Almost a concept album (Numan was virtually a concept per se), it took aspects of Kraftwerk and Bowie (to my ears, at least) and melded them into a pop approach that worked for a few short years. There was always more going on than people gave him credit for - but disaffection, isolation and fear hardly endear themselves to the populace.
The singing isn't accomplished, nor even all that pleasurable, but it didn't need to be. That wasn't the point.
And Cars is one of the all-time great songs - you know you agree.
