Gary Numan Digest Sun, 21 Feb 99 Volume 1 : Issue 514 Today's Topics: ADMINISTRIVIA contacts Eighties story... Live album titles mis-information My Brothers Time Newsletter Numan Magazine Articles Numans comics Numan songbooks Pictures posted Spammed again! Time to Die - versions ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 23:54:31 -0800 From: Derek Langsford Subject: ADMINISTRIVIA To: numan@cs.uwp.edu REMINDERS: 1. All changes to subscription info (add me, delete me, change my address) should be sent to numan-request@cs.uwp.edu, not the Digest. There is no guarantee the change will be made if the message is sent to the Digest. 2. Please do not hit "reply" to post to the Digest. First, a subject line of "Gary Numan Digest V1 #XXX" is very uniformative to the selective reader or someone searching for specific subjects in the archives. Second, it increases the probability that you will quote back the last Digest to the next Digest. I write this because someone managed to break both taboos in the last issue with the same post. Sigh. Remember, the Digest is distributed by software that is very basic but has some features that Majordomo does not have (like putting the Digest out twice a week). Any filtering is done manually and Dave Datta, who handles the software side of things, doesn't get to read many of the Digests before they are distributed. Please be careful. Thanks. Derek ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Derek H. Langsford "Numanews" San Diego, California, USA The Gary Numan Digest email numan-request@cs.uwp.edu to subscribe -----------------------------------------------------------------------------rek ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 08:50:52 -0700 From: "Dominion-Dame" Subject: contacts To: This is a multi-part message in MIME format. Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable A brief note only to ask if there are any Numanoids in the Austin, Texas = area? I'm relocating and it would be groovy to have at least one other = person in the city I live to love Gary. I'm slowly turning a few heads = around with his music........ but ahhhhh the joys of knowing someone = that needs no convincing (smirk)!! All for now... Dominion-Dame Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable A brief note only to ask if = there are=20 any Numanoids in the Austin, Texas area? I'm relocating and it would be = groovy=20 to have at least one other person in the city I live to love Gary. = I'm=20 slowly turning a few heads around with his music........ but ahhhhh the = joys of=20 knowing someone that needs no convincing (smirk)!! All for now... Dominion-Dame ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 16:29:59 +0000 From: colin_l Subject: Eighties story... To: numan@cs.uwp.edu Amused? Yes, I was.. :-) But I suspect others were not, since it could've been all Gary Numan song titles and lyrics instead of the assorted eighties ones used. I don't remember if someone on the list did something similar in the past, but surely someone out there can do a Numan version which brings to mind the lyrics for Gary Numan/Dramatis "Love Needs No Disguise"... ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 10:26:22 GMT0BST From: "James Chapman" Subject: Live album titles To: numan@cs.uwp.edu I have a list of possible titles for the next Numan live album (if it actually comes to fruition :-) ). After calling the last one "Dark Light" which is a really funny expression IMO, how about these? Hot Ice Cold Fire Dry Rain Black Snow Heavy Feathers Soft Concrete Healthy Chocolate Easy Mathematics Degree Overtaking in a Formula 1 race Edible McDonalds Numan album released when originally scheduled :-) Good Marilyn Manson record :-) I've seen the Numan/Nicholson CD :-) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 09:59:30 -0800 From: Ian David Golder Subject: mis-information To: numan@cs.uwp.edu This is a multi-part message in MIME format (just kidding!). Actually this is WAY off-topic but I can't stand to let bad information go by uncorrected. So: -Philo T. Farnsworth invented television. In SAN FRANCISCO, not Scotland. Microsoft is evil. -Styx cannot be working on a new album with their "original line-up from back in 77-83" as their original drummer is dead. And, as much as I may have liked them back in 77-83, this is a good thing. One of the reasons that Gary Numan's music meant so much to me is that I knew almost no one else who liked him. It felt like I had dreamed him up. The last time I heard anything by him on the radio, it was a snippet of "Cars" on NPR's "All Things Considered" following a report on MTBE. Gary is never, never, never going to get huge airplay again, and that is not necessarily a bad thing. -Ian ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 20 Feb 1999 04:38:06 -0500 From: Brian Moloney Subject: My Brothers Time To: Gary Numan >Now. I've heard a lot of different interpretations of "My Brother's Tim= e" over the eons, but not the one that I have, which is, to wit, ahem--that it's a song about the narrator and his brother sleeping with the same prostitute. Well? zg As I remember it a journalist at the time suggested to Gary that with pop= stardom being a young mans game he should hand over the mantle to his younger brother - hence the title My Brothers Time = This was at a time when the words meant more than the music (not recaptured until Sacrifice) and as with many songs of that era the title line bears little relation to the main text which refers to DEB. I also remember another journalists comment appearing on the lyric sheet.