LABEL: Beggars Banquet

CAT NO: BBL47LP

BARCODE: 607618927615

Tracklisting:

1. Warriors
2.I Am Render
3. The Iceman Comes
4. This Prison Moon
5. My Centurion
6. Sister Surprise
7. The Tick Tock Man
8. Love Is Like Clock Law
9. The Rhythm Of The Evening

GARY NUMAN Warriors

LP Indies Exclusive Limited Edition Orange Vinyl

Beggars Arkive reissue Gary Numans fifth album Warriors on orange vinyl. Originally released in 1983 and co-produced with Bill Nelson, the album continues Numans ambient-funk experimentations

I still like a lot of the Warriors stuff and Bill Nelson did a lot of very inventive things on it which, because of our differences, I failed to appreciate at the time. I think the Mad Max image convinced a lot of people, the press especially, that it was a sci-fi album. Much of it though was actually quite autobiographical. Even songs like The Iceman Comes and This Prison Moon were more to do with what I was going through than anything sci-fi. Lyrically I was already becoming overly focused on the career struggle. Warriors was written, in the main, in a hotel room in Jersey. My girlfriend had just left me, Id been evicted from the house I was living in and I felt pretty much alone in more ways than one. Despite its surface gloss of futurism it was really very inward looking. To me the image was meant to represent someone fighting for survival as much as anything Gary Numan

The achievements over his four decade career (and counting) are remarkable for someone who never made any concessions to mainstream success. Seven Top 10 singles, including Are Friends Electric? and the debut solo hit Cars; seven Top 10 albums, three of which topped the charts; and huge critical acclaim, most notably with the Inspiration Award at the prestigious Ivor Novellos.

See below for tracklisting