Digitally remastered reissue of Numan's 1984 album, the debut full length release on his Numa label & available in the U.S. for the first time ever! Contains all nine of the original tracks, plus four bonus tracks, extended versions of 'Berserker' & 'My Dying Machine', and the B-sides 'Empty Bed, Empty Heart' & 'Here Am I'. 13 tracks total. 1999 release.
Berserker,Gary Numan,Cleopatra,Electronic,New Romantic,New Wave,Pop,Rock,Rock/Pop,Synth Pop
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Berserker
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ASIN: B00000IN3R Release Date: 1999-05-04 |
Tracks:
- Berserker
- This Is New Love
- The Secret
- My Dying Machine
- Cold Warning
- Pump It Up
- The God Film
- A Child With The Ghost
- The Hunter
- Berserker (Extended)
- Empty Bed, Empty Heart (Berserker B-Side)
- My Dying Machine (Extended
- Here Am I (My Dying Machine B-Side)
Album Description
Digitally remastered reissue of Numan's 1984 album, the debut full length release on his Numa label & available in the U.S. for the first time ever! Contains all nine of the original tracks, plus four bonus tracks, extended versions of 'Berserker' & 'My Dying Machine', and the B-sides 'Empty Bed, Empty Heart' & 'Here Am I'. 13 tracks total. 1999 release.Customer Reviews:
Gets the 80s-ness just right.......2006-06-30
The white and blue makeup of the cover, and the blasting white light of the stage show perfectly convey the sound on this album---a cold, clinical, but machine-pop sound. The lyrics are dark (on paper) but hide beneath the shiny surface of fat bass, and a lot of electronics. The Numan sythns are all here, but surrounded by heavy, cold production and the elements that Numan was obsessed with in the mid-80s---sax solos, female backing vocals, and a dirty, strip-club sound. I think he gets it just right on this album.
The classic voice is also distorted and sometimes buried in the machines, but somehow it still works. The album seriously grew on me, and if you like early Numan and his effortless synth rock hooks, this album is a good progression (before he perhaps took it too far and lost it).
Songs like Pump It Up almost have no right being as catchy as they are, with the cheesy background vocals, the sax (why was he obsessed with sax solos so much?) The cold, hard drums of Cold Warning or This Is New Love are combined with a funky slap-bass sound and are catchy, if very 80s. The title track is awesome, featuring more guitar work than the other tracks, and a menacing sound that resembles an 80s dystopian future flick. (Blade Runner seems to be a big influence on his mid-80s albums, complete with sample on the next album, The Fury). This Is New Love sounds like the perfect strip club sound (the lyrics appropriate as well). My Dying Machine is a dancy, hypnotic number. Cold Warning combines deep, electronic bass, a cello(!), and booming synths that create a slower hypnotic effect and more of the menace that sits under the pop tunes. The Secret sounds like he and Bowie swapped some tapes around the same time.
The album has a dark lyrical tone; songs allude to "cold love", "need without feeling", "boys of passion", and a dark, tempting force akin to prostitution of some sorts, all wrapped up in that shiny, deceivingly poppy machine sound. Love is a force that feeds distant, needy action. (Don't you love describing pop album themes?)
This is not the extended version; instead it contains the b-sides from the singles. Apparently, this is tough to find, a shame. The Numan box set version has the b-sides (no extended mixes). There is at least one real gem in the b-sides. Here Am I should have been on the album---who said it's not consistent with the other songs? It's perfect. It's slow, sliding, menacing, and deceptive (lyrics vs. music). A fat, Playboy At Night sound that perhaps sums up the cover the best. And to show the man's a genius, there's a cello AND a sax solo.
The hooks and the synths and his unmistakable voice are here, but heavily augmented by 80s production that still holds up well. This is before he over-obsessed with that Prince/Janet Jackson/sax obsession/horn hits/too many cheesy backing vocals/Bobby Brown/bad white funk sound took over on every other song for a number of albums. While he's approaching it here for sure, it somehow stays together.
A NICE CHANGE IN DIRECTION.......2006-02-26
Ahead of it's time.......2003-03-30
Berserker, as a complte work is astounding. And held against even the best known acts of the time, This is an extremely mature album for a 24 year old to write. The title track could be released today and sound as fresh as it did then. It's a very well constructed piece that burns from the first chord, then completley slows up, expands, and then takes off again. I first heard this track in 1992 and it was the only song in a long time that actually had me smiling from ear to ear as I left my cd player on 'repeat' for nearly an hour.
