I think it's hilarious that Gary Numan is two weeks older than Gary Oldman.

@WhenToastersAttack

4 жыл бұрын

This is a very underrated fact.

@xunder3

4 жыл бұрын

If not for Freddie Mercury, you'd be my queen.

@Zizzyyzz

4 жыл бұрын

Took me a little while, but I see what you did there.

@johnjones5754

4 жыл бұрын

With the amount of likes and comments this main comment has got. Were all still here 2020

@jamesalexander5623

4 жыл бұрын

Brilliant!

40 plus years ago and it still sounds like the future.

@shedeen

3 жыл бұрын

When a Gary track was played at the school disco we all danced like robots. Misspent youth.

@ToneSoCooL3

3 жыл бұрын

he changed music

@richardmyers137

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah!!!!!! I agree 💯 Percent

@eliguerra7110

3 жыл бұрын

I thought it was made recently when i first heard it a decade ago

@millicentlu2572

3 жыл бұрын

Exactly....Lady Gaga jammed that beat in "paparazzi".

what a time to be a young I'm 61 now and wish i could go back to that time of life for one day.

@tyroneherman2601

Ай бұрын

Me too!!!!😊

@pauljackson1880

Ай бұрын

Same here

@markshira7810

29 күн бұрын

You can! Just listen to the music.

@Mortthemoose

22 күн бұрын

59....I feel the same.

@william21990

16 күн бұрын

61 also, if we only knew then what we learned now.

This is the best 80s song of 1979.

no matter how far in the future you play this song it will still sound like it came out in the future

@kierentari8877

2 жыл бұрын

That’s why it’s so timeless I love it brilliant.

@michaelfrazia4569

2 жыл бұрын

@@kierentari8877 same.. I could listen to it daily and still love it brilliant is the right word

@lauramayfield5410

2 жыл бұрын

@@michaelfrazia4569 Me too! I get on YT a few times a month and I always listen to 80's music. I'm now 52

@lauramayfield5410

2 жыл бұрын

This song actually came out in 1979

@kenkovar2647

2 жыл бұрын

it doesnt hurt to look like an android!

Little did Gary know when he recorded this , people would be watching this 40 years later on computers.

@KL-fs1tv

Жыл бұрын

Yep!

@JeriDro

Жыл бұрын

or in cars

@Puxi

Жыл бұрын

I've listened to it in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City on my PolyStation II.

@brucekilby9957

Жыл бұрын

Little did Gary know he would still be alive and still performing.Legend and Legend song.🇬🇧👽

@rainysunday2386

Жыл бұрын

Or on their (handheld, no-wires-attached).phones. All very Dick Tracy

Gary Numan was like a message to everyone in what 80s music was gonna be like.

@rickbrenner7743

10 ай бұрын

The problem is that 80s music mostly sucks

@sawedoffshotgun8462

9 ай бұрын

@@rickbrenner7743 Nah man, your taste does

@oldschoolfoil2365

8 ай бұрын

my neighbor collects od rusted car bodys... his name is garry

@seanbannon7939

8 ай бұрын

Perfectly said ! As if this was the introduction style and the tempo settings

@OldMusicFan83

8 ай бұрын

@@sawedoffshotgun8462 ‘Like your mother!’ (That’s a patented Gen X response)

1979: This song is so futuristic! 2023: This song is so futuristic! 3050: This song is so futuristic!

@rickituarte

4 ай бұрын

lol

@ChristinenLyons

4 ай бұрын

2056

@ChristinenLyons

4 ай бұрын

No experiment for this is history and does it have legal withstanding in a way that residual is a forever and grows as the opportunity to work with sample of promote it is a asset for eternity with some contractual not my business though it is common sense as a lady who is semi educated and experienced in both business and running a my own business and as a barely 19 year as old and new mother and in college online I have no idea how much I could not afford it is your own life and ME TO BE JUDGED FOR THE LEAST OF WHO I AM. I AM HONESTLY TELLING YOU LOOK IN MIRROR TO SEE FOR MYSELF THAT IS NOT A THING OF MYSELF I HAVE BEEN UP TO DATE ON ALL LEVELS GTFOH AND THAT IS TERRIBLE FOR THE SAKE THAT IS OBVIOUSLY NOT THE CASE FOR MY LAWYER IS IN CONSTANT CONTACT OR ACKNOWLEDGE THAT IS FOR ME TO HAVE A PROBLEM IS DEFINITELY NOT A COINCIDENCE FOR MY IMMEDIATE FUTURE TO KEEP SAFE IN FREEDOM AND OTHER THINGS INNOCENT RIGHT THAT IS WHY I'M CHRISTINE LYONS AND INNOCENT AND THE MOST EFFECTIVE CREDIBLE HONEST MOST SUFFERING AND IMPORTANT USEFUL EFFICIENT INTELLIGENT WOMAN WHO HAS NO CONTACT WITH FAMILY FLORIDA ESTHER AMANDA OR ANYONE ELSE IDENTITY THEFT IMPERSONATION AND TAX BANK CREDIT FRAUD AND INSURANCE WELFARE RECORDS SS AND STOCKS O CAN NOT GET SERVICES BEING USED IN SO MANY WAYS. NOT SUFFERING IN SUICIDAL TENDENCY NOBODY IS OF MY FAMILY CUT IT OUT

@GenericUsername1388

4 ай бұрын

Interestingly enough most 80s music sounds super retro-futuristic while a lot of modern music tries to recreate that 80s retro-futuristic sounds 😂

@samanthafox2664

3 ай бұрын

@@GenericUsername1388 Yes, and they fail MISERABLY!

