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El sonido me ha gustado mucho: limpio, electrónico. Cars es un bombazo y el resto no es tan potente, pero merece la pena.

Yeah this was just at the same song over and over. Not sure why a one hit wonder is on the list, but I fully understand why he was a one hit wonder now.

Foundation for a lot of synth rock and pop over the following 10 years. Classic.

Very good! :) Really good vibe :)

There are some amazing songs on this album. I saw Gary Numan live in 2023 and since then have been hooked. This album works so well together as a piece.

Fantastic album and brilliant genre of music. This is the start of electronic music, and you can tell it influences so many other bands

Favourite song: M.E & Cars
Least favourite: all good songs. its a 5/5 album
Album artwork: Brilliant cover

Lots of fun loops

The same synth noise the same tortured singing

Far more Eno-inspired than I was expecting, this album's synths are exactly why many modern takes on the synthpop experience just don't grip me in the same way as releases from the late 70s. The technology wasn't new, nor was it perfected, so you get a good mix of experimentation that may not always work perfectly, but has so much variety behind each note, each layer, that you can't help but be entranced by little intricacies. Whether it be the low bass that grips onto your ear drums, or the bloop-y high notes that feel like they're from the same future as the film Alien's computers. It is all so charming, yes, but it has some serious merit in its crafting of a good pop hook with so little; Cars was a minor hit for a reason. It isn't overproduced, and it also isn't lacking in substance to keep the listener entertained at every miniscule change-up from song to song. Sure, Observer is just proto-Cars, but admiring the small differences is what brings be joy from this era of music. Just pure musical experimentation, and being able to make it onto the airwaves with that experimentation? That's when you know you have something cooking.

Hilariously, in my last review I asked theoretical god to give me a few weeks without a 70s rock band that features an organ player. So of course my very next album is a 70s rock band that features...a synth player! It appears there may be a god after all, and the prick has a very mischievous streak.

The second song, Metal, is familiar to me as it was covered by Nine Inch Nails. I'd imagine this Numan fellow was quite an influence on Trent Reznor.

Overall, a weird, quirky little album that I'm sure influenced quite a few acts from the 90s, but ultimately its just fine.

I listened to this album last year (for the first time), I had only been familiar with Cars. It all sounds quite dated now, (which it ironically tried to sound futuristic), but I overall enjoyed listening. I dig the cover artwork too. 3.5

Better than I anticipated. Really cool vibe...not a huge fan of his voice, but I get over it with how much the rest is amazing. 4/5

The heavy synth glam sound is cool.

For some reason, when I saw the name Gary Numan this morning and looked at the album cover I felt like I knew something of his, but couldn't place it. Upon listening to the album, it is the song Cars. It has been in movies/commercials/and TV shows in the past.

Gary Numan is a synth pop artist who is accredited with helping to jumpstart the shift to electronic music in the 80's. It is easy to hear how influential his music was to so many artists who came after him.

This music is very synth heavy, and he uses an interesting effect from time to time where he feeds his synthesizer through a guitar effects pedal. All of this while a drum machine beats along in the background, and Gary delivers his almost robotic vocal delivery. There is another sound he achieved in the song Engineers that almost sounded like robotic birds or something. There was a lot of experimentation going on on this record.

Apparently Gary liked to dress as an android, and it even had a persona. This sounds like the music that Robots would bang to. And I mean that not in a bad way. This music would sound right at home on a 80's - 90's sci fi tv series.

Overall, not a bad listen. I can see how influential this music was. Not something I would put on every day, but not something I would quickly switch off either if it was playing.

Favourite songs: Cars, Observer, Metal, Bombers, M.E., Asylum

Least favourite song: Engineers

3/5

It's a good album. It's actually close to great. Except it's a few songs too long, and since all the songs are so similar to each other, that really shows that you could've cut down a couple of them and not missed much. But all of the songs, even if they're similar to each other, are really good with that synth driving the beat.

I started listening to this album fully thinking that this would be an instant 5* for me.
I absolutely adore Gary Numans sound that almost feels trademarked. The low droning Vox Humana synth sounds, superb melodies with the Polygoog over the top of simple structured songs.

I'm a bit more acquainted with his later work and what I've found during my several listens of this album over the last two days is that Numan has become a much better songwriter over the years.

I really enjoyed this, but not all songs are of the highest caliber like Metal, ME, Cars; or than a lot of his later albums.

Pretty dull, probably sounded ahead of its time, but is now over 40 years old. He's not a great singer, and all the songs sound kind of the same. Not a worthy inclusion in my opinion

I like it, some solid synth tunes.