What Are You Listening To?

[Music Head]

from my library (vinyl)



Don't much care for this, or Numan in general. I did like Cars, which is probably why I have this. Just too much
computer techno stuff for me. Surprised to see Queen's Roger Taylor showing up on a few tracks. This is Gary's
fifth album, and made #3 in Britian, after his last three had made #1. Quite bigger there than here where this
could only manage #167. This album is quite laid back and has nothing danceable despite the title. Maybe if you
dance like a slow motion robot. The only single released was She's Got Claws which made #6 in the UK. Track
listings I see on this now show 16 tracks, although my vinyl copy only has 11. The other 5 probably wouldn't have
helped me any. Too drum machine for me. Is Roger Taylor a machine?

I DO NOT LIKE THIS ALBUM

Worst Track - Cry The Clock Said

Best Track - Stories

She sits in the corner
Where it's reasonably quiet
Drinking coffee with cream
Thinking stories of young love
She calls to the waiter
'Won't you lend me some time?
You can sit by my side
And I'll let you be friends with mine.'

The cafe is old
But the candlelight's new
She orders Beaujolais wine
And says 'I've thought of you too'

She whispers 'Isn't it odd
You remind me of songs
That I'd rather forget
Like feelings I longed for

You haunt me inside
Sometimes I recall
Question mistakes
Who grew to nothing at all'

I hear voices that cry
And one of them's mine
All the things I could say
Are the reasons I can't
She says 'I've seen you before
In thoughts I call 'son'
Like an old film with sound
When the link comes undone'

The waiter is me
And the woman is you
And we are the story
Just like others I knew

1) Slowcar To China **
audio - Gary Numan - SlowCar To China - YouTube
2) Night Talk *
audio - Gary Numan - Night Talk - YouTube
3) A Subway Called You *
audio - Gary Numan - A Subway Called 'You' - YouTube
4) Cry The Clock Said *
audio - Gary Numan - Cry, The Clock Said - YouTube
5) She's Got Claws **
video - Gary Numan She's got Claws Promo Video 1981 - YouTube
6) Crash *
audio - Gary Numan - Crash - YouTube
7) Boys Like Me *
audio - Gary Numan - Boys Like Me - YouTube
8) Stories **
audio - Gary Numan - Stories - YouTube
9) My Brothers Time **
audio - Gary Numan - My Brother's Time - YouTube
10) You Are, You Are *
audio - Gary Numan - You Are, You Are - YouTube
11) Moral *
audio - Gary Numan - Moral - YouTube

3's - 0
2's - 4
1's - 7

Grade - 1.4

so many albums, so little time