Gary Numan Digest Sun, 25 Aug 96 Volume 1 : Issue 256 Today's Topics: Automatic reply Gary Numan Digest V1 #253 Gary Numan Digest V1 #255 Happy music -- Blah Strange Charm Strangely Charmless WANTED: Nancy Boy's "Are 'Friends' Electric?" What I listen to when I am depressed... ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Aug 1996 00:10:53 -1000 From: "Mark Stanton, Industrial Design & Visualization" Subject: Automatic reply To: numan@cs.uwp.edu By sending me email you have activated my automatic absence message response program. I will be out of the office until September 4th but may periodically check my e-mail. I apologize in advance if I am not able to respond to your e-mails promptly. If you have an urgent VeriFone issue that needs immediate response, please contact Brian_D1 at x8908. You will receive this message only once. Thank you, Mark ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Aug 1996 10:00:09 -0400 From: Schl1028@aol.com Subject: Gary Numan Digest V1 #253 To: numan@cs.uwp.edu Does anyone know if Tic and Toc released material that might still be available somewhere? I think I saw a snippet of a video they did in the early 80s and would love to get my hands on some copies of their work. Also, I designed my senior thesis in architecture on the theme: "Welcome Home: A Museum of Gary Numan." If anybody is interested, I'd be more than happy to chat about it. Please use jschlage@students.miami.edu for correspondence. There is no god, so pray to me. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 23 Aug 1996 11:56:24 -0400 From: NIN1969@aol.com Subject: Gary Numan Digest V1 #255 To: numan@cs.uwp.edu Derek: Sorry to hear about the professors on your campus. I was not aware that that had happened until I read about it in the digest. This world needs a vacation from human beings for a while...life has become somewhat irrational and unstable and it makes me very sad sometimes. BUT enough of my lecturing.... I wanted to let you know that the lines in the digest have disappeared altogether and now I can read all of it without trouble. Ghost in the machine? I don't know, but whatever it was, it is gone now and I wanted to thank you for resending the last digest. Have a great weekend! Ruthi ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Aug 1996 16:44:34 -0400 (EDT) From: annagrey@sover.net (Dryad) Subject: Happy music -- Blah To: numan@cs.uwp.edu Sayeth Derek: >I don't find any of Gary's album particularly happy. I guess I'm not in to happy music that much.< Let the little Mariah Carey freakazoids do the happy crap. Clea, who has to listen to top 40 (Mariah Carey and Michael Bolton *all* day long) at her new job (fabulous data entry)... -- CASHP #25-95 Numanoid "Ugliness is nature's contraceptive" Duchovnik MPPB/MPEB Gergory Benford annagrey@sover.net **http://www.sover.net/~annagrey** ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Aug 96 02:06:00 GMT From: p.whinnery@genie.com Subject: Strange Charm To: numan@cs.uwp.edu This Month's Topic: Strange Charm I think I have a real love/hate thing for this CD. It contains 2 songs that are in my top 10 (My Breathing, This Is Love) and also 2 of the most dreadful Numan songs (I Can't Stop, The Need). I haven't actually heard this CD in a long while (probably still suffering from severe overplay back in 1986) but since its the topic this month it has been getting quite alot of play lately. I think I've grown a renewed appreciation for this one. The biggest downfall: only 8 songs cuz I have the CD without Time To Die :-( Jorja / Philadelphia ------------------------------ Date: 22 Aug 96 05:17:37 EDT From: Brian Moloney <100572.31@CompuServe.COM> Subject: Strangely Charmless To: "INTERNET:numan@cs.uwp.edu" I remember hearing (or reading) Gary saying at the time that Strange Charm was released, that it was a difficult album to make. He had not prepared anything before going into the studio. I think this may explain the diverse quality of tracks. He seems to chant more when bereft of ideas. I can't stop it I can't stop it again I can't stop it I can't stop it again blah blah blah No more questions No more answears All that's left is the fear No more questions No more answears All that's left is the fear Strange Charm was the last album I queued outside the record shop for on its day of release. I bought the CD and the tape so that I could play it straight away in the fashion store that I was managing at the time (playing Numan to the general public was a mission!). I took it straight off, put The Fury back on and took the tape back for a refund (glad I held on to the CD!). For me this marks the period when I bought the albums and went to the concerts out of habit. Gary started to tour 'Best Of' albums, and played no new songs, then put out the live album of the live tour, and then toured that! (The Skin Mechanic) I used to wish for new songs or something I hadn't heard him play live before! This all seemed to end at around the same time, with an album he almost apologises for on the sleeve (M&S), then gave us what we all wanted. The best of his past, a promising future and a hairstyle that doesn't require a can of hairspray. Thank you Gemma. So SC stays in it's box. Apart from My Breathing and This is Love, it's the best place for it! Regards, Brian. PS Derek, why not ask Gary for his opinion of the monthly topic as part of Garys questions? It might give us an insight into some of the decisions he made that affected the album we now listen to. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Aug 96 12:30:33 -0600 From: "Joey Lindstrom" Subject: WANTED: Nancy Boy's "Are 'Friends' Electric?" To: "numan@cs.uwp.edu" Does anyone out there have a line on where I can get either of these TWO CD-EP's? I've tried through German Music Express - they had it listed in their catalog, but when I ordered it, it came back "Out Of Stock". A good friend made a cassette copy of them both for me but I love 'em so much I'd really like to have them on compact disc. If anyone is selling theirs, or knows where I might find them for sale, I'd really appreciate hearing from you. /--------------------------------------------------------- / Joey Lindstrom numanoid@netway.ab.ca lindstrj@cadvision.com / http://www.netway.ab.ca/worldwidewebb/ / "There's a reason 'Wheel Of Fortune' is on right after 'Jeopardy'. Once / you've been forced to choke down the foul-tasting tequila shot of your / own abject ignorance, it's nice to be able to bite into the refreshing / lime wedge of other people's incredible fucking stupidity." / - Dennis Miller ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Aug 1996 10:04:26 -0700 (PDT) From: Robert Trousdale Subject: What I listen to when I am depressed... To: Numan List About January, I discovered that I had a great deal of difficulty sleeping. I often could not get to sleep until one or two in the morning. This is not good for someone who is in his last year of college in a double degree program of Math and Statistics (which, thankfully, I have now finnished :-) and my grades suffered terribly. So, I went to our campus Health Center, and after some initial investigations which lead to other investigations, they told me I was "clincally depressed". HUH? Don't you have to be sad all the time for that? I never felt like killing myself or anything... Well, not to be too off topic here, but I have to finish the story... I am the kind of person who absolutely believes that the key to solving one's problems lies within the self. So rather than take the pills they perscribed, (I NEVER want my personality to come from a pill) I started listening to music to put myself to sleep, something I had done as a kid back when Vinyl was the medium ;-) I chose the Ambiant/Techno/New Age recordings of William Orbit, who most of us numanoids know only from his production of "My Dying Machine" from "Metal Rhythm". His music is melodic and peaceful, just the thing to meditate, or fall asleep too... I am not going to claim that the music cured me, that would be silly, but I am falling asleep earlier, and that is all that matters right now. As for Numan, his music is what I used to fall asleep to as a kid. Especially the first side of Dance and the second side of Telekon. Well, hope "My Confession" wasn't too boring for all of you... See you in the virtual world... Robert ------------------------------------------------------ "While the kids roll around and play in dirt- You think that's normal, that's the thing that hurts. It's time to get wise..." -Orbit ------------------------------ End of Gary Numan Digest ******************************