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Gary Numan - Scarred Audio CD

A fair review of the Gary Numan "Scarred" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all Gary Numan reviews here, or go back to the Gary Numan tabs.

Gary Numan Band: Gary Numan
Title: Scarred
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Release Date: 2003-02-11
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Intro 2: Pure 3: Me, I Disconnect From You 4: The Angel Wars 5: My Jesus 6: Films 7: Magic 8: RIP 9: Cars 10: Metal 11: Little Invitro 12: Down In The Park 13: This Wreckage 14: Dead Heaven 15: I Can't Breathe 16: Are Friends Electric? 17: A Prayer For The Unborn 18: Listen To My Voice 19: Replicas 20: Observer 21: Dance 22: Tracks

...on this side of sane
He's released live albums of nearly every tour, many of them double-disc sets like this one from his 2000 Pure tour. For a guy who's cult and not rolling in zillions anymore, Numan puts out a ton of product, most of it welcome.

Easily one of the best-sounding sets, with an excellent song selection from his later work and his early classics. The old tracks are given a new treatment in Numan's current goth-industrial-heavy style, which is more Numan than anything he did in the mid-80s-early-90s. Highlights are Films, which sounds like it uses the Desire drum loop, live, Metal, which gets a fitting overall as a hard overture of a re-vision, and Replicas, which sounds like it came right off Exile. The later material translate well enough to stage, using a lot of tape loops and effects behind the band. The hypnotic beats of Exile (that same drum loop) are also found. . .

Definitely for new and old fans and the curious, it's a very pleasant surprise for the unfamiliar. One of the best jobs of updating old songs in a new style and fitting seamlessly.


Gary takes on Protools
If you love industrial based music, that from and that Gary has influenced, this is probably the best live album you can own.


A good live document...
His strange sci-fi-goth musical mix has pleased and offended the sensibilities of many throughout the years. Gary Numan has always been a rather enigmatic addition to the music community. With the release of "Pure" it seemed that the man was working on a level that he hadn't been for years and that it was possibly one of the few "comebacks" of the era that was going to stick. While the sales weren't much to crow about, the attention paid to Numan's new work by a select elite in the media more than justified his return and following live dates. It's undeniable. . . Gary Numan still manages to be relevant in his own quirky way.

"Scarred" captures (with fine production) Gary in front of a home-nation crowd performing well over an hour of his strongest material. Classic tracks like "Cars" and "Down in the Park" weave a rather dire mood next to lesser known classics such as "Pure" and "Me, I Disconnect From You". Gary's still got it. . . and while the record may be a bit of a chore at it's chosen length. . . no fan will go away dissapointed.

Let's hope that this isn't the typical one-off comeback record as Gary still seems to have some life in that strange techno-goth world of his. I fully support the purchase and this record and I think that all of those who also enjoy his work would as well.

Kudos.


Smokin' Live Set from Gary Numan
I only recently found out that there was a live album from that tour, and immediately ordered it, sound unheard. I had the good fortune of seeing Gary Numan twice on his "Pure" world tour in 2000-01. I was not disappointed! Gary Numan's critically acclaimed 'comeback' album Pure cast him in a somewhat new daylight, with lots more guitars and even darker sounds than we were ever used from him.

"Scarred" (2 CDs, 21 tracks, 97 min. ) brings the complete London Brixton Academy show from October 2000. The set starts off with a sizzling "Pure". While it is followed by the familiar "Me I Disconnect From You", the majority of the songs after that focus on the Pure album, with gems like "Rip", "I Can't Breathe", "Prayer for the Unborn" and "Listen To My Voice", but also a great "Angel Wars" (from the Exile album). "Down in the Park" is recast and sounds greater than ever, as is "Replicas" (check out that stomping intro!). The obligatory "Cars" is here of course, but it truly is not one of the better songs on here. Numan has moved on from "Cars" and he is (and we are) the better for it. The 'new' Gary Numan brings us an overall sound that's somewhere in between of NIN's industrial rock and Depeche Mode era-"Songs of Faith and Devotion" (another synth band that discovered guitars, but Numan brings yet more guitars), and it just works great. It's telling that the CD cover shows Numan with a guitar, as if to convery that this is not the same ol', same ol'.

I also have the 1979 "Living Ornaments" live album of Gary Numan, and both that album and "Scarred" show Gary Numan at his very best. If you can accept the fact that 21 years after "Living Ornaments" Numan is not just about "Cars", you are in for a treat. Strongly recommended!.


Eagle flies high
Here we get lots of songs, extra videos and an attractive sleeve: reasons to make traditional purchases like this without feeling "ripped off. You gotta bless companies like Eagle Records, ones that know what to offer customers willing to part with twenty bucks these days. "

This dazzling, majestic live album is Gary Numan at his best, playing old stuff, as well as new, and reminding the music world how to best coalesce guitars and drums with electronics.

Strong song-writing, well-produced live sounds and masterful showmanship make this one a must!.


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