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Gary Numan : Sacrifice



I'd forgotten how good this album is.
This was the album that brought me back into the Numanoid fold. Been there ever since.
(And yes, I know that the production / mastering / levels etc are a bit "iffy")

Oh, and Mode7 : How?
I still like this, but I found this morning that on my Sony Ericsson, I couldn't actually hear ANY of Surrinder's vocals.

Everything about Sacrifice worked.

The production may sound sparse, but it was the stripping back of the music and the doing it all himself approach that he really needed to take.

Poor Gary had to hit rock bottom in order to make an album like that, but I still regard it as his best work of later years, with Exile a close second.

So while it lacks depth, it was the first fully "Numan" sounding album since god knows when. And the lyrics and vocal performances are I think, his very best.

I meant the volume levels etc. Way too quiet. I had to pump up the volume to hear it.

There are some tracks where although you can clearly hear his voice, some of the music is too mushy and distant.

I have no problems with "sparse" or "minimal".

If anything it needs heavier bass.

I've noticed that the bonus tracks on my version from The Numa Years are very quiet indeed, compared to the rest of the album.

My copy of Sacrifice was also part of the " The Numa Years " boxed set.. It's actually the only part of the set that I ever play.





Incidentally, Amazon have this listed as a ONE-DISK CD, with 70 tracks on it. I think not.

What a great set that is. I play most of it - Berserker and the great extra tracks and The Fury plus all the b-sides, which I think are the best on there. But yeah, Sacrifice does stand out as the best overall album in there.

Before that I had the extended version which is good, if a little long. Interesting to hear the more instrumental aspect to the tracks.

And with that in mind, I just might have to listen to The Radial Pair...

Don't have that one. Deluxe Edition on the cheap? Hope that is the case here.

Taking a break from my Foxx, Ultravox, and Numan today. So went for something of a different beat. Chemical Brothers - 'We Are The Night' (and yes, i even still like 'the salmon dance'.

and I still don't like The Salmon Dance.

Am now playing Numan's Radial Pair album. I forgot just how fantastic it is. I wonder what synth(s) he used back then...