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"We're in the building where they make us grow, and I'm frightened by the liquid engineers, like you."
For this episode, I look back at one of Gary Numan's best-known and best-loved songs, 'Metal', from 1979's The Pleasure Principle.
The track was the first song on the album with lyrics, and was inspired by the writings of Philip K Dick, about a machine with a desire to be human.
The perfect synthpop track was never a single, but it became one of Gary Numan's most-performed songs, and was later covered and sampled by a number of artists, most notably by Trent Reznor's Nine Inch Nails.
The episode looks at:
- What 'Metal' is all about
- Its somewhat forgotten music video
- Why it was never released as a single
- The various live versions
- When Gary performed it with Nine Inch Nails in 2009
Clips used:
- Gary Numan - Metal
- The Beach Boys - Do It Again
- Gary Numan - Metal (live, 1979)
- Gary Numan - Metal (live, 1986)
- Gary Numan - Metal (live, 2018)
- Gary Numan - Metal 98
- Gary Numan - Moral
- Gary Numan - Revolution (audiobook)
- Tubeway Army - The Crazies
- Tubeway Army - We Have a Technical
- Nine Inch Nails - Metal
- Nine Inch Nails - Metal (live, 2009)
- Planet Funk - Who Said
- Afrika Bambaataa - Metal
- Nouvelle Vague - Metal
- Poppy - Metal
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