Editing Fad Gadget (section)

==Legacy and influence==
Despite a lack of commercial success, Fad Gadget is regarded as a pioneer in [[synth-pop]], [[Electro (music)|electro]] and [[industrial music]].<ref>{{cite web |author1=John Bergstrom |title=Synthpop Pioneer Fad Gadget's Music Is Finally Back in Release |url=https://www.popmatters.com/fad-gadget-best-of-review-2640291126.html |website=PopMatters |publisher=PopMatters Media, Inc. |access-date=21 December 2020 |date=September 11, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |author1=Daphne Carr |title=Celebrating the life and work of Frank Tovey, whose band Fad Gadget set a course for contemporary pop |url=https://www.politico.com/states/new-york/city-hall/story/2012/03/celebrating-the-life-and-work-of-frank-tovey-whose-band-fad-gadget-set-a-course-for-contemporary-pop-067223 |website=Politico |publisher=Politico LLC |access-date=21 December 2020 |date=March 2, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |author1=Neil Strauss |title=Frank Tovey, 46, Industrial-Music Innovator |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/15/arts/frank-tovey-46-industrial-music-innovator.html |work=New York Times |access-date=21 December 2020 |date=April 15, 2002}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |author1=Andy Kellman |title=Fad Gadget |url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/fad-gadget-mn0000790078/biography |website=Allmusic |publisher=AllMusic, Netaktion LLC. |access-date=21 December 2020 |quote=While Fad Gadget's contemporaries included the likes of Cabaret Voltaire, the Human League, Wire, the Normal, and Soft Cell, Tovey and company's records never quite achieved the underground notoriety or the chart success enjoyed by his peers. Regardless of the level of recognition, Tovey's unique contribution to electronic music is undeniable, and so is his influence upon it. As the years go on, the recognition continues to gather steam.}}</ref> He influenced bands and artists such as [[Depeche Mode]],<ref>{{Cite web |title=(Documentary) Fad Gadget by Frank Tovey |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElIPt9KNkBs  |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211222/ElIPt9KNkBs |archive-date=2021-12-22 |url-status=live|access-date=1 December 2020 |website=YouTube |publisher=Mute Films |quote=Dave Gahan: "[Fad Gadget] definitely affected Depeche Mode in a big way and I'm sure you know hundreds of other bands.}}{{cbignore}}<br />{{Cite web |date=2006 |title=Fad Gadget by Frank Tovey |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1182273/ |access-date=1 December 2020 |website=IMDB |publisher=Mute Films}}</ref> [[Vince Clarke]] (of [[Erasure (duo)|Erasure]]),<ref>{{cite episode|title= Synth Britannia (Part Two: Construction Time Again) |series= [[List of Britannia documentaries|Britannia]] |network= [[BBC Four]] |station= [[BBC|British Broadcasting Corporation]] |airdate= 16 October 2009 |minutes= 4 |quote=[Vince Clarke:] When I first started playing synthesizers it [my inspiration] would have been people like the Human League; Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, their very first album; I was a big fan of Daniel Miller's work, as the Silicon Teens and as the Normal; and also of Fad Gadget.}}</ref> [[Boy George]] (of [[Culture Club]]),<ref>{{cite web |author1=Dan Stubbs |title=Culture Club's Boy George: The Original Gender-fluid Pop Icon Versus The Modern World |url=https://www.nme.com/music-interviews/boy-george-interview-culture-club-life-2018-2400203 |website=NME |access-date=21 December 2020 |date=November 23, 2018}}<br />{{cite web |author1=Corinne Jones |author2=Boy George |title=Boy George: Soundtrack of My Life |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/jan/26/boy-george-soundtrack-of-my-life |website=The Guardian |publisher=Guardian News & Media Limited |access-date=21 December 2020 |date=January 26, 2014 |quote=It wasn't enough to be a good musician, you had to have a good look too! It was around that point that I was discovering early Human League, bands like Cabaret Voltaire, I was already a massive fan of Fad Gadget, who, for me, was the king of electro – the unsung hero.}}</ref> [[Information Society (band)|Information Society]],<ref>{{cite web |author1=Greg Prato |title=Information Society: '90's Industrial Rock Has Not Aged Well' |url=https://www.alternativenation.net/90s-industrial-rock-not-aged-well/ |website=Alternative Nation |access-date=22 March 2022 |date=May 6, 2016 |quote=Paul Robb: "‘Orders of Magnitude’ grew organically over the year that we worked on it. One thing we wanted to make sure of was that none of the tracks were obvious choices. Even “Don’t You Want Me” by the Human League we even thought might be a surprise, because it’s the song most associated with that group, so who would dare to cover it? Most of the songs on the album were originally performed by artists that were influences on our own work, sometimes musically, sometimes just with their approach to pop. Snakefinger, for instance, was a weirdo-guitar god, so in that sense, we weren’t hugely influenced by him musically, but his style and his association with the Ralph Records empire made him a hero to us. Devo, Fad Gadget, and Heaven 17 were huge heroes of ours. The other songs were mostly spur of the moment decisions, based on hazy and sometimes terrifying memories from our teen years and childhoods."