White Noise (album)

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White Noise
White Noise cover
Live album by Gary Numan
Released 27 April 1985
Recorded Hammersmith Odeon, London December 1984
Genre New Wave, Electronic
Length 93:03
Label Numa
Producer Gary Numan
Professional reviews
Gary Numan chronology
The Plan
(1984)		 White Noise
(1985)		 The Fury
(1985)

White Noise is a double live album by Gary Numan and originally released in 1985. The album was reissued as a double CD in 1998 before a remastered version was released in 2003.

The White Noise album was recorded on 11 December 1984 - the second-last show of Numan's Berserker Tour. It was released on 27 April 1984 and reached number 29 in the UK album chart,[1] outperforming the Berserker (1984) album. White Noise also enjoyed great success in Belgium where it went to number 2.[2] An edited version of the show was released on video as The Berserker Tour in 1985 (subsequent DVD releases featured this shortened version of the show, until the entire concert was released on DVD in early 2008 under the title Cold Warning).

A month after the release of White Noise, four tracks from the album ("Are 'Friends' Electric?", "Berserker", "Cars" and "We Are Glass") were released as The Live EP. It reached #27 on the UK singles chart, outperforming the two singles released in 1984 from Numan's Berserker album (the title track, which reached #32, and "My Dying Machine", which reached #66).

Contents

[edit] Track listing

[edit] Disc one

  1. "Intro" — 1:58
  2. "Berserker" — 5:42
  3. "Metal" — 3:32
  4. "Me! I Disconnect From You" — 3:21
  5. "Remind Me to Smile" — 3:21
  6. "Sister Surprise" — 6:11
  7. "Music for Chameleons" — 6:10
  8. "The Iceman Comes" — 4:37
  9. "Cold Warning" — 6:09
  10. "Down in the Park" — 5:28

[edit] Disc two

  1. "This Prison Moon" — 3:28
  2. "I Die: You Die" — 3:55
  3. "My Dying Machine" — 5:42
  4. "Cars" — 3:38
  5. "We Take Mystery (to Bed)" — 6:31
  6. "We Are Glass" — 4:57
  7. "This is New Love" — 6:21
  8. "My Shadow in Vain" — 5:45
  9. "Are 'Friends' Electric?" — 6:09
  • Numan can be heard breaking into laughter during the show's closing number, "Are 'Friends' Electric?" This was because members of the support act, the music group Hohokam, put on women's clothing and broke onto the stage during the song's performance. One of the pranksters lifted his bra cup and "flashed" Numan, causing Numan to laugh.[3]

[edit] Personnel

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ Everyhit.com
  2. ^ Praying to the Aliens: An Autobiography by Gary Numan with Steve Malins. (1997, André Deutsch Limited), p.200
  3. ^ HOHOKAM Harlequin Tears
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