Agree with you regards the new Numan album, his best for a long time and I love 9 out of the 12 tracks (the 3 I think that are poor are, A Shadow Falls On Me, We're The Unforgiven and Who Are You).
One thing that really disappoints me about the album is the fact that once again song lyrics and even a song title contain "God" and "Bleed". I really don't know how many times he has to use those particular words in songs. He has been lambasted for it for so long I was amazed to see they reared their ugly heads again on this album and he was even daft enough to release "Love, Hurt, Bleed" as the lead single from it!!!
That aside a very solid album.
I received my copy of Gary Numan's Splinter the other day. I've only had one listen so far. Some tracks jump out immediately as being as good as anything Gary has released for a while. A couple of the slower tracks don't really do it for me though.
I received the Tears For Fears 'The Hurting' box set today. 3 cds and a dvd. You get the original album,a disc of b-sides and remixes, a disc of live sessions and a live concert dvd from December '83.Plus a book of photos/interviews and replica tour programme. Many of the early singles,b-sides and remixes have never been available on cd before. This is my favourite TFF album so can't wait to work my way through it.
