Living Ornaments '80 is a live album

Live album

A live album is a recording consisting of material recorded during stage performances using remote recording techniques, commonly contrasted with a studio album...

 by Gary Numan

Gary Numan

Gary Numan is an English singer, composer, and musician, most widely known for his chart-topping 1979 hits "Are 'Friends' Electric?" and "Cars". His signature sound consisted of heavy synthesizer hooks fed through guitar effects pedals.Numan is considered a pioneer of commercial electronic music...

, first released in 1981. It was also issued as a limited edition

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 box set with Living Ornaments '79

Living Ornaments '79

Living Ornaments '79 is a live album by Gary Numan recorded at the Hammersmith Odeon on 28 September 1979. It was also released as a limited edition box set with Living Ornaments '80 . An expanded version was reissued on a double CD in 1998 before a remastered version was again reissued in 2005...

the same year. The original release was recorded at the Hammersmith Odeon

Hammersmith Apollo

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 on 16 September 1980, as a record of Numan's "Teletour" (September-November 1980).

An expanded and remaster

Remaster

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ed version was reissue

Reissue

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d on a double CD

Compact Disc

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 in 2005. The tapes of the full concert from which the original album's ten tracks were culled have been lost, but in 2004 a mixing console

Audio mixing (recorded music)

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 recording of a complete song set from another (undated) UK concert was discovered and deemed to be of sufficient quality to release commercially. This set included, at that time, the only official live recordings of the tracks "Telekon", from the album of the same name

Telekon

Released in 1980, Telekon is the fourth studio album, and second album under his own name, by the British musician Gary Numan. It debuted at the top of the UK charts in September 1980, making it his third and consecutive no.1 album....

, and "Stories", from Numan's then-forthcoming Dance

Dance (Gary Numan album)

Dance is the fifth studio album, the third under his own name, by the British musician Gary Numan, released in 1981. It is his first release after announcing his retirement from touring in April 1981...

album (1981). A live version of "Telekon" has since appeared on the Telekon - Live

Telekon - Live

Telekon - Live is a live album by English musician Gary Numan. The album was released in 2008 by Mortal Records and is a recording of Numan's 9th December 2006 Telekon concert at the London Forum...

album (2008), recorded during Numan's Telekon Classic Album Tour of 2006, although no further live versions of "Stories" have been officially released.

Side one

1. "This Wreckage
   This Wreckage
   "This Wreckage" is a song written and performed by Gary Numan. It was featured as the opening track on his 1980 LP Telekon and was the third and final single to be released from that album .Described by Numan as a "self-portrait" song, "This Wreckage" foreshadowed his temporary retirement from...
   
   " – 5:20
2. "I Die: You Die
   I Die: You Die
   "I Die: You Die" is a Gary Numan single from 1980. Released shortly before his fourth album, Telekon, it continued the anthemic style Numan had begun earlier in the year with "We Are Glass". The composer himself described the two singles as "Much the same thing...
   
   " – 3:38
3. "M.E." – 4:27
4. "Everyday I Die" – 4:22
5. "Down in the Park
   Down in the Park
   "Down in the Park" is a 1979 single written and recorded by Gary Numan with his band Tubeway Army. The first cut from the album Replicas, it was not a hit when released but has long been a critical and fan favourite and for many years was described by Numan as his best composition.-Style:Like the...
   
   " – 5:55

Side two

1. "Remind Me to Smile" – 3:40
2. "The Joy Circuit" – 5:47
3. "Tracks" – 2:43
4. "Are 'Friends' Electric?
   Are 'Friends' Electric?
   "Are 'Friends' Electric?" is a 1979 song written by Gary Numan, released under the name of his then-band Tubeway Army as a single and on the album Replicas...
   
   " – 5:30
5. "We Are Glass
   We Are Glass
   "We Are Glass" is a Gary Numan single released in 1980. Its up-tempo beat, scratchy guitars and pitch-bending synthesizer effects made it a prime example of the synthpop of the time....
   
   " – 4:32

Disc one

1. "This Wreckage"
2. "I Die: You Die"
3. "M.E."
4. "Everyday I Die"
5. "Down in the Park"
6. "Remind Me to Smile"
7. "The Joy Circuit"
8. "Tracks"
9. "Are 'Friends' Electric?"
10. "We Are Glass"
11. "This Wreckage"
12. "Remind Me to Smile"
13. "Complex"
14. "Telekon"

Disc two

1. "Me! I Disconnect From You"
2. "Cars
   Cars (song)
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   "
3. "Conversation"
4. "Airplane"
5. "M.E."
6. "Everyday I Die"
7. "Remember I Was Vapour"
8. "Stories"
9. "Are 'Friends' Electric?"
10. "The Joy Circuit"
11. "I Die: You Die"
12. "I Dream of Wires"
13. "Down in the Park"
14. "Tracks"
15. "We Are Glass"

Tracks 1-10 on disc one comprise the original Living Ornaments '80 set. The rest of the tracks on disc one and all of the tracks on disc two comprise the recovered, undated show.
Film footage of the live version of "Down in the Park

Down in the Park

"Down in the Park" is a 1979 single written and recorded by Gary Numan with his band Tubeway Army. The first cut from the album Replicas, it was not a hit when released but has long been a critical and fan favourite and for many years was described by Numan as his best composition.-Style:Like the...

" from the original Living Ornaments '80 show was included in the music concert anthology film Urgh! A Music War

Urgh! A Music War

Urgh! A Music War is a British film released in 1982 featuring performances by punk rock, New Wave, and post-punk acts, filmed in 1980. Among the artists featured in the movie are Magazine, The Go-Go's, The Fleshtones, Joan Jett and the Blackhearts, XTC, Devo, The Cramps, Oingo Boingo, Dead...

(1981); the track was included on that film's accompanying soundtrack album, released in the same year.

Personnel

• Gary Numan
  Gary Numan
  Gary Numan is an English singer, composer, and musician, most widely known for his chart-topping 1979 hits "Are 'Friends' Electric?" and "Cars". His signature sound consisted of heavy synthesizer hooks fed through guitar effects pedals.Numan is considered a pioneer of commercial electronic music...
  
   – vocals, guitar
  Guitar
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  , synthesizer
  Synthesizer
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  , producer
  Record producer
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  , mixer
  Audio mixing (recorded music)
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• Roger Mason
  Roger Mason (musician)
  Roger Ashley Mason is an Australian keyboardist who has been a member of New Wave groups Models, Absent Friends and Icehouse. He was a session and backing musician for United Kingdom's Gary Numan and for various Australian artists...
  
   – keyboards
  Keyboard instrument
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• Cedric Sharpley – drum
  Drum
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  s
• Chris Payne – keyboards, viola
  Viola
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• Paul Gardiner
  Paul Gardiner
  Paul Gardiner was a British musician who played bass guitar with Gary Numan and Tubeway Army as well as material under his own name.-Biography:...
  
   – bass
  Bass guitar
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• Rrussell Bell – guitar
• Tim Summerhayes – engineer
  Engineer
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• Phil Thornalley
  Phil Thornalley
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   – assistant engineer
• Will Gosling – assistant mixer

Charts

• Original album #39 (UK Albums Chart
  UK Albums Chart
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  )
• Living Ornaments '79/'80 box set #2 (UK Albums Chart)