Gary Numan "The Pleasure Principle" Ten Bands One Cause 2023 and The Menzingers

and The Menzingers

shared a Maximum Rock 'n' Roll split seven-inch with radical MIT professor Noam Chomsky

1 has been remastered from the original tape source by the band's longtime producer Dave Fridmann

The cover (art directed by Siouxsie) features a marigold

The sound and words are essential and undeniably timely

Gary Numan "The Pleasure Principle" Ten Bands One Cause 2023 and The MenzingersMarked the point where he became a huge international solo star, reaching the Top 10 in the US with "Cars" and Top 20 with the album itself. The Pleasure Principle pioneered electronic pop music on a new scale, becoming a much bigger hit worldwide than Kraftwerk or anything from the Bowie Eno Berlin trilogy. And the fact that it was so different and had such a major impact in America (crystallized when Numan performed "Cars" and "Praying To The