Gary Numan 'This Wreckage' TOTP (1980) HD

Broadcast on 18/12/1980

Taken from the album "Telekon" "This Wreckage" was released on 12th December 1980

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[ms.carlson]

Beautiful futuristic song. Hundreds of years ahead of its time.

[Quietstormusic]

Amazing record that really summed up Christmas 1980

[deethompson]

I miss those days - the excitement of waiting for his next single ✨️🙏❤️ there's been no one to touch him - EVER .

[numanoid]

His best album (Telekon). Some piece of work. Still listening to it on vinyl

[spankysmp]

Big thumbs up. I think around this time I got sent home from school for wearing black nail polish one day trying to emulate Mr Numan (even in a small way) I was fuming being in the 5th year I thought it was nearly OK as I wasn't far from the 6th form and they could wear what they wanted.

[linavasquez-comyns]

Cedric Sharpley was an AWESOME drummer RIP Cedric. And RIP
Paul Gardner (Guitarist) and Numan’s BF.

[LRBerry]

It never gets boring listening to this song. My first concert was Gary Numan on the Teletour at the Manchester Apollo in 1980. I can't wait for his new album next week.

[jackiewilliams]

One of his best songs i was hooked when I first saw him Amazing

[Ninax]

We must have done something wrong
This dark facade ends
We're independent from someone
This wreckage I call me
Would like to frame your voice
This wreckage I call me
Would like to meet you,
Meet you
Soon
We write suggestions
Suggesting fading to silence
And that must please you
My mirror's tarnished with no-help
This wreckage I call me
Would like to frame your voice
This wreckage I call me
Would like to meet you,
Meet you
Soon
Turn out these eyes
Wipe off my face
Erase me
Replay the end
It's all just show
Erase you
I need to
I need to
I need to
This wreckage I call me
Would like to frame your voice
This wreckage I call me
Would like to leave you,
Leave you
Leave you,
Leave you soon

[ravvivando]

Such a weird and wonderful track! Having learned some Japanese since this was released I now realise Gary pronounces the Japanese a bit wrong! LP lyric sleeve shows 別れよう which is said "wakare yoh" not "wakare yuu". And written it should actually just be 別れよ (wakare yo). Wakare means "leaving" and "yo" is something added at the end of phrases when you want to emphasise a strong intention. So it sort of means "I am leaving, really". That's how I see it anyway! Would love to hear from any other Japanese speakers for their take.

[ColleyatFlak]

An excellent riff. A favorite of my youth while in England at that time.

[royalnass]

classic Numan song that many people never heard of

[toussaintchivars]

I remember listening to this right after the Mount St. Helen eruption. Before going to South Korea.

[roguemoon]

i was sat in a pub in south cave nr hull recently on out of the jukebox came this wreckage.

[gothicpagan.]

Beginning of the end, untill the next beginning.

[ArtyFishal]

A rare TV performance with the white leather jumpsuit. Also, is that Three Arp Oddyssey synths I see? That's just greedy 🎹 🎹 🎹 😂

[originalkingalpha]

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[Nervejam]

I remember this from back in the day. It was totally alien. Nobody at TOTP knew what to do with it.

[antminehead]

This great song feels like being within some kind of huge machine!

[debramelendi]

I remember when . . . got the LP still! 😉