Probably my favourite SINGLE of all time by any artist. 'Cars' and 'Complex' from 1979 had made a HUGE impression on me and I couldn't wait to hear Gary Numan's new material. I clearly remember the day I bought the single, on the week of its release. May 1980. The first time I'd bought a single BEFORE it was in the charts. As a 15 year old school boy I was ridiculed mercilessly for liking Gary Numan but I learnt at an early age it's best to take no notice of what other people think!
It's funny how now adays listening to Indie rock stations, all of this keyboard driven music is making a come back. Just had to wait 40 years. Gary Newman only started out wanting to make enough money to buy a corvette. Awesome
My mother helped me make this outfit, I wore it to high school in a "farm town" in S. Michigan. I was voted "Most Unique" of my graduating class, couldn't have been a better compliment.
I saw Numan at the hordern pavilion in Sydney Australia his first concert in Sydney and Cars was very big at the time late 70s I would have been 13 or 14 yrs old . I am 57 today. I was taking photos and security told me to stop it and then Mr Gary pipes up " you can take photos" I'm sure he was talking to me, lol.
Just saw Gary this past Saturday. He was amazing as always but what stuck out were the number of young people at the show. His music seems to have caught on with a new generation and that makes me very happy.
10/10.... Gary Numan is one of the artists that defined the future of popular music... right from the first time we heard Gary in Tubeway Army back in the late 70's we all knew something had changed forever... Cars and We Are Glass are music industry anthems that will last the test of time. still just as good now as when they were 1st released.
I have choreographed to about of 8 of Gary’s songs. This is my favorite. He is an amazing performer. I brought my dance company to see a show. They are 1/3 of my age. They said it was the best show that they had ever seen. Love, love, love❤
Gary Numan is hands down one of the most underappreciated musicians of all time. This song is phenomenal... he's made other good stuff other than just The Pleasure Principle. A truly innovative musician who should've received more recognition for his work... although, Musicians still know and appreciate him. I hated Beck when I saw him at Riot Fest, but it was pretty dope that he at least brought Gary Numan on stage to cover Cars.
Absolutely spot on He’s a classy guy very humble. This is a great 👍 tune. He just released a brand new song and video “Intruder” it may be better than “Cars”
One of the major pioneers of the synth movement in the late '70s and into the '80s; I couldn't help thinking how radically different it was to "Cars" (and anything else at that time, thankfully!)
When I was about 11, Vice City came out and it had a song called "Cars" by some dude named Gary Numan. I really liked the song and so did my buddy. So we went to his place and went on his computer and typed "Gary Numan" into Limewire. "We Are Glass" was the first one we clicked on... I became obsessed in that moment. Since then, I've listened to every album of Numan's. "We Are Glass" will forever be one of my favorites.
@@jcd1970 True. I've had some "interesting discussions" with people who love the GTA franchise over the years, which tends to color my thinking. Maybe I'll tone down my remarks a bit.
Yeah I feel you. I've been doing 80's music lately solely because of Vice City. Really glad I got an early introduction into this type of music when young.
We are young we can break Watch us fall We can take some train Down to the sea We are glass, we are glass We are real you can touch Just for now And then say 'Hey you, which way is down' We are glass, we are glass We are strong we run though We have time And to you I'm just One of those boys We are glass, we are glass We are cold We're not supposed to cry But it's all just a thought So here am I We are glass, we are glass They run fast Impressions of the floors inviting Stay with me, stay with me They run past With telephones they scream Well would you turn all this down Turn all this down You are replaced you are you And our dreams are real And dreams are all we need We are glass, we are glass We…
Jordan Peele's film "Us" must be inspired by elements from these, or something that inspired these. Also hear "Down In The Park", and Tubeway Army - "Are Friends Electric?" Very scary, and somehow rings true, on some level.
How damned blessed were us Brit teens who made it onto the Brit pub/club scene of the '80s? So many favourite tunes from a decade of magical music never to be repeated in my lifetime ❤🔥❤🔥❤🔥
Crickey! Cant remember how many times i went to Gary, travelled all over the UK to his concerts? As a 16yr in old in 1979 right up to the my last one, The Fury tour at Manchester Apollo in 1985. Met some good friends too over them years, which im still in touch with. Even had a tattoo of Numa on my arm which i still have to this day haha!.
love this song its one of my favorites .seen him live a few times hes amazing. i took my husband to a concert back in 1985 when we started going out he absolutely loved it
In these early videos he always comes across as frosty and intimidating but apparently it was just a persona to help him cope with shyness and stage fright. I wonder how many at the time knew that underneath the persona was a really genuine, warm and friendly guy.
I was fortunate enough to see Gary at the 2 shows he did in Glasgow away back in 1979 and 1980. Great memories. Especially the 1980 one when I listened to this song as he sang it ingesting raw, really Bitter Magic Mushrooms! Great Halcyon days. Will the youth of this world ever understand how we used to be like them? Peace and Love..Weird Bill from Scotland.
