ONLY A DOWNSTAT: GARY NUMAN SPOOFS
Inspired by awesome ethereal electronic music from Gary Numan, I twist and turn it into...really nasty stuff.
Pierre is a dabbler and a hack who is too smart for his own good. Loose neurons that short out on each other at random keep him up at night. Sometimes that's called creativity, other times, insanity. As a young student, he thought that portable keyboards with auto-rhythm were hilarious, and noted that they got better and better over the years every time he paid CDN$300 for one. This last one he splurged and spent CDN$800. He was permanently warped by the Tubeway Army's album REPLICAS, and some of his demonic polka creations have been declared a Crime Against Humanity. He is hiding out on the Pacific Island of Tonga, where he lives happily with two llamas and some mail-order sea monkeys. His favourite colour is...hard to describe, and only present when an atoll is detonated by a nuclear bomb...
How did these peculiar music parodies get started? My brother, my buddy and I all like the inhuman strains of Gary Numan music. The buddy rekindled my interest in Numan by telling me about the album PURE and the accompanying concert tour. Talking about it later, he gave me a track from The Magnetic Fields, a group which did a cover of Numan's "I Die, You Die", but with banjos. Feeling a little goofy myself, I decided to compose on the keyboard a MIDI of Gary Numan's "Metal" in a kletzmer polka style. Admittedly it's a little rough-cut, but that the very musical concept exists at all...Oy, gevalt! Freely downloadable below.
And here's a second Gary Numan Parody, this time it's "Down in the Park" with an intro similar to the sappy romantic music you would have heard on the soundtrack of St. Elmo's Fire, therefore I called it "Down in St. Elmo's Park". (NEW REVISED VERSION, throw out the old version if you got it). This is not much of a stretch, since Gary did a pensive piano version of "Down in the Park" himself.
