Gary Numan The Isolate Tour 1992 Live Compilation

A compilation of all the tracks released from the Isolate tour:
Confession
America
Your Fascination
Time To Die
The Skin Game
Emotion
U Got The Look

[@nightvision_887]

Love the clarity of sound on this vid, thanks!

[@radekholodnak8114]

I know people hate it, but I just love it!

[@thetiktokman]

Saw this live in London twice, fucking brilliant.

[@saint555ful]

Attended this tour. Brill. Outland was a super Album.

[@Scratiznutz]

Susie Webb.. 😍😍😍

[@billfranks6805]

The music itself was fine it just wasn't Gary Numan being Gary Numan but he back n strong now!!!

[@colinwright4139]

Absolutely nothing wrong with this era musically. I think his own disdain towards this is more about his mental state, and the fact he was on his arse.

[@TheWillHadcroft]

Agreed.

[@markmerriott1542]

Good

[@TheWillHadcroft]

Love "Time to Die" on this set. Another underrated and forgotten classic.

[@luciferbox5577]

I absolutely adore 'Time To Die'. It has to be the best B side he ever recorded. Clearly, he was massively influenced by 'Blade Runner' when he wrote it.

[@TheWillHadcroft]

@@luciferbox5577 That and "Noise Noise", I think, are better than the A sides!

[@luciferbox5577]

@@TheWillHadcroft "Noise Noise" is a brilliant track.

[@TheLemonKid01]

How much of Time to Die is actually pre-recorded? Sounds like most of it. Can’t make out if there is actually someone with a sax on stage.

[@markpaulo269]

gary sure had some bad times, glad he got his act back together again.

[@Endzeitstille]

rhythm nation

[@marvinjones4415]

AHHH-HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!! Metal Rhythm Nation.

[@luciferbox5577]

I'm sorry, but the Machine And Soul and Outland albums are sooooooo bad. As a fan, I bought them when they were released and tried to like them, but you can't polish a turd. It was a horrible period for Gary and it was heartbreaking to see how wrong it had all gone for him. As he himself admitted, he was listening to the wrong advice, but thankfully his wife Gemma, who had been a fan herself, made him realize what it was that made Gary Numan...Gary Numan.

[@nightvision_887]

I had a hard time with his funk period at first but I find them infinitely more listenable to the heavy metal sound he adopted afterwards

[@luciferbox5577]

@@nightvision_887 Two of my favourite albums are still ‘Dance’ and ‘I,Asassin’, although, with the exception of ‘Machine And Soul’ and ‘Outland’, he hasn’t produced a bad album in 40 years, which is pretty impressive. I do think he’s really overdone the whole industrial metal thing now, which started with ‘Sacrifice’ and has continued ever since. Unfortunately, he seems reluctant to deviate from that particular sound now, which is a shame.

[@nightvision_887]

@@luciferbox5577 that's funny, 'Dance' and 'I,Asassin' are the albums I listen to the least, other than everything produced after 'Machine + Soul' which I just don't listen to at all. 'Splinter' isn't that bad, but it just doesn't interest me yet. I love 'Machine + Soul' and 'Outland' 😄 even though I will admit some of the tracks are so overproduced they can make your head hurt (and actually maybe half the tracks on Machine + Soul are kind of bad) I really like the dark sci-fi narrative that he was going for, especially in Outland. 'Dance' and 'I,Asassin' are kind of too low energy for me to get through the full albums I think it's different for me as a late fan of his work ( I started listening to his stuff seriously maybe 15 years ago) I think if I was listening to Gary as these albums were coming out I might have a harder time with the stuff that came out after 'Telekon'

[@luciferbox5577]

@@nightvision_887 The point is, with 'Dance' and 'I, Assassin', he was trying to do something different and Dance in particular has a dreamy, hypnotic quality to it, and then with Asassin, he bought in Pino Palladino's liquid fretless bass and really made it a key part of the sound of the album. But even he hates 'Machine And Soul'. For me, it has to be the most un Numan album ever. He relied far too much on Kipper, who produced the album, and it ended up being bland, boring Euro pop. 'Outland' sounds as if it was recorded on the cheap, which by all accounts, it was. By the time he recorded that, he just didn't have the money. He'd had to sell of everything. I read somewhere that he recorded it on really cheap, basic equipment. 'Metal Rhythm' is another forgotten album that was actually pretty good, as was 'Warriors', 'Berserker' and 'The Fury', all of which he seems to prefer to forget.

[@nightvision_887]

@@luciferbox5577 I think there are several points in his career where he finds himself trying to do something different, and that has led to good and bad songs. I like that he went through these phases, my main problem with his metal phase is The heavy guitars just dominate the sound and to top it off that he started whispering on a lot of the tracks so you can barely hear him. Whatever he was trying with 'Dance' and 'I,Assassin' resonates with you but it doesn't really grab me. I haven't found a single song on 'Dance' that I like. 'I,Assassin' has 'Music for Chameleons' and 'We take Mystery to bed' but other than that I find the rest of the album tedious. Sorry I'm not trying to be confrontational. I'm glad that you like them. Maybe someday I will too. Now, as for 'Machine and Soul' I know Gary hates it, but I like 'Machine + Soul', 'Generator', and 'I, Wonder' (probably my favorite). Actually even I'll admit 'Generator' kind of sucks, but I like it. So yeah I guess 3 out of 9 songs, I can't really claim that 'Machine + Soul' is a good album. But I love Outland 😁'Devotion' is kind of weak but I love every other track on that album.