Beggars Banquet are releasing two special titles to commemorate the legendary albums Gary Numan/Tubeway Army issued in 1979 – these editions are titled Replicas – The First Recordings, and the debut under his own name, The Pleasure Principle – The First Recordings (Release Date 11 October 2019).
While both of these albums have remained in print, these releases concentrate on the early recordings made prior to the completed albums and present the evolution of the albums. The tracks have been sequenced as they appeared on the original tapes and the audio has been taken from the high resolution digital transfers made by John Dent in 2007. One of the Freerange studio tapes suffered irreparable print through damage on two tracks so they were not used in the 2009 release. However an alternative source has been located so the tapes can now be presented as complete for this release.
Replicas – The First Recordings Tracklist
DISC 1
1 You Are In My Vision (Early Version)
2 The Machmen (Early Version)
3 Down In The Park (Early Version)
4 Do You Need The Service? (Early Version)
5 The Crazies
6 When The Machines Rock (Early Version)
7 Me! I Disconnect From You (Early Version)
8 Praying To The Aliens (Early Version)
9 It Must Have Been Years (Early Version)
10 Only A Downstat
11 I Nearly Married A Human 3 (Early Version)
12 Replicas (Early Version)
13 Are ‘Friends’ Electric? (Early Version)
DISC 2
1 Replicas (Early Version 2)
2 Down In The Park (Early Version 2)
3 Are ‘Friends’ Electric? (Early Version 2)
4 We Have A Technical
5 Replicas (Early Version 3)
6 Me, I Disconnect From You (BBC Peel Session)
7 Down In The Park (BBC Peel Session)
8 I Nearly Married a Human (BBC Peel Session)
The Pleasure Principle – The First Recordings Tracklist
DISC 1 (* Previously Unreleased)
1 Cars (Demo Version 2)
2 Films (Demo Version)
3 Complex (Demo Version)
4 Random (Remastered 2009)
5 M.E. (Demo Version)
6 Conversation (Demo Version 2)
7 Tracks (Demo Version 1)*
8 Cars (Demo Version 1)*
9 Metal (Demo Version)
10 Airlane (Demo Version)
11 Trois Gymnopédies No.1 (Demo)
12 Observer (Demo Version)
13 Conversation (Demo Version 1)
14 Engineers (Demo Version)
15 Asylum (Remastered 2009
16 Oceans (Remastered 2009)
17 Photograph (Remastered 2009)
DISC 2
1 Airlane (BBC Peel Session)
2 Cars (BBC Peel Session)
3 Films (BBC Peel Session)
4 Conversation (BBC Peel Session)
5 Tracks (Outtake mix)
6 Complex (Outtake mix)*
7 M.E. (Outtake mix)
8 Engineers (Outtake mix)*
9 Airlane (Outtake mix)*
10 Cars (Outtake mix)*