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Telekon (CD)

By: Gary Numan (Artist)

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Gary Numan Artist Snapshot:

In the U.S., synth-pop pioneer Gary Numan only had one hit, 1979's new wave smash "Cars," but in his homeland of Britain he was a major pop star. As one of the first pop/rock artists to focus on synthesizers rather than guitars, Numan was enormously influential not only to the New Romantic and Electro scenes, but to the electronica that was still a couple of decades off. Though he continued touring and performing into the 21st century, his later work could never match the iconic status of his late-'70s/early '80s records.

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DISC 1 for Telekon (CD) Album By Gary Numan (Artist)
1   This Wreckage
2   Aircrash Bureau, The
3   Telekon
4   Remind Me To Smile
5   Sleep By Windows
6   We Are Glass - (bonus single A side)
7   I'm An Agent
8   I Dream Of Wires
9   Remember I Was Vapour
10   Please Push No More
11   Joy Circuit, The
12   I Die: You Die - (single A side, bonus track)
13   Game Called Echo, A - (out-take, bonus track)
14   Photograph - (`B' side of "This Wreckage" single, bonus track)
15   Down In The Park - (piano version, `B' side of "You Die: I Die" single, bonus track)
16   Trois Gymnopedies (First Movement) - (`B' side of "We Are Glass" single, bonus track)
 

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Review

Spin (9/98, pp.188-189) - 8 (out of 10) - "...1980's lusher and denser TELEKON stayed on [REPLICA's] message...[of adolescent angst/android fetishism schtick]..."

Title Note

TELEKON contains five bonus tracks which includes an 'A' side, 'B' side singles and an out-take.

Personnel includes: Gary Numan (vocals, guitar, piano, Mini-Moog, Arp); R. Bell (guitar, piano, claves, background vocals); Christopher Payne (viola, piano, Mini-Moog); D. Haines (piano, Arp); Paul Gardiner (bass, background vocals); Cedric Sharpley (drums, background vocals); John Webb, James Freud (handclaps).

Engineers: Nick Smith, Steve Smith, Graeme Myhre.

Includes liner notes by Steve Malins.

1980's TELEKON was Gary Numan's first album after the surprise chart success of its predecessor THE PLEASURE PRINCIPLE and "Cars," its seemingly deathless hit single. Numan could have easily created "Cars, Part II," but chose not to do so. Instead, the songs on TELEKON are spikier and almost willfully abstruse, wrapping Numan's usual J.G. Ballard and Philip K. Dick-inspired lyrics of anomie and isolation in complex synthesizer music. TELEKON often recalls some of the Krautrock bands of the '70s, particularly Faust and the knottier elements of Amon Duul II. In the UK, Numan was still a big enough star that the album's single, the chilly "I Die You Die," was a substantial hit. But the lack of a clever follow-up to "Cars" resigned Numan to one-hit-wonder status for all in the US except his devoted cult following. The CD includes five bonus tracks, including an electronic version of Erik Satie's "Trois Gymnopedies."

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