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| The Pleasure Principle | 
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| Artist: Gary Numan
Label: Beggars UK - Ada
Category: Music
List Price: $11.98
Buy New: $7.97
You Save: $4.01 (33%)
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (48 reviews)
Sales Rank: 8651
Format: Original Recording Reissued, Original Recording Remastered
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 80010
UPC: 607618001025
EAN: 0607618001025
ASIN: B000006NTW
Release Date: June 23, 1998
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Tracks:
| • | Airlane | | • | Metal | | • | Complex | | • | Films | | • | M.E. | | • | Tracks | | • | Observer | | • | Conversation | | • | Cars | | • | Engineers | | • | Random | | • | Oceans | | • | Asylum | | • | Me! I Disconnect from You | | • | Bombers | | • | Remember I Was Vapour | | • | On Broadway - Gary Numan, Leiber, Jerry |
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| Customer Reviews: Read 43 more reviews...
 Principally pleasing October 1, 2008
Although not painted in colors as vibrant or cohesive as those of his previous album, Replicas, The Pleasure Principle still holds up as a steadfast highlight of Gary Numan's prolific career, sporting his trademark of introverted and occasionally sociopathic lyrics, all of them bearing the unselfconscious quirks recurrent in the majority of 70's synthpop. Themes of alienation, dehumanization, machination, and other not so funny "-ations" penetrate the slick, synthesized hooks and live drumming throughout the album. In one of its particularly high points, "Metal", Numan confides a state of utter submission ("We're in the building/where they make us grow") while the mood turns reclusive and resentful in "M.E." ("I turn off the pain/like I turned off you all"). In the melodically infectious and subsequent hit, "Cars", not a bit of resistance remains against total isolation ("I can lock all my doors/it's the only way to live"). Asperger's syndrome aside, though, the album remains one of Gary Numan's best works and an ideal starting point for the uninitiated.
Solid Synth Pop March 22, 2008
Short and sweet, this is a really nice album. Heavy synthesizers, euro-rock from the end of the 70s. Sounds dated and experimental but great if you can get into that sound. I always enjoy listening to this one. (But most of my friends and associates do not!)
 My pick for best synth album of all time March 22, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Forget the hit single, forget everything you may have heard about Numan's career after the release of this epic and just jump into it. It is a great retro ride into the dark heart of cold war synth pop and nobody has ever done it better than this.
5 stars!
A True New Wave Genius June 19, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
"The Pleasure Principle" is the album that contains Gary Numan's biggest chart hit, "Cars". And "Cars" is the only commercial-radio-friendly song on the album. The other tracks, however, are works of pure genius, especially "M.E.", "Engineers", and the masterpiece "Tracks". "Tracks" might be the best two minute song I have ever heard.
Numan is only now being credited for his work practically inventing the entire New Wave movement, and this album certainly stands the test of time as one the classics of the genre. Order it without hesitation, slip on your headphones, and prepare for a real listening treat.
best album ever April 24, 2007
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Someone once asked me what my favorite album of all time is. That is of course a very difficult question to answer. But I'll have to choose Gary Numan's The Pleasure Principle because it is the only album of which I've been in continuous possession of for the past 25 years; first as a cassette and then a CD. I can't say that of any other album and I've listened to hundreds. If you like this record then go get Replicas and Telekon. If you like those two then try out I, Assassin.
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