The song of the future from the past

@trespire

3 жыл бұрын

@LES DANZELL I'm still waiting on the promise of the future as envisioned in the '80s. it's now 40 years and counting.

@MT-ek9te

3 жыл бұрын

🚗🚓🏎 🎹🎹🔊🎶🎶😋

@m.kriddick2731

3 жыл бұрын

And this is Gary Numan

@tarstarkusz

3 жыл бұрын

@@trespire Where the hell is my flying car? WE WERE PROMISED! We got youtube and twitter instead. We got jipped.

@rayjr62

3 жыл бұрын

@@m.kriddick2731 Like I said, sometimes...in order to get to the future...you must go to the past. ;-)

Gary Numan is living proof that dark synth music will keep you from aging.

@SuperSpectre1

2 жыл бұрын

Keeps me from aging? Lol..I wish..good synth...was ahead of its time..only hit though, right?

@galek75

2 жыл бұрын

"Dark" "Goth" "Vampires" Yep. The connection is clear.

@cruxivar6026

2 жыл бұрын

And dark eye liner. I'm 50 and still better at eye makeup than most millennials

@shielablige9399

2 жыл бұрын

It's true...I'm 77 and love him still....

@shielablige9399

2 жыл бұрын

@@cruxivar6026 Excellent but I have to say,it isn't hard is it....Some look ludicrous and they all look the same???

Saw him in Adelaide opera house 80 and when the curtain drew back it was an explosion of sight and sound. At the end he got a 10 minute standing ovation.

This is the beginning of my eighties journey of the best music of all time 80s music

@alenahawke475

3 ай бұрын

I totally concur!

@vapordreams983

3 ай бұрын

1964-1975 best rock era than disco came

@MichaelKerr71

2 ай бұрын

@@vapordreams983Disco had better bass lines.

@OldLadyRocker

2 ай бұрын

Welcome! It'll be a great journey.

@richardeast3328

Ай бұрын

When did your hearing become impaired, at the beginning of the eighties?

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

@SethAshcraft

Жыл бұрын

lol

@theodoreritola7641

Жыл бұрын

It was number 1 in the UK IN 1979 ,,,

@futurecenterofficial

Жыл бұрын

@@theodoreritola7641 that's great

@gmax9797

Жыл бұрын

With the way the world is so F'd up - I'll happily go back to the 1980s

@theodoreritola7641

Жыл бұрын

Are friends electric is a better song than Cars though , I t was recorded in 1978 , And Cars in 1979

I can't imagine just how good this must have sounded pumpiing out really loud in a club in 1979

@myblues528

Жыл бұрын

ohhhhhhhh mate imagine on a proper soundsystem

@RICHBLACKCOCK

6 ай бұрын

​@@myblues528TECHNICS or KENWOOD sound system I particular.

@australienne11

6 ай бұрын

Yep...this, Video Killed The Radio Star, Computer Games...the electronics went right through you.

@paulperrozzi4965

5 ай бұрын

I started atcthe Limit and Crazy Daizy in Sheffield on 1980, just as the new synth sounds were hitting the heights- dancing to the new tunes all night was banging

@simongilbert2704

5 ай бұрын

it's 70's

This song was so ahead of it's time.

@morbidmanmusic

4 ай бұрын

no such thing. it was 1979. I Was there.. literally in the next room~!

@acebrandon3522

3 ай бұрын

Pimp Daddy agrees, far out man.

@toeknee5777

2 ай бұрын

Please...youre a nutcase

@DrLoverLover

Ай бұрын

in what way?

There will never be another time in history where music is as good as it was in the 70s/80s. Period.

@MultiCappie

4 ай бұрын

This is not true.

@jorgemarin7303

4 ай бұрын

I concur my dear boy so chap pop in the key 🔑 let’s jam jar this bloody ride

@GenericUsername1388

4 ай бұрын

Really? I bet the 2390s will be pretty good

@callen8908

4 ай бұрын

It was fvcking great! New territory instead of product

@dwaynesbadchemicals

3 ай бұрын

That’s because the greatest album of all time came out in late 1979.

Released in 79, i feel like this dude made the 80s, what an absolute privilege to have Numan alive at this time.

@dianacruz5985

Жыл бұрын

1979, a good year, the year I bought a 1969 Camaro. Quarter mile street racer 👀. 16 year old ... Independent yet many of my teenage friends had muscle cars.

@jackcarraway4707

Жыл бұрын

Cars was released a month before Video Killed the Radio Star, aka the first video shown on MTV.