As for the rest of the disc, "This is New Love" is something you just have to hear from yourself. It's both cohesive and experimental at the same time, quite likely my favorite cut, and trust me, you have never heard anything quite like it. The 30 second clip you can hear on here does no justice.
Other Highlights are "Cold Warning" That fuses violin and thick synths in an impressive mixture and "My Dying Machine" which musically is on rails and doesn't deviate much from it's frame, but still very driving and a nice rush. Lastly, the beautifully haunting "A CHild with the Ghost". Outside of the beatles "A day in the life", Bushs' "Letting the cables sleep" and Nine inch nails "Hurt", this is the most beautiful song I've ever heard. That song alone justifies having "Berserker" in your musical arsenal. Berserker is atmosphere over flash and one of those rare gems that actually create a mood rather than something that's mindless and over in 3 minutes. This album, good or bad, will leave an impression and THAT is the true mark of a great piece of work.
There are 3 versions avalible of this release, 2 of which feature bonus tracks ( b sides from relevant singles ) and gives you the whole package of recordings from these sessions. There is also, avalible from Numans own web site, an extended version that features longer versions of 6 of the 9 original tracks. Sadly no b sides but the extra 2 minutes of these songs your ears will thank you for.
Though Numan is clearly not for everyone, neither are any artists who really are innovative and are usually given acceptance once the rest of the world catches up with them.
Polished and Driving.......2003-01-19
"This is New Love" is spectacular. Frankly, it's hard to describe, very driving, stick bass and numerous changes of instrumentation and rhythm. The bass line of "The Secret" recalls earlier, mechanistic Numan rhythms, and the song features a soaring electric guitar line. The words are compelling here: "We'll show you religion, we'll show you a new God, we'll show you the secret of love." By the end of the song, the secret revealed is that of fear.
"My Dying Machine" is the culminating point of the album, and feature some of my favorite Numan lyrics: "No more questions, no more answers, all that is left is the fear. Why give orders? Why give speeches? Give me a reason to die. I've no plan to run. I've no plan to hide." And this is embedded in one of his best dance songs ever. Just delightful, and again that devious interplay of celebratory melody and dark themes, but in this song, optimism seems to gain the upper hand.
"Cold Warning" presents a stark contrast to the complex percussion of "My Dying Machine," opening with a lonely-sounding fiddle. It is another very danceable tune, less manic and much darker. "Pump it Up" provides a lighter relief, a lively and fun song. "The God Film" is a slower interlude that leads to "A Child with the Ghost," a mournful and atmospheric elegy. The original vinyl album ended with "The Hunter," an excellent rocker. Just as the record opened appropriately with an invitation, this song bids the listener farewell: "Now I know it's all over." The CD re-release includes five bonus tracks, some of which are excellent. "Empty Bed, Empty Heart" is a bluesy, slow complaint, nice and atmospheric. "Here Am I" is also a very deliberately paced song, much better than the first bonus track, even if it is not related thematically to "Beserker." "She Cries" is a real gem, reminiscent of the mood and sound from "Dance." "Rumour" is also excellent, even if the sound is a bit distorted. It's worth some fuzziness to hear another example of Numan when he's moving and lyrical. The last bonus track is a bit of a throw-away, but who's complaining after such a great collection of songs?
His Tour De Force.......2001-10-18
I have an eternal argument with a colleague at work on when was his finest hour. He thinks it is the 1980 "Telekon" - and there were some outstanding tracks like "I Dream Of Wires" and "Remind Me To Smile". But for sheer completeness it has to be Berserker. I think you have to appreciate also that Numan's popularity was on the wane in 1984. The singles released from Berserker did not set the charts on fire and appearance with Leo Sayer did little to enhance his talent.Also, his friend Paul Gardiner who played bass with the Tubeway Army died of a heroin overdose close to the Berserker sessions. This bereavement had a massive effect on the album - alienation, angst and atheism abound.
Yet out of this comes outstanding music. From the blistering title track to the end he is on top form. The complete fusion of electronic bass,synthesizer funk, and cracking percussion. Outstanding tracks are "This Is New Love" (all of 8.45 minutes long), "The Secret"(why this track was never released as a single beggars belief),"Pump It Up" and "The Child With The Ghost".
