The Pleasure Principle

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Gary Numan’s most commercially successful album is, perhaps unsurprisingly, his least representative disc. Powered by the hit single “Cars”, arguably the first British synth-pop song to dent the US charts, THE PLEASURE PRINCIPLE is a striking turnaround from the guitar-powered, Joy Division-like post-punk of his old band Tubeway Army. Aside from Paul Gardiner’s bass and some percussion, every instrument is electronic.
To denote their futuristic simplicity the album’s 10 songs are given one-word titles; they’re all built on the same layers of analogue synthesizers and futuristic, dystopian lyrics. The album’s resulting numbing quality is also pretty much its point.

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2CD has these bonus tracks:

2-1 Airlane (Demo Version) 3:18
2-2 Metal (Demo Version) 3:36
2-3 Complex (Demo Version) 3:17
2-4 Films (Demo Version) 2:42
2-5 M.E. (Demo Version) 4:30
2-6 Tracks (Out Take Mix) 2:51
2-7 Observer (Demo Version) 3:03
2-8 Conversation (Demo Version 2) 6:49
2-9 Cars (Demo Version) 3:14
2-10 Engineers (Demo Version) 3:50
2-11 Random (2009 Re-Master) 3:48
2-12 Oceans (2009 Re-Master) 3:00
2-13 Asylum (2009 Re-Master) 2:30
2-14 Photograph (2009 Re-Master) 2:27
2-15 Gymnopedie No. 1 (Demo Version) 2:26
2-16 Conversation (Demo Version 1) 3:56
2-17 M.E. (Out Take Mix) 5:15

Tracklist

Airlane 3:18
Metal 3:33
Complex 3:14
Films 4:09
M.E. 5:37
Tracks 2:52
Observer 2:53
Conversation 7:38
Cars 3:53
Engineers 4:00

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