@luannabbate2624

Жыл бұрын

Just so sad that if he came about today he wouldn't be given a second chance

@jaycee9540

Жыл бұрын

He was probably one of the very first to use those synth sounds it sounds 80s and not the 70s

@VibeXplorer

Жыл бұрын

Yep. He was standing at the door to the Eighties showing people in...

I know it's 1979 but THIS is the start of the 80s!!!

@stevedyches4635

Жыл бұрын

A lead-in one could say as far as early eighties music goes.

@marybarnes6407

Жыл бұрын

When I hear this song and pop music I think of the 80's. On 80s stations they will play this as well.

@vapordreams983

Жыл бұрын

80s was 1979-1993.

@lloydkline

Жыл бұрын

❤️/ 1970s music , greatest music era ever

@catchyname58

Жыл бұрын

This was actually one of the first new wave songs to chart so this was probably start of 80s songs

Im a 50 year of black woman and this is still one of my jams!!!!

@darmoedvdome

4 ай бұрын

Иди на плантации работать, monkey

@joemiller9931

3 ай бұрын

Easy peasy, trippin hard.

@Mounutt

3 ай бұрын

Jam on 😊

@thunderbolt5354

2 ай бұрын

WHAT ?????? Black Folks only like Rap !!!!!

@EddieSam-fj2hm

2 ай бұрын

How cool ❤

54 year old lady here (no, please don't laugh) - remembering this from the first day I heard it and am STILL LOVING IT! Great music NEVER gets old and I will forever be an 80's chick... Thanks for sharing x

@morbidmanmusic

4 ай бұрын

Who'd laugh>? And if they did... not worth your time anyway.

@nicksellens272

3 ай бұрын

57 year old bloke agrees.

@samanthafox2664

3 ай бұрын

@@morbidmanmusic Yep, so true, thank you x

@JennJenn1265

3 ай бұрын

52 year old here. I play this song all the time. 80s were the best

@rudyhernandez8446

3 ай бұрын

55 going on 56 year old. Great song. Go gen x.

No one makes pop music quite like the British. Gary Numan's Cars is a sublime and future-proof masterpiece.

@patrickciacco1083

2 жыл бұрын

Amen Ken, British movies may be for the birds but the British... they have the best Pop & Rock n Roll bands in the whole world.

@jessewood2012

2 жыл бұрын

You are so right 👍🏻

@luckyducky7166

2 жыл бұрын

@@patrickciacco1083 gotta thank Kraftwerk.

@a.tanner8524

2 жыл бұрын

@@patrickciacco1083 Are Snatch and Lock Stock for birds?

@quollosuru

2 жыл бұрын

Kraftwerk pretty good too

I'm 54 and this is one of the greatest all time songs and videos in history. I know many who agree.

@theredbarroness

3 жыл бұрын

Let’s all admit it... we lived the experience of this song... FEEL GOOD MIND CONTROL!!.....LOL....😉

@lifeontwowheels3104

3 жыл бұрын

Im 29 and grew up around rap and metal and yet I still grooved out whenever this song came on in GTA Vice City. Some people say games are a waste of time but I've had fun, made new friends, and learned about great music through the soundtrack of said games lol.

@Dm3qXY

3 жыл бұрын

Stuff like this deserve a platform that would keep them uncompressed.. one would expect something like that to be a thing in 2021 already... WHY CAN'T WE HAVE NICE THINGS ?! (stupid copyright laws and publisher ignorance, that's why... ok, i'm chill now...)

@Dm3qXY

3 жыл бұрын

@@lifeontwowheels3104 37 here; Videogames are about escapism, and what GTA did with its radio stations was just a glimpse about the multidimensional escapism videogames are expanding towards (games becoming platforms for distribution of traditional media, hosting video events, live events, socializing features etc. , approaching the kind of complexity stories like "Matrix" hinted about, hopefully without the dystopian aspects, but with unforeseen economic opportunities instead, especially for those materially limited in real life, or physically impaired.

@joebuzz2758

3 жыл бұрын

@@Dm3qXY lol

He's Godfather of 80s' New Wave Music.

@jeshkam

2 ай бұрын

I would say it was Bowie.

52 here and I remember being 8 or 9 sitting in the back of my parents car riding to somewhere, and this song came on, and it really freaked me out. It was kinda scary especially that keyboard breakdown towards the end. So haunting!! After all those years, I hear it and it still sounds spooky and futuristic.

The first time I heard this, the DJ played it three times consecutively. He couldn’t wrap his head around it. It was the fall of 1979 and I just entered my senior year of high school. New Wave rock is amazing

@greasyflight6609

2 жыл бұрын

The Police

@VC-zk1kv

2 жыл бұрын

"M" Pop Muzik!!! :)

@thunderhorse6666

2 жыл бұрын

No... no it's not! Absolutely nothing amazing about it. Fuckin dorks

@robnowlin7285

2 жыл бұрын

I classify this as Synth Pop. You are probably right.

@kevinflaherty7592

2 жыл бұрын

I agree with you forrest.in the fall of 1979 I just graduated.my god this song brings back my youth.carefree days!

Still just as good 40 years later.

