This Wreckage Explained

"This Wreckage" is a song written and performed by Gary Numan. It was featured as the opening track on his 1980 LP Telekon.^[1]

Following two non-album singles, "We Are Glass" and "", "This Wreckage" was the only single lifted from Telekon. Released in December 1980 it reached No. 20 on the UK Singles Chart. Numan later admitted that, regardless of its merits as a song, it was a "bloody stupid single".^[2] The song was later described as "possibly the strangest Top 20 hit of all time", a fore-runner of "the slightly one-note anti-religious goth-industrial music" Numan would favour later in his career.^[3]

Notes and References

1. News: Conte . Frank . 9 October 1980 . Reviews: Gary Numen - Telekon . 82 . . 15 November 2023.
2. Stephen Webbon & Gary Numan (1985). "Complete Gary Numan UK Discography". Record Collector (December 1985, No. 76): p.15
3. Web site: McNamee . David . 17 November 2008 . It Started With A Mix: One Side Of A C90 From Synth Pop Pioneer Gary Numan . 16 November 2023 . The Quietus . en-us.