Courtesy of our faithful chronicler, we learn that the foundational New Wave track by Gary Numan, launching his career as a solo artist after disbanding Tubeway Army, the lead single from his debut album, The Pleasure Principle, was released on this day in 1979. Although genre-defining first and foremost, the song is a bit transcend and bigger than its era—particularly in the postamble with rather epic harmonisation of a second synthesiser, a Minimoog and a Polymoog. The lyrics were inspired by an escalated road rage incident that Numan escaped by driving over the kerb and on to the sidewalk, the autonomy and splendid isolation responsible for both inciting and diffusing situations like this. In cars.
synchronoptica
one year ago: medieval chess gaming conventions, assorted links to revisit plus the third album from Oasis (1997)
two years ago: visiting all the rudest toponyms in the UK plus The Baltics are Waking Up! (1991)
three years ago: only one saint per jurisdiction, please (1970), Comrade Gulliver, the history of paper ballots, the Hundred-Horse Chestnut Tree protected (1745) plus vintage Japanese meal wrappers
four years ago: GAP founded (1969), more links to enjoy plus face-swapping for 2001
five years ago: medieval alewives, a gigantic inner-bellum seaplane plus real-time tube maps