@D33Lux

4 жыл бұрын

Keyboardist - no fucks given at 1:45

@seanmalik6055

4 жыл бұрын

I put this on the record player in 1979=80 at age 5!!

@amypenn4486

4 жыл бұрын

💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚

@alessandranovello354

4 жыл бұрын

@van wray un bel gruppo che nel proprio mette il proprio

@topbanana4013

4 жыл бұрын

sounds even better when you here todays CRAP

This may be THE song that captures early 1980 best for me. I was on the radio as the morning radio guy at BJ105 Orlando and playing Gary Numan every morning. When I did, I'd crank up the studio speakers. Loved it then, still do now. Killer song

Gary Numan truly is such an underrated gem of an artist

This guy paved the way for what was coming in the 80s

@craichead333

3 жыл бұрын

Not just the 80's, huge influence on NIN

@artisansportsman8950

3 жыл бұрын

Not only paved he literally set them in concrete to last for eternity .

@ziggyzagzi8017

3 жыл бұрын

Along w/ the CARS

@magnificentmuttley154

3 жыл бұрын

@@ziggyzagzi8017 The Cars' _Let's Go_ came out that very same year. It's as synthpunk as you can get ;o) I've been listening to Gary Numan & The Cars ever since 🎹🎸🕺 Strangely enough its also the year Mel Gibson debuted in _Mad Max._ (See my ID photo)

@asherouk7308

3 жыл бұрын

Roxy Music, The Cars, The Saints, The Cure, The Clash, the SOS Band and Toto are the bands from the 70s that I think helped shape the future sound of the 80s the most. Possibly also the New York Dolls but they stopped recording in 1976.

I remember this clearly when it came out, it changed the music for the next decade.

@MinekEzQM

3 жыл бұрын

By that time Kraftwerk already did change the music industry. The world was just slowly adapting. :)

@michaelskywalker3089

3 жыл бұрын

I agree. I heard it was especially hard in Britain at the time and the systematic rejection by the music industry establishment was difficult for Mr. Numan.

@gilbertdavid2677

3 жыл бұрын

Yez it started new wave dance craze by the wea dancers

@SoapinTrucker

3 жыл бұрын

@@MinekEzQM *The Robots* :)

14 year old here. Amazing song.

@lefkytheshin

Ай бұрын

14? Man, that sucks.

@johnnypickens9228

19 күн бұрын

My boy you should dive deeper into Gary's music. Look up Tube way Army

I remember being a kid in the 80s and my parents playing this song on a Sunday while they did some cleaning 😊 It always gave me such a surreal vibe

@random_an0n

3 ай бұрын

same thing but mine is that mungo jerry in the summer time song,reminds me of being sat at kitchen table eating cereal as a kid while my parents do shit.

Released in 1979. Gary Numan was so far ahead of his time that he hasn't even been born yet.

@reeses_unicorn

4 жыл бұрын

I'm surprised to learn that! This song has such a great 80's sound, that I thought it came out, around, 1983-1985.

@anthonyrios8566

4 жыл бұрын

AMEN . JUST SAYING

@reeses_unicorn

4 жыл бұрын

@ghosttrain2066 That's true.

@sharonw3084

3 жыл бұрын

70s had a lot of cool songs that where one hit wonders and didn't really get played until the mid 80s. British pop was the bomb!!!

@keithfrance6191

3 жыл бұрын

Not as far ahead of Kraftwerk 🤔

Unless you lived at that time you have no idea how shockingly different this was. Still is,

@trespire

3 жыл бұрын

@clowncleaner What was it ? 7 synthisizers. Extravagantly expensive at the time.

@kaputalist1971

3 жыл бұрын

@@trespire The innovation. I was 10 years old when I first heard it and it was light years different than anything else on the radio.

@eileenh28

3 жыл бұрын

I remember seeing the video when it came out (I was 10) and stared because I had never seen or heard *anything* like this before.

@trespire

3 жыл бұрын

@@eileenh28 Non of us had seen not heard 7 synthesizers all at once. The triangular flourescent tubes, the "electric" drums.

@briangonigal3974

3 жыл бұрын

Well..., I guess if you'd never heard any of David Bowie's Berlin-era stuff it might not seem uncannily familiar to you, at least.

I remember when this first aired on MTV. Grateful I was around then.

Industrial Rock was born here, not enough credit is given to Gary Numan..

Still one of the best tunes ever. Stood the test of time.

@timmitchell5588

2 жыл бұрын

Yes you are so correct 😇

@TheGoodReverendSatan

2 жыл бұрын

Check his duet with his daughter on My Name Is Ruin! Pure 💛

@laramiefj40

Жыл бұрын

So have you!

@djsmiley1965

Жыл бұрын

@@TheGoodReverendSatan I will sorry for late reply just seeing this

@djsmiley1965

Жыл бұрын

@@laramiefj40 😂👌🏻🙏🏻❤

Who else was watching and listening to this on MTV in 1981 and still in 2023!

@dennislopez6500

3 жыл бұрын

2020 on KZread.

@laurasanders984

3 жыл бұрын

I'm old

@ricoF71

3 жыл бұрын

Long Live and Prosper bros and sis fellow 80s Gen! A great life experience we've all been through up to this moment in time! All our Praise to The Creator of All!

