Gary Numan Digest Thu, 21 Oct 99 Volume 1 : Issue 583 Today's Topics: cars Gary Numan Digest V1 #581 Gary Numan Digest V1 #582 I added you to the Numan mailing list Micromusic Numan Covers Radio shitty Stations. receiver redo reciever redo redux Sell "Asylum" 1-3 subscribe VCD ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 18 Oct 1999 22:05:30 EDT From: Numanfan1@aol.com Subject: cars To: numan@cs.uwp.edu Hello ya'll A small bit of Numan on TV ! During the David Letterman show last week, Dave had this skit about a kid taking his driving exam. While it was being taped live the band was playing "Cars" in the backround. It's amazing what one hears when the are half asleep :-) Waiting for the Nu stuff ! NuRuss ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 17 Oct 1999 14:44:49 +0100 From: VinceH Subject: Gary Numan Digest V1 #581 To: numan@cs.uwp.edu (Gary Numan) "Jessica L. Bastion" > One thing I picked up driving to class one day did make me a bit > nervous though. On the "Exile" cd, I'm thinking it was "Prophecy", > the line "Blessed are they who page homage to [No-man/Numan?]" Now, > does he say "Numan"? It's "rumour" > I thought it was interesting, to say the least, to pick that up. When > I heard that, I almost ran off the road in my car, because i was > paying too much attention to the music! He definately has a great ego > there. I like it! Star quality... Well, he must surely have redeemed himself for *not* saying what you thought there, thanks to this line: "There is no god, so pray to me." (From the '83 b'side "Face to Face", iirc) VinceH -- WebChange2 (lite) now available from http://www.softrock.co.uk/webchange/ Full versions available for both RISC OS and Windows 95/98 for just 12ukp ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 20 Oct 1999 15:25:39 -0400 From: Matthew Roberts Subject: Gary Numan Digest V1 #582 To: Gary Numan BEWARE. NO NEWS, JUST NASTY ANALYSING >Oh, and I'm NOT Christian, which I find interesting in this particular >context of "translating" lyrics. Not sure I understood this. If it's suggesting belief in God (and one wou= ld hope that people who pay homage to Him do believe in Him - unless they ar= e Blaise Pascal of course!) could be called belief in a "rumour", then I agree (and that no christian would wish to draw the comparison if they could help it :-)). But isn't it OBVIOUS that Gary meant to make the comparison. For "Blessed= are they who pay homage to rumour", simply read "God is a rumour". I near= ly said "God is JUST a rumour", but that would be equivalent to stating that= He doesn't exist. Whilst Gary and I agree that God certainly DOESN'T exis= t (why on earth should he?), Gary wasn't stating in this line that God is ONLY a rumour. Rather, he was saying that people are prepared to worship something on the BASIS of a rumour. In this context, and for the sake of argument, God MIGHT exist, but His worshippers have no evidence... only "rumour". To pre-empt any outraged christians, your response will either be: (1) I do have evidence of God's existence since I personally experience Him, or; 2) I don't need evidence to believe in God. I know, I know, I know. And it's for exactly those reasons that I believe= in flying pigs. Zzzip. So, Gary might contemplate doing some of his 80's stuff live again? I won= 't hold my breath. It would be far easier just to play the Exile backing tracks and do a couple of guitar romps through Tubeway Army material rath= er than seriously rework some of his back catalogue. Matthew Roberts ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 18 Oct 1999 20:21:14 +0100 From: "Lisa Hemming" Subject: I added you to the Numan mailing list To: "David Datta" Thanks for the email. My name is Nugirl, I have been a Numan fan for quite some time, about 12 years. I am now 21 years of age, I live in West Yorkshire, England. I enjoy other music as well as Numan. I like Tori Amos, Ultravox, Depeche Mode, Kate Bush. Various other music.... too many to mention. I have seen Numan in concert twice and been to 2 discos. I don't know what else to tell you really... Take care and Thanks Nugirl XXX ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 20 Oct 1999 18:38:59 EDT From: Numaniac@aol.com Subject: Micromusic To: numan@cs.uwp.edu Do you know where i could get a copy of micromusic (not auctions)? I found a place, but it's all jumbled up and messed right now. got any idea? thanks, John Maybe even a copy of the berserker tour? ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 17 Oct 1999 07:59:15 -0600 From: "Joey Lindstrom" Subject: Numan Covers To: "Gary Numan" On Sun, 17 Oct 99 01:00:01 CDT, Joshua Blanc wrote: >Christian Death - "Down In The Park" (Gary Numan) >Devoid - "Are Friends Electric" (Gary Numan) >Girls Under Glass - "Down In The Park" (Gary Numan) >Kill Switch...Klick - "Are 'Friends' Electric?" (Gary Numan) >Luxt - "Cars" (Gary Numan) >Marilyn Manson - "Down in the Park" (Gary Numan) >Marilyn Manson - "Not Lovers Not Friends" (Gary Numan) >NIN - "Metal" (Gary Numan)*live only* The NIN cover of "Metal" has definitely been recorded (in fact, in 1995), it just hasn't been released (BUMMER!) The Kill Switch... Klick cover of AFE is on that 1995 tribute album "Ghost Of A White Face Clown" which, it is hoped, will see a CD reissue either late this year or sometime next. / From the messy desktop of Joey Lindstrom / Visit The NuServer! http://www.GaryNumanFan.NU / Visit The Webb! http://webb.GaryNumanFan.NU / / I got a new shadow. I had to get rid of the other one... it wasn't / doing what I was doing. / --Steven Wright ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 18 Oct 1999 10:20:40 +0100 From: "GrahamFletcher" Subject: Radio shitty Stations. To: "Gary Numan" Hi again to you wonderful Numan fans from around the world, I have been emailing radio stations from around the UK to play more of Garys stuff, but I get no reply so I believe that we should know all get together and every one emails them to play his stuff, eg his album Exile (Great album even my wife likes it and she hates numan sad bitch, she doesent know what shes missing) but I believe it would of done a lot better if we get more radio play, Dominion Day great single but where was it it in the Charts, The recent rerererelease of Cars was number 57 in the UK charts which I dont blame its been released god knows how many times, but I believe if people heard the fantastic Exile it would of done alot better in the Music charts, and we would get much more Numan shows instead of one off shows. So please everyone lets get together and hassle these Radio Stations and everyone else around the world you do the same. Yours Graham Fletcher Surrey UK FletcherGraham@btinternet.