Chords for Gary Numan/Tubeway Army - Are 'Friends' Electric? | Het verhaal achter het nummer | Top 2000 a gogo
Tempo:
93 bpm
Chords used:
C
G
F
Bb
E
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
Start Jamming...
[Bb] [C]
[G] [C]
[G] When you think about a hit single, [C] it really doesn't have [F] any of the things going for it
that you [C] would expect.
You can't dance to it.
[E]
[C] It doesn't have a chorus.
[F] It's really
long, [C] you know, and it's about robot prostitutes.
[Bb] [C] [F]
I was writing science fiction stories, [C] and
these science [F] fiction stories became a really good subject for electronic music.
It seemed
to fit.
It was a futuristic version [C] of getting pornography in the [Gm] post, what comes in a brown
envelope so your neighbours don't [E] know what it [C] is.
So these [Bb] prostitutes, these [G] machines
which looked [C] human, were walking around doing [G] various services in these grey coats, [C] and
they all looked the same.
So you never knew what the sitters
They could also clean the house.
Yeah.
They could be [Gm] anything you want.
[Gm] [G] They
didn't matter.
[E] [C]
[G] If the BBC had known what it was about, they'd never have played it.
[F] They'd
never have let me go on top of the Pops, [Db] so [Eb] thumbs up for [Eb] obscure lyrics.
The punk thing was really exciting, but [F] by the time I'd actually got involved and got
a band, I could already see lots of signs that it had had its moment, and I was in a
band, and we were a four-piece band at the time, [Bb] Jubilee Army we were called, and two
All the people in it were hardcore punk.
And so we [Eb] get a deal with [C] Beggars Bank.
[Db] That's a punk band.
Oh, what [Eb] about
So, I go to the studio.
I go in first.
And while my friends are unloading the gear,
the [Am] guitars and the amps from the car,
I see the Mini Moog in the corner.
Never seen a real one before.
And luckily, [B]
it had been left on a really great set.
Whoa-ho-ho!
And the room shook.
Fuck me!
That is the best thing ever.
You know, that's like ten guitar players at full power
doing that on one finger.
And all I did was kind of [E] transfer these riffs,
the na-na-na-na-na punk things into
..synth
riffs.
And I go back to the record company
with this [C] pseudo-punk electronic album.
And they were horrified.
Not what they wanted at all.
Not what they'd signed me for.
Really angry.
And I was absolutely convinced
that this type of music, this instrument,
is going to be massive,
cos other people must surely feel the way I feel about it.
It is making sounds you have never heard before.
[Bb] WHIRRING
[C]
[Bb] Amazingly, [C] Arpange Electric was released [D] as a picture disc.
I think most of the picture discs were bought by people
that never heard it, but
Cos it was a picture disc.
That sold enough in the first week
to get it into the lower reaches of the chart.
I think it got to, like, number 90.
Very luckily, at that time, Top Of The Pops,
they did a thing called Bubbling Under,
where they would take a record that was outside of the chart
and give it a chance.
And it was between me and [N] Simple Minds.
What about this new band I've seen in a long time?
What's next, guys?
We're called Tubeway Army, and this is their new single.
Arpange [G] Electric.
[Bb] [C] And the reason they chose me is that [E] somebody at Top Of The Pops
thought [A] Tubeway Army was a more interesting name than Simple Minds.
It was as simple as that.
[C] It's [Bb] cold outside
I tried to look [Fm] like one of the characters from the stories I'd written.
[E] Did the make-up thing.
[C] I noticed on Top Of The Pops that when everybody was singing,
they would all look at the camera.
[E] You know, as the [C] camera would turn,
they would just keep on looking at it like that.
And I was like, that looks shit.
Yeah.
In a [F] long time, greyhats [C] smoking a cigarette.
I asked Top Of The [D] Pops if it was OK
if we [D] don't have any coloured lights,
they [F] don't want any colours,
cos everyone was just all red, blue, green, red,
flashing off and on all the time.
