Date: Sun, 26 Dec 93 04:00:08 CST From: numan@cs.uwp.edu Reply-To: numan@cs.uwp.edu (Gary Numan) Subject: Gary Numan Digest V1 #55 Gary Numan Digest Sun, 26 Dec 93 Volume 1 : Issue 55 Today's Topics: Gary Numan Digest V1 #54 M&S extended mix CD sought ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 19 Dec 93 18:25 GMT0 From: Rupert Goodwins Subject: Gary Numan Digest V1 #54 To: numan@cs.uwp.edu Christmas has come slightly early in the UK... Beggar's Banquet have re-released *all* their Numan material on four double CDs; eight disks liberally laced with out-takes, original and demo versions and the odd lost track. They're mid-price too, currently around 13 pounds sterling for each double album (that's, oh, $20 or so?); so far, I've seen them in two major London record stores (Virgin and HMV, Oxford Street). The pairings are slightly odd -- Tubeway Army with Dance (BEGA 151 CD), Replicas with The Plan (BEGA 152 CD), The Pleasure Principle with Warriors (BEGA 153 CD) and Telekon with I, Assassin (BEGA 154 CD). I suppose there are good commercial reasons for this, but it's slightly annoying that the albums aren't in true chronological order. However, that's the only downer... The bonus tracks are splendid: I won't give a full track listing for all the albums (which are, as far as I can tell, exactly as they were on first UK release... nope, on checking there's We Are Glass in the middle of Telekon), but it's worth going through the other stuff. Tubeway Army: Fade Out 1930 (released as retrospective 12" single in 1985), Down In The Park, On Broadway, Everyday I Die, Remember I Was Vapour (all live -- intended for a 12" single but never made it. On Broadway and RIWV were put on a 7" single included with the first few thousand UK Telekons, the other two have been released on the Japanese Asylum). Dance: Stormtrooper In Drag (released as a single by Paul Gardiner), I Sing Rain, Exhibition and Love Needs No Disguise (Dramatis). Replics: Do You Need The Service and I Nearly Married A Human (alternate version) -- both on the B side of the 12" Down In The Park. The Crazies, Only A Downstat, We Have A Technical -- outtakes from Replicas sessions. We Are So Fragile -- B-side of AFE. The Plan: That's Too Bad, Oh!, Didn't I Say, Out Of Sight, Bombers (original version), My Shadow In Vain (ditto), The Machine (OV of Steel And You), Thoughts No. 2, Something's In The House (OV), Check It, The Monday Troop, This Is My Life, Mean Street, Ice, Crime Of Passion, The Life Machine (OV), critics, Do Your Best (OV of Friends), Basic J, Bombers (Single version), Blue Eyes, O.D. Receiver. Telekon: I Die, You Die, A Game Called Echo, Photograph, Down In The Park (piano version), Trois Gymnopedies. I, Assassin: Noise Noise, Bridge? What Bridge?, War Games, Glitter And Ash, The Image Is, We Take Mystery To Bed (early version), This House Is Cold (completely lost track from same master tapes! Damn fine, too...). The Pleasure Principle: Random, Ocean, Asylum, Me! I Disconnect From You (Live), Bombers (Live) (the first three tracks are from the Freerange Studio demos for The Pleasure Principle, the latter two from the B-side of the 12" Complex). Warriors: My Car Slides (1), My Car Slides (2), Poetry And Power, Face to Face/Letters (same track issued under two different titles), Cars (Zeus B. Held remix). And, on one of the disks (I *think* Warriors, but I haven't checked yet), there's a hidden track right at the end with the soundtrack from the Lee Cooper TV advert -- a bizarre bit of early Numanalia. Sound quality is excellent, even on the very early stuff, and the sleeve notes include all the lyrics and a little background information. The CDs are well-produced, inexpensive and complete -- this is the definitive history of Gary Numan's output on Beggar's Banquet from 1978 to 1983, and a bargain to boot. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 20 Dec 1993 09:33:38 -0800 (PST) From: metlay@netcom.com (metlay) Subject: M&S extended mix CD sought To: numan@cs.uwp.edu (Numanews Mailing List) Could someone help me find a copy of the Extended Mix Machine+Soul CD, one that has been opened and listened to once to assure that it actually has all the tracks on it? I have discovered to my horror that I have just moved to a city where there is not one single store that has one single CD of Numan's music, ANYWHERE. Aieeee. -- mike metlay * atomic city * box 81175 pgh pa 15217-0675 * metlay@netcom.com --------------------------------------------------------------------------- "I'll make you a deal: You control your imagination, and I'll control my cynicism." (n. rothwell) ------------------------------ End of Gary Numan Digest ******************************