}}</ref> [[cEvin Key]] (of [[Skinny Puppy]]),<ref>{{cite book |author1=Ernie Rideout |title=Keyboard Presents the Evolution of Electronic Dance Music |date=2011 |publisher=Backbeat |isbn=9781617134470 |quote=Interviewer: "Each of you brings a unique approach to sound design and composition within the EBM/industrial scene. Who are your biggest influences, musical or otherwise?" cEvin key: "Kraftwerk, Y.M.O., Human League, Fad Gadget, and Joy Division."}}</ref> [[Liars (band)|Liars]],<ref>{{cite web |author1=Paul Lester |title=Cult music heroes: artists on their unsung idols |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/jul/03/cult-music-heroes-artists-unsung-idols |website=The Guardian |publisher=Guardian News and Media Limited |access-date=22 March 2022 |date=July 3, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |author1=Mike Rubin |title=Liars Break Down the Electronic Influences That Shaped 'WIXIW' |url=https://www.spin.com/2012/06/liars-break-down-electronic-influences-shaped-wixiw/ |website=SPIN |access-date=22 March 2022 |date=June 15, 2012 |quote=Hemphill: "One thing that inspired us to use more electronic instruments was we played a Mute Records festival. We’ve always been aware of the history of Mute, but I think we really sort of wanted to be more a part of that. Mute put out a compilation called Mute Audio Documents and it’s a collection of all their singles from 1978 to 1984 and that was really inspiring. It has to do with the scope of music produced over that time and how certain people used electronics, be it Robert Rental or Thomas Leer or Fad Gadget, all of whom we’re big fans of. There’s an excerpt from an album that Boyd Rice did with Frank Tovey, who is Fad Gadget, called Easy Listening for the Hard of Hearing, I think it’s track 2, but it’s really beautiful, and they made it in the studio without any instruments apparently, just made it on the spot."}}</ref> [[The Twilight Sad]],<ref>{{cite web |author1=Danny Wright |title=Standing On Our Own // The 405 meets The Twilight Sad |url=https://www.thefourohfive.com/music/article/standing-on-our-own-the-405-meets-the-twilight-sad |website=The 405 |access-date=22 March 2022 |date=February 10, 2012 |quote=So where has this style come from? It seems to have been influenced by many things, though two stand out. Firstly, the influence of guitarist and chief songwriter Andy MacFarlane: "He's been going back to listen to old records as he doesn't like a lot of new music. He's always listened to the bands that have influenced his writing on this album but I think these bands have came to the forefront, Siouxsie And The Banshees, Can, PiL, Fad Gadget, Cabaret Voltaire, Wire, Bauhaus, Magazine, D.A.F. etc." |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180628015710/https://www.thefourohfive.com/music/article/standing-on-our-own-the-405-meets-the-twilight-sad |archive-date=28 June 2018 |url-status=dead}}</ref> and [[DJ Premier]]. <ref>{{cite web |author1=The FADER |author2=Mark Ronson |title=DJ Premier on Gang Starr, '80s synth pop, and Biggie's comedic side |url=https://www.thefader.com/2021/11/01/dj-premier-on-gang-starr-80s-synth-pop-and-biggies-comedic-side |website=Fader |publisher=The Fader, Inc |access-date=10 February 2022 |ref=2021/11/01 |date=November 1, 2021}}</ref> EBM band [[Suicide Commando]] also credit him with influencing their sound in an interview with journalist [[Ramona Depares]].<ref>{{cite web |author1=Ramona Depares |title=The Darker Side of Music - Ramona Depares interviews Johan Van Roy, frontman for EBM outfit Suicide Commando, ahead of the band's performance in Malta. |url=https://timesofmalta.com/articles/view/the-darker-side-of-music.661714 |website=Times of Malta |access-date=21 December 2020 |date=October 29, 2017 |quote=Johan Van Roy: "I actually grew up with the new and cold wave movement in the early 1980s, with bands like The Cure, Joy Division and Sisters of Mercy. Until one day I discovered bands like Depeche Mode, Front 242, Fad Gadget and Klinik. It is obvious that all these bands in some way influenced me and my music; undoubtedly, even the cold atmosphere of new wave bands like The Cure or Joy Division had an impact on me, not only as a human being but also on my music."}}</ref>

[[John Frusciante]] (of the [[Red Hot Chili Peppers]]) listed Fad Gadget's ''[[Under the Flag]]'' in his top 40 favorite albums of all time.<ref>{{cite web |author1=Far Out Staff |title=From Jimi Hendrix to Frank Zappa: John Frusciante's 40 favourite albums of all time |url=https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/red-hot-chili-peppers-john-frusciante-40-favourite-albums-playlist/ |website=Far Out |publisher=Far Out Magazine |access-date=21 December 2020 |date=December 4, 2020}}</ref>

Industrial metal band [[Ministry (band)|Ministry]] recorded a cover of the song "[[Ricky's Hand]]" on their 2024 album ''[[Hopiumforthemasses]]''.

His album ''[[Gag (album)|Gag]]'' was ranked #76 in Treblezine's list of "The Top 100 Best [[Post-Punk]] Albums".<ref>{{cite web |author1=Treble staff |title=The Top 100 Post-Punk Albums |url=https://www.treblezine.com/top-100-best-post-punk-albums/ |website=Treble |publisher=Treble Media. |access-date=21 December 2020 |date=October 22, 2018}}</ref>