Souvenir" "Enola Gay"....actually thinking about it I like most of what they did lol.
You may like them anyway.
Cheers.
@@THEDEEPDIVE Thought I'd add they are a bit "poppy".
Have you heard some of the early "Human league" again not the later pop stuff but their earlier work. "Being boiled" " "empire state Human" "Path of least resistance" just off the top of my head. Their first albums not the later songs. Bit more adult, if you know what I mean.
Cheers again.
Gary Numan always seems to give more guts & energy to his tunes when it's played Live, The Living Ornaments Albums 79/80/81 which this tune is from is very Classic Numan👍👍
Great song, saw it all live.cheers fer post lads
Genius... became the front man for all electronic music...
There does seem to be a before and after Gary Numan for electronic based music.
Been a fan of Gary since 1978 and the first Eps as Tubeway Army. Replicas was the second Tubeway Army album and both that and the first were heavily influenced by Philip K Dick and JG Ballard. He lost his way a bit in the 80s, perhaps trying too hard to fit in to something he was never a part of? but came back in 94 with Sacrifice and hasn't stopped since! P.s. Blue Album, Replicas, Pleasure Principal and Telekon all done within the space of just under 2 years, amazing! The guy is a genius as far as I'm concerned. p.s. the video is from the 1979 concert at the Hammersmith Odeon in London, I know 'co i was there! hahahaha
Must have been cool to see such a ground breaking act like that so early.
@@THEDEEPDIVE and saw him in Madrid and Barcelona this summer. And heck even better (no lights, no fx, just him)! The guy is, just...
@@PolarRed love it
I've always liked Numan, even when his career went seriously off the rails and he was doing stuff that embarrasses him now, there were tracks to like. His live performances as a guest on NIN's farewell tour were superb and it's hard to believe his "second coming" as an artist is almost 30 years old now.
hey..even Bob Dylan had a lot of years where it seemed like he lost the plot. But yes great to see Gary make a comeback. We did an episode on My name is ruin to highlight that.
@@THEDEEPDIVE It would be interesting to see what you think of one of the bands that influenced his early career, the first incarnation of Ultravox with John Foxx. Systems of Romance is their finest album, but there's plenty to like on the punkier albums. Good to see someone appreciating Gary Numan though, thank you.
@@anhistorian7255 Gary talked a little about them in his book. I'll check it out.
I think Numan was 20 years old when this was recorded. He put on this show with his own money and didn’t earn anything from it. He is my all time favorite artist.
I read that was a big part of the debt he racked up was the amount of money he was putting into the stage production of his shows. Looked amazing.
He was my 1st love, I was 8 years old and he was the most beautiful man I ever saw. Even now looking at him back then he is gorgeous. Not so much now tho with his *very* unconvincing wig.
I imagine to him the wig is no different than the guyliner and costumes he wears on stage. It's all a part of the character.
But he isn't pretending his eye liner and clothes are real and natural@@THEDEEPDIVE
@@StrawberrySunday212 Hard to disagree with a longtime superfan! :) thanks so much for sharing your thoughts. Hope you enjoy the other GN stuff we do and possibly other things on the channel.
Give the Tubeway Army album a listen to if you can. One song on it called Every Day I Die is a good track. I used to sing along to it as an 8 year old. Found out years later it was about male masturbation 😂🙈 @@THEDEEPDIVE
Agree. He should be bald and proud
Amazing!!!!!
my most favorite line from this song is,
" I could feel his mind decaying, only inches away from me. An I disconnect from you "
agreed. it's great
You should listen to Down in the Park
I was in a car crash, or was it the war???
I really like the rendition done by Warren Cucurullo and Emma Essing.
In Jordan Peele's "Us"... scissors symbolize a disconnection, and a tool, used to define the edge of negative space.
So many questions.
I like hearing my friends spin GN records at their goth nights. Even tho I don't drink. I get high and drink coke. The DJ's are, like me, gen X and millennial. They get a wide crowd and sometimes allow all ages. Numan, Siouxsie, Bauhaus, Depeche Mode, Killing Joke, Thrill Kill Kult, Skinny Puppy, Ministry, PiL, I guess it's goth/industrial. Oh, dig- there is now an Industrial music museum in Chicago!!
I forgot to type NIN (Nine Inch Nails) but they're famous enough. If any1 likes straight-edge electronic hardcore, REALICIDE is real deal!!
That sounds amazing.
