Asylum 1

• Artist: Gary Numan
• Rating:
• Release Date: 1990
• Type: Lyrics are included with the album, Compilation (best of), Box set
• Genre: Rock

Review

A Japanese four-CD collection that compiles The Plan, Tubeway Army, Replicas and The Pleasure Principle, along with B-sides, singles, outtakes and cuts from Living Ornaments '79 and Living Ornaments '80 (the bulk of the latter two being released as Asylum 3). Exhaustive, with two booklets containing lyrics and photos galore. For the Numan fan, an impressively compact way to gather the early material together, beautifully mastered and presented. Upon the original 1990 release, the four-CD set was often to be found for less than $50 in U.S. import bins. ~ Steven McDonald, All Music Guide

Tracks

CD 1

Track Title	Composers	Performers	Time
That's Too Bad [Single Mix]	Gary Numan	Gary Numan
Oh! Didn't I Say	Gary Numan	Gary Numan
Out of Sight	Gary Numan	Gary Numan
That's Too Bad [Original Version]	Gary Numan	Gary Numan
Bombers [Original Version]	Gary Numan	Gary Numan
My Shadow in Vain	Gary Numan	Gary Numan
The Machine (Steel and You) [Original Version]	Gary Numan	Gary Numan
Thoughts No. 2	Gary Numan	Gary Numan
Something's in the House	Gary Numan	Gary Numan
Check It	Gary Numan	Gary Numan
The Monday Troop	Gary Numan	Gary Numan
This Is My Life	Gary Numan	Gary Numan
Mean Street	Gary Numan	Gary Numan
Ice	Gary Numan	Gary Numan
Crime of Passion	Gary Numan	Gary Numan
The Life Machine [Original Version]	Gary Numan	Gary Numan
Critics	Gary Numan	Gary Numan
Do Your Best (Friends) [Original Version]	Gary Numan	Gary Numan
Bombers [Single Version]	Gary Numan	Gary Numan
Blue Eyes	Gary Numan	Gary Numan
O.D. Receiver	Gary Numan	Gary Numan

CD 2

Track Title	Composers	Performers	Time
Listen to the Sirens	Gary Numan	Gary Numan
My Shadow in Vain	Gary Numan	Gary Numan
The Life Machine	Gary Numan	Gary Numan
Friends	Gary Numan	Gary Numan
Something's in the House	Gary Numan	Gary Numan
Everyday I Die	Gary Numan	Gary Numan
Steel and You	Gary Numan	Gary Numan
My Life Is a Liquid	Gary Numan	Gary Numan
Are You Real?	Gary Numan	Gary Numan
The Dream Police	Gary Numan	Gary Numan
Jo the Waiter	Gary Numan	Gary Numan
Zero Bars (Mr. Smith)	Gary Numan	Gary Numan
Fadeout 1930	Gary Numan	Gary Numan
Me! I Disconnect from You [Live '79]	Gary Numan	Gary Numan
Something's in the House [Live '79]	Gary Numan	Gary Numan
Everyday I Die [Live '79]	Gary Numan	Gary Numan
Down in the Park [Live '79]	Gary Numan	Gary Numan
Bombers [Live '79]	Gary Numan	Gary Numan

CD 3

Track Title	Composers	Performers	Time
Me! I Disconnect from You	Gary Numan	Gary Numan
Are 'Friends' Electric?	Gary Numan	Gary Numan
The Machman	Gary Numan	Gary Numan
Praying to the Aliens	Gary Numan	Gary Numan
Down in the Park	Gary Numan	Gary Numan
You Are in My Vision	Gary Numan	Gary Numan
Replicas	Gary Numan	Gary Numan
It Must Have Been Years	Gary Numan	Gary Numan
When the Machines Rock	Gary Numan	Gary Numan
I Nearly Married a Human	Gary Numan	Gary Numan
Do You Need the Service?	Gary Numan	Gary Numan
The Crazies	Gary Numan	Gary Numan
Only a Downstat	Gary Numan	Gary Numan
We Have a Technical	Gary Numan	Gary Numan
We Are So Fragile	Gary Numan	Gary Numan
I Nearly Married a Human [2]	Gary Numan	Gary Numan

CD 4

Track Title	Composers	Performers	Time
Airlane	Gary Numan	Gary Numan	(3:18)
Metal	Gary Numan	Gary Numan	(3:33)
Complex	Gary Numan	Gary Numan	(3:14)
Films	Gary Numan	Gary Numan	(4:09)
M.E.	Gary Numan	Gary Numan	(5:37)
Tracks	Gary Numan	Gary Numan	(2:52)
Observer	Gary Numan	Gary Numan	(2:53)
Conversation	Gary Numan	Gary Numan	(7:38)
Cars	Gary Numan	Gary Numan	(3:53)
Engineers	Gary Numan	Gary Numan	(4:00)
Random	Gary Numan	Gary Numan	(3:50)
Oceans	Gary Numan	Gary Numan	(3:02)
Asylum	Gary Numan	Gary Numan	(2:30)
Remember I Was Vapour	Gary Numan	Gary Numan	(4:50)
Conversation	Gary Numan	Gary Numan	(7:43)
On Broadway	Gary Numan	Gary Numan	(4:48)

Credits

Mick Karn (?), Bill Nelson (?), Gary Numan (Arranger), Gary Numan (Main Performer), Thereza Bazar (?), James Freud (?), Nash the Slash (?), Billy Currie (?), Denis Haines (?), Tracie Ackerman (?), Russell Bell (?), Rob Dean (?), Paul Gardiner (?), Jess Lidyard (?), Roger Mason (?), Dick Morrissey (?), Pino Palladino (?), Christopher Payne (?), Mick Prague (?), Garry Robson (?), Cedric Sharpley (?), Chris Slade (?), Terry Martin (?), John Webb (?), Steve Webbon (Compilation Producer), Sean Lynch (?), Connie Filapello (?), Nobi Tagoh (Compilation Producer), Sayuri Tsuchiya (Design), Sean Burke (?), Bob Simmonds (?), Tim Steggles (?), Peter Gilbert (Photography), Joe Hubbard (?), Barry Benn (?)