The Pleasure Principle
1979 · Music · GB · English
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The record that put the human-machine relationship at the centre of popular electronic music, and the source of its most quoted line about being obsolete.
Numan's solo breakthrough is built on cold synthesiser lines and lyrics about isolation inside machinery. Its most famous song describes a future in which a person is told to step aside for a new model.
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