The Plan (Tubeway Army album)

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1984 compilation album by Gary Numan / Tubeway Army

The Plan

Compilation album by

Gary Numan / Tubeway Army

Released| September 1984
Recorded| March 1978
Genre| Punk rock, new wave, electronic, post-punk
Length| 67:50 (1993 CD reissue)
70:44 (1999 CD reissue)
Label| Beggars Banquet
Producer| Gary Numan, Mike Kemp
Gary Numan / Tubeway Army chronology
| Warriors
(1983)  | The Plan
(1984)  | Berserker
(1984)

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Source| Rating
AllMusic| [1]

The Plan is an archival compilation album of early demo recordings by British new wave band Tubeway Army (the band name originally used by Gary Numan), released in 1984.

While the demos on The Plan were originally recorded in March 1978, they remained unreleased until September 1984 when Numan's former label, Beggars Banquet Records, issued them a year after Numan left the label. In the intervening seven years since recording the demos, Numan's career had scaled great heights of commercial success and then waned. His most successful material had been similar in basic form and structure to the demos on The Plan, but had showcased a new synthesizer-based instrumentation instead of his previous punk rock sound.

In the album's liner notes, Numan states that these songs were deliberately written and recorded in the then-popular punk rock style with the express aim of securing a record deal. Some of the songs on the album (such as "Friends," "Something's in the House" and "My Shadow in Vain") formed the basis for songs that would eventually be released on Tubeway Army's debut album in 1978, subsequently rearranged and augmented with the synthesizer-based rock sound which would become the Tubeway Army/Numan trademark.

The Plan went on to do moderately well, reaching #29 on the UK album chart. Two months after The Plan's release, Numan issued Berserker, his first album through his own record label, Numa Records. Chart-wise, The Plan outperformed Berserker, the latter reaching #45 on the UK album chart.

All CD releases of The Plan include a wealth of bonus tracks, such as Tubeway Army's debut single "That's Too Bad" and an early version of the Tubeway Army album track "The Life Machine."

## Track listing

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All tracks written by Gary Numan.

### Original LP

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Side oneNo.| Title| Length

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1.| "This Is My Life"| 2:16
2.| "My Shadow in Vain"| 4:05
3.| "Critics"| 1:51
4.| "Mean Street"| 3:14
5.| "Thoughts No. 2"| 3:23
6.| "Bombers"| 3:53

Side twoNo.| Title| Length

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1.| "Basic J."| 2:51
2.| "Ice"| 2:14
3.| "Something's in the House"| 4:06
4.| "Friends"| 2:32
5.| "Check It"| 3:34
6.| "Steel and You"| 3:55

### 1993 CD reissue

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In 1993, Beggars Banquet issued a digitally remastered version of the album on CD, featuring 10 bonus tracks and a different running order. This release was packaged with Tubeway Army's 1979 album Replicas and was part of a series of double CDs, each of which paired two of Numan's albums together, remastered, with bonus tracks and new liner notes.[3]

No.| Title| Length

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1.| "That's Too Bad" (single version)| 3:20
2.| "Oh! Didn't I Say"| 2:16
3.| "Out of Sight"| 3:27
4.| "That's Too Bad" (original version)| 3:15
5.| "Bombers" (original version)| 3:53
6.| "My Shadow in Vain" (original version)| 4:05
7.| "This Machine (Steel and You)" (original version of "Steel and You")| 3:55
8.| "Thoughts No. 2"| 3:23
9.| "Something's in the House" (original version)| 4:06
10.| "Check It"| 3:34
11.| "The Monday Troop"| 2:57
12.| "This Is My Life"| 2:16
13.| "Mean Street"| 3:14
14.| "Ice"| 2:14
15.| "Crime of Passion"| 3:35
16.| "The Life Machine" (original version)| 1:52
17.| "Critics"| 1:51
18.| "Do Your Best (Friends)" (original version of "Friends")| 2:32
19.| "Basic J."| 2:51
20.| "Bombers" (Single Version)| 3:52
21.| "Blue Eyes"| 1:44
22.| "O.D. Receiver"| 2:38

#### 1999 CD reissue bonus tracks

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In 1999, Beggars Banquet reissued the CD as a stand-alone release, newly remastered, with the further addition of two bonus tracks.[4]

No.| Title| Length

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23.| "Fadeout 1930"| 3:13
24.| "Don't Be a Dummy" (Lee Cooper advert)| 0:30

## References

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1. ^ Thompson, Dave. The Plan at AllMusic. Retrieved 7 July 2011.
2. ^ "Gary Numan / Tubeway Army – the Plan (1984, Vinyl)". Discogs.
3. ^ "Gary Numan – Replicas / The Plan (1993, CD)". Discogs.
4. ^ "Gary Numan / Tubeway Army – the Plan (1999, CD)". Discogs.

* AllMusic
* Paul Goodwin (2004). Electric Pioneer: An Armchair Guide To Gary Numan

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Gary Numan

Albums with Tubeway Army|

* Tubeway Army
* Replicas
* The Plan

Studio albums|

* The Pleasure Principle
* Telekon
* Dance
* I, Assassin
* Warriors
* Berserker
* The Fury
* Strange Charm
* Metal Rhythm
* Outland
* Machine + Soul
* Sacrifice
* Exile
* Pure
* Jagged
* Dead Son Rising
* Splinter (Songs from a Broken Mind)
* Savage (Songs from a Broken World)
* Intruder

Collaborations|

* Automatic (with Bill Sharpe)
* Human (with Michael R. Smith)
* Nicholson / Numan 1987–1994 (with Hugh Nicholson)

Live albums|

* Living Ornaments '79
* Living Ornaments '80
* Living Ornaments '79 and '80
* White Noise
* Ghost
* The Skin Mechanic
* Dream Corrosion
* Dark Light
* Living Ornaments '81
* The Radio One Recordings
* Scarred
* Live at Shepherds Bush Empire
* Hope Bleeds
* Fragment 1/04
* Fragment 2/04
* The Complete John Peel Sessions
* Jagged Live
* Engineers
* Telekon – Live
* Replicas Live
* The Pleasure Principle Live
* Big Noise Transmission

Singles|

* "That's Too Bad"
* "Bombers"
* "Down in the Park"
* "Are "Friends" Electric?"
* "Cars"
* "Complex"
* "We Are Glass"
* "I Die: You Die"
* "This Wreckage"
* "Stormtrooper in Drag"
* "She's Got Claws"
* "Love Needs No Disguise"
* "Music for Chameleons"
* "We Take Mystery (To Bed)"
* "Warriors"
* "Change Your Mind"
* "New Thing from London Town"
* "This Is Love"
* "I Can't Stop"
* "Like a Refugee (I Won't Cry)"
* "Crazier"

Soundtracks|

* The Radial Pair: Video Soundtrack

Compilations|

* New Man Numan
* Exhibition
* Isolate
* The Best of Gary Numan 1978–1983
* The Premier Hits
* Techno Army Featuring Gary Numan
* Random
* Random (02)
* The Mix
* New Dreams for Old
* Exposure
* Hybrid
* Resonator (Pioneer of Sound)
* Jagged Edge
* Dead Moon Falling

Related articles|

* Discography
* Sharpe & Numan
* Paul Gardiner
* Cedric Sharpley
* Dramatis
* Tubeway
* Radio Heart
* "Freak Like Me"
* "Where's Your Head At"

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