@@mattjohn4731 first read of your comment I thought 'straight edge electronica? That will never work'... but then I think about the druggie/drunk rock scene that straight edge punk grew out of and it makes complete sense..
Always a great music and flys airplanes in movies and he was first people to work on computers and phones 📱 when you are music on phone
You gotta try I am dust and prayer for the unborn…
All these 80s songs make more sense now. Check out some of the OMD hits, I just was tonight, blows my mind.
Love Gary live but I still prefer the studio version (from 1979)
This guy influenced a number of his contemporaries. Prince, Robert Palmer and Alice Cooper just to name a few. Alice Cooper`s post horror early 80`s phase was totally influenced by Gary Numan`s music and image.
definitely.. Alice Cooper's We Are Clones is a gret example of that.
Prince called him a genius!
Trent Reznor said that when they were recording their first album he listened to Telekon every day.
Gary neman started with punkmusic, but it didnt getting verry wel . So on a day he found a few synthesysers in a old record studio and he was sold, his second cariere beguns with PURE NEW WAVE !!!!!!!! all music based on synthesisers !
I think the story is that Gary Numan heard Kraftwerk in the studio one day. He heard their synthesizers, quit the band he founded, and stopped playing punk music to learn how to play the synthesizer.
Interesting enough this song is from his first band Tubeway Army and it's less rock on the album. The big change for Gary was he got to play with a moog left over from another band in the studio and became obsessed with it.
Nope not what his influence was. He liked Kraftwerk that that's it. He said he copied Ultravox with John Foxx only not Midge Ure. He mentioned the album Systems Of A Romance '78 not as dark and eerie, sweeping and powerful as his either I heard it. He also only added synths to a conventional line-up why I always liked him and the band. When acts like Kraftwerk, Depeche Mode, New Order and even Alphaville had them take over. He also said he was trying to be darker and heavier he called the others bubble gum music with Synths. He was different like Richard Skinner said on BBC Rock Profile in 1981 when he Interviewed him a stylized image.
They were recording in a studio and there was a mini moog in the corner. He played about a bit liked the sound and the rest is history.
Garry,s world is the world of blade runner
Such a classic totally Bitchin song
for sure.
i was 10 and my mum took me to birmingham odeon
Most bands at that time could only get a record contract if they were a punk band.
Outside big bands such as Pink Floyd etc or novity bands, punk was the only way in. Gary Numan himself disliked the punk thing but it paid of for him.
Excellent piece, good to see that he gets the recognition nowadays. As a fan in the late 70's early 80's you were subject to the same shiiittee that the great man himself had to put up with. Now, we know its character building and everyone comes out stronger.
If you are a fan checkout NoConceptofTheft version of Bombers czcams.com/video/ZcjEZzC9dG8/video.html probably one of the greatest guitar solo's to fit a track. Good luck.
Thanks so much for checking us out. We also did My Name Is Ruin.
US radio would not play Gary
Gary Numan way way ahead of the times Transforming a punk Album into early Electronica over the course of a recording session after finding a Mini Moog in the corner of the studio left behind previously , you couldn't write this shit Destiny ??? Anyway along came Are Friends Electric number 1 later Cars number 1 the rest is History.
It really is amazing
I know american market is very important and bla bla bla, but sometimes i think that not been a succesfull hit in the US is more of a compliment.
I doubt Gary would agree but interesting perspective.
This is so me in high school and still Gary was isolated him and the band my boys! He is on the spectrum like me! It is in my nature to be into it like a lot. No American Idol would get booed off why I don't like that show. He would get booed fuck that they suck. Bad ass fuck them Replicas the song is my fav and others after and more is too dark for them! Why I don't like that show my mom does. He is too ahead, bold and bad ass! I They don't like his voice because he is different and isolated has Asperger's as me. He doesn't even like his own voice I always did a lot do. Gary Numan and the arms always my boys till I die classic still more and yet the new too I keep up with the new music and tours too just prefer his older era with the old band mates. Beautiful songs make me cry he made with the band and so dark, rocking and heavy my body chills. I teared some listening to these guys talking about this I have so much passion for this my favorite also besides Devo and The Tubes. Gary and the band are a driving force in my life always mean so much to me. I cannot even put into words but I try my best lol. Hardcore Numanoid till I die!!!!
maaaan.. I LOVE THIS! thanks so much for sharing so much with all of us. Hope to hear from you on the other gary numan videos we did and maybe some of the other artists we featured.
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