My Favorite

may very well be my new favorite band. Enon held the post for a while, but Enon is nowhere near as catchy and as purely New Wave as My Favorite is. Hell, according to AMG's allmusic.com, their first album Love at Absolute Zero (which has to be one of the best titles ever) is "the best album of 1983, just delivered sixteen years late." And it is. I haven't heard an album so squarely designed around the early-80s synth-pop/post-punk aesthetic since The Pulsars' one and only album. It's absolutely to die for.

Preach it, Mr. Numan....

I don't like young girls
I don't like boys
I like some bitch to scare me
I like that noise

I don't like secrets
I don't like God
I don't like people
When they say I'm things I'm not

I don't need opinions and rumours
I don't need a voix in the dark
I don't need to listen to strangers
I don't need to tear out my heart

--Gary Numan, "Voix."

I just got the remastered reissue of Metal Rhythm today, and man is it fresh. I now only need to get two more Gary Numan albums in the mail and I will have them all.

There are very few songwriters whose lyrics I can, in any way, relate to or feel personally. Gary Numan is the number one name on that list. John Prine is number two. I think King Diamond is probably on there somewhere, too, but I won't know that until I finally get his greatest hits.