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Oct 1999 15:52:02 -0500 From: Valerie Iglar-Mobley Subject: receiver redo To: The Gary Digest Oh, great. 'New Dreams For Old' (a lousy title for a hits compilation if I ever heard one) is going to have, what, looks like 5 b-sides on it? Instead of the "comprehensive singles collection" it should have been, that Rod was pushing for, that I've been touting all along, that would've gone over better in sales. Didn't Rod say he originally wanted 'Remodulate' to be just that, a comprehensive singles collection? But the studio heads said it had to have his older material, so he had to make it a double-disc set to include the live songs, which are the only format Cleo has them in? These corporate autocrats just don't get it. You know, we've been worried Eagle/Cleopatra would turn into another IRS fiasco, but I think it may be worse than that. The market's been glutted with material, with seemingly little thought or planning. No new liner notes for the reissues, no one listening to Rod to figure out what the best additional tracks to append would be. We've gotten three compilations-- 'Remodulate', 'Down In The Park' (or whatever that last double was called), and now 'New Dreams.' The way they're going, it's more like they're turning into another Receiver/Rialto. Strap in. Benjamin Iglar-Mobley http://home.earthlink.net/~iglarmobley * * * "I hear you whisper like an open grave O.D. Receiver I am all you crave" ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 20 Oct 1999 16:30:05 -0500 From: Valerie Iglar-Mobley Subject: reciever redo redux To: The Gary Digest Dear numanoids all, I was right about how bleak it looks. Let me just pass along to you this bit from a message from Rod Reynolds: > I thought Cleopatra was going to be > putting Dream Corrosion out but at this point they're not. They have > pretty much had it with the Numan cds and sales haven't been terriffic. > Steady, though. And another bit to clear up any doubts about Gary's contempt for the U.S. market: > Dream Corrosion in my opinion is absolutely terrible > (sound quality) I asked the engineer who does my cd mastering if he could > "fix" it and he said he couldn't without the master tapes, and Gary > wouldn't give us the masters for the other albums so that's probably not > going to happen (I've given up asking him for anything). Here we go again. Ben I-M * * * "I don't need it I can stop I can take this or leave it You can have it But if you want it from me Then come and try... Welcome to new anger Do you want it? Do you want it?" ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Oct 1999 02:00:10 -0400 From: shin-ichi ueda Subject: Sell "Asylum" 1-3 To: Numan Digest Hello. Long Live the Numan Digest! Well, My Friends would like to sell Numan stuffs, and I was asked to announce this on the Numan Digest (cause he is not a subscriber). Stuffs: "Asylum" 1.2.3. (with label) If you have interest, contact him directly mailto:cap60830@pop13.odn.ne.jp Thank you. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Shin-Ichi Ueda Research Fellow of JSPS shin1@logos.tsukuba.ac.jp ------------------------ If my writing this book benefits a student I know nothing about who lives in Japan, would it not follow that there is a good common to him and to me? Malcolm Schofield,The Stoic Idea of the City p.99 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ------------------------------ Date: 18 Oct 99 16:20:49 +0100 From: Dave Yeaman Subject: subscribe To: numan ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 17 Oct 1999 03:43:31 -0700 From: newcombg4@mindspring.com Subject: VCD To: "Gary Numan" >Now I have a question. I > bought a CDR that records Video CD. I also bought a DVD player that plays > Video CD. So it should be possible to convert video to an avi file then > convert to video CD? What would the quality be like? This would be a great > way of preserving my old Numan footage before the VCR finally chews them to > pieces! I'm having a hard enough time restoring my LPs, but I had the same idea and decided to experiment. Spent 5 hours creating a 60 second VCD, which burned "without errors", but was unplayable. Furthermore, the software I used, VCD Creator, gives no indication of the remaining space on the VCD! I know it must be more than uncompressed 30 fps avi files, which would only yield about 5 minutes at 650 MB. I think the time is probably not quite ripe for digitizing our VHS. I find working with video on the computer very frustrating, with only a 500 Mhz processor, 128 MB RAM, 12 GB hard drive. When we can treat gigabytes like chump change, then video will be no problem. They already have hard drive VCRS, though they're totally retarded. No way to save. I predict a major breakthrough in digital video recording very soon. BTW, is there anything Numan on DVD? ------------------------------ 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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