I'm going to be moody, cos it suits the song and it suits the lyric,
and it is about a very well-prostituted,
so [C] you can't be happy.
[G]
[Dm] And [F] I think that made [G] it smart.
[Dm] [F] I don't think it would [C] be naive of me to [G] do
Our Fringe Electric [F] didn't used to go like that.
It was [C] actually two songs to begin with. Oh, really?
And the [G] verse part HE HUMS
[F] [C] It didn't used to go like that.
It actually [G] went
It was quite lilting, it [F] was quite sweet.
And I [C] just hit the wrong note one day.
I thought, [G] that sounds better, so [F] I kept it.
[C] So, Our Fringe Electric, this great big pioneer in number one,
opening doors for electronic music,
was actually two songs stuck together,
cos I couldn't think how to finish them,
and a bit [Gm] of bad playing.
[C] HE LAUGHS
[Bb] [C] [G]
[E] [E]
[G] [C]
[G] When you think about a hit single, [C] it really doesn't have [F] any of the things going for it
that you [C] would expect.
You can't dance to it.
[E]
[C] It doesn't have a chorus.
[F] It's really
long, [C] you know, and it's about robot prostitutes.
[Bb] [C] [F]
I was writing science fiction stories, [C] and
these science [F] fiction stories became a really good subject for electronic music.
It seemed
to fit.
It was a futuristic version [C] of getting pornography in the [Gm] post, what comes in a brown
envelope so your neighbours don't [E] know what it [C] is.
So these [Bb] prostitutes, these [G] machines
which looked [C] human, were walking around doing [G] various services in these grey coats, [C] and
they all looked the same.
So you never knew what the sitters
They could also clean the house.
Yeah.
They could be [Gm] anything you want.
[Gm] [G] They
didn't matter.
[E] [C]
[G] If the BBC had known what it was about, they'd never have played it.
[F] They'd
never have let me go on top of the Pops, [Db] so [Eb] thumbs up for [Eb] obscure lyrics.
The punk thing was really exciting, but [F] by the time I'd actually got involved and got
a band, I could already see lots of signs that it had had its moment, and I was in a
band, and we were a four-piece band at the time, [Bb] Jubilee Army we were called, and two
All the people in it were hardcore punk.
And so we [Eb] get a deal with [C] Beggars Bank.
[Db] That's a punk band.
Oh, what [Eb] about
So, I go to the studio.
I go in first.
And while my friends are unloading the gear,
the [Am] guitars and the amps from the car,
I see the Mini Moog in the corner.
Never seen a real one before.
And luckily, [B]
it had been left on a really great set.
Whoa-ho-ho!
And the room shook.
Fuck me!
That is the best thing ever.
You know, that's like ten guitar players at full power
doing that on one finger.
And all I did was kind of [E] transfer these riffs,
the na-na-na-na-na punk things into
..synth
riffs.
And I go back to the record company
with this [C] pseudo-punk electronic album.
And they were horrified.
Not what they wanted at all.
Not what they'd signed me for.
Really angry.
And I was absolutely convinced
that this type of music, this instrument,
is going to be massive,
cos other people must surely feel the way I feel about it.
It is making sounds you have never heard before.
[Bb] WHIRRING
[C]
[Bb] Amazingly, [C] Arpange Electric was released [D] as a picture disc.
I think most of the picture discs were bought by people
that never heard it, but
Cos it was a picture disc.
That sold enough in the first week
to get it into the lower reaches of the chart.
I think it got to, like, number 90.
Very luckily, at that time, Top Of The Pops,
they did a thing called Bubbling Under,
where they would take a record that was outside of the chart
and give it a chance.
And it was between me and [N] Simple Minds.
What about this new band I've seen in a long time?
What's next, guys?
We're called Tubeway Army, and this is their new single.
Arpange [G] Electric.
