Date: Sun, 26 Jun 94 04:00:14 CDT From: numan@cs.uwp.edu Reply-To: numan@cs.uwp.edu (Gary Numan) Subject: Gary Numan Digest V1 #85 Gary Numan Digest Sun, 26 Jun 94 Volume 1 : Issue 85 Today's Topics: "We Are Glass" Down In The Park Foxx CD found - thanks Gary's "power style" Numan in Melody Maker Telekon, Power Style, Unplugged ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 20 Jun 1994 15:53:38 -0500 (EST) From: John M Davison Subject: "We Are Glass" To: numan@cs.uwp.edu On Mon, 13 Jun 94 12:18:20 MST, Jimi Storie (storie_j@vlsi.com) wrote: > > There has been some talk about 'Change Your Mind' on CD. > I have a CD titled 'Famous People' by Bill Sharpe. On it > is a radio and an extended mix of Change Your Mind. It is > a german pressing (1985) on Polydor. The extended mix is > OUTSTANDING !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! What is the ID and Label on the CD packaging? Is this disc still in print? -- John Davison davisonj@ecn.purdue.edu ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 20 Jun 94 11:43:58 CST From: bbeving@subrec.mn.org (Bradley Beving) Subject: Down In The Park To: numan@cs.uwp.edu A friend of mine at work keeps telling me of this incredible version of Down In The Park that starts off with just a grand piano. He thought that it was the one from Urgh! A Music War, but after giving him a copy he said that wasn't it. Any suggestions? Bradley Beving PO Box 3383 Mpls MN 55403 bbeving@subrec.mn.org ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 23 Jun 1994 10:56:31 -0700 From: dlangs%sunstroke@sdsu.edu (Derek Langsford) Subject: Foxx CD found - thanks To: numan@cs.uwp.edu My fellow CD-hounds, I am glad to tell you I have been offered a copy of John Foxx's "The Golden Section" CD after my latest post on the rec.music groups pleading for help. Thank you for trying for me. I also got word that HMV in Harvard Square (Cambridge, Massachussetts) recently had copies. I don't have their number but was told they do mail order. So if you need one, give 'em a call. Again, thank you. Isn't the Internet great? Derek ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Derek H. Langsford Dept. of Biology dlangs@sunstroke.sdsu.edu San Diego State University ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 20 Jun 1994 05:54:06 -0700 (PDT) From: Heretic-Toc the Eastre Clock Subject: Gary's "power style" To: numan@cs.uwp.edu I keep seeing reference to Gary listening to "The Sisters of Mercy and other bands" and deciding to play harder music. I'm wondering two things. First of all, what Sisters of Mercy stuff is he listening to--there's a big difference between, say, "Alice" and "Under the Gun." Also, what "other bands" are being referred to? Other guitar-oriented gothic bands (Fields of the Nephilim, Rosetta Stone, Christian Death, Chameleons, Sex Gang Children, 45 Grave, ...)? Are we going to start seeing collaborations with Carl McCoy and Dave Roberts and Rozz? >From what I've heard from everyone who's had any opportunity to hear his recent live performances, it doesn't sound any different. Richard seems to back this up. Not that I'm going to prejudge his new sound before I hear it, but I'm not too enthusiastic.... If Gary really wants to play his old songs in a "power style," why not just revert them all to the Plan-era original versions.... ___________ _____________________________________________ / payn@ \ "Always the dreamer, but never the dead." \ / scf.usc.edu / --Soft Cell / \____________/____________________________________________/ ------------------------------ Date: 20 Jun 94 16:32:10 EST From: "Kay Teel" Subject: Numan in Melody Maker To: numan@cs.uwp.edu There is a one-pager in the June 11, 1994, issue of Melody Maker (incl. photo) with Gary picking his favorite songs (by other artists). His picks included Bowie, T.Rex, The Monkees, Ultravox ("Slow Motion"), Janet Jackson, Sisters of Mercy, Depeche Mode, etc. In usual Numan style, he recounts a few tales related to his choices. --Kay Teel teelk@elmer1.bobst.nyu.edu ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 19 Jun 1994 22:54:18 -0700 (PDT) From: "J. LeRoy" Subject: Telekon, Power Style, Unplugged To: numan@cs.uwp.edu Pardon me for not snipping all the appropriate quotes out verbatim... Being relatively new to the list, I don't know what has been said about _Telekon_ in the past. However, I would second that it is a wonderful album and certainly ground breaking. The impacts of it, Dance, and I Assassin can still be heard on some of the more tolerable pop out there today. I find it telling, as well, that Mick Karn's work became much more accessible on Dance and stayed that way. I felt that Berzerker was also very good. But I thought the Fury was a nightmare. Even if Berzerker did catch on, it's unlikely that the Fury would have continued such a trend. I was especially horrified when I saw the cover art of the Fury which, if you're unfamiliar with it, is this sort of anti-Bryan Ferry cover, where he has this glass of wine and this white suit and is in an all white room. Whereas Ferry would have had a black suit and been next to a swimming pool. However, I doubt that the cover was a statement because if it were the music would have reflected it in some way. Re: the question about live albums, I think that Numan now has more live albums than the Grateful Dead and more Greatest Hits compilations than Yes or Steely Dan. I agree that enough is enough, unless you put them in one big boxed set called "Numan Runs Around" or "Lots of versions of Down in the Park" and release them that way. I'd buy it. As for a Numan unplugged -- I'd be more than happy to buy one. Would it be trendy? Yep. But who cares. I think Jo the Waiter is one of the all time greatest songs ever. I will also say that I enjoyed the Male prostitute / sci-fi guy attitude better than the I've-done-everything-and-am-really-bored-right-about-now attitude. I felt that his songs of alienation, usury, and dehumanization were better than the leathersex and haughty stuff. I liked the latter attitude in such songs as Rhythm of the Evening (which is a terrific song) but after umpteen albums of it I'd rather see an evolution. The Power Style / The Janet Jackson Style whatever, I think that the message takes precedence. -- J. LeRoy bensonj@teleport.com "We are only boys." ------------------------------ End of Gary Numan Digest ******************************