- new wave, synth-pop, electronic, synthpop
- 59 min
- 17 tracks
- Beggars Banquet
The Pleasure Principle is the debut solo studio album by the English new wave musician Gary Numan, released on 7 September 1979 by Beggars Banquet Records. The album came about six months after Replicas (1979), his second and final studio album with the band Tubeway Army. The Pleasure Principle peaked at No. 1 on the UK Albums Chart.
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Grave, character-led, cool and classical in form.
- gravecomic
- character-ledplot-driven
- cooloverwhelming
- classical in formformally daring
- intimateepic
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Tracks
- 1Cars3:15
- 2Films2:41
- 3Complex3:16
- 4Random3:58
- 5M.E.4:32
- 6Conversation6:49
- 7Tracks3:01
- 8Cars3:36
- 9Metal3:35
- 10Airlane3:17
- 11Trois Gymnopédies No. 12:25
- 12Observer3:02
- 13Conversation3:55
- 14Engineers3:51
- 15Asylum2:31
- 16Oceans3:01
- 17Photograph2:28
17 tracks, 59 minutes.
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- Artist
- Gary Numan
- Label
- Beggars Banquet
- Type
- Album
- Format
- Digital Media
- Country
- XW
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