Let us know what you think of the Last.fm website. A new version of Last.fm is available, to keep everything running smoothly, please reload the site. The Colour And The Shape (Special Edition), Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. Terre Thaemlitz recorded two instrumental versions of "Down in the Park" on the tribut… In what would become Numan's normal practice, the B-side was a non-album track, in this case "Do You Need the Service? The piece was typical of Numan's themes at the time, both embracing and fearing technology. It was released as the first single from the band's second album Replicas, though was not a hit. Watch the video for Down in the Park from Foo Fighters's The Colour And The Shape (Special Edition) for free, and see the artwork, lyrics and similar artists. Heavily influenced by such writers as J.G. [citation needed]. The original song was remixed twice for the 2003 collection Hybrid, and a demo version of the song was included on the soundtrack of the movie Times Square (1980). Leave feedback. Let us know what you think of the Last.fm website. [citation needed], Lyrically the song crystallised the dystopian science fiction concept that was the basis of the Replicas album. "Down in the Park", on the other hand, was Numan's first composition on keyboards and his first release to feature the predominantly electronic sound that became his trademark. Connect your Spotify account to your Last.fm account and scrobble everything you listen to, from any Spotify app on any device or platform. 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Javascript is required to view shouts on this page. Let us know what you think of the Last.fm website. Go directly to shout page. (Numan) - 3:39, "I Nearly Married a Human (2)" (Numan) - 6:38, This page was last edited on 5 January 2020, at 19:18. A Music War, and in the Micromusic video concert from Wembley Arena (soundtrack released as Living Ornaments '81). Showing albums featuring Down in the Park. "; the title referenced a line from the works of William S. Burroughs, the service in question meaning pest control. "Down in the Park" is a 1979 song by the English band Tubeway Army, featuring lead vocals by Gary Numan. A version for piano alone was the flip side of Numan's single "I Die: You Die" in 1980 (and was also included as a bonus track on the 1998 CD re-issue of Telekon). The 12" single included the same tracks as the 7" along with "I Nearly Married A Human (2)", a different mix from the version on Replicas this time featuring drum machine throughout and Numan's recitation of the song's title, the only words heard. Listen free to Foo Fighters – The Colour And The Shape (Special Edition) (Doll Monkey Wrench and more). Other tribute acts to have recorded the song include Bytet and Reload, on the albums Ghost of a White Face Clown and Tubeway Navy respectively. The Colour And The Shape Full Album ... Foo Fighters - Down in the Park by Jmoore75860. Not stated as a cover version, "I Invented The Night" performed by Electric Six has astonishing similarities to this song. The semitone key changes (A to Bb) and chromatic melodic riffs between the song's verses are somewhat unusual in the context of traditional Western music theory, although they are less unusual in rock music. Foo Fighters - Baker Street by Jmoore75860. Some user-contributed text on this page is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply. 19 tracks (73:36). Foo Fighters - Dear Lover by Jmoore75860. The Colour And The Shape (Special Edition), Concert Hall, Toronto, Canada. The song was written and produced by the band's frontman Gary Numan, and despite its lack of commercial success, has been performed by Numan regularly in his live shows throughout the years. "Down in the Park" has been a mainstay of Numan's concerts since his 1979 tour, and appears on almost all of his live albums. 4:36. "Down in the Park" has been covered by a number of artists, notably Marilyn Manson on the "Lunchbox" and "Sweet Dreams" singles (1995), Foo Fighters on The X-Files Songs in the Key of X soundtrack album (1996), DJ Hell (a 1998 techno version with lyrics translated in French entitled "Dans Le Parc"), Christian Death (a live performance on The Iron Mask), Girls Under Glass, and Jimi Tenor on the Numan tribute album Random. Foo Fighters is the debut studio album by American rock band Foo Fighters, released on July 4, 1995 by Roswell and Capitol Records. Down in the parkWhere the Machmen meetThe machines are playing 'kill-by-numbers'Down in the park with a friend called 'Fire'I was in a car…. An arrangement with solo piano introduction appeared on the Living Ornaments '80 LP, in the movie Urgh! In contrast to much contemporary post-punk music, and his own earlier releases, Numan's vocals were deliberately underplayed, leaving the slow and stately synthesizer work to evoke the song's melancholy atmosphere. Scrobbling is when Last.fm tracks the music you listen to and automatically adds it to your music profile. Discover more music concerts videos and pictures w Leave feedback. "Down in the Park" has been covered by a number of artists, notably Marilyn Manson on the "Lunchbox" and "Sweet Dreams" singles (1995), Foo Fighters on The X-Files Songs in the Key of X soundtrack album (1996), DJ Hell (a 1998 techno version with lyrics translated in French entitled "Dans Le Parc"), Christian Death(a live performance on The Iron Mask), Girls Under Glass, and Jimi Tenor on the Numan tribute album Random. Cover of Gary Numan and Tubeway Army's 1979 original. 4:12. 5:41. Ballard and Philip K. Dick, it tells the story of a futuristic park in which Machmen (androids with human skin) and machines rape and kill human beings to entertain spectators who, along with their numerically-named robotic "friends" ("Down in the Park, with a friend called Five"), view the carnage from a nearby restaurant, "Zom Zoms" - the name inspired by a recurring reference to the Zum Zum restaurant chain in the Jobriath song "Scumbag".[1][2][3]. On various dates of the 2009 Nine Inch Nails Wave Goodbye Tour, Trent Reznor and his band performed a version featuring Gary Numan on vocals and David Bowie collaborator, Mike Garson, on grand piano. Like the Replicas album as a whole, "Down in the Park" marked a major shift from Tubeway Army's previous output. Musically, it pared down still further the guitar power chord and bass root note style arrangements he had used previously, reducing the harmony to bare unisons of layered bass guitar, Fender Rhodes electric piano, and Polymoog synthesizer. 1996 (Live FM Radio Broadcast Concert In Superb Fidelity), Concert Hall, Toronto, 1996 (Hd Remastered Edition), 1996-04-03: Concert Hall, Toronto, Canada. The band's early releases, the 1978 singles "That's Too Bad" and "Bombers" plus the self-titled debut album, contained elements of punk, hard rock, heavy metal and new wave but were exclusively guitar driven with only occasional use of primitive synthesizer effects. Let us know what you think of the Last.fm website.