Minimal Wave Records

[quote author=“M”]
you were there? Me too Gary Neuman was rather bad and this Clan from Xymox was just as they are… it was something the like beginning of their resurrection…

You being serious? I found his performance rather energetic, just like all the other times I saw him afterwards…hey, this old man rocks, I thought (as a much younger falck at that moment in time, of course)... :wink:

it was not my thing… but I never was a big Gary Neuman fan anyway… only ‘Down In The Park’ I play sometimes… that is it…

Yeah me neither, which is why I did not mention him originally in this thread…I mean,  I know Cars and a few other songs but i never really cared

I downloaded a few things the other day to see if I was missing something, but not really

i won’t deny that he had an influence on a lot of other artists, i just am not really into him that much

I can’t believe you guys.

The first LP is kinda dull post punk, but from Replicas onwards, he made classic after classic for five years - and he was productive!

I suggest you boys go and check out his Telekon LP immediately. If you don’t like that, I can’t see what this forum is about. It’s dark, alienated (= cold) minimal synth pop. It is as good as it gets, with a possible exception for Metamatic or Cold war Nightlife. It is great.

And like I said, it’s not at all his only great album. Considering Iron Curtain and others who have one great song, then some good songs, then not very many songs altogether, it’s amazing how this boy could keep churning out great songs by the dozen. Be a fan, I can’t understand what alternative you have

If you need some suggestions for tracks you didn’t know about, check out “Random”, “M.E.” ( did some one whisper WALL-E? ), “Metal”, the instrumentals “I Nearly Married A Human”, “A Game Called Echo” etc… Not all he did was brilliant of course, his late 80’s Prince incarnation was actually very bad, as even he admitted himself.
When you consider that “The Plan” was recorded in late1977/early 1978 and compare it against what else was around as that time, I think it is a very good record that sadly got shelved until 1984 ( when postpunk was out of fashion). Great lyrics and Gary’s interest in synths was already showing in some tracks.
The BBC sessions are also recommended as the synths sound unpolished as they should, not polished as on the album versions.

Remember that Kraftwerk discussion we had some time ago? Sounds a tiny bit like how I feel about them… :wink:

Oh well, I guess one man’s Numan is another man’s Rolf and Florian going hawaiian…. 8)

yes… of course it is like that Well… I go with Ralf and Florian then…

Remember to wear bermuda shorts….  :wink:

[quote author=“falck”]

Oh well, I guess one man’s Numan is another man’s Rolf and Florian going hawaiian…. 8)

Didn’t they go mariachi ten years ago? 

sorry… I have all the Gary Neuman album here for years and years… but… really I do not care about them… I guess he is the least played artist here of all the music I have (from 50’s/60’s stuff untill contemporary music)... for me he does not have ‘it’...

M wrote:

“for me he does not have ‘it’...”

To each his own. There is no arguing in differing tastes. One prefers apples and the other one pears.

When his records first came out I was 9/10 years old and they were all very exiting and new. And maybe I also recognised myself, being very timid and a people shy, in the way he seemed to move and feel so uncomfortably when being watched by other people/ the camera, so that might have been of influence as well.
It was only much later that I learned to appreciate the ubiquitous Kraftwerk. They didn’t do “it” for me back then around 1980 and are not part of my musical memory from that period. Tastes can change and now I like both.

[quote author=“AirCrashBureau”][quote author=“falck”]

Oh well, I guess one man’s Numan is another man’s Rolf and Florian going hawaiian…. 8)

Didn’t they go mariachi ten years ago? 

I just join them on the Autobahn… oh no they are more in bicycles as cars now…

[quote author=“M”][quote author=“AirCrashBureau”][quote author=“falck”]

Oh well, I guess one man’s Numan is another man’s Rolf and Florian going hawaiian…. 8)

Didn’t they go mariachi ten years ago? 

I just join them on the Autobahn… oh no they are more in bicycles as cars now…

Yeah, and as good Germans they like their Dutch bicycles…  :wink:

[quote author=“falck”][quote author=“M”][quote author=“AirCrashBureau”][quote author=“falck”]

Oh well, I guess one man’s Numan is another man’s Rolf and Florian going hawaiian…. 8)

Didn’t they go mariachi ten years ago? 

I just join them on the Autobahn… oh no they are more in bicycles as cars now…

Yeah, and as good Germans they like their Dutch bicycles…  :wink:

I want my grand fathers’ bicycle back! Give it back I tell you! 

well good Germans should like me worship your Autobahn!! Speeding is just too expensive here… maybe I should move closer to the border so I can take a nice drive in the weekends…