Living Ornaments '80

Infobox Album
Name = Living Ornaments '80
Type = Live album
Artist = Gary Numan


Released = April 1981
Recorded = Hammersmith Odeon, London, September 16, 1980
Genre = New Wave, Synthpop
Length =
Label = Beggars Banquet Records
Producer = Gary Numan
Reviews =
* Allmusic Rating|3.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:jxfexqr5ldfe link]
Last album = "Living Ornaments '79" (1981)
This album = "Living Ornaments '80" (1981)
Next album = "Living Ornaments '79 and '80" (1981)

"Living Ornaments '80" is a live album by Gary Numan, first released in 1981. It was also issued as a limited edition box set with "Living Ornaments '79" the same year. The original release was recorded at the Hammersmith Odeon on 16 September 1980.

An expanded and remastered version was reissued on a double CD in 2005. The tapes of the full concert from which the original album's ten tracks were culled have been lost, but in 2004 a mixing console recording of a complete song set from another (undated) UK concert was discovered and was of sufficient quality to release commercially. This set included the only official live recordings of the tracks "Telekon", from the album of the same name, and "Stories", from the then-forthcoming "Dance" (1981). [cite web| author = Beggars Banquet Records | title = Gary Numan Living Ornaments | url = http://www.beggars.com/features/garynuman/index.html | accessdate = 2007-07-25 | publisher = beggars.com ]

Track listing

All songs written by Gary Numan.

1981 version

ide one

#"This Wreckage" – 5:20
#"" – 3:38
#"M.E." – 4:27
#"Everyday I Die" – 4:22
#"Down in the Park" – 5:55

ide two

#Remind Me to Smile – 3:40
#The Joy Circuit – 5:47
#Tracks – 2:43
#Are 'Friends' Electric? – 5:30
#We Are Glass – 4:32

2005 version

Disc one

#"This Wreckage"
#"I Die: You Die"
#"M.E."
#"Everyday I Die"
#"Down in the Park"
#"Remind Me to Smile"
#"The Joy Circuit"
#"Tracks"
#"Are 'Friends' Electric?"
#"We Are Glass"
#"This Wreckage"
#"Remind Me to Smile"
#"Complex"
#"Telekon"

Disc two

#"Me! I Disconnect From You"
#"Cars"
#"Conversation"
#"Airplane"
#"M.E."
#"Everyday I Die"
#"Remember I Was Vapour"
#"Stories"
#"Are 'Friends' Electric?"
#"The Joy Circuit"
#"I Die: You Die"
#"I Dream of Wires"
#"Down in the Park"
#"Tracks"
#"We Are Glass"

Personnel

*Gary Numan – vocals, guitar, synthesizer, producer, mixer
*Roger Mason – keyboards
*Cedric Sharpley – drums
*Chris Payne – keyboards, viola
*Paul Gardiner – bass
*Rrussell Bell – guitar
*Tim Summerhayes – engineer
*Phil Thornalley – assistant engineer
*Will Gosling – assistant mixer

Charts

*Original album #39 (UK Albums Chart)
*"Living Ornaments '79/'80" box set #2 (UK Albums Chart)

Notes

References

* [http://www.everyhit.com Everyhit.com]
*Paul Goodwin (2004). "Electric Pioneer: An Armchair Guide To Gary Numan"