Gary Numan 
Aliases: Gary Numan & Tubeway Army, Tubeway Army.
The best album credited to Gary Numan is The Pleasure Principle which is ranked number 1,580 in the overall greatest album chart with a total rank score of 1,088.
Gary Numan is ranked number 455 in the overall artist rankings with a total rank score of 4,125.
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| ! | 08/14/2025 10:37 |  doombringer | 209 | 85/100 |
| ! | 01/25/2025 20:18 | Johnnyo | 3,249 | 74/100 |
| ! | 11/23/2024 16:14 |  hoyquarlow | 260 | 72/100 |
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This artist is rated in the top 24% of all artists on BestEverAlbums.com. This artist has a Bayesian average rating of 76.5/100, a mean average of 76.9/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 76.9/100. The standard deviation for this artist is 9.9.
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Captain_Dude 08/02/2011 23:16 | #25576
I absolutely ADORE Gary Numan. I especially love the stuff he recorded with Tubeway Army. Gary Numan is the godfather of synth and he's as much a science fiction writer as he is a musician. Songs about alienation, cloning, secret police, futuristic junkies fill his albums and they are disturbingly beautiful. Punk meeths synth...this is really cool stuff. Check it out! (Edited)
bobbyb5 01/22/2017 09:18 | #183834
After all those years of crap records, I was so shocked when he recovered with all those ones like Pure, Jagged. Its the most remarkable artistic comeback I can think of. (Edited)
I like Gary Numan's early stuff, but the guy is not a good singer or songwriter. He throws out decent synth riffs and enough of a beat and melody to keep the music interesting. I'm not bored listening to his stuff, but he never moves into greatness territory.
Great synth pioneer with intricate melodies and rhythms - groundbreaking in the late 70's and one of my favourite artists - has found his feet again with his last two or three darker albums
zags7000 08/24/2015 08:50 | #148368
The stuff he did with Tubeway Army and his first solo album really are great. Not question a major influence for a lot of artists today. However, he has a lot of material out and yet only two real classics I can think of, The Pleasure Principle & Replicas (with Tubeway Army). Those two are great but I think he's missed the mark so much that it takes away his status from reaching true greatness.
