Track Listing

1. Call Out The Dogs
2. This Disease
3. Your Fascination
4. Miracles
5. Pleasure Skin
6. Creatures
7. Tricks
8. God Only Knows
9. I Still Remember
10. We Need It
11. Anthem
12. No Shelter
13. Puppets
14. Fear

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #12677 in Music
• Released on: 2002-05-01
• Number of discs: 1

Album Description
U.S. version of Gary's 1985 release. The album versions are the standard releases (not the rare extended versions). Includes 5 bonus tracks including the original 12" RSPCA version of 'I Still Remember' - to date an exclusive to this CD.

Customer Reviews

Furious after purchase!
Even for fans of the day, this was noticeably a last-gasp of a dying pop act- the production is abysmally poor- this sounds as if it were made at 6th form and the packaging is woefully amateurish. There is no 'music' here, but the same old drum beats and synth chords that Numan ploughed out since 1980 with different lyrics. His voice at this point could not be disguised no matter how many female backing singers were used. With no money to employ session musicians of skill, Numan was finally exposed here with probably one of the worst albums of the 1980s.

Certainly worth a listen...
I love Gary Numan, but this has never been one of my favorites, though it certainly does have some good moments.
I originally bought this back in the summer of 1985 (on vinyl), and I've always thought the cover photo (a laid-back looking Gary in a lounge suit, with glass of wine, and less make-up than usual) rather betrays the sounds within - it wasn't the new direction it initially seemed.

On the whole these are keyboard-driven songs, some with funky bass (and augmented with female vocals, as per Berserker) and some more with some atmospheric sax - but Gary's still rather doomy lyrics - he sounds (justifiably) hurt and angered by the apathy of the media, radio stations and the record-buying public in general towards his music.

The main problem is that the album lacks a strong central focal point - there is no big hit on here. I believe 3 of the songs were low-charting hits - the best being the moody sax-laden 'I Still Remember', which closed the original album, and sounds much less dated now than 'Call Out the Dogs', for instance.

As other reviewers have said, the extra tracks added for this CD release are excellent, and certainly make it worth buying this CD version.
The Blade Runner extracts are interesting too - this is obviously a film that inpsired Gary.

He was to bounce back in fine form however the following year though with the stonking autobiographical chart hit 'I Can't Stop' - a natural and much more satisfying progression from the musical/lyrical approach adopted on this album - and one in the face for his critics!

INDUSTRIAL POP/FUNK !!!!!!
Another nice album by this master of the genre.Similar to Berserker in style only Berserker is a better listen.This is a weird mix of industrial machine drums and bass and funky elements,with female backing vocals and a certain ¨Prince¨ air to some of the songs.Heavily and very personal and processed vocals add the final touch.
What I found the most appealing,though,were the incredible bonus tracks (last 5 songs).Incredibly dark,obscure,sombre,moody industrial songs taken from singles released the same year as the album,which could have marked the direction he was to follow from his Sacrifice album on.Instead,he continued with a string of good albums in this and similar veins.
Advice: tthe bonus tracks alone are worth the price of the abum.

BY OLDESTPUNKINARGENTINA