This album was before Numan consumed his music with heavier basslines which snuffed out his synthesizer genius of earlier work. Later work did not have that certain "Je ne sais quoi" you could say. Here he achieved a balance which was nearly there on Warriors but superbly defined on Berserker.
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Mazurka Berserker
John Kirkpatrick Manufacturer: Fledg'ling UK ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD British Folk
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ASIN: B00005OA5T Release Date: 2001-10-09 |
Tracks:
- The Bold Keeper
- The Citroen Took Unleaded After All
- There Stands A Cottage
- Black Bess
- Fain I Would
- Tripping To The Quintles
- Dust To Dust
- Nodrog's Woofing Waltz
- The Gown So Green
- The March Of The Siamese Children
- Belinda Brown
- The Dance Of The Jews (Lebedic Un Freylekh)
- The Song Of The Weaver
- The Pickpocket's Mazurka (Mazurka Berserker)
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Berserker
Gary Numan Manufacturer: Phantom Sound & Vision ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD New Wave
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ASIN: B000023Y8Q Release Date: 1996-11-21 |
Tracks:
- Berserker
- This Is New Love
- Secret
- My Dying Machine
- Cold Warning
- Pump It Up
- God Film
- Child With the Ghost
- Hunter
- Berserker [Extended][*][Mix]
- Empty Bed, Empty Heart [Berserker B-Side][*]
- My Dying Machine [Extended][*]
- Here Am I [My Dying Machine B-Side][*]
Album Description
CD debut/ reissue of 1984 album. 9 tracks.Customer Reviews:
Gets the 80s-ness just right.......2006-06-30
The white and blue makeup of the cover, and the blasting white light of the stage show perfectly convey the sound on this album---a cold, clinical, but machine-pop sound. The lyrics are dark (on paper) but hide beneath the shiny surface of fat bass, and a lot of electronics. The Numan sythns are all here, but surrounded by heavy, cold production and the elements that Numan was obsessed with in the mid-80s---sax solos, female backing vocals, and a dirty, strip-club sound. I think he gets it just right on this album.
The classic voice is also distorted and sometimes buried in the machines, but somehow it still works. The album seriously grew on me, and if you like early Numan and his effortless synth rock hooks, this album is a good progression (before he perhaps took it too far and lost it).
Songs like Pump It Up almost have no right being as catchy as they are, with the cheesy background vocals, the sax (why was he obsessed with sax solos so much?) The cold, hard drums of Cold Warning or This Is New Love are combined with a funky slap-bass sound and are catchy, if very 80s. The title track is awesome, featuring more guitar work than the other tracks, and a menacing sound that resembles an 80s dystopian future flick. (Blade Runner seems to be a big influence on his mid-80s albums, complete with sample on the next album, The Fury). This Is New Love sounds like the perfect strip club sound (the lyrics appropriate as well). My Dying Machine is a dancy, hypnotic number. Cold Warning combines deep, electronic bass, a cello(!), and booming synths that create a slower hypnotic effect and more of the menace that sits under the pop tunes. The Secret sounds like he and Bowie swapped some tapes around the same time.
The album has a dark lyrical tone; songs allude to "cold love", "need without feeling", "boys of passion", and a dark, tempting force akin to prostitution of some sorts, all wrapped up in that shiny, deceivingly poppy machine sound. Love is a force that feeds distant, needy action. (Don't you love describing pop album themes?)
This is not the extended version; instead it contains the b-sides from the singles. Apparently, this is tough to find, a shame. The Numan box set version has the b-sides (no extended mixes). There is at least one real gem in the b-sides. Here Am I should have been on the album---who said it's not consistent with the other songs? It's perfect. It's slow, sliding, menacing, and deceptive (lyrics vs. music). A fat, Playboy At Night sound that perhaps sums up the cover the best. And to show the man's a genius, there's a cello AND a sax solo.
The hooks and the synths and his unmistakable voice are here, but heavily augmented by 80s production that still holds up well. This is before he over-obsessed with that Prince/Janet Jackson/sax obsession/horn hits/too many cheesy backing vocals/Bobby Brown/bad white funk sound took over on every other song for a number of albums. While he's approaching it here for sure, it somehow stays together.
