Gary Numan Digest Sun, 7 Jul 96 Volume 1 : Issue 242 Today's Topics: Gary Numan Digest V1 #233 Gary Numan Digest V1 #235 Gary Numan Digest V1 #237 Gary Numan Digest V1 #239 Me! I Connect With You Replicas (2 msgs) VARIOUS STUFF What is this?!? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Jul 1996 09:07:44 -0500 (CDT) From: Sylvia Lozano Hoyer Subject: Gary Numan Digest V1 #233 To: numan@cs.uwp.edu ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Jul 1996 09:08:30 -0500 (CDT) From: Sylvia Lozano Hoyer Subject: Gary Numan Digest V1 #235 To: numan@cs.uwp.edu ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Jul 1996 09:09:12 -0500 (CDT) From: Sylvia Lozano Hoyer Subject: Gary Numan Digest V1 #237 To: numan@cs.uwp.edu ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 4 Jul 1996 23:45:00 -0400 From: Ultravox5@aol.com Subject: Gary Numan Digest V1 #239 To: numan@cs.uwp.edu Thanx so much for sending 239...I appreciate it!!! ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Jul 1996 11:57:14 -0400 From: tthoman@biostats.hmc.psu.edu (Terrence Thoman) Subject: Me! I Connect With You To: numan@cs.uwp.edu I'm glad to be here as a new subscriber! I was immediately mesmerized by Gary's style and music ever since I caught his performance on Saturday Night Live (1979/1980?) when Cars was first coming out in the U.S. Gary performed Cars as the first song, then came back to do Praying to the Aliens complete with Closed Captioning like lyrics rolling across the bottom of the TV screen. I went out the next day and purchased The Pleasure Principle album. I started telling everyone I knew (back in those high school days) about this wonderful album. Few people really agreed with me, though I was used to this by now since my musical tastes tended to be off the mainstream. I was also going after new groups like Devo and the B-52s in those days. The disposible income of a working high school kid being what it was, I quickly aquired the only other two albums I could find: Replicas and Tubeway Army. After 16 years, Replicas is still one of my favorite. While I liked the synth sound of PP, I really liked the way Gary used the synth and harder edge guitars on Replicas. I continued to scoop up Numan albums: Telekon, Dance (my absolute favorite Numan album), and I, Assassin. And then, BOOM, that was it, for like two years. I couldn't find a thing. I supposed that the record company dropped him and he'd gone back to the UK. Eventually I found Berserker and White Noise in the import bin at a local record store and even a compliation on cassette called 1978/1979 which featured some fabulous early work like Bombers. I recently joined the ranks of Internet users a couple of months ago and I was delighted to find so much info on Numan when I did an Excite! search. Since then, I found this sight, NuWORLD, and visited many of the links that Gary himself provides on NuWORLD. I'm glad to see that there's more fans than just me and look forward to interacting with other fans. I'd love to see Gary tour the U.S. again, but he says that it's too expensive without a record deal. What's a fan to do? Mr. Webb, there is no way out. Love this room Please don't fight your walls ------------------------------ Date: 4 Jul 1996 15:46:35 BST From: Prof Graham Westbrook Subject: Replicas To: numan@cs.uwp.edu Has to be one of my favourite albums of Gary's. I thoroughly enjoyed all the tracks on the album and continually played them (well, when my older brother was out of the room anyway (shhhhhh!)). If it wasn't for the fact that said brother still has the vynyl, I'd play it continally now! Good songs just don't fade with time! Good on 'ya Gazza! Vanessa Chesterton Birmingham, UK ******************************************************************* * G.K.Westbrook INTERNET: G.K.Westbrook@bham.ac.uk * * School of Earth Sciences * * University of Birmingham * * Edgbaston * * Birmingham B15 2TT UK * * Tel: 0121 414 6153 Fax: 0121 414 3971 * ******************************************************************* ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Jul 1996 10:13:13 -0400 (EDT) From: "Michael R. Ward" Subject: replicas To: numan digest i guess i had to add my two cents for what it's worth i bought this album after the dance album was already out as i was too young to be a numan fan from the start. what really struck me, although i am generally not a science fiction fan, is that gary was able to create an album that bridges the gap between a futuristic world where the machines ruled ("rocked") and one still having very human emotions and feelings of isolation and loneliness. lyrically his emotions appear to stem from his adjustment to being a rock star placed in an "alien" set of surroundings. it is in some ways a musically-lesser accessible album with two instrumentals and a distinct mixture of punk guitar based writing and pure electronic instrumentation. it creates a very complete mood for me as i must take the album in its complete form to be satisfying. the electronics appear naive now but oddly enough the simplicity is refreshing and more melodic. every time i think about the album the line "it must have been years" rings through my head. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 04 Jul 96 14:58:00 BST From: Matthew Tamea Subject: VARIOUS STUFF To: "'Numannews'" Brad Rhodes wrote : >I saw a cd a few weeks ago that i have been meaning to ask about... It >was a CD5 that said something like ________ and Gary Numan (i cant >remember what the bands name was), but it had what appeared to be a remix >of 'are friends electric?'. Does anyone know what this is, and if it is >any good? If I remember rightly off the top of my head this sounds like Generator, the band that Kipper was/is in. Gary resung the vocals (or was it just the talking parts?) for the song and the band reworked the music. There are also a couple of other Generator tracks on the CD. I think I only played it once after buying it so it's probably not brilliant. I know that I can't remember how it goes so it certainly isn't on my regular playlist. But who got the 'Generator' inspiration from who?!?!? :-) Andy McHaffie wrote: >Matthew T - would I be able to crash on your floor >somewhere ? If you come then you're more than welcome. Jon, you staying over too? Actually if there's anyone else who needs a floor then let me know! Usual rates apply :-) Lisa Diedrich wrote: > I'm a big collector of Numan on video, I was wondering if anyone >has Numan's famous Top of the Pops "Are Friends Electric" performance on >tape. Does anyone know if any early Tubeway Army stuff exists on video? I have a quite a few of the early stuff on video as part of some bootleg that's knocking about. My one is called Archive Live but I've seen it under other names. It's _very_ long and is made up of a lot of the Newman Numan video plus TV stuff from the UK. There's also a (little) bit of the 82 American tour which is cool. I think I paid over the odds for it. Not sure where you'll get a copy but if you're able to copy videos then you can certainly borrow mine for a bit. Cheers all - Matthew. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 4 Jul 1996 00:27:57 -0700 (PDT) From: Robert Trousdale Subject: What is this?!? To: Numan List The tribute album refered to by Ashley from Australia, what is it? I don't recognize any of the artists and tracks from the "official" tribute album... Somebody clear this up! ------------------------------ End of Gary Numan Digest ******************************