Oh my gosh!!! I love the Telekon album every song is amazing , even though We Are Glass is not on it is still an amazing piece of work!!! I love his entire image 🎤🎤🎹 Gary Numan is the best and always will be!!!!! Gary I hope your entire family and you are happy and healthy!! Your new work is fantastic! Luv Linda from Toronto 2021🇨🇦💕🇬🇧🎤🌸😀 I hope your daughters and your wife are all well!
What a magnificent piece of art. Come down to earth directly from a Genius's mind. It is like a trip where you go passing stages with every change during the song. Amazing 😭
It’s just uncanny how this song still sounds futuristic 40 years later.
The New Wave were The Futurists. They came and left and we'll never catch up.
Hell yeah!
The genius of Numan. Synths sounds great. We are glass...Numan is!
Your right it does I remember the day it was out on single and it still sounds Awsome today..
I. Flores S what happen to all those years ?
Probably my favourite SINGLE of all time by any artist. 'Cars' and 'Complex' from 1979 had made a HUGE impression on me and I couldn't wait to hear Gary Numan's new material. I clearly remember the day I bought the single, on the week of its release. May 1980. The first time I'd bought a single BEFORE it was in the charts. As a 15 year old school boy I was ridiculed mercilessly for liking Gary Numan but I learnt at an early age it's best to take no notice of what other people think!
i received the same ridicule at school as a 13 year old, but i just remember thinking "you are the boring ones liking your Genesis and ABBA"
Me and my mates at school were Numanoids.Powerful force.Even the heavy metal fans respected us-1980-85
You were ahead of your time bro
and the music sounds like it could have come out just today
It's funny how now adays listening to Indie rock stations, all of this keyboard driven music is making a come back. Just had to wait 40 years. Gary Newman only started out wanting to make enough money to buy a corvette. Awesome
I think that the song "thought she'd be mine "has so much class and style , beyond all they accomplished, this song is a masterpiece
Words fail to express my feelings 🙏 Mr Numan ✌️ 💙🤘🏴🇦🇺
If Gary had emerged 5 years later he`d of ended up a global superstar, Way ahead of the rest.
He smokes every band from 1990 up.👍
Watching Gary, again, this Sunday. I’ve been a fan since ‘79. AFE. This is in my top 10. Brilliant track. 👏👏👏
My mother helped me make this outfit, I wore it to high school in a "farm town" in S. Michigan. I was voted "Most Unique" of my graduating class, couldn't have been a better compliment.
Niceone,how long have you been a numanoid
I just saw Gary in concert a few weeks ago and I'm very happy to say how happy I am to have seen Gary in concert a few weeks ago
The future-40 years ago!
Je l'écoute beaucoup
I saw Numan at the hordern pavilion in Sydney Australia his first concert in Sydney and Cars was very big at the time late 70s I would have been 13 or 14 yrs old . I am 57 today. I was taking photos and security told me to stop it and then Mr Gary pipes up " you can take photos" I'm sure he was talking to me, lol.
The keyboards supply an exhilarating thrill in this fabulous number. Still in my charts after all these years!
OMG. What a blast from my mis-spent youth from the 80's. What a great time to have been youthful. I'm sorry for the kids now.
Just saw Gary this past Saturday. He was amazing as always but what stuck out were the number of young people at the show. His music seems to have caught on with a new generation and that makes me very happy.
Dude! Im getting ready to see him in Boise on September 7th. Im. Stoked.
Because His MUSIC IS TiMELESS and EFFORTLESSLY SEAMLESS
Yes me too and I agree.
Critics gave him Hell at first .
@@martincaughlin5478 And where are those critics, now?
Gazza's had the last laugh!
10/10.... Gary Numan is one of the artists that defined the future of popular music... right from the first time we heard Gary in Tubeway Army back in the late 70's we all knew something had changed forever... Cars and We Are Glass are music industry anthems that will last the test of time. still just as good now as when they were 1st released.
This song doesn’t get the recognition it deserves
@@tonyrobertson1085 I don’t mean when I y came out I mean now with non Numan fans
Gary has written over 400 songs so…
A truly outstanding song.
I was a Tubeway Army soldier 💜 borstal memories
👍🏼
I have choreographed to about of 8 of Gary’s songs. This is my favorite. He is an amazing performer. I brought my dance company to see a show. They
are 1/3 of my age. They said it was the best show that they had ever seen. Love, love, love❤
Gary Numan is hands down one of the most underappreciated musicians of all time. This song is phenomenal... he's made other good stuff other than just The Pleasure Principle. A truly innovative musician who should've received more recognition for his work... although, Musicians still know and appreciate him. I hated Beck when I saw him at Riot Fest, but it was pretty dope that he at least brought Gary Numan on stage to cover Cars.