[Bb] [C] And the reason they chose me is that [E] somebody at Top Of The Pops
thought [A] Tubeway Army was a more interesting name than Simple Minds.
It was as simple as that.
[C] It's [Bb] cold outside
I tried to look [Fm] like one of the characters from the stories I'd written.
[E] Did the make-up thing.
[C] I noticed on Top Of The Pops that when everybody was singing,
they would all look at the camera.
[E] You know, as the [C] camera would turn,
they would just keep on looking at it like that.
And I was like, that looks shit.
Yeah.
In a [F] long time, greyhats [C] smoking a cigarette.
I asked Top Of The [D] Pops if it was OK
if we [D] don't have any coloured lights,
they [F] don't want any colours,
cos everyone was just all red, blue, green, red,
flashing off and on all the time.
I'm going to be moody, cos it suits the song and it suits the lyric,
and it is about a very well-prostituted,
so [C] you can't be happy.
[G]
[Dm] And [F] I think that made [G] it smart.
[Dm] [F] I don't think it would [C] be naive of me to [G] do
Our Fringe Electric [F] didn't used to go like that.
It was [C] actually two songs to begin with. Oh, really?
And the [G] verse part HE HUMS
[F] [C] It didn't used to go like that.
It actually [G] went
It was quite lilting, it [F] was quite sweet.
And I [C] just hit the wrong note one day.
I thought, [G] that sounds better, so [F] I kept it.
[C] So, Our Fringe Electric, this great big pioneer in number one,
opening doors for electronic music,
was actually two songs stuck together,
cos I couldn't think how to finish them,
and a bit [Gm] of bad playing.
[C] HE LAUGHS
[Bb] [C] [G]
[E] [E]
Key:
C
G
F
Bb
E
C
G
F
_ _ [Bb] _ _ [C] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [G] _ _ _ [C] _
_ _ _ [G] When you think about a hit single, [C] it really doesn't have [F] any of the things going for it
that you [C] would expect.
You can't dance to it.
[E]
[C] It doesn't have a chorus.
[F] It's really
long, [C] you know, and it's about robot prostitutes.
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [Bb] _ _ [C] _ _ _ [F]
I was writing science fiction stories, [C] and
these science [F] fiction stories became a really good subject for electronic music.
It seemed
to fit.
It was a futuristic version [C] of getting pornography in the [Gm] post, what comes in a brown
envelope so your neighbours don't [E] know what it [C] is.
So these [Bb] prostitutes, these [G] machines
which looked [C] human, were walking around doing [G] various services in these grey coats, [C] and
they all looked the same.
So you never knew what the sitters_
They could also clean the house.
Yeah.
They could be [Gm] anything you want. _
_ [Gm] _ [G] They
didn't matter.
[E] _ _ [C] _
_ [G] If the BBC had known what it was about, they'd never have played it.
[F] They'd
never have let me go on top of the Pops, [Db] so [Eb] _ thumbs up for [Eb] obscure lyrics. _ _ _ _ _ _
The punk thing was really exciting, but [F] by the time I'd actually got involved and got
a band, I could already see lots of signs that it had had its moment, and I was in a
band, and we were a four-piece band at the time, [Bb] Jubilee Army we were called, and two
All the people in it were hardcore punk.
And so we [Eb] get a deal with [C] Beggars Bank.
[Db] That's a punk band.
Oh, what [Eb] about_
So, I go to the studio.
I go in first.
And while my friends are unloading the gear,
the [Am] guitars and the amps from the car,
I see the Mini Moog in the corner.
Never seen a real one before.
And luckily, [B]
it had been left on a really great set.
_ _ Whoa-ho-ho!
And the room shook.
Fuck me!
That is the best thing ever.
You know, that's like ten guitar players at full power
doing that on one finger.
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
And all I did was kind of [E] transfer these riffs,
the na-na-na-na-na punk things into_
..synth
riffs.
