Gary Numan Digest Sun, 21 Mar 99 Volume 1 : Issue 522 Today's Topics: A Test of the Bacteriology Mail Transport System Discptheque Euro Exile Tour Poster Gary Numan Digest V1 #519 Hunting Venus I need info! Numan Oh Dear! real drums? Sacrifice DOES sound better! Simon the Amblin' Misinterpreted Thongs? Gemma in flip-flops? Egads! wot's the best ???? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 13:33:29 -0500 From: "Michael J. Damrath" Subject: A Test of the Bacteriology Mail Transport System To: Gary Numan Er... did that message from the Bacteriology Mail Transport System freak anybody out besides me? If anyone needs me, I'll be in the backyard bomb shelter until all of this Y2K shit works itself out. Yikes. Mike Damrath ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 19:13:27 -0500 From: Matthew Roberts Subject: Discptheque To: Gary Numan > Then it wound up to the Numan disco. The DJs were good - they > knew which tracks are the most danceable, and they were consistent > about it. = Gak! Am I insane??? > guess it's true that some Englishmen are just > jealous of Americans, and with good reason. > We invent almost everything, Like censoring common sense for the sake of religious fundamentalism? = Gee, thats something to be proud of. Give me a LIBERAL democracy any day.= > if you were male and even vaguely into the female form it was worth > going just for all the pvc on show. I'll pass your comments along. > Mechanial Animals is the worst thing I have ever heard in my life.. (Have you ever listened to yourself?) > Manson should have stuck to doing stuff like Antichrist Superstar which= at least = > has the redeeming quality of being funny. = "I went to God just to see - and I was looking at me." I don't know if Brian wrote this or stole it from someone. However, it's = by no means funny - it's very serious. What exactly floats YOUR boat? "If you tolerate this, then your children will be next"? Now THAT'S funny, like a Tom Clancy 'novel', or a Steven Spielberg 'film'= I suppose you'll say that humour is subjective. Well yes, but intellect is less so. Matthew Roberts ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 19 Mar 99 11:10:33 +1000 From: dpipe@ords.com.au Subject: Euro Exile Tour Poster To: I'm still kickin' myself in the butt for not buying one of these when I had the chance, so... does anyone have an Exile European Tour Poster that they would like to sell? These posters were German promotional material, and at the bottom listed the tour dates/venues in Germany (Frankfurt, Munich, Koeln). I *was* able to obtain a US Tour poster (thanks Miss Marlene!) but I like the German ones better - has a photo of Gary inside that tubular overpass thing that I'm told is somewhere in England. Thanks. Still Exiled down under... - David Pipe, Rich Bastard Investment Banker ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 20 Mar 1999 22:37:08 +0000 From: michael park Subject: Gary Numan Digest V1 #519 To: Gary Numan --------------987CC3901FB81943FA19D312 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; x-mac-type="54455854"; x-mac-creator="4D4F5353" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit please send all stuff to: markvideo@cableinet.co.uk --------------987CC3901FB81943FA19D312 Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit please send all stuff to: markvideo@cableinet.co.uk --------------987CC3901FB81943FA19D312-- ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 09:37:47 -0000 From: Simon Jarvis Subject: Hunting Venus To: "'numan@cs.uwp.edu'" The film "Hunting Venus" starring Martin Clunes & Neil Morrisey in which Gary appears (hence Martin Clunes' cameo at the last London show) will be shown on ITV on 31st March 1999, time unknown as yet. Simon Jarvis ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 13:07:57 -0000 From: "Simon Joseph" Subject: I need info! To: "The Digest" What's the crack with the after show party at Rock city? what's this Sunday club business? As I understand you have to join in advance? I and a few friends can join (its just down the road) and sign a few bods in if that's the case, but I really need to know soon. I bought my tickets from nustreet but I haven't yet received them am I alone? One of the current discussion points are pre random covers. Well not a cover but of interest non the less is a single by The Fatama Mansions called The Loyaliser (1994) the second song is called "Gary Numan's Porsche" Never could properly work out the lyrics though it does seem positive. Radioactive records SKCD67 if any ones interested. Not really my cuppa tea but nice to have. Yes Mr Chapman, I did buy Strange Charm and I might add it has proved invaluable I used to have this table that wobbled a bit, but since placing SC under the short leg I have not had a problem. Maybe someone else has found a novel use