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Classic dystopian futuristic album that's more on the rock side than The Pleasure Principle. Gary Numan takes cues from Philip K Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?  and creates a dark dystopia of humans versus androids. The android Machmen hunt and capture humans for their sadistic entertainment. Then there are "the crazies" who are humans who've escaped the genocide and cower in fear from the insanity around them. With songs like, "I Nearly Married A Human," you start to wonder if Numan really is from Earth. Replicas is classic Numan; it's highly recommended along with The Pleasure Principle as a starting point.

This is the Beggar's Banquet remaster from 1998. If you want all the frills and demos, get the recently released Replicas Redux instead, which adds a bonus disc of demos.

1998 Remaster Release Info:

Label: Beggars Banquet
Catalog#: BBL 7 CD
Format: CD, Album, Remastered
Country: UK
Released: 09 Jun 1998
Genre: Electronic
Style: Electro, Synth-pop
Credits: Artwork By [Art Direction] - Malti Kidia
Artwork By [Illustrated] - Tony Escott
Bass - Paul Gardiner
Drums - Jess Lidyard
Engineer - John Caffery*
Engineer [Assistant] - Harvey Ishiki
Mastered By [Digitally Remastered] - John Dent
Mixed By - Gary Numan , John Caffery* , Rikki Sylvan
Other [Liner Notes] - Steve Mallins
Other [Make-up] - Mary Vango
Photography - Geoff Howes
Producer, Composed By, Keyboards, Guitar, Vocals - Gary Numan
Notes: First released in April 1979.
Tracks 1 to 10 are the album tracks.
Tracks 11 to 16 are bonus tracks.
Recorded at Gooseberry Studios, London December 1978 to January 1979.
Mixed at Marcus Music AB, London February 1979.
Digitally remastered at Loud.
The album was remastered from the original studio tapes, which are an earlier generation and have more sonic detail and presence than the vinyl cutting masters used for previous reissues.

Tracks:
01. Me! I Disconnect From You (3:22)
02. Are 'Friends' Electric? (5:25)
03. The Machman (3:08)
04. Praying To The Aliens (4:00)
05. Down In The Park (4:24)
06. You Are In My Vision (3:14)
07. Replicas (5:00)
08. It Must Have Been Years (4:02)
09. When The Machines Rock (3:15)
10. I Nearly Married A Human (6:29)
Bonus Tracks
11. Do You Need The Service? (3:37)
12. The Crazies (2:52)
13. Only A Downstat (3:34)
14. We Have A Technical (8:01)
15. We Are So Fragile (2:54)
16. I Nearly Married A Human 2 (6:38)

Review:

All Music Guide (4 Stars):

    By the release of their second album, Replicas, Gary Numan was the undisputed focal point and leader of icy electro-punkers Tubeway Army. And the move proved to be massively successful back home in the U.K., where both the album and the single "Are 'Friends' Electric?" topped the charts. The band had made a conscious effort to streamline the sound heard on its 1978 self-titled debut -- the distorted guitar riffs were played on Moog synthesizers instead, and Numan had perfected his faux-space-age persona. And the paranoia that is very evident in the lyrics and vocals on Numan's next release, The Pleasure Principle, can be detected on Replicas. Another near-perfect album by the band, highlights are many -- "Me! I Disconnect from You," "The Machman," "You Are in My Vision," and one of the most underrated new wave/synth-driven compositions of the whole era, the chilling ballad "Down in the Park." And out of all the Gary Numan/Beggars Banquet reissues, Replicas contains the strongest bonus tracks, such as never heard outtakes from the recording sessions, including "The Crazies," "Only a Downstat," and the B-side to the original "Are 'Friends' Electric?" single, "We Are So Fragile." [Note: In addition to bonus tracks, all of the Gary Numan/Begggars Banquet re-releases contain classic photographs and informative liner notes by Numan biographer Steve Malins.]