Quote Originally Posted by audiobill
What would be your 2 "must have" Numan discs?? Are they remastered??
I'm not Dave, but I'd like to pipe in here:

The Pleasure Principle (aka the one with "Cars" on it) -- a lot of people agree that it was his creative peak, and it certainly is one of his best albums. Yes, it's remastered, with bonus tracks including a cover of "On Broadway".

My other one is not from his classic period: Exile -- this is latter day Numan, very chunky, dark, but still very "new romantic". Highly recommended. "Absolution" is his best song ever. There's two versions of this -- regular and extended. Either one is okay, really. If you're one of those people who want to get more for your money, get the extended one, but the essence of the songs exist in the regular version. I actually think the extended version tries one's patience a little bit, so I would lean towards the regular version.

But if you want to stick to classic Numan, I would recommend Replicas -- that seems to be the other one that most people love the most. And yes, it is also remastered with bonus tracks.

Starting with Telekon, he shifted gears and started using Mick Karn on fretless bass, and ended up sounding more new romantic and less new wavey. Personally, I think this peaked with Dance, which great tracks like "Slowcar to China" (sounding very Japan-y), plus the remaster has the delightful deep cut, "Stormtrooper in Drag". (From this period, there's also I, Assassin.)