A NICE CHANGE IN DIRECTION.......2006-02-26
Ahead of it's time.......2003-03-30
Berserker, as a complte work is astounding. And held against even the best known acts of the time, This is an extremely mature album for a 24 year old to write. The title track could be released today and sound as fresh as it did then. It's a very well constructed piece that burns from the first chord, then completley slows up, expands, and then takes off again. I first heard this track in 1992 and it was the only song in a long time that actually had me smiling from ear to ear as I left my cd player on 'repeat' for nearly an hour.
As for the rest of the disc, "This is New Love" is something you just have to hear from yourself. It's both cohesive and experimental at the same time, quite likely my favorite cut, and trust me, you have never heard anything quite like it. The 30 second clip you can hear on here does no justice.
Other Highlights are "Cold Warning" That fuses violin and thick synths in an impressive mixture and "My Dying Machine" which musically is on rails and doesn't deviate much from it's frame, but still very driving and a nice rush. Lastly, the beautifully haunting "A CHild with the Ghost". Outside of the beatles "A day in the life", Bushs' "Letting the cables sleep" and Nine inch nails "Hurt", this is the most beautiful song I've ever heard. That song alone justifies having "Berserker" in your musical arsenal. Berserker is atmosphere over flash and one of those rare gems that actually create a mood rather than something that's mindless and over in 3 minutes. This album, good or bad, will leave an impression and THAT is the true mark of a great piece of work.
There are 3 versions avalible of this release, 2 of which feature bonus tracks ( b sides from relevant singles ) and gives you the whole package of recordings from these sessions. There is also, avalible from Numans own web site, an extended version that features longer versions of 6 of the 9 original tracks. Sadly no b sides but the extra 2 minutes of these songs your ears will thank you for.
Though Numan is clearly not for everyone, neither are any artists who really are innovative and are usually given acceptance once the rest of the world catches up with them.
Polished and Driving.......2003-01-19
"This is New Love" is spectacular. Frankly, it's hard to describe, very driving, stick bass and numerous changes of instrumentation and rhythm. The bass line of "The Secret" recalls earlier, mechanistic Numan rhythms, and the song features a soaring electric guitar line. The words are compelling here: "We'll show you religion, we'll show you a new God, we'll show you the secret of love." By the end of the song, the secret revealed is that of fear.
"My Dying Machine" is the culminating point of the album, and feature some of my favorite Numan lyrics: "No more questions, no more answers, all that is left is the fear. Why give orders? Why give speeches? Give me a reason to die. I've no plan to run. I've no plan to hide." And this is embedded in one of his best dance songs ever. Just delightful, and again that devious interplay of celebratory melody and dark themes, but in this song, optimism seems to gain the upper hand.
"Cold Warning" presents a stark contrast to the complex percussion of "My Dying Machine," opening with a lonely-sounding fiddle. It is another very danceable tune, less manic and much darker. "Pump it Up" provides a lighter relief, a lively and fun song. "The God Film" is a slower interlude that leads to "A Child with the Ghost," a mournful and atmospheric elegy. The original vinyl album ended with "The Hunter," an excellent rocker. Just as the record opened appropriately with an invitation, this song bids the listener farewell: "Now I know it's all over." The CD re-release includes five bonus tracks, some of which are excellent. "Empty Bed, Empty Heart" is a bluesy, slow complaint, nice and atmospheric. "Here Am I" is also a very deliberately paced song, much better than the first bonus track, even if it is not related thematically to "Beserker." "She Cries" is a real gem, reminiscent of the mood and sound from "Dance." "Rumour" is also excellent, even if the sound is a bit distorted. It's worth some fuzziness to hear another example of Numan when he's moving and lyrical. The last bonus track is a bit of a throw-away, but who's complaining after such a great collection of songs?
His Tour De Force.......2001-10-18
I have an eternal argument with a colleague at work on when was his finest hour. He thinks it is the 1980 "Telekon" - and there were some outstanding tracks like "I Dream Of Wires" and "Remind Me To Smile". But for sheer completeness it has to be Berserker. I think you have to appreciate also that Numan's popularity was on the wane in 1984. The singles released from Berserker did not set the charts on fire and appearance with Leo Sayer did little to enhance his talent.Also, his friend Paul Gardiner who played bass with the Tubeway Army died of a heroin overdose close to the Berserker sessions. This bereavement had a massive effect on the album - alienation, angst and atheism abound.
