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Barry NOT Gary

Accurate Replica?

published: 12 June 2007
duration: 21' 28"

Featuring: Gareth Jones, Zog and Richard Porter.

#029 The dangers of driving an electric vehicle. What does your car say about you? We name the cool cars driven by discerning drivers and pour shame the cars driven by dorks, which one are you, petrolhead or prat? Plus how the Daleks plan to rule F1, and exclusive new music from Gary Numan (sorry that should read Barry Numan).

Barry Numan’s Underground Navy - My Car's Electric

I toyed with buying a Toyota
But a hybrid's not my style, oh!
I like electronics, calculators
Fuel is expensive if you pay by the mile

The fuel cell is for fools,
Hell, I'm not sure if it will even work!
I don't want water in my exhaust pipe,
Even if my car's a Merc

Hydrogen sounds like an option
A way of staying in motion
Though, like you I must admit,
I'm worried about an explosion.

I've decided to buy myself one of those little electric cars,
I know it’s not large,
But at least I'm exempt from paying
The congestion charge. Oh!
(Bonus)

My automobile’s electronic, it sometimes produces sparks
My car’s electric, I'm gonna recharge it, when I’m down in the park.

The underground car park, there's socket there so I can plug it in
and recharge it, it takes about 6 hours

My automobile’s electronic, it sometimes produces sparks,
My car’s electric, I recharge it when I’m down in the park.

I gonna buy myself a G-Wiz
It's environmentally friendly, costs little cash
Up to 30 mph, I hope I don’t crash.
It’s cute and small and friendly it's frankly fantastic
Just like a Sinclair C5
It’s mostly made of plastic
It’s iconoclastic, oh!

I’m having trouble with my BMW 5 series
It’s the I-drive, the graphical user interface
I'm telling you, this is serious.

iDrive, U Drive
iDrive, U Drive

Oh! in a vain attempt to fight pollution,
I'll turn to technology for my solution.
Now that car’s are electronic, I'm going to get mine built
by Moog or Ensoniq.

Mine's broke down...

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Written by Gareth Jones & Zog

Vocals and additional keybards Gareth Jones

Music programming Zog.

©Gareth Jones/Zog May 2007

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