Gary Numan - Telekon CDs • Vinyl Records • LPs • Music Albums

Judging from his interviews, the most amazing thing about Gary Numan is that he doesn't consider his mechanized, synthesizer-based music futuristic or robotic at all: it's just the pop music he hears in his head. Which means he's weirder than we thought.

Numan portrays the life of an everyday English kid or an average modern pop star in terms of imminent mortality, evanescence and ineffable sadness. The closest thing to a love song on Telekon is its opener, whose chorus goes: "This wreckage I call me/Would like to meet you." The album's final cut, "The Joy Circuit," describes a society so devoid of emotion you have to be strapped into a machine to have a little fun. Still, our
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