Tubeway Army 'Are Friends Electric' TOTP (1979) HD
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- Опубліковано 28 жов 2020
- Broadcast on 24/05/1979
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Sounds like a Long Vosges to Andromeda
People in 1980: This makes me want to be in the 2020’s
People in 2020: This makes me want to go back to the 80’s
Omg. So, so true!!
People in 2006: This makes me want to drive a Lancer Evo IX in Silverton
Pass the joint, folks!💨🥴
This makes me want to drift a green Mazda rx7 with Japanese shiet on it
Lol 😂 great comment. I guess we're showing how much older we all are now.
A strong contender for the most groundbreaking single of all time. I remember hearing this for the first time as a 14 year old when it was released and it just blew me away. Listening to it today as as someone who is almost 60 years old, it still sends chills down my spine. An incredible song.
Could any of us have imagined that 42 years later we would still be watching this performance?
imagine thinking about how you’d be watching this performance
Just shows how good it was, and is !!
15 times on one channel? No.
@@I_Have_The_Most_Japanese_Music well I suppose all most people in the world have left is HOPE.
He is just so bloody hrilliant 👌
Considering our relationship today with smartphones, Numans lyrics are strangely prophetic. "Mines broken down, now I've no one to love." Genius then, genius now.
It boggles my mind that appliance manufacturers are demonstrably telling me that people want to talk to machines.
Gary was a good 30 years ahead of his time!!!! As were Kraftwork.....lucky enough to remember hearing this back in the day when it was first released.....will always stand the test of time...2021 now, this will still sound futuristic in 2051.....😎👌...LEGEND!!!
The song is about a robot prostitute the lyrics are quite literal even if they do make a good commentary on modern relationships with technology
Gary’s music is iconic
Gary Numan is living proof that time travel is definitely possible
I've been a fan since 1979!!!!!
Me too.❤❤❤❤
Me too 😂 luckily I was 17 back then, absolutely perfect,the music I mean, not me!
I was 12 when I heard "Me I disconnect" on a rock radio station in 1979.
He went in the studio to record a punk album seen a sythn in the corner of the studio and then did this masterpiece 👏
WOW, THATS MINDBLOWING !!
Yeah I watched a documentary called Synth Britainia he says it on their it's a worth a watch as it happens
@@mcfcste99 cheers, will take a look
@@andymatthews7617 Yeah it's well worth a watch you'll find it on UA-cam it has some great bands on it too
@@mcfcste99 thanks mate, very helpful, keep on enjoying the music and stay safe 👍
Those people in the audience stare at him in amazement. Really was ahead of his time.
Him and joy division
@@terracestevenkennedy9198 oh yes... My beloved Joy Division 👍
Music so good no one can move
yep the audience at that time were still listening to funky disco around that time punk rock and new wave were slowly gaining traction along with something on Television called 'MTV' network.
Back in 79 I thought I was staring at the New David Bowie. So futuristic and visionary. The guy just held your gaze in silence. Turned out not to be the new Bowie, but has place as an innovator. Great music and love hearing it to this day
This song has been criminally overlooked in the United States. Gary Numan had a U.S. hit that same year with Cars, but he was unfairly seen as a one-hit wonder. It's our loss, really.
Absolutely correct
Hope you have seen the live Nine inch nails performance of Cars.. with Gary..
As good as Cars and very different feel to it...I liked Complex too but not as strong as the other 2
i always said the cultural river only flows out of the US. you gotta paddle pretty hard to break up that river...
I was a hoser from Scarborough born in 59 totally into Prog and Tangerine Dream. I heard the Tubeway Army album broadcast in its entirety on CFNY late on a Monday night smoking hash in the back of a van in the parking lot of North York Arena after a hockey practice. I remember thinking , what is this ? this is good I am liking this. Months later I walked into a house party Are Friends Electric just blaring everyone dancing. No exaggeration it changed my life.
Sup, hoser (Strange Brew)
the artistic awakening: "what is this ? this is good I am liking this."
One of the greatest songs ever still love it 42 years on.