Yet out of this comes outstanding music. From the blistering title track to the end he is on top form. The complete fusion of electronic bass,synthesizer funk, and cracking percussion. Outstanding tracks are "This Is New Love" (all of 8.45 minutes long), "The Secret"(why this track was never released as a single beggars belief),"Pump It Up" and "The Child With The Ghost".
This album was before Numan consumed his music with heavier basslines which snuffed out his synthesizer genius of earlier work. Later work did not have that certain "Je ne sais quoi" you could say. Here he achieved a balance which was nearly there on Warriors but superbly defined on Berserker.
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Berserker
Jane Manufacturer: Paw Tracks ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Ambient
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ASIN: B0009A1ATQ Release Date: 2005-05-17 |
Tracks:
- Berserker
- Agg Report
- Slipping Away
- Swan [*]
Album Description
scotty and i worked together at a record store in new york city. he was a dj around town and he still is i think. we both really liked dance music and dance music from the very beginning and i mean stomps and shouts and claps and stuff like that. of course we like all kinds of other stuff too but its the dance that gets us going on jane. we played once at the animal collective practice space but found it much more pleasant to play at scotty's home in greenpoint where he had his mixer and simple microphones and we would drink brews and talk about all kinds of things and then play. i would usually sing about stuff i was thinking about that day and scotty would move with it playing jams and it would all kind of pour out. we liked all the mechanical robo dance jams like detroit and chicago and the germans but we wanted to do something with less 0s and 1s and more souls. mostly it was about hanging out together and talking and playing music and thinking and feeling and having fun and dancing most of all. - Panda Bear (of the Animal Collective and Jane)
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Berserker Tune
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ASIN: B000HOJCE4 Release Date: 2006-10-31 |
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Berserker/Strange Charm
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ASIN: B000H1C3U2 Release Date: 2006-10-02 |
Tracks:
- We Take Mystery (To Bed) (Live)
- We Are Glass (Live)
- Call Out The Dogs
- Your Fascination
- This Is Love
- Emotion
- Empty Bed Empty Heart
- This Disease
- Strange Charm
- London Times
- She Cries
- Generator
- Confession
- My Dying Machine
- Here I Am
- We Are Glass (Dvd)
- Berserker (Dvd)
- Remind Me To Smile (Dvd)
- Sister Surprise (Dvd)
- Music For Chameleons (Dvd)
- Iceman Comes (Dvd)
- Cold Warning (Dvd)
- Prison Moon (Dvd)
- My Dying Machine (Dvd)
- We Take Mystery (To Bed) (Dvd)
- This Is New Love (Dvd)
Album Details
2006 Issued CD/ Dvd (Pal Format) Combination Package of the Android Rocker's CD Collection of Hits, Rarities and Live Tracks Along with the Dvd of a Concert Filmed and Recorded at the Hammersmith Odeon, London 11th December 1984.Customer Reviews:
Fantastic value, interesting material.......2007-03-05
It's a great bargain, though a bit alien to anyone who's not a hardcore Numanoid. The classic Atco/Beggars Banquet songs in the track listing are all live versions, and the rest hits some unusual album picks and B-sides.
The real reason to buy this one, though, is that video. Shot while Gary was rocking the blue hair/white skin image, it's an 11-song concert culled mostly from the love-it-or-hate it Berserker album. The video quality is shockingly good, though the sound isn't nearly of the caliber heard on the White Noise double-disc album from the same concert.
This show is a pretty impressive feat to behold. We've got the classic Numan lighted panels and band on risers. The man's dedication to paint himself white and dye his still-new hairplugs bright blue was pretty remarkable, and I have no idea how he doesn't sweat it all off by the end of the show. The band is pretty darned tight, though I have to admit I'm not much of a fan of backup vocalist Karen Taylor (she's no Tessa Niles or Tracey Ackerman), and she looks awfully uncomfortable on her upstage center perch. It's nice not to have "Cars" included in the setlist.
It's pretty cool overall, and a great deal for the price. I'm happy to have it in my (silly big) Numan collection.
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Berserker
Gary Numan Manufacturer: Cleopatra ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD New Wave
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ASIN: B000LXXOCM |
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Mazurka Berserker
John Kirkpatrick Manufacturer: Valley Media, Inc ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General
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ASIN: B0002B6CQ8 Release Date: 2001-10-09 |
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