Sacrifice

Artist: Gary Numan
Label: Cleopatra
Category: Music

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Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 741157033625
EAN: 0741157033625
ASIN: B000009ONJ

Release Date: 1998-08-11

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Tracks:

Pray
Deadliner
Question of Faith
Desire
Scar
Love and Napalm
You Walk in My Soul
Magic
Bleed
Seed of a Lie
Question of Faith [Extended][*]
Love and Napalm [Extended][*]
Metal Beat [*][Demo Version]
Play Like God [B-Side][*]

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Pure
Exile
Jagged
I, Assassin
Hybrid

Customer Reviews:

Oh dear.......2006-08-29

I don't think I've heard an album with such appalling production values as Sacrifice. You would have thought after a career spanning more than two decades Gary Numan would be able to engineer and mix his own recordings competently.

Sacrifice is another droning earache of an album with absolutely zero dynamics. Song after song the same drum loop is used ad nauseam. Sonicaly it's all over the place, you can't hear what's going on so if there really are great melodies on this album then they're lost under a muddy wall of sound.

Maybe somebody within the Numan camp should tell him he can't engineer, mix or produce to save his life? Unfortunately Exile, Pure and the latest sonic disaster 'Jagged' all suffer from teeth grindingly hideous production and sloppy mixing.

INDUSTRIAL BUT MELODIC !!!!.......2006-04-14

After the excellent but unsuccesful ?Machine And Soul ?,Numan went in a darker,industrial direction taking elements from current (for 94) music which he had inspired and influenced in the first place.This is a low-budget solo effort made entirely by himself in the studio with the only aid of guitarrist Kipper for the extra solos and TJ Davies for some backing vocals.The lyrics deal with agnosticism in a very angry way,a direction he would follow for the next two records with great success.The music has now a lot of keyboard bottom end,heavy guitar parts,the usual percussion programming and much less processed and natural vocals.Most of the album is of a dark,heavy upbeat nature with some excellent slow,opressive songs in a way only Numan can achieve but all of them have a nicely acomplished melodic line to them.
The sound,on the other hand,is still not good but a vast improvement over the original release (I have Dawn too).The midrange has been cleaned and beefed up,so the vocals are no longer distorted and muddled up as before,and the upper end is a tad better as well,only it now exhibits a marked imbalance to the left ( revealed or introduced by remastering ? ) on many of the album tracks.
The bonus tracks are comprised of singles,b-sides and demos,of lesser sound quality but high musical value.An EXCELLENT album and in my opinion a better treat than the 2 follow ups in terms of musicality rather than sheer sonic impact.

"I'll give you dark wonders you are all invited to the show".......2005-02-18

When Sacrifice came out in 1994, most Numan fans breathed a collective sigh of relief. Sacrifice was the first Numan album in years that did not have the Janet Jacksonesque dance music with the domineering female background vocalists. It followed Machine & Soul which many fans consider the lowest point in his career. I can find many excellent tracks off all of Numan's albums from his dance era (even his collaboration with Bill Sharpe), but I was still glad to hear his new sound when I first heard Sacrifice. This album is all Numan. He sings all the vocals and plays all the instruments so it is filled with synthesizers and drum machines with no saxophones or annoying female vocalists. The music is very dark and heavy. Most of the lyrics are about questioning God's existence or benevolence, which caused some controversy but, for me, makes for very powerful stuff.

On first listen, the tracks seem to run together with the omnipresent drum machine but, after several plays, songs begin to stand out. Sacrifice was the first Numan release in years on which I find no weak tracks. There are no instrumental fillers either. A lot of thought and care was put into each track as Numan took his music into a new direction. My favorite track is "A Question of Faith" of which there is a cool remix on the compilation The Mix followed by the hardest rocker on the disc "Love & Napalm." "You Walk in My Soul" is a dark, romantic ballad that a friend of mine actually wants played at his wedding. I don't know if it's that romantic, but it is nice. Sacrifice is also the album in Numan's new dark period that does not adopt a complete industrial sound. Most of his material after this album (especially Pure and the new tracks on Hybrid) takes this new style to a darker and heavier level with iniquitous screaming that may be a little much to listen to on a regular basis. Sacrifice stayed on the fine line towards industrial Nine Inch Nails style music brilliantly. I recommend purchasing this edition with the excellent "Metal Beat" demo. "Pray Like God" is not a filler B-side, but it is not as good as the rest of the album. It's rather bland and repetitive. For those who gave up on Numan when he started going techno dance, your missing out on some incredible stuff. Check out Sacrifice and then Exile and his latest material.

Transformation Album.......2002-12-23

Gary Numan is an artist I used to stickly associate "Cars" with. This recorded starts the dark industrial influence for Gary. It truely feel he began a new journey here. The song, Pray defines the overall tone of the record. Play Like God is a very cool extended mix B side. Gary continues to grow and change. He puts together quite a band too.

The record is hard driving where as Exile is slower and darker industrial style techno I suppose. For me, "Pure" takes the cake, but this is a great spin. See him live too!

Truely a shame, I think..........2002-07-13

This has been dubbed along the way as the first in the dark Numan trilogy with Sacrifice followed by the unbelievable Exile and Pure. This disc is obviously where he made the leap to the dark side because it sounds as though he knows what he wants, but just doesn't quite get to 100% of it. Exile is the 100% marker. Still, this is an awesome stack of tunes that kinda shed light on the storyline (I seem to find one in these three discs all throughout, they all connect somehow). Sacrifice is the naive persona, which I believe is reflected by the more positive upbeat beats, while Exile goes in for the kill where we get a man who is stepping into darkness, and Pure which seems like some kind of afterthought of the whole experience (man knows "the truth", sees it for what it is, accepting it, but wishing the past could have been different). I have deduced several different theories on these discs. My main overview seems to be that there is the loss of a child or loved one, seems to be more like a child and wife/mother, somehow incorporated into a man who discovers that God is no better than the devil, is given visions of this fact...God finds out the man has seen the truth and comes down to snuff him out. Indeed, a very dark tale. The music is the real treat. Now, to explain the subject of this article (the shame). Exile and Pure sound crisp and clear to the max. What's up with the sound quality on Sacrifice? I even had a skip during play and it was a new disc! The disc skips in the same place every time. A noteable difference is the disc itself though. It looks as though there is a haze (or what looks like shadow from water), I can't really explain it. I've got hundreds of discs and I've never seen this before anywhere. It looked like this when it was new. I hate to think that all of the pressings of this disc sound so muted as well. The songs are way too good for them to turn out like this. I listen to Exile and just want Sacrifice to sound as crisp and when I put it in, it's just too obvious, the sound quality sucks. Maybe it was Numan trying out new equipment for the first time or something. If anyone can shed some light on this little (what I'm hoping is just a dead on arrival CD) problem I find with the Sacrifice disc, please e-mail me. I'll gladly purchase another copy of this disc if it will sound as crisp as Exile and Pure. Was it production? I can't imagine that no one else has noticed the difference in sound quality.

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