@gregborjas2557

3 жыл бұрын

I was 12

@etmeyutub

3 жыл бұрын

Had the single in 81.

It's a pneumatic drill of a record, hitting hard with unprecedented lyrical intensity.

ELECTRIC CARS KILL! Gary Numan on point! THANK YOU!

This song was bloody fantastic when it was first released and is still bloody fantastic today !!!

@kevinoconnor1912

2 жыл бұрын

I remember first time hearing this song and it was so different!!! Loved it then & still do today ✌️✌️✌️

@kathyk2756

2 жыл бұрын

Always have been and always will be awesome

The funny thing is that Gary Numan said he came up with that synth riff by accident as he felt uninspired to compose anything and just began to play that random tune. Never expected to be one of the most iconic riffs of the 80s.

@Chelaxim

3 жыл бұрын

This was 1979, he was ahead of his time.

@Deegee_1969

3 жыл бұрын

He said that the long intro note was simply because he couldn't think of what else to play.

@kennethflores7075

3 жыл бұрын

Ever!

@aaronhellinger6855

3 жыл бұрын

Not true. But cool story

@joebuzz2758

3 жыл бұрын

Lol great comment, but he does not seem at all like that.

He was only 21 when he wrote this. Genius

this song never gets old, dusty or rusty

@kevinkelley3657

3 жыл бұрын

It was a mega hit. I you are between the ages of about 42-55 currently, you absolutely remember this hit

@govertverspui

3 жыл бұрын

@@kevinkelley3657 Im 60....

@kevinkelley3657

3 жыл бұрын

@@govertverspui No disrespect intended, I like music from a very broad range of years. If it touches you, it is one of yours.

@neilgibbons2532

3 жыл бұрын

Just the BUICK !!!!!! Got old

@jencman7875

3 жыл бұрын

One of my favorite songs

I played the hell out of this song ,so much so that My now 93 year old mother still says my name when she hears it.

@paolobenmore3504

3 жыл бұрын

I guess she shouts Cars!

@jjlove13only1

2 жыл бұрын

Sandra that's how you know it's a good song because you couldn't stop listening to it over and over and over again, because it gave you a certain kind of feeling that only this song could give you.

@kingyamcha5289

2 жыл бұрын

Lmao

@mrwhite77781

2 жыл бұрын

She has a better memory than joe deminta biden

@rockkenintexas3006

2 жыл бұрын

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🖤🖤🖤🖤

I had the pleasure of meeting and having a drink with Gary Numan, gotta be ablut 12 years ago, my uncle opened the NumaBar in Wolverhampton (unfortunately no longer there now) but I got to see him perform live t the civic then he came into the numabar (he had to really!) Amazingly cool guy, I was besotted with him

@lauriedavis5946

28 күн бұрын

Nothing like hearing great things ab someone i’ve always admired! imo there’s no better comment than an _in real life_ first person account. Even if it’s bad news sometimes it’s still simply _NICE_ to hear the up close TRUTH! Anyway. So _your’s_ is the best of the best 🏆 since you met him in person & you said all the lovely things ab Gary which i am so tickled to know! Somehow gratifying to realize that at least _HOPING_ for the best is never the wrong thing to do. TY much for your input! 🤟🏻🕊️💕

@the167club

24 күн бұрын

@lauriedavis5946 haha no worries he really was incredible to meet and watch live

Seeing Gary Numan live in 1980 brought me here!

I love that every instrument is a synthesizer except for the drums and tambourine . The combination gives this song the magic it needed to be a classic.

@localresidentofgortonmarke8415

3 жыл бұрын

incorrect there is a bass part m8.

@davefieramosca6974

3 жыл бұрын

@@localresidentofgortonmarke8415 Ok and a bass 👍

@davefieramosca6974

2 жыл бұрын

@@Redhouse334 so was Cedric Sharply the drummer just a hologram then?

@raulio81

2 жыл бұрын

@@davefieramosca6974 probably, unless he's playing electric drums.

@chadrbot5505

2 жыл бұрын

4 guys playing a synth, none using more than one hand, one playing with one finger.

"People of Vice City I give you Gary Numan" 😎

@WylieFentonMusic

3 жыл бұрын

Yes

@gamer12463

3 жыл бұрын

Tommy vrisetti mission

@AbdulManan-ty5lx

3 жыл бұрын

Me

It's 2024 and this song is still ahead of its time

Synth-pop at it's very best. Gary is an incredible musician and this is just one example of his genius.

What an absolute privilege it was growing up in the 80s surrounded by epic synth music like this. Can't get enough of this, could listen over and over and never get tired of where this song takes me. Thanks Gary, love your work, true legend!!!!

@emichels

2 жыл бұрын

Very well stated. Rock on.

@richardsmith9210

2 жыл бұрын

good comment the 80's were the best decade for adventurous exciting music still sounds as fresh as a daisy!

