This is one of my favorites by Numan. It summed how I felt when I was a lonely anti-social teenager with few friends. Seemed like people were always stabbing me in the back...I couldn't trust them. I really identified with his lyrics about alienation, mistrust, and communication breakdown. I discovered Numan's music because of the song Cars but once I heard the whole Pleasure Principle lp, it was like "hey! this guy is singing about the way I feel a lot of the time".
This is one of my favorites by Numan. It summed how I felt when I was a lonely anti-social teenager with few friends. Seemed like people were always stabbing me in the back...I couldn't trust them. I really identified with his lyrics about alienation, mistrust, and communication breakdown. I discovered Numan's music because of the song Cars but once I heard the whole Pleasure Principle lp, it was like "hey! this guy is singing about the way I feel a lot of the time".