Love his music ,he's brilliant
79’ I was 13, yeh I’d go back , we ran like wild Indians back then. I bet my bicycle had 25k on it lol
@@deborahchesser7375now I bet you hate those that ride bicycles on the roads 😂
his clothes look like they were made yesterday for 2020 fashion ,40 years ahead of everyone else.
Most true new wave clothes from the 80s still look like they are from tomorrow
The black racing style suit with the belts he wore, coupled with the serious facial appearance are reminiscent of Oswald Mosley leading the British Union of Fascists in the 1930's..a very powerful look
@@saveriociccone23 Bob Geldof in The Wall.
This song will always sound like its from the future 😮
I was quite obsessed with Gary Numan as a young kid. He totally fascinated me. I was convinced he was an android or from another planet, or both.
He still fascinates me and I am 55 love the mans music forever.
I'm so busy trying to break this wall
Hear my words 'cause emotion now is leaving
You see I'm really not a human at all
And I don't think I want to stay
I sometimes wonder if trek's Data was modelled after him
On the BBC programme "I Love the 70s" Numan said I wanted to come across as mysterious...but I just looked like a wanker!
I was 12 in 1981 and playing this on my guitar convinced he was the second coming,,, I wasn't far off
He kept his private plane near to us at a small airfield , my mum worked there in catering, met him several times a real nice down to earth person, got his autograph and a picture with him , looked just like he had walked of the set of top of the pops
Blackbushe airfield? He used to roar down the London road through Camberley in his Corvette on the way through 😎
Like a vampire
North wild I met him there at a air show back In 90s he had a Japanese zero plane .
Gary requested not to have coloured lights on the stage. TOTP went with the idea and hence we got one of the best TOTP performances ever
As a 10-year-old in 1979 watching this on Top of the Pops, I was absolutely blown away.
Excellent
This is still amazing 43 years later. Damn. I remember hearing this in 1979 and it still sounds futuristic.
43 year's it's mad!!!
This in no way sounds futuristic now. Very retro, very passe.
Geht mir genauso 😢
The very first single I bought absolutely amazing song
I was 9 when this song came out. How at 50 years old am i just discovering this song. OMG I love it!! I love UA-cam
So you were born in 1970?
@@ilmamartinez522 yes 🥳
I've done this thing where I'll discover a killer song on the radio, look it up on YT and I'm reading ten year old comments saying, "When I was 8 this was my jam!"
I remember watching it live on TOTP all those years ago it was No.1 in the charts and everyone was talking about it but we barely had VCR's back then couldn't imagine that all these years later could just watch it whenever we liked, we'd have never believed it.
Still great to this day 2/21/24
A strange sad song. Best synth song ever.
It will go down as one of musics milestone, moments. Just Classic.👌
Such vivid memories of this at 14 years old.
The greatest futurist popular music has seen. He was revolutionary.
Still fresh, still enthralling, still relevant.
How this song has only 436K views is beyond me ;(
Absolute game changer of a pop song back in the day 🤔🤔🤔🤔
Changed my life from the second I saw/heard it.
I can clearly recall seeing this on TOTP when I was 10, and it changed my world forever. One of THE best tracks of the '70s and a total game-changer.
I was 14 when I saw this, instantly loved it, then bought Replicas, first album i ever bought for myself
Crazy to think this qualifies as 70’s music🤯‼️ awesome track.
A million years ahead of its time. Amazing.
I remember the old days, NFS CARBON PSP while the light was out and I was the only one in town playing the game with this song 😅
Thanks to my Mom (now 81) who told me (now 55) to, i can proudly say: this is the first music i ever bought. one of the best tracks ever
The best synth-pop song of all times!
Without a shadow of a doubt.
Blue Monday
This song brings tears toy eyes its so beautiful
I can remember watching this on TV and going out on my push bike thinking music will never be the same 😱
One of the most iconic and influential songs of all times !! What an impact such a performance must have had 1979 !
It blew people away. I remember it like it was yesterday. This song, and the Replicas album, turned the music world on its head overnight. 79-81 were magical times for music.
@@davidspion9548 Just think of the first two Albums of The Human League...
@@tombenz7533
Yes, I have both in my record collection. The original Human League were fantastic. Tubeway Army, with Replicas and Are 'Friends' Electric? Just took the look and sound to a different level, though.
