no but he did predict my morning commute when he wrote "Cars".

Vinton Cerf and Robert Kahn developed the first description of the TCP protocols during 1973 and published a paper on the subject in May 1974. Use of the term "Internet" to describe a single global TCP/IP network originated in December 1974.

This video was filmed in 1979.

Did he predict it?

No.

I think they were onto something with Tubeway Army, though... long before Senator Stevens illuminated us all about the tubes.

Or actually, maybe it was the Tubes who were ahead of their time.

/get off my lawn, white punks on dope!

as I pondered, subby, I fantasized about a life void of Gary Numan. too bad I can't meet my wishes with reality.

tasteme: as I pondered, subby, I fantasized about a life void of Gary Numan. too bad I can't meet my wishes with reality.

Well, you know you didn't have to click the link.

Because People in power are Stupid Well, you know you didn't have to click the link.

I didn't have to.

I did the same thing you did. just beckoned the fark page...then...his name appeared. gives me the chills.

No, he did not. Go back and listen to the lyrics.

He wants to know if they're electric because they appear to be broken. It's a song about the personal costs of fame.

tasteme: Because People in power are Stupid Well, you know you didn't have to click the link.

I didn't have to.

I did the same thing you did. just beckoned the fark page...then...his name appeared. gives me the chills.

I get the chills when I see my own name. Maybe it's a similar phenomena.

No but Kurt Vonnegut predicted that households would be able to access information from a centralized computer via inter tubes way back in 1955 when he wrote Player Piano.

Because People in power are Stupid
I get the chills when I see my own name. Maybe it's a similar phenomena

I'm chuckling. there is so many angles at how to interprit your fark handle, it almost meets the IRONIC polices' standards.

tasteme: as I pondered, subby, I fantasized about a life void of Gary Numan. too bad I can't meet my wishes with reality.

As you do that, why don't you go and look up "subjective" and then "objective" in the dictionary and ponder to your sweet self "Darn Golly, people have different tastes. Wow...I just sounded kind of closed minded and juvenile"

/thanks SUBBY, that brought me back

Asa Phelps: No, he did not. Go back and listen to the lyrics.

He wants to know if they're electric because they appear to be broken. It's a song about the personal costs of fame.

No. It's an interpretation of Philip K. Dick's "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?", aka Blade Runner. "Replicas" is a concept album about a Dick-style dystopian future.

Everybody knows that Al Gore Invented the Internet

no idea but all I know is that the live version of 'i die you die' is farking dope!!

I just popped in to say that I bought this album (on vinyl, of course) when it came out, and that I still have it.

Get off my lawn.

I read in a recent interview with him that "Friends" are gay android prostitutes. Ponder THAT one...

Tubeway Army kicks much a$$, early solo Numan is great, middle era Numan does nothing for me, new Numan rocks.

One time, I heard a kid in high school call them "Tubesteak Army." That annoyed me.

This. Song. farking. Rocks.

Best driving song, evar!!!11!!!

ah one of the rare songs from early in his career that werent about masturbation hehe. favorite artist ever as if my handle didnt give it away. got to see him play right before i moseyed on down to Iraq

Telekon: ah one of the rare songs from early in his career that werent about masturbation hehe. favorite artist ever as if my handle didnt give it away. got to see him play right before i moseyed on down to Iraq

Oh yeah, "Every Day I Die" is totally about playing with yourself. Yup.

The guitar riff on "Something's In The House" gets me so riled up. That shiat completely rocks!

NIN did a GREAT cover of METAL.

/I could learn to be a man like you.

b>Peaceboy: get off my lawn, white punks on dope!
White dopes on punk...
FTFY

Amazing song.

No hooks.
No verse-chorus structure.

Has that minor key dystopian "irony" sound I love.(many others copied this formula in the 80s)

from wiki:

"The song tells the tale of a lonely and paranoid man whose only friend is a robot that has broken down; its themes of alienation and isolation were a Numan hallmark at this time in his career. The lyrics were inspired by a failed relationship with Beggar's Banquet employee Susan Wathan (cryptically referred to as "S.U.") mixed with and filtered through imagery drawn from Philip K. Dick's science fiction story Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?"

craigdamage: Amazing song.

No hooks.
No verse-chorus structure.

Has that minor key dystopian "irony" sound I love.(many others copied this formula in the 80s)

from wiki:

"The song tells the tale of a lonely and paranoid man whose only friend is a robot that has broken down; its themes of alienation and isolation were a Numan hallmark at this time in his career. The lyrics were inspired by a failed relationship with Beggar's Banquet employee Susan Wathan (cryptically referred to as "S.U.") mixed with and filtered through imagery drawn from Philip K. Dick's science fiction story Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?"

It has a hook, it's just not anthemic.

One of my favorite Numan songs.

If you can find it, An Pierle's cover of it is simply awesome.

white boys and heroes.

Down in the park. God, so many great songs from Numan....