Numan, Gary
The Pleasure Principle: The First Recordings
Orange vinyl.
Even before the single "Are 'Friends' Electric?" was released, Numan had recruited a permanent drummer and keyboard
player and demoed an album's worth of new material between April 9-12, 1979 at Freerange Studio in London's Covent
Garden. This was supplemented by a second session, probably the following June, that yielded four further songs and two
re-recordings. Following the hectic schedule of promoting "AFE?", Numan recorded a new session for John Peel the day
after the single hit #1 on the UK charts. Rather than record as Tubeway Army, the session was credited to Gary Numan and
the group name abandoned at the peak of it's success. As before, rather than promote the current album, Numan chose to
record four new songs. While the album Replicas hit #1, Numan was busy recording a follow up in Marcus Music Studio.
From the surviving tapes there are six mixes marked as out-takes and these have been included in the CD package. The
discs have been sequenced with the stronger, second Freerange demo preceding the first session but all tracks are in the
order of the tapes.
Price
Genre
Format
LP - 2 disk
Release
11-10-2019
Label
Item-nr
244631
EAN
0607618215811
Availability
Not in stock
Tracks
Title
Artist
1
CARS (DEMO VERSION 2)
2
FILMS (DEMO VERSION
3
COMPLEX (DEMO VERSION)
4
RANDOM (REMASTERED 2009)
5
M.E. (DEMO VERSION)
6
COVERSATION (DEMO VERSION 2)
7
TRACKS (DEMO VERSION)
8
CARS (DEMO VERSION 1)
9
METAL (DEMO VERSION)
10
AIRLANE (DEMO VERSION)
1
TROLS GYMNOPEDIES NO. 1 (DEMO VERSION)
2
OBSERVER (DEMO VERSION)
3
CONVERSATION (DEMO VERSION 1)
4
ENGINEERS (DEMO VERSION)
5
ASYLUM (REMASTERED 2009)
6
OCEANS (REMASTERED 2009)
7
PHOTOGRAPH (REMASTERED 2009)
8
AIRLANE (BBC PEEL SESSION)
9
CARS (BBC PEEL SESSION)
10
FILMS (BBC PEEL SESSION)
11
CONVERSATION (BBC PEEL SESSION)