And I go back to the record company
with this [C] pseudo-punk electronic album.
And they were horrified.
Not what they wanted at all.
Not what they'd signed me for.
Really angry.
And I was absolutely convinced
that this type of music, this instrument,
is going to be massive,
cos other people must surely feel the way I feel about it.
It is making sounds you have never heard before.
_ [Bb] WHIRRING
[C] _ _
_ _ _ _ [Bb] Amazingly, [C] Arpange Electric was released [D] as a picture disc.
I think most of the picture discs were bought by people
that never heard it, but_
Cos it was a picture disc.
_ That sold enough in the first week
to get it into the lower reaches of the chart.
I think it got to, like, number 90.
Very luckily, at that time, Top Of The Pops,
they did a thing called Bubbling Under,
where they would take a record that was outside of the chart
and give it a chance.
And it was between me and [N] Simple Minds.
What about this new band I've seen in a long time?
What's next, guys?
We're called Tubeway Army, and this is their new single.
Arpange [G] Electric.
_ [Bb] _ [C] And the reason they chose me is that [E] somebody at Top Of The Pops
thought [A] Tubeway Army was a more interesting name than Simple Minds.
It was as simple as that. _
[C] It's [Bb] cold outside_
I tried to look [Fm] like one of the characters from the stories I'd written.
[E] Did the make-up thing.
[C] I noticed on Top Of The Pops that when everybody was singing,
they would all look at the camera.
[E] You know, as the [C] camera would turn,
they would just keep on looking at it like that.
And I was like, that looks shit.
Yeah.
In a [F] long time, greyhats [C] smoking a cigarette.
I asked Top Of The [D] Pops if it was OK
if we [D] don't have any coloured lights,
they [F] don't want any colours,
cos everyone was just all red, blue, green, red,
flashing off and on all the time.
I'm going to be moody, cos it suits the song and it suits the lyric,
and it is about a very well-prostituted,
so [C] you can't be happy.
[G] _
_ [Dm] And [F] I think that made [G] it smart.
_ [Dm] _ _ [F] I don't think it would [C] be naive of me to [G] do_
Our Fringe Electric [F] didn't used to go like that.
It was [C] actually two songs to begin with. Oh, really?
And the [G] verse part_ HE HUMS
[F] _ [C] It didn't used to go like that.
It actually [G] went_
It was quite lilting, it [F] was quite sweet.
And I [C] just hit the wrong note one day.
I thought, [G] that sounds better, so [F] I kept it.
_ [C] _ So, Our Fringe Electric, this great big pioneer in number one,
opening doors for electronic music,
was actually two songs stuck together,
cos I couldn't think how to finish them,
and a bit [Gm] of bad playing.
[C] HE LAUGHS _ _
_ _ [Bb] _ _ [C] _ _ _ [G] _
_ _ [E] _ _ [E] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [G] _ _ _ [C] _
_ _ _ [G] When you think about a hit single, [C] it really doesn't have [F] any of the things going for it
that you [C] would expect.
You can't dance to it.
[E]
[C] It doesn't have a chorus.
[F] It's really
long, [C] you know, and it's about robot prostitutes.
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [Bb] _ _ [C] _ _ _ [F]
I was writing science fiction stories, [C] and
these science [F] fiction stories became a really good subject for electronic music.
It seemed
to fit.
It was a futuristic version [C] of getting pornography in the [Gm] post, what comes in a brown
envelope so your neighbours don't [E] know what it [C] is.
So these [Bb] prostitutes, these [G] machines
which looked [C] human, were walking around doing [G] various services in these grey coats, [C] and
they all looked the same.
So you never knew what the sitters_
They could also clean the house.
Yeah.
They could be [Gm] anything you want. _
_ [Gm] _ [G] They
didn't matter.
[E] _ _ [C] _
_ [G] If the BBC had known what it was about, they'd never have played it.