@@davidspion9548 I also love the early John Foxx albums, he's very underrated too, I think
@@tombenz7533
Me too. Foxx has done some brilliant stuff.
May 24th 1979. And everything changed.
Fifteen years old, watching TOTP. I was completely mesmorised by Tubeway Armys performance of
"Are Friends Electric?" I'd never seen or heard anything like it before. I bet that I didn't blink once 🖤
Yup. People who weren't there will never appreciate how utterly revolutionary this was. It changed my world, and yours, and countless other people's. It was like the future became real all in one song.
Same for me
About the same age as me :)
Me too.
NOT just one of Top of the Pops' best performances but also a REVOLUTIONARY one.
Looks like Billy Currie on the synth - another great from this era; Gary was very complimentary about Ultravox! - he was the one that took the 70s electro influences and made it popular, opening doors for so many bands to follow. Never tire of hearing this and it still sounds like the future.
As a drummer, it must have been incredibly hard to not do ANY fills in a song this great.
Iconic...
when I was 14 and heard that song for the first time I got crazy about that sound!
Sensational & awesome..
1979...
Seriously, Gary was so far ahead of the music revolution, an inspiration.
He still records, and some of his latest music is on top form 😊❤😊
brilliant its the start of my music life when i was listening to this for the first time im now 60 years old wow
The guy and his music is so cool
What a beautifully haunting song!
Driving around in Palmont city with Audi that you took from Darius after you beat the game just feels good fr fr
Thats Billy Currie on the keyboards right side,of Ultravox. A fabulous musician.
I was totally hooked from this performance and up to the present day. Just saw Gary on tour two days ago. I was 11 in 1979 and never did I imagine that I'd still be able to see him in concert all these years later. Legend.
I was 16 and went straight out and bought the single. Not long after I bought the album.
新宿のツバキハウスというディスコで この曲を流してくれて歓喜の悲鳴を上げた思い出がꉂ🤣𐤔
Shinjuku in the house!
I remember watching this....I was about 8 years old....its scared me to death 😂
Listen to that laser precise drumming. Cedric Sharpley was a monster.
Except it was actually played by Jess Lidyard, Gary's uncle. :-)
Just to clarify: it's Sharpley in the video but you're hearing Lidyard's performance. :)
James Freud from the Australian band The Models and Gary were good friends ,still are .
Anyway, James said Gary was living out back of his uncles ,or parents , house in a caravan and had a synthesizer that he was using to create unique new music with , which led to what we are listening too still today .
Gary is one of the humblest people, I saw him in an interview recently and thought that very much .He's a normal ,everyday guy with a wife and family .
The only musicians on this song to appear here are Paul Gardiner and Gary Numan. Jess Lidyard played the drums on the record. The others here are, I think, Cedric Sharpley, Billy Currie, Russell Bell and Chris Payne.
@@tyreburster Billy Currie looks / acts a wee bit OTT during the performance. I think he missed being more front-of-stage in Ultravox!
Still watching this in June 2023 , brilliant tune , ahead of its time .
One of the best number one singles ever . This song blew me away when I first heard it . Loved numan ever since
I agree Dave 👍
I remember seeing this when Tubeway Army first appeared on TOTP. It was quite unlike anything else at the time, bearing in mind that the pop charts then were more or less split between Punk and Disco acts - yeah, a highly unlikely combination of styles but so it was back in the late 70's. I was quite obsessed with Numan for a while and I remember well the follow up singles 'Cars', 'We Are Glass' and 'This Wreckage' - by that time credited to Gary Numan as a solo artist. Like most music though, eighteen months further on and I'd worn a bit thin of Numan's material but those earlier records are still just as great to hear today as they were back then.
This song still sounds like it's before its time😁😎👍
Keyboards alone on that stage were worth more than my, fairly good, car at the time. Today, to the right person, they're worth a hundred times that.
Woaaaaaah. I'm 14 again. I bought this and then rushed out to buy Replicas and played it non-stop much to the annoyance of my parents. My mate was into them too and forged a career writing electronic music tracks for computer games everywhere while I festered in the NW of England :-( Anyway, my Journey with Gary continued with The Pleasure Principle, Telekon and it went on from there. Still love the sound today. Thanks Arkive.
