richardg
Admonishtrator
First three: Tubeway Army, Replicas and The Pleasure Principle are all well worth having IMHO. I bought Replicas when it first came out and was knocked out by how new and different it sounded to my then glam/prog ears. Must dig it out for a spin at some point. I'm pretty sure he did an album later on with Mick Karn from Japan, if so I must get to hear it at some point.
I was just discussing this at work yesterday whilst listening to Music for Chameleons. We were convinced it was Mick Karn on bass, as the whole track sounds more like Numan guesting on a Japan song. Wiki reckons it was someone called Pino Palladino, who is Welsh apparently!
Then I learnt he worked on an album called Dance and said about working with Numan:
"...things turned sour when the album was released, or rather, the single, with a B-side I hadn't been told about or paid for."