Gary Numan - Your Fascination explained (The Fury album) | Electric Friends Podcast

"I don't suppose you ever laughed at me"
For this episode of Electric Friends, I look back at #GaryNuman's 1985 album The Fury, and in particular its lead single 'Your Fascination'.
Including:
How Gary continued his funk/industrial style from Berserker
How radio continued to ignore him despite being a funky banger
How he turned to co-producers and took on a new songwriting technique for the album
Its music video co-starring his then-girlfriend
Theories to what the song is about
Clips used:
Gary Numan - Your Fascination
Gary Numan - Miracles
Gary Numan - Tricks
Retrosound - PPG Wave Soundscapes II
Gary Numan - Revolution (audiobook)
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[@davidbowie2046]

I'd love Gary to do more stuff from the mid 80's on his tours. I know he doesn't think much of it, but to me it brings back lots of memories seeing him perform them years back. Warriors, Berserker, Fury and Strange Charm tours please Gary :)

[@scatton61]

Call out the dogs, Anthem and No Shelter are my favorite tracks on this LP

[@andrewwatitsch3327]

I bought The Fury back in 1985 and the fact it had saxophones female vocals didn’t worry me at all. Very stripped down electronics. Good stuff.

[@edwardcrabtree4824]

For me, the standout piece on this album is 'The Pleasure Skin' . This number - with it' s spooky paranoid ambience and narrative lyrics - represents the much needed missing link between the earlier Science Fictional Numan with its evocation of a world of androids - which made his name - and the later ( unjustly derided) electrofunk period whuch " The Fury' presaged. "Pleasure Skin' is a hugely underrated song - atmospheric wjth a premise behind it but still functioning as a rock song for al that. If there had been more songs like this in his so called " middle period' then his earlier fans mught have felt a tad less left out.

[@batphink2655]

Can't say it's quite my cuppa tea to be honest I prefer his more ambient atmospheric classic sound and some of his Industrial goth current stuff.

[@skinmech4851]

The Fury is a great album and influenced Martin Gore on his their Black Celebration was to sound both he and Andy Fletcher have said they liked the album. Love the synths on this album always loved Call Out The Dogs and Creatures live

[@andrewburns5697]

Too much female backing vocals and sax on Gary's music during this period for me.