for SC? Oh shame you don't have the acoustic version of refugee, not strictly acoustic but the only one I ever play! On the subject of those chaps I imagine I'll piss every one off by saying I quite liked Radio heart an all across the nation - great vocal bit at the end on the LP version. London times has got to be the worst piece of shite since my dying machine though. The bait man:) Cheers Simon A proud member of 'How Can My Table Rock With Strange Charm Club' TM ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 16:43:09 -0000 From: Jason Warner Subject: Numan To: "'numan@cs.uwp.edu'" I have been a Numan fan since 1979 when AFE got to no.1.I was a big fan till Dance came out and that was that, no more great Numan synth chords etc - the appeal was lost, I briefly popped into the Numan world in 1987 but was still disappointed, however in 1996 I saw Numan at Cambridge playing all his old stuff and I was hooked again. I purchased all the old LP's on CD format and was instantly a Numanoid again, I heard for the first time "We Have A Technical" in 1998 and decided that this must have been the best Numan song ever. The internet has helped keep my interest. Long live Cars ans Are Friends electric!! Jason aka Nuunaa ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:49:58 GMT0BST From: "James Chapman" Subject: Oh Dear! To: numan@cs.uwp.edu Oh Dear, look what I did in response to Simon's message in #520! > > After buying all the new remastered numa CDs I can safely say they sound > > much much much better, in particular sacrifice and machine and soul, > > previously they sounded crap but now they are almost normal. I now the boxed > > set was remastered but sacrifice sounds much clearer, Proof: one of my flat > > mates is a noid and he noticed them and played sacrifice and he could not > > believe it , hardly a case of "emperors new clothes"! All CDs sound the same > > to me! hmmmm not when your sad like me and spend just over three hundred > > quid on speaker wire it doesn't . > > > Thank you! That's all I wanted to know. Take it you didn't buy > Strange Charm then? :-). That's another tenner I've got to spend on > Sacrifice...ho hum. > I failed to notice it said "all of them". Oops! I've had the box set on thru headphones thru the evening, and The Fury and Strange Charm sound just great, and the originals are also excellent so I take it there was never a problem with those two albums except for Gary having to bake the tapes for The Fury extended CD in 1996. Sacrifice was OK but the new reissue is better (as you will know from my other post), Berserker was pretty good but the extra tracks were mixed louder (I know for sure, headphones are a pretty good indicator). Whereas now I am listening to M+S and it sounds tinny compared to the rest. Simon says that the reissue is better but I'm not sure if such a "hit and miss"album is worth the price, I only really listen to the extended version anyway. Knowing me, I'm likely to get sucked into buying them, it's all part of being a Numanoid. The next one I'll get if I do is Berserker, hopefully that has constant volume across the whole disc. I'll tend to listen to these reissues (if I get them) over the box set, but still keep the box set as it's much more likely to become a prized possession like the Asylum sets are. I mean how many prefer to listen to the Asylum CDs over the latest reissues of TA, R, TPP and T? Not many I suspect. (I don't have them by the way, I saw them once and couldn't afford them.) Now when Beggars reissue Dance, I,Assassin and Warriors remastered, Capitol gets off their arses and reissue the IRS stuff (not sure if Metal Rhythm needs remastering, the original sounds great), and Eagle remaster Dream Corrosion and the extended albums, I'll be one happy boy :-) I don't ask for much do I ? :-) If I could only read carefully I'd be dangerous. James P.S. One more question: How does the box set and the remasters of The Fury and Strange Charm compare? I'm pretty certain I'll buy Berserker next. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 19 Mar 1999 13:38:35 EST From: "jon glass" Subject: real drums? To: numan@cs.uwp.edu >fewer drum loops, a more direct sound, more guitars?