He may be underappreciated by the general public, but far from it by his peers.
So many artists list Gary as one of their biggest influences.
Absolutely spot on He’s a classy guy very humble. This is a great 👍 tune. He just released a brand new song and video “Intruder” it may be better than “Cars”
I agree with you 100%. He deserves so much more recognition !!
Wow, I'm not a Beck fan either, just doesn't appeal to me but I would have lived, breathed and died to see him bring legendary Gary Numan on stage.
ok
Remember buying this on 7". Loved this, used have a record session playing this, The Human League, Duran Duran, Japan, Ultravox - such a great era!!
I am proud too say!! I was at they gigs!! Mint!!!
My hero Gary numan fan since 1978,intruder album no1 on its release 40 years after Telekon? No other artist would come close to this
I was addicted to Numan when I heard 'Friends' on TOTP in 1979, aged 15.
Followed him ever since.
This was a fantastic single.
Still get shivers listening to this....I was only 17
Possibly the best song he ever did. Also love the fact that he had a suit made to match the cover of the Telekon album.
This is the song that changed my life in terms of music and my love for synths.
This transports me back to my youth so instantly each time I hear it. I've been a Numanoid since 1978 and still love his work..
One of the major pioneers of the synth movement in the late '70s and into the '80s; I couldn't help thinking how radically different it was to "Cars" (and anything else at that time, thankfully!)
When I was about 11, Vice City came out and it had a song called "Cars" by some dude named Gary Numan. I really liked the song and so did my buddy. So we went to his place and went on his computer and typed "Gary Numan" into Limewire. "We Are Glass" was the first one we clicked on... I became obsessed in that moment. Since then, I've listened to every album of Numan's. "We Are Glass" will forever be one of my favorites.
It's the advantage of those born later that they have decades of good music available to them. Game quality, sometimes not so much.
@@akiramenai4973 On the other hand, it's always good to see a younger Gary Numan fan, regardless how they found his music.
@@jcd1970 True. I've had some "interesting discussions" with people who love the GTA franchise over the years, which tends to color my thinking. Maybe I'll tone down my remarks a bit.
Welcome Aboard, you have impeccable good taste 😎
Yeah I feel you. I've been doing 80's music lately solely because of Vice City. Really glad I got an early introduction into this type of music when young.
Amazing tune still in 2022 , loved Numan since Tubeway Army days...
We are young we can break
Watch us fall
We can take some train
Down to the sea
We are glass, we are glass
We are real you can touch
Just for now
And then say
'Hey you, which way is down'
We are glass, we are glass
We are strong we run though
We have time
And to you I'm just
One of those boys
We are glass, we are glass
We are cold
We're not supposed to cry
But it's all just a thought
So here am I
We are glass, we are glass
They run fast
Impressions of the floors inviting
Stay with me, stay with me
They run past
With telephones they scream
Well would you turn all this down
Turn all this down
You are replaced you are you
And our dreams are real
And dreams are all we need
We are glass, we are glass
We…
I thought it was "They run fast impressions of the wars inviting..." but I could be wrong.
Jordan Peele's film "Us" must be inspired by elements from these, or something that inspired these.
Also hear "Down In The Park", and Tubeway Army - "Are Friends Electric?"
Very scary, and somehow rings true, on some level.
How damned blessed were us Brit teens who made it onto the Brit pub/club scene of the '80s? So many favourite tunes from a decade of magical music never to be repeated in my lifetime ❤🔥❤🔥❤🔥
Best decade of music ever. Absolutely magical.
Gosh this brings back memories. I was lucky enough to see Gary live after this came out in Australia. Never forgotten.
Still an amazing song 40 years on!
And still sounds like the ‘future’ now 👍🏻
Masterpiece from the best era of music ever.
Crickey!
Cant remember how many times i went to Gary, travelled all over the UK to his concerts? As a 16yr in old in 1979 right up to the my last one, The Fury tour at Manchester Apollo in 1985.
Met some good friends too over them years, which im still in touch with.
Even had a tattoo of Numa on my arm which i still have to this day haha!.
The first time I heard this on the radio it was like being transported to another planet in the future! Still gives me goosebumps!
Still fresh as it was when it came out, love it❤
Gary's voice is so unique. No one else could sing the way he does.
Surely not 😊
well, brian eno--the anxiety of his influence.
Great song and I love "cars" as well
I used to listen to this over and over when i was a kid. just awesome.
love this song its one of my favorites .seen him live a few times hes amazing. i took my husband to a concert back in 1985 when we started going out he absolutely loved it
His best song, ever. Sends shivers up my spine!
Wow! Such an incredible song!
Gary Numan is god.
He is literally the human embodiment of cool. Godly, charismatic, in a package of authenticity. The~ artist.