= He called Gary a perfectionist to which Gary replied "Im a OK thatll do type person really". The line appeared in Noise Noise shortly after! = ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 12:39:22 +0000 From: Marc Linekar Subject: Newsletter To: Numan Digest Thought i'd show my face for a change and answer a question:) A couple of lyrics have always stumped me. If anyone has a clue what these mean, I'd appreciate it (maybe I'm just a dumb American). "... more roche five than pain " [from My Shadow in Vain] Does this really mean anything? I love the song, but don't get the "roche." 'Roche 5' at that time was avery strong tranquiliser/painkiller in the UK. It could be compared with 'Valium' which im sure is more widely recognised. I yhink that explains the line. "... about little deals and S.U.s and things ..." [from AFE] What is an "SU"? As far as i remember this refers to a girlfriend at the time. My two cents about "Dance" - I was a little put off when I bought it on vinyl, thinking it was quite different from Pleasure Principle and Telekon, but it's grown on me. "Slowcar to China" especially, although I rarely find 9 minute songs to be my favorites. I agree with some of you that thinking of the album as two sides of an LP with no bonus tracks (the way I originally heard it) makes the album seem more "coherent." It's not my favorite, but as someone said, you wouldn't want every track to be like "You Are You Are" and "Moral" would you? All in all an interesting collection of songs with some nice lyrics on many of them. 'Dance' is one of my favouite Numan albums and the one i find the most listenable to all the way through. Even though i have the nostalgic feelings for 'Replicas' & 'TPP'. Lazarus ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 09:25:58 -0500 From: Norb Stachowski Subject: Numan Magazine Articles To: Gary Numan Digest Hi, it's been a long time since I posted anything. I have a Numan page on my site where I will be posting old and new magazine articles about GN. At this point I have the recent Crypy of Dawn article listed. In the near future I will be adding articles from Smash Hits, Record Collector, Future, etc. Please drop by for a look if your interested. If you have any articles you would like included please send them to me along with the magazine's name, date of issue, issue number and volume, and the name of the person who wrote the article. http://www3.sympatico.ca/norb.stachowski and click over to the Numan page. Norb :) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 13:20:24 EST From: WAR4PREZ@aol.com Subject: Numans comics To: numan@cs.uwp.edu How many comics have Numan in it or a tie in with him? I know Dawn but I thought there was one based on Exile ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 16:33:18 -0500 From: "Warren, Sam" Subject: Numan songbooks To: "'numan@cs.uwp.edu'" Jeffrey Sopko in Digest 513 asked: >Was wondering if anyone Numanoids could help me out? I am actively >seeking Numan song books, tablature, etc. Originals are great, but >photocopies will do. I was speaking with one Numanoid who had listed >his songbook for sale here, but I lost contact due to computer crash. >Anyway, let me know. I have been looking for Numan songbooks for years. I just figured they never published any. But if it's possible that they were published at one time, does anyone know how a person could track them down now? It seems we don't always get all the songbooks in the US that are available in the UK. For instance, I've never seen Kate Bush's The Red Shoes or Erasure's Pop! The First 20 Hits in any of the stores here, but I know they were published. Any info will be appreciated. Sam Warren stuck in a subway I called 'you' in New York ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 15:55:54 -0500 From: "Terrence Thoman" Subject: Pictures posted To: Gary Numan Digest I've posted a handful of pictures I took last year during and after the concert in Philadelphia to my personal page. Enjoy! The URL is: http://coyote.ycp.edu/~tthoman/personal/gn-gallery.htm Terrence ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 16:52:09 -0500 (EST) From: Machman@netdirect.net Subject: Spammed again! To: numan@cs.uwp.edu Just curious, Is there no way to delete the spam before the Numan Digest gets sent out? If not, no big deal, I can scroll past it, but they seem to be happening more and more. Gotta work on those filters. Also, >Now who remembers "Love Like A Ghost"? > >Matthew Roberts Well Matthew, I do. I have the CD single that it is on, and it rarely ever gets played. Funny how reading the Numan digest, one can see such uge differences in fan oppinion, and what makes a great song etc. Like, All Across the Nation. It was something that I liked, but not loved. In fact, when I was in London in '88, I saw the CD single their on the rack, but was runnig low on money, and hesitated to buy it. Now, it is sooo expensive, like 20 pounds at most of the online CD shops that even stock it. Oh well, Mark A Hubbard ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:48:12 -0000 From: "Mike Purvis" Subject: Time to Die - versions To: numan@cs.uwp.edu In Digest 508, Paddy Vickers wrote: '... "Time To Die" (although I prefer the B-side version even to the album version).' The track isn't on the issue of the CD I have (CDNUMA 1005). Q1: Which issue of the album (CD ?) is it on? Q2: What are the differences between the B-side and album versions? 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