[F] They'd
never have let me go on top of the Pops, [Db] so [Eb] _ thumbs up for [Eb] obscure lyrics. _ _ _ _ _ _
The punk thing was really exciting, but [F] by the time I'd actually got involved and got
a band, I could already see lots of signs that it had had its moment, and I was in a
band, and we were a four-piece band at the time, [Bb] Jubilee Army we were called, and two
All the people in it were hardcore punk.
And so we [Eb] get a deal with [C] Beggars Bank.
[Db] That's a punk band.
Oh, what [Eb] about_
So, I go to the studio.
I go in first.
And while my friends are unloading the gear,
the [Am] guitars and the amps from the car,
I see the Mini Moog in the corner.
Never seen a real one before.
And luckily, [B]
it had been left on a really great set.
_ _ Whoa-ho-ho!
And the room shook.
Fuck me!
That is the best thing ever.
You know, that's like ten guitar players at full power
doing that on one finger.
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
And all I did was kind of [E] transfer these riffs,
the na-na-na-na-na punk things into_
..synth
riffs.
And I go back to the record company
with this [C] pseudo-punk electronic album.
And they were horrified.
Not what they wanted at all.
Not what they'd signed me for.
Really angry.
And I was absolutely convinced
that this type of music, this instrument,
is going to be massive,
cos other people must surely feel the way I feel about it.
It is making sounds you have never heard before.
_ [Bb] WHIRRING
[C] _ _
_ _ _ _ [Bb] Amazingly, [C] Arpange Electric was released [D] as a picture disc.
I think most of the picture discs were bought by people
that never heard it, but_
Cos it was a picture disc.
_ That sold enough in the first week
to get it into the lower reaches of the chart.
I think it got to, like, number 90.
Very luckily, at that time, Top Of The Pops,
they did a thing called Bubbling Under,
where they would take a record that was outside of the chart
and give it a chance.
And it was between me and [N] Simple Minds.
What about this new band I've seen in a long time?
What's next, guys?
We're called Tubeway Army, and this is their new single.
Arpange [G] Electric.
_ [Bb] _ [C] And the reason they chose me is that [E] somebody at Top Of The Pops
thought [A] Tubeway Army was a more interesting name than Simple Minds.
It was as simple as that. _
[C] It's [Bb] cold outside_
I tried to look [Fm] like one of the characters from the stories I'd written.
[E] Did the make-up thing.
[C] I noticed on Top Of The Pops that when everybody was singing,
they would all look at the camera.
[E] You know, as the [C] camera would turn,
they would just keep on looking at it like that.
And I was like, that looks shit.
Yeah.
In a [F] long time, greyhats [C] smoking a cigarette.
I asked Top Of The [D] Pops if it was OK
if we [D] don't have any coloured lights,
they [F] don't want any colours,
cos everyone was just all red, blue, green, red,
flashing off and on all the time.
I'm going to be moody, cos it suits the song and it suits the lyric,
and it is about a very well-prostituted,
so [C] you can't be happy.
[G] _
_ [Dm] And [F] I think that made [G] it smart.
_ [Dm] _ _ [F] I don't think it would [C] be naive of me to [G] do_
Our Fringe Electric [F] didn't used to go like that.
It was [C] actually two songs to begin with. Oh, really?
And the [G] verse part_ HE HUMS
[F] _ [C] It didn't used to go like that.
It actually [G] went_
It was quite lilting, it [F] was quite sweet.
And I [C] just hit the wrong note one day.
I thought, [G] that sounds better, so [F] I kept it.
_ [C] _ So, Our Fringe Electric, this great big pioneer in number one,
opening doors for electronic music,
was actually two songs stuck together,
cos I couldn't think how to finish them,
and a bit [Gm] of bad playing.
[C] HE LAUGHS _ _
_ _ [Bb] _ _ [C] _ _ _ [G] _
_ _ [E] _ _ [E] _ _ _ _