I'm giving you extra points for your use of the word festered.
@@I_Have_The_Most_Japanese_Music You're most kind. I think it described my position exactly.
Indeed! I kept my copy of Replicas around for years. Still have Telekon and listen to it regularly.
I remember witching this! my older sister sent me down town to the record shop to buy the single. still got it!
What is a "record shop"?
@@I_Have_The_Most_Japanese_Music :-D what we used to call them back in the olden days! :)
I saw the Telekon tour 1980 at Birmingham Odeon when I was 15 and it was brilliant. Take me back 😢. Even my dad liked are friends electric ⚡💡
2023 and it still is an epic song!
brilliance doesnt age
Probably my favorite song of all time.
Those analogue synths were absolutely amazing........Sadly it all changed with the world domination of the Yamaha DX7😥
Watched this on BBC4 last night. The sound of the future.
A great song that influenced many a band throughout the 80s and beyond! A masterpiece!
The future that never came
Oh good old days
Just a fuking amazing sound....
Will never know which universe it originates. Back in '79 this song sent me to brand new places in my heart and soul. Even newer ones now.
Numan was then and is now decades ahead of all of us.
Never gets old. Glad I was around to experience this live!
I can still remember watching the performance on The Old Grey Whistle Test of this track, it was one of those unforgettable moments you get listening to music. Brilliant track.
I was in high school when this song first came out. I remember thinking back then how their sound and look was something that dropped in from the future! Now watching this in 2020 and thinking maybe I was right. LOL
Kraftwork
Yes I felt the same. I was transfixed by this! I can even remember watching this performance on tv when I was 13, it sounded and looked like nothing before. I bought the picture disc that week in my local record shop (the last one they had!) and bought the Replicas LP soon after. I remember just staring at the Replicas cover for ages. It’s amazing what effect music can have on you as a teenager. I’m 56 now and still listen to this period of his music. I still prefer it to his new stuff!
1981 was something special for me .. my father gave me a treat to see
A famous pilot at Heathrow and remember this song I was around
14 yrs old .. this song flying up in
Charts at that time which will live
With me for rest my life
And along come human league..depeche mode..soft cell and loads of synth new wave...brilliant.
Now we realise what a genious he was, way ahead of his time....Electric!
Awesome
I was 15 when this came out and as soon as I heard it and saw Gary on TOTP, I was hooked and followed him ever since.
Such a cool guy
The first time I heard this song was playing need for speed carbon on the ps2. Gives me so many memories of my childhood. Top tier classics are my favorite ❤️
Same here!!! When I first heard this song I was like WOW this is pretty catchy. Definitely memorable for sure!
I can remember this, too. What a fantastic performance, from a unique musician
Wow i Love that Song ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤😂😂
This song gave me a solid boost in 1980! Friends are electric, that’s a fact.
1979
Love Gary numan and tubeway army he was absolutely amazing and loved his songs and music that was the beginning of synthesised music I've been to see them in Birmingham back in the day enjoyed every minute of it with friends xxxx 🎹🎤🎶🥁🎸🎵❤️❤️
And so the 80's begin...
Classic moment on TOTP in 1979. When the "future of pop" finally entered the studio.
Gary was well and truly a good🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔50 years ahead of his time people.,...
Our Friends Electric will still be a banger in 2029....end of 👊😎
so cool back then and still
Gary , you are still the very best and i am still a huge fan !
Powerful song.
still StIlL STILL an iconic song....Even KILLS me more now. Words cannot explain 🖤
I wore the heck out of Cars. But I didn't have access to this song in North America until now. I would have ate it up, as it was just like the everything I liked at the time.
This is the song that I fell in love with Gary Numan and I love him to this day xx
It's just amazing! I can't stop to listening this !!
Just brilliant!
This track is still fresh and relevant today. I downloaded his album Savage about a year ago and it’s never been off my playlist. The guy is still brilliant
I was always fascinated by Gary’s lyrics and melodies
I remember hearing this used in need for speed carbon I love it ❤