@carlthornton1831

2 жыл бұрын

Best era for music period!! I really miss the 80s and MTV!!!👍🏼

@josephclark4153

2 жыл бұрын

80s kid forever ✌️

@timmitchell5588

2 жыл бұрын

Totally agree with you Eric what a magnificent decade of music we can reminisce about 💓🙏

I got so much crap from my older brother for liking this song when it came out. This was progressive trance 20 years before progressive trance even came out. I recorded it from the radio onto a cassette tape and listened to it endlessly.

@Boxingbear

2 жыл бұрын

Ha ha..didn't we all have cassette players with radio on them ? Wow. Seems so strange now. Today's youth have no concept of how much they really have at their fingertips compared to generations past.

@patrickbateman5387

2 жыл бұрын

More progressive than TOOL

@chrispurse3931

2 жыл бұрын

Fear Factory redid this with Gary. It is just as good as this. However I am a person that loves the original over remakes.

@Augfordpdoggie

2 жыл бұрын

i was listening to rush and the police at 12 and my older brother was listening to milli vanilli and jimmy buffet and had the audacity to goof on me for liking this

@patrickbateman5387

2 жыл бұрын

@@Augfordpdoggie who tf is milli vanilli and Jimmy Buffett isn’t that bad.

This song literally sounds like its flying at the end!

@lucilla972

7 ай бұрын

The most fitting comment

At 65 I'm still dancing and listening to this, I love the music from the 60's to the mid 80's! The Baby Boomer Generation produced some of the finest talented and innovative musicians! "Cars" is the first solo single by English musician Gary Numan. It was released on 24 August 1979 and is from his debut studio album The Pleasure Principle. The song reached the top of the charts in several countries, and is Numan's most successful single. The song was the first release credited solely to Gary Numan after he dropped the band name Tubeway Army, under which he had released four singles and two LPs, including the number one UK hit "Are 'Friends' Electric?", and its parent album Replicas. Musically, the new song was somewhat lighter and more pop-oriented than its predecessors, Numan later said that he had chart success in mind: "This was the first time I had written a song with the intention of 'maybe it could be a hit single'; I was writing this before 'Are "Friends" Electric?' happened." He has since described "Cars" as "a pretty average song". In the UK charts, it reached number 1 in 1979, and in 1980, it hit number 1 in Canada two weeks running on the RPM national singles chart (29 weeks in the top 100), his only single to chart there. The single was first issued in the US in February 1980, where it peaked at #4 on the Cash Box Top 100 and #9 on the US Billboard Hot 100 on June 7, 1980, remaining at that position for three weeks. Although Numan had a string of hits in the UK, "Cars" was his only song in the American pop charts - Wikipedia

According to Numan, the song's lyrics were inspired by an incident of road rage: I was in traffic in London once and had a problem with some people in front. They tried to beat me up and get me out of the car. I locked the doors and eventually drove up on the pavement and got away from them. It's kind of to do with that. It explains how you can feel safe inside a car in the modern world... When you're in it, your whole mentality is different... It's like your own little personal empire with four wheels on it.

@popjaw1andOnly

2 жыл бұрын

I live in mine. This song has taken on a whole new meaning.

@someguy2744

2 жыл бұрын

Good on him for having the presence of mind to lock the doors. I'd imagine some people (myself included) wouldn't have the presence of mind to do so, and would probably get their ass beat. Although, if these guys were really problematic, they would have tried breaking the windows - so you gotta get out of there, fast.

@lauradaly8020

2 жыл бұрын

Wow! That gives us a bit of understanding that hadn't been brought up at the timr.

@ianmclean5812

2 жыл бұрын

That's correct!..London Is no place to be when traffic backs up!!...Every person for themselves!!!

@edfromtheairship

2 жыл бұрын

True!

That synth lead takes this song to another level

@myronmyronhollishollis

2 жыл бұрын

wait'll we finally get a good mass-produced jet pack song will still be good

@bretslagle3438

2 жыл бұрын

Played in the days when MTV was "MTV"!!! LOL

I was renting a room in a house in the late nineties, the owner was in a pub band doing covers and Cedric Sharpley (Gary Numan’s drummer R.I.P.) was their drummer….what a fall from grace

Gary Numan. I'm here in my car. Classic tune. 😃

This classic tune is dark...as a kid first hearing this blew my mind and even now aged 50 omg

@chelseagirl278

3 жыл бұрын

I feel the same. I love it and I am the same age as you. It never gets old. Only we do. Hahaha 😂

@trespire

3 жыл бұрын

Ditto, both off you two. This was massive, still is.

Nothing can replace the 80s. So many good memories. Fun. Fun.

@Klonkus

Жыл бұрын

Boomers fucked it all up though

@user-bz9ld2go3g

Жыл бұрын

Uh yes the 70s

@deepeters

Жыл бұрын

Damn straight!!!

@piar7263

Жыл бұрын

Rose colored glasses.... 😎

@patb5266

Жыл бұрын

This song and Are Friends Electric are instant teleportation to the early 80's for me!

Even to this day , 54 i still melt while listening to this song . Genius

Today I heared this song from my childhood while driving my car. The dj only mentioned Gary. I finally found it on KZread! Sweet memories, still a great song! Love it!

