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The Pleasure Principle – The First Recordings CD

Title:

The Pleasure Principle – The First Recordings

Suggested Video

Full Lyrics

Artist:

Gary Numan

Tracklist:

DISC 1

01. Cars (Demo Version 2)
02. Films (Demo Version)
03. Complex (Demo Version)
04. Random (Remastered 2009)
05. M.E. (Demo Version)
06. Conversation (Demo Version 2)
07. Tracks (Demo Version 1)*
08. Cars (Demo Version 1)*
09. Metal (Demo Version)
10. Airlane (Demo Version)
11. Trois Gymnopédies No.1 (Demo)
12. Observer (Demo Version)
13. Conversation (Demo Version 1)
14. Engineers (Demo Version)
15. Asylum (Remastered 2009
16. Oceans (Remastered 2009)
17. Photograph (Remastered 2009)

DISC 2

01. Airlane (BBC Peel Session)
02. Cars (BBC Peel Session)
03. Films (BBC Peel Session)
04. Conversation (BBC Peel Session)
05. Tracks (Outtake mix)
06. Complex (Outtake mix)*
07. M.E. (Outtake mix)
08. Engineers (Outtake mix)*
09. Airlane (Outtake mix)*
10. Cars (Outtake mix)*

* Previously Unreleased

How old:

This 2xCD is old!

Release Date:

October 11th 2019

Format:

2xCD

Record Label:

Beggars Banquet

Catalogue No:

BBQ2158CD

Price Guide:

£12.00

Country:

United Kingdom 

Additional info:

Deluxe CD

Highest Chart Position:

Deleted

Credits:

Gary Numan (Vocals, Keyboards, Synthetic Percussion)
Paul Gardiner (Bass)
Christopher Payne (Keyboards, Viola)
Cedric Sharpley (Drums, Percussion)
Billy Currie (Fadeout Violin on "Tracks")
Garry Robson (Backing Vocal on "Conversation")

Produced by Gary Numan

Engineered and Mixed by Rikki Sylvan and Harvey Webb

Recorded at Marcus Music AB, London.

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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.