Gary Numan Digest Sun, 21 Sep 97 Volume 1 : Issue 366 Today's Topics: Asylum Eagle Records Gads, the whining...STOP! Gary Numan Digest V1 #365 Record Label The Scoop On Eagle Records ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 18 Sep 1997 09:51:42 -0700 (PDT) From: david c carroll Subject: Asylum To: numan@cs.uwp.edu Matthew Roberts writes: > The UK series and the Asylum set are very similar but there are a few > differences. The tracks that appear on the UK CD's but NOT Asylum are: > Don't Be A Dummy; This House Is Cold; We Take Mystery (album version). ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ What song is this and on which double CD set is it found? -- dave ''' C-OO "big science. hallelujah" david c carroll \ Seattle, Washington, USA - tvc15@speakeasy.org ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 18 Sep 1997 21:58:12 -0700 (PDT) From: Derek Langsford Subject: Eagle Records To: numan@cs.uwp.edu Thank you Joey for the info on Eagle. His info sheds alot of light as to why Gary is enthused. BMG are the largest music publisher in the world. With that sort of backing big thinngs may be possible. My only worry will be that they may not want to issue extended and remixed versions of 'Exile'. Derek San Diego, California ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 18 Sep 1997 20:56:25 -0800 From: Alyssa Jaraba Subject: Gads, the whining...STOP! To: Gary Numan Well, I certainly hope any new subscribers were not put off by the tone of the last Digest. We sounded like a pack of whiners. I don't know who let loose some excrement in Andy's breakfast cereal, but geeze, just get yourself an anti-spam ribbon and take a tranquilizer. Not all of us got a direct mailing from those people and your diatribe to the digest was a bit over the top. And if one weren't enough, two postings on the matter? Then we have the major grumblings of TF...first of all we just go nuts complaining that Gary needs a real record company and then when he gets one we start suspecting that it's all wrong...pray tell, what the heck would please you? As for the timing and continual put-offs of Exile, Gary has given decent explanation for the delays, and I'd much rather have a year and more late Exile with the promise of much more to come in the future than a rushed off swan song to a brilliant career. And come on, pushing trolleys in a supermarket carpark? I think the old chap would have a few other decent careers to fall back on without us. Let's not forget he is a more than capable pilot and instructor. I prefer to think of Gary putting out music because he loves it, not just to fling a few bits of meat between him and the predatory fans who keep him off the dole. Better you should have eased your suspicions by doing what Joey did (thanks for the great info, Joey!) and researching the company...if he did it from Canada, I'm sure you could have managed it just as easily, seeing as you're in the UK. As for Matthew Tamea....um, was there a point in there somewhere? Perhaps you need to be British to get that, um, whatever it was you contributed. At least E Porter wasn't whining. The surprise that it was on an "American" label is not necessary though. Beggar's Banquet has released all their albums on both British and American label for years now. By the way, shameless plug, you can check out a couple of reviews of the album on My Shadow in Vain (URL below) and link from there to the review on the World Wide Webb, not to mention you can send me your own review and I'll post it. And now for a whine of my own. Please try to avoid MIME encoding in posts to the digest. It makes the posts difficult to read and the attachments impossible. Also, the winmail.dat attachments are useless to those of us who (like Gazza himself) use Macs. They are unreadable by either Stuffit Deluxe (which can read just about anything in either Mac or Win encryption/compression) or UUundo (the standard translator for uuencode). Well, off to go spend my birthday money on Numan stuff. Oh, before I forget, someone (sorry, I forget who) asked a while back how one goes about converting dollars to pounds for orders from Numa. You have to call your bank and have them connect you to an international money exchange, then order a check in the converted ammount. It's a pain. The best way to do it is simply look in the paper, get a general idea from the finance section, then use your VISA card to order (I believe Numa does VISA or is planning to in the very near future.) Okay, now I'm off. Peace, Lyssa -- Tearin it up..I'm living on empty... The Madhouse http://home.earthlink.net/~madhouse_/ Home of The Madhouse, Cry of the Celts, My Shadow In Vain, The Octopi Pit, and Selah's Cool Mac CyberPunk Central http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Corridor/6115 Home of the CyberPunk Cafe ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 19 Sep 1997 15:37:55 -0400 (EDT) From: KIRBY49@aol.com Subject: Gary Numan Digest V1 #365 To: numan@cs.uwp.edu hello numan people my record store guy knows somebody who works at beggers banquet in new york he says that eagle records are a big deal and have big things in store for gary ill believe it when i hear it i got the deadsy cd it is fantastic you can hear the numan influence throughout i didnt even remember they were on the random cd until yesterday when i was listening to it the lead singer is called elijah blue i dont know if he is chers son or not i dont care anyway if any of you have the cd let me know what you think if you dont have it give it a try talk to you soon bill ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 18 Sep 1997 21:49:44 -0700 (PDT) From: Derek Langsford Subject: Record Label To: numan@cs.uwp.edu I was surprised not to get the email from The Record Label and I thank Joey for forwarding it to the Digest. I am surprised they did not post to the Digest. I do not have the negative reaction that Andy and others had. OK, the material is quite mediocre but then again, for the Numan music collector who was not able to get the original very rare Radio Heart CD, this presents an opportunity for those people to acquire these songs. And not only does it contain the album versions but all the extended and instrumental versions that have only been on vinyl so far. And rather than getting both the DaDaDang CD5s this CD has them all too and all for #15. Not bad really if you consider how much it would cost to get the material otherwise. I'll likely end up getting myself a copy as I do not have all the tracks on CD and I would like to have all of Gary's songs on CD. Derek San Diego, California ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 19 Sep 1997 06:54:27 -0500 From: datta@cs.uwp.edu (David Datta) Subject: The Scoop On Eagle Records To: numan Joey Lindstrom wrote: : Numan reissues, I'm told the people behind it started on a shoestring : and recently sold the company for several million pounds, to (we : think) an American interest. The "American Interest" that Joey refers to is the company Alliance Entertainment Corp. (AEC). AEC also owns the company I work for, Matrix Software (authors of "The All Music Guides). ------------------------------ End of Gary Numan Digest ******************************