I was in my last year at school when this song came out. I don't think young people today could possibly grasp just what an almighty impact this song had when it was first shown on the British TV show called Top of the Pops. I was at a friends house at the time and there were six others from school. All of us where literally frozen mesmerised by sounds that seemed to have come from another planet. I can remember the hairs on my arms standing up. All of us knew at that moment that the future had arrived and we were all going to be part of it.

@junewatts8809

Жыл бұрын

OMG! Same! Me and three friends at my parents house, all chatting - with TOTP on in the background - and then this came on: conversation just stopped dead (no mean feat for 4 teenage girls!). We just sat there, mesmerised. Still love this song now. 😊

@artconsciousness

Жыл бұрын

@@junewatts8809 Wow to think we were both experiencing the same moment in history at the same time! It is a rare event in modern history that a happening can cause millions of people to all stop and stare at their TVs. Usually it is a tragedy, like the death of Diana, or the Twin Towers. At least this was a positive event creating a positive experience and a positive memory that can never ever be changed. I kind of feel grateful for that. Take care.

@dangeroreilly2028

11 ай бұрын

Some of the earliest New Wave to hit the mainstream airplay.

@jaylakeane1720

7 ай бұрын

Same effect on me but I was 12 or 13 watching the video on brand new MTV. I remember this and David Bowie’s “ ashes to Ashes”

@BruceWall-gv4up

6 ай бұрын

Yea,. It. was. so. different. and. ahead. of. it,s. time,. and. where. I. grew. it. in. BR. it. was. wild.

This is an absolute banger

@kenaaronbabbit9987

3 жыл бұрын

This thing goes from infinity to beyond

I remember this jam. I also remember the beginning of MTV. Those were the best days.

I remember when i was little they would play this song on the radio alot

This song will be with us forever, utterly brilliant, and I am priviledged to be old enough to remember when it came out. Thank you, Gary Numan, Bless your heart for sharing this.

That slow-mo entrance to the mic is just * chef's kiss *

@vincentmyers4732

3 жыл бұрын

Slow motion intro. Amazing.

@93seronica

3 жыл бұрын

My favorite part of the whole video!!

@wildechild5

3 жыл бұрын

The black to red was pretty bad ass toooooooo.

@raygardener7393

3 жыл бұрын

He perfected the reverse mic drop

@natemajor6560

3 жыл бұрын

The Italian pinch

I attended a predominantly White junior high school in the 1980s in Washington, DC, and this song was the jam!!

It’s so fascinating to see how many of us were impacted in the same way by this song, and we were often about the same age. I was about 8 when I first heard it and was blown away, and it still has the same impact on me.

This song was so ahead of its time

@svilenaninetta9838

4 жыл бұрын

Even now days

@hanniffydinn6019

4 жыл бұрын

It still is, nobody is doing this anymore.

@pedrorocha8120

4 жыл бұрын

This is a song of 2020 the end of 1979

@amypenn4486

4 жыл бұрын

💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💚💜💜💜💜💜💜💜🖤🎀💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜🎆🥳💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜

@whristantd

4 жыл бұрын

I wish they made songs now like this album. It’s so perfect

IF YOU LISTENING TO THIS RIGHT NOW,YOU MY FRIEND ARE A LIVING LEGEND

@poanochung-wahlee1567

4 жыл бұрын

Very true. I even have a t-shirt that says that. Aloha from Hawaii

@smackeddie3826

4 жыл бұрын

grew up on it, my dad was a Numan superfan lol

@EarthWindandFirepower0990

4 жыл бұрын

@@poanochung-wahlee1567 HELLO FROM TEXAS

@poanochung-wahlee1567

4 жыл бұрын

@@EarthWindandFirepower0990 aloha brother.

@dan5964

4 жыл бұрын

Heck ya, great song,

Still a great song! I'm old.

Buying the 45 record was a major highlight in my childhood!!

RIP Cedric Sharpley, an awesome drummer.

@colinthorn

Күн бұрын

Yes, that drumming is superb, a very underrated contribution to a great track (everybody focuses on the futuristic synth sounds)

This song is always sound best when played as loud as possible

@jbiezen

3 жыл бұрын

facts

@TS-bn7zt

3 жыл бұрын

Yes mate, 100% 👍

@jwanbesande2734

3 жыл бұрын

So is literally every good song ever

@WestbustahSaucedo

3 жыл бұрын

Yep

@simonhouel1984

3 жыл бұрын

Fear Factory likes your comment.

Yeah man 80s signature song ❤❤❤

I came here because of Jungkook's new CK ad.. This song is amazing,. I used to love this song even before.. everytime I hear this on the radio👍💯

RIP Ray Liotta. Thanks for the awesome memories and thanks Rockstar for introducing me to these masterpieces

I was 19 when this came out. He truly paved the way for the 80s music. I remember this video on Friday Night Videos, two years before MTV was released. A true classic.

@yarbles67

2 жыл бұрын

Friday night videos were awesome. We couldn’t afford cable and this was the only way to see the latest videos if you couldn’t get mTv.