> that damn slowed down break beat drum loop really has to go. i mean two albums of basically the same loop is too much. im not a major fan of live drums nor loops, but i think he just needs to do some experimenting, especially with drums & with keyboarding. it always has sounded like gary needs to loosen up while recording, but he needs to especially now for some reason. i think after all these live shows he's done in the last year he should have figured out what he was doing wrong, the live versions of exile & sacrifice songs were so much better & confident than the recorded ones. well thats my monthly .001 jonathan gidget glass visit me bands page aarr: http://www.angelfire.com/ok/operate Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 19:18:03 GMT0BST From: "James Chapman" Subject: Sacrifice DOES sound better! To: numan@cs.uwp.edu Well, the unlikely has happened. I agree with Simon Joseph. :-) On the evidence of Simon's message in #520, I went out and got the reissue for 8.99, and then listened to the box set version and then the new one, and I could notice a difference. I listened to them through headphones on the university computers, which was probably an advantage over my surround-sound hi-fi. The bad news is that the extra tracks are still less-than-perfect, albeit still better than the box set. Is it worth the extra money? Er...not sure. I do like to have the best sounding CD out there so probably. The thing was after listening to both Sacrifices, I then put in the box set Berserker and that sounded even better, although maybe it was just the sheer power of that album. So is the Berserker reissue in turn better than the box set? I don't know if this has been mentioned before, but Sacrifice has had no less than SIX different CD releases. They are: Original (1994) Extended (1995) Dawn in US (1997) The Numa Years (1998) Cleopatra US reissue (1998) Eagle UK reissue remastered (1999) Anyone got all six? I only have three of them! Right now I'm off home for Easter. Four weeks without online access and therefore four weeks without digests. Oh well, I'll just have to play Formula 1 '98 on the Playstation all the time. James ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 07:51:53 -0800 From: "Jim Benson, AICP" Subject: Simon the Amblin' Misinterpreted To: "Gary Numan" > Perhaps next time I should mention my home state of Tennessee if I want to > avoid flames like this: Tennessee, but when I met you we lived in Grand Island, Nebraska. But even then you could alienate the locals. Listening to Gary Numan and other bizarre behavior. >From the Simon detractor: > > LOL, The digest is an excellent place to air your semi-retarded > > nationlistic views. I guess it's true that some Englishmen are just How long was this welling up inside you? ..just waiting ... to ... pounce. > Right, on with the show. Back to Simon: > I would also second someone's criticism of the typeface used on the > re-release of "The Fury" (which I think is otherwise a great improvement). Yeah but the cover of the Fury was allegedly an inside joke that no one got. > "Star Trek: The Motion Picture." While it looks good on Exile, I > can't help > thinking about the Star Trek Meal I had at McDonald's in 1979. Yeah, but you wax nostalgic about that meal anyway. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 19 Mar 1999 02:21:44 +0300 From: "Peter Enright" Subject: Thongs? Gemma in flip-flops? Egads! To: "Digest Numan" Hmmm ... in the last Digest both Matthew Roberts and Tina Freeman wrote that Gemma was seen wearing a "thong". Jesus H. Christ, come on you Poms - get the language right; a thong is what you wear on your feet! Methinks Gemma was wearing a G-string. There, now that sounds a whole lot better, and more appropriate especially since Gaz is a musician; she wouldn't be caught dead in anything else surely? TikTokMan Volgograd (formerly Stalingrad) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 16:32:12 EST From: Tonyj999@aol.com Subject: wot's the best ???? To: numan@cs.uwp.edu Fellow Digesters, Can any Numanoids advice me on what to spend my hard earned on ???? Should I buy the Box Set or all the re-issues (New Covers) ???? Are the track listings the same ???? Simple question deserves a simple answer !! Any one know of any Numan desktop themes around ??? Tony J Proud Member Of Everybody's Infeted.......'cept me. ------------------------------ End of Gary Numan Digest ****************************** _______________________________________________________________________ _____ ____ ____ _____ _____ / \ | | / \ / \ / \ / \ | |-----| |-----| | |-----| |-----| | | | G | | A | | | R | | Y | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |-----| |-----| | |-----| |-----| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | N | E | W | S |=====| | | | | | | | & | | | | | | | \_____/ I | N | F | O | | | | is produced and distributed by Derek Langsford dlangs@sunstroke.sdsu.edu -------------------------------------------------------------------------- To reply to the messages in this list, mail to: numan@cs.uwp.edu If you want to be removed, or someone wants to be added, you can mail to numan-request@cs.uwp.edu ----------------- The Gary Numan Digest is brought to you via Datta Production and Development, 905 97th Street, Kenosha, WI 53143 USA datta@cs.uwp.edu and computer resources courtesy of University of Wisconsin-Parkside and Datta Production and Development. 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