In these early videos he always comes across as frosty and intimidating but apparently it was just a persona to help him cope with shyness and stage fright. I wonder how many at the time knew that underneath the persona was a really genuine, warm and friendly guy.
Outstanding artist. Love the spacey sounds and beaming synth.
Nearly everything he did back then was like this. Just fantastic and a huge influence on music
Gary is a gift from God I’m not sure we deserve
Gary Numan's first 4 albums are my favorites of all time. I like all his others, too.
Meant so much to me those LPs
Definitely a Classic!
0:14 one eye...... agree!!!!!!!
I was fortunate enough to see Gary at the 2 shows he did in Glasgow away back in 1979 and 1980. Great memories. Especially the 1980 one when I listened to this song as he sang it ingesting raw, really Bitter Magic Mushrooms! Great Halcyon days. Will the youth of this world ever understand how we used to be like them? Peace and Love..Weird Bill from Scotland.
Should be called we are class! This bloke rocks. He was a real groundbreaker.
Magical sounds
A brilliant track Gary
This is one of the best songs Gary has ever done. I'm surprised it never became the huge hit it should have been.
Same here
Was in Australia
Listen to all his songs now and a few years back he is genius
Love it.
Seen him live 1980 in Sydney.
From 3:43 that - in my view - is the best outro to a song ever! I absolutely love this song, and all the early Numan stuff.
Gary Numan is tremendously the best... I love his style..🔥💛💜
Still jamming out to this in 2023! 😊❤🎉
Brings back great memories of my youth.
My favorite Gary Numan song . ............ a hug from Perú 📢🎵📿🎆🎉....
Love this song.my era.still playing at 60.
👍😊
ALWAYS incredible feel and vibe.
Ungodly gifted composer...
🌹🖤🌟🖤🌟🌹
Extraordinary memories brought back by this phenomenal and timeless song....
Utter brilliance!
Love the claps on this tune
Love love love - PLAY IT LOUD ♥
Great Federation Trooper Costume from Blake 7 in this one... Gary had/ continues to have such a good look
Brilliant
It’s great seeing all these videos I’ve never seen before,
Great track Gary
Stonking track!!! Way ahead of its time.
Oh my gosh!!! I love the Telekon album every song is amazing , even though We Are Glass is not on it is still an amazing piece of work!!! I love his entire image 🎤🎤🎹 Gary Numan is the best and always will be!!!!! Gary I hope your entire family and you are happy and healthy!! Your new work is fantastic! Luv Linda from Toronto 2021🇨🇦💕🇬🇧🎤🌸😀 I hope your daughters and your wife are all well!
can only fit 20 mins a side on vinyl without degrading sound quality sadly, I die you die was on the american pressing of Telekon. But not this track,
Has to be my favorite. I play this on the drums. Still very relevant.
Probably one of his most underrated releases
A timeless masterpiece.
Best track of Telekon.
the master at his brilliant best
Genius work mate!! Still relevant today.
2022 and still sounds great.
Numan could sing "Now I am an elevator" and it would still sound cool and futuristic.
Greetings from Tijuana, Mexico….!
This is Gary Numans' best single by far. Phenomenal song.
Saucy boy, yah
Been a fan since 79 and still love this man. Can't wait for the new release and live shows again once the corona is beaten.
Poptastic Gary numan all that’s great about the uk 👍🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
If only the ever shitty UK press hadn't savaged the poor guy. They always were fucking no nowt bellends though.
@@markwalch6065 👍
I like Gary numans songs too
This is better than the shit in 2022 !! Gary Numan's music has always been COOL !!!😎😎😎🎹🎸🥁🎶
Hi I Recommend an indie rock song and video called 'looking into the mirror' by Robert Nix
This is awesome.
First live gig , Glasgow Apollo 1979.
I always loved Gary Numan.
Great songs I never tire of hearing.
J'adore💙 this electrical genius 🎹🔥🎸🎹🔥🎸
This Sunday February 27th 2022 live at Observatory Santa Ana California
What a magnificent piece of art. Come down to earth directly from a Genius's mind.
It is like a trip where you go passing stages with every change during the song. Amazing 😭
I love this track :-)
The best
as alwyz BRILLIANT, just fucking brilliant
Everything he does is golden!
Incredible piece of art!
I love this song. It's 2024 and I have only just heard it 😊
Omg hello! I’m just listening to it now too!
Welcome to the GN fan club!!! Been listening since the early 80s when it hit US shores!!! Love his early tracks. Telekon album is the best!!!
We are GLASS
Here again 3 weeks later
Anyone in quarantine watching the memories 😀
Yep. Just watched People Mi-Sex. Ahhh the good old days
Yep, sure am
Absolutely!!!!
In yep with beer.remember the nite club days
Copy That :)