@Znop

2 жыл бұрын

@@JenSell1626 Jealous of the fact you got to experience Michael Jackson, Gary Numan and Prince when they were in their prime.

@skaryguy71

2 жыл бұрын

Don't think so....Friday Night Videos premiered summer of 1983. MTV premiered in 1981.

@irishron4861

2 жыл бұрын

@skaryguy71…right dude. And I’m sure the late night on Friday and Saturday variety show “Night Flight” shown on the USA Network pre-dated MTV (by a handful of months). They were another source of music videos but I’m not sure if they referred to them as that then. I vividly remember seeing some ta-tas in psychedelia on Zeppelin’s “Whole Lotta Love” video. For a 15 year old up at midnight on a weekend it was awesome !

@artfuentes70

2 жыл бұрын

I miss those MTV video's, 80s not like the music today..

This song sounded so futuristic when it came out. Hearing it now... sounds so futuristic.

Light years ahead of its time

AND THERE'S NOT A SINGLE CAR IN DA VIDEO. If I die during this epidemic, I will die jamming 80's music!!! This song was so ahead of its time

These days, one rarely sees such meaningful tambourine playing. Also, I freaking love this song.

@thadutchmastr420

4 жыл бұрын

Yes that was so meaningful

@keviningles5580

4 жыл бұрын

Hello bryn

@darrenmccoy8973

4 жыл бұрын

Liam Gallagher no bad

@brianwalendy3735

4 жыл бұрын

@@DCul strange you got so butthurt about a percussion instrument...

@ikesours6558

4 жыл бұрын

Secret: Tambourine is the best metal percussion.

As a kid, all I could remember of this song was the music in the background. I don't recall a single word of the lyrics. Now, as an adult, I appreciate the words to the hilt.

its like a hit song from another planet, beyond classic.

My 15-month-old is obsessed with the word “Car” and loves this song.

@manoman0

4 жыл бұрын

That sounds very promising.

@veltonmeade1057

4 жыл бұрын

Funny how a 15-month-old could be so aware.

@MissThinkabunch

4 жыл бұрын

free lunch I am definitely happy that he likes this song! ❤️👍🏻

@MissThinkabunch

4 жыл бұрын

Velton Meade, I agree! I feel like people underestimate these tiny brains. He also loves Peter Schilling’s “Major Tom”.

@MissThinkabunch

4 жыл бұрын

manoman0, He really gets excited when the tambourine comes on the screen since he has one. He also likes seeing the keyboard since we have one of those as well.

This shit is a REAL Classic. And it’ll always be fucking Awesome to hear.

Still love ❤️ this 10-23

Im 56 was at work today.. this song came on and i was in a trance on the closing minute...lol lol lol a sober trip lol lol

One of the first almost all electronics bands of the era. 2021 and sound like still belong on the future. Immortal Gary Numan. Release date 21st August 1979.

@theodoreritola7641

Жыл бұрын

4 N A HALF MONTHS BEFORE THE 80s were in DIAPERS

I'm 56 now and this song always takes me back when I was a much younger version at 15 in my sophomore year of high school! Youth memories! I cannot help it, it happens every and each time I hear it.

@MIZHOG

Жыл бұрын

I remember a silver label on black vynyl 45. Top 40 on Radio 1. Classic. Wore the grooves out!

@brettthebassist

Жыл бұрын

I’m 56 as well and can totally relate 👍🏻

@josephrocco2954

Жыл бұрын

Yes! Isn't music great that way?

@michaeljohnson8971

Жыл бұрын

Agreed

@TheBrooklynbodine

Жыл бұрын

I'll be 60 next June 10. This song was released in the US in early 1980. Better than anything out there today. Posting 3-8-23. Happy 65th to Gary Numan, and many more!

If you're really stoned and trying to drive - this song will melt your brain. "Any idea how fast you were going sir?" "Uhhhh, no not really." "SEVEN!"

This song will always be 100x more futuristic than the future will ever be

it was so fuckin weird and so fuckin great at the same time. that was the 80's in a nutshell

@vinniestvincent3112

7 жыл бұрын

canossa on the east coast of Spain

@punkoid76

7 жыл бұрын

Chester Molester even though this came out in the 70s?

@jeffw1267

7 жыл бұрын

+pinkoid76 It didn't play on the radio here until the spring of 1980

This is one of my favorite songs to play on bass. Always gets a good reaction from anyone within earshot.

I'm returning to listening this again soo much love I am twenty four years old & I will listen to this when I will play on my spotify☺️

A synthesizer masterpiece: the best that I know of.

@juanacuna3926

4 жыл бұрын

The synthesizer Was the soul of '80

@jasondowell3623

4 жыл бұрын

Rush ~ Subdivisions

@lorenzoartola9908

4 жыл бұрын

Kraftwerk...

@daboo7725

4 жыл бұрын

@@lorenzoartola9908 Bon bon bon da Autobahn,,, weird shit back in the day

@aligator9552

4 жыл бұрын

I believe it was a Roland Jupiter 8 or a ARP Odyssey.

Father's Day is coming up soon and I'm listening too this all month long because this was my dad favorite song by Gary numan he died of cancer in 93