Gary Numan Digest Sun, 11 Jun 2000 Volume 2 : Issue 46 Today's Topics: Athens Covers Gary goes under cover Gary Numan Digest V2 #45 he said and I quote more exlile vicar? My Centurion Dies WASF We Are Still So Fragile What, Bowie Plays Nice?! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2000 04:24:20 EDT From: RTEJon@aol.com Subject: Athens Covers To: digest@garynumanfan.nu Watch for an up-and-coming Athens, GA band called Flash to Bang Time. They did a pretty good cover of "Cars" at their Tasty World show the other night. What made it good was the instrumentation (cello, violin, bass, drums, vox). It so happens my band, Radio:Tahiti, did a cover of "This Prison Moon" in my own show there last week but I have no recording of it...the next show will go to tape and find its way to the fan community. Also, I wish to thank whoever it is who has my Broom Room Annex mp3 cover of "Oh!Didn't I Say" available via Napster. It's nice to see one's own item making rounds... Jon ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2000 18:35:30 -0500 From: Val & Ben Iglar-Mobley Subject: Gary goes under cover To: The Gary Digest Just ten, Jared? Dang, you're strict. I really had to make some tough cuts to trim it down to just ten. I had 19 that HAD to go onto the list. I originally saw your call for us to list our favorite covers and I immediately thought I'd just run down the titles on Terre Thaemlitz' 'Replicas Rubato' and voila! My favorite covers! But then I thought I should really pick each individual track on its merits as a recording alone, and not as part of an overall album, and so weed out exactly which Terre tracks would stand among my favorite individual Gary covers of all. So after (probably too) much sweating it, here are my: 1) Offworld - Down In The Park 2) Terre Thaemlitz - Down In The Park (piano) 3) Jimi Tenor - Down In The Park 4) Abunai - Cars 5) Matt Sharp and Damon Albarn - We Have A Technical 6) Terre Thaemlitz - Please Push No More 7) An Pierle - Are 'Friends' Electric? 8) Dandy Planet - The Seed Of A Lie 9) Chris Holmes - Remember I Was Vapour 10) EMF - We Are Glass love, Ben http://home.earthlink.net/~iglarmobley P.S. Of the nine I had to trim, three were by Terre Thaemlitz. * * * "...where the machmen meet the machines..." ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2000 12:36:13 -0400 From: Matt Ervin Subject: Gary Numan Digest V2 #45 To: digest@garynumanfan.nu (Gary Numan) >> Greetings my Numanesque netpals! >---- snip! >> I became a fan ! So let's make a list of our most >> favourite QUOTES from GN lyrics. "down in the park where the chant is 'death, death, death' until the sun cries morning" it doesn't get any darker than that, just another reason why Down In The Park has been a favorite to so many for so long. The song itself creates a wonderfully eerie mood, and the lyrics are a nice marriage. Matt ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2000 18:27:14 -0500 From: Val & Ben Iglar-Mobley Subject: he said and I quote To: The Gary Digest Linda's suggestion for a favorite lyrics poll is a brilliant one. Gary is a supremely unique lyricist; no one else on the face of the planet can put words together in song quite like he can. I almost becomes a kind of singular lexicon, with words and phrases taking on a meaning that becomes understandable only in context of how they're also used in other songs. Only Gary could make a verb of "down" in quite the way he does. And that's just one example. Of course, I'm a queer atheist, so his homoerotica and his blasphemy are most prominent for me, but not exclusively so. So here are my top 25 favorite lyricisms (Linda, you're much more generous with your entry limitations; bless you!): 1) the ENTIRE text of "A Question Of Faith!" (Okay, okay, I know that's cheating; let me start again.) 1) I try to back away But he's so strong I just can't move Maybe I don't want to anyway 2) I'll be the 'in' to your 'sane' 3) When children kill children Don't it make them wonder? Don't it make them question their faith? 4) The body of Christ is as black as his soul 5) We are not gods We are not men We are not making claims We are only boys 6) The freaks arrive, broken needles and blood 'What you on, man, to get those eyes?' 7) Something isn't right I get the feeling I am no-one Something hasn't quite Stopped me from being someone 8) I dare you to judge me now god has disowned me 9) When god heard your prayer it said 'I am not your friend' 10) I talk a lot, a sign of fear, I thought you should know 11) We are the pleasure creation Gone wrong 12) My reflection is no longer me at all Am I a fake of the man, and are you of me? 13) 'Who said I'd save anyone?' 14) No more opinions, I'm back in harness 15) Remember I was vapour Remember I was just like you Remember I was liquid Remember I was someone too 16) I've connections with god, what do you need? 17) I'll mourn with you at my grave 18) So I took you twice on our first night That doesn't mean I'll trust you too far 19) D'you think god will forgive me soon? 20) See the strange boy keeping to the shadows He's a very good friend of mine I've seen you running from the ladies Don't tell me you're not the kind 21) I won't pray to you on this side of sane 22) I'll drive a stake through the black of your heart 23) The waiter is an old man Who looks at me so sly and strange What's on his mind? 24) I'll steal from god, wouldn't you? 25) You said 'straight' It's like giving up hope . . . love, Ben http://home.earthlink.net/~iglarmobley P.S. Okay, bonus points to any numanoid who can name the song that goes with each quote WITHOUT looking at any lyrics sheets! ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2000 21:47:38 +0100 From: Simon Mark Joseph Subject: more exlile vicar? To: digest Something very funny just happened. I live above a pub here in sunny derby, and the local vicar. Who is a very groovy dude, leather jacket, docs and tie dyed shirts when he is not working, is currently promoting a some folk band called "a show of hands" They have made a CD and one of the tracks is Cars and one of the others is exile! The landlord, another hard core noid, and me had a bit of a chuckle of that. Any way this cd by the vicars request has found its way on to the juke box recently. But Gray, the landlord, changed it for a copy of exile and didn't change the label. The vicars face when Dominion days first line 'in my darkness i hear Jesus crying' Was amazing. I was pissing myself, Gray was trying desperately to hide behind one of the pillars, we both went to a catholic school, I suppose it was the the catholic guilt bit. Then came on dead heaven. Dead funny. Who said numans music was depressing? that released a lot of happy chemicals in my body. I downloaded a copy of dance live the other night, taken from the last shepards bush gig, and it reminded me of when of when it was playing. For those of you who weren't there the backing music was very low to give numans voice the room it needed for such a quiet song. But this arsehole behind me would not shut the fuck up, what really did it for me was i heard him say, in his stupid pompous meandering gob shite voice, 'I've been to over a thousand concerts (hmm right like who has) and I've never seen that before....' at this point i turned round planning to say 'yes but have you ever listened to one of them' when i found my head about parallel with his waist. I know it was tiered seating but it wasn't that bleeding tiered. Alas i bottled it and casually looked around and said nothing. I know pussy, but it wasn't worth dying over. cheers Simon mailto:s.joseph@virgin.net ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2000 01:42:18 -0700 From: Pythoness Subject: My Centurion Dies To: digest@garynumanfan.nu For the last 18 years I've had a Centurion bike (a British touring bicycle) that I loved dearly, kept in good order, and put many hundreds of dollars into in upkeep over the ages. A couple of weeks ago I had a crash when a dog jumped out in front of me as I was coming down off a bike bridge (going pretty fast). I, rather miraculously, escaped with only very minor scrapes and bruises (wear your helmets, kids!!!); my poor old bike was totalled. I swear it made me warm all over when I realized I could send a note about it to all my friends headed "My Centurion Dies." That's really all (I have a new bike, though, a Giant named "Centurion" in the honor of the departed bike, whose moniker was "Petula). zg (so far behind that she's still working on her Top 20 list. Sigh!) Ziggy "Not A Devil Worshiper" Blum Pestmaster (zigi@ravenland.com) Ziggy's House O' Vermin http://www.ravenland.com/index.htm/index.htm -- -- -- -- No motive is too low for art. --John Gardner ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2000 21:28:59 +0100 From: Barry Grahame Cheetham Subject: WASF To: Gary Numan I think it's popular because it was the b-side of "Are Friends Electric?" and probably the second numan song that most fans ever heard. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2000 16:56:02 +0100 From: "Skin Job 79" Subject: We Are Still So Fragile To: "NumanDigest" Garage electronics. Punk guitars. Ramones-esque brevity and punch. Superb layering off instrumentation. Crisp delivery of lyric. Bubblegum electronica. Adrenalin. Stunning. For a lot of bands this would have been a crowning moment. This was a B-side. A Numan track you can pogo to. Best to wait for the guitars first though - you look a bit of a berk otherwise... I LOVE this song, and it's very accessible for the non-Numan fan. I usually stick this one in my 'various artists' compilation tapes and wait for a "Who's this then?" from someone. Usually the neighbours. Maybe my love of this track stems back to the days when the only Numan I had was a solitary 7", both sides of which got played and played and played and played over and over and over and over again until even the crackles and pops of the vinyl became etched into my psyche. But It never sounds as good as it did on my parents 8 foot tall, 40-tonne hi-fi with a dirty needle. Ahhh...jumpers for goal posts.... ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2000 01:38:07 -0700 From: Pythoness Subject: What, Bowie Plays Nice?! To: digest@garynumanfan.nu >With regards the name-calling, he says that Gary can call him whatever he >likes (and goes on to list a few slanders akin to 'shitbag'), it will not >alter his opinion that Numan has produced a few of the greatest things in >pop. WOAAA!!! You--you mean Bowie not only *mentioned* Gary Numan, but mentioned him in a [largely] positive light, and even PRAISED HIM? What's come over the old man? Why, this must mean that the tide really *has* turned, and Bowie, ever the cagey dude, sees that arrogance around someone [else] being credited with an historic role in rock history (ook, pun unintentional, I promise) is a wise move. I'm totally stoked. >He explains that he doesn't know how >the message for Gary to leave was conveyed to Gary, though he guesses it was >heavy-handed. Oh, yeah, sure. Not his fault at all, you know. . . Incidentally, in the little mini-interview with Gary that someone posted awhile back, was anyone else startled when Gary said something about people comparing him to Bowie because, among other things, they had "similar voices"? I don't know about anyone from another planet, but *I* sure would never think of those two voices as "similar." "Similar," as in recognizeably human, more or less masculine, having sound waves, or what? Are Ernest Borgnine and Katherine Hepburn similar? Compared to alligators, yes. I suppose Bowie and Numan have similar voices compared to the cries of bats or blackbirds or even opera singers, but wow. . . A recently-promoted-at-work (today) and rather punchy zg Pestmaster (zigi@ravenland.com) Ziggy's House O' Vermin http://www.ravenland.com/index.htm/index.htm ------------------------- All that is cold does not shiver, Not all those who launder are washed The old that are wrong may still blither Beet roots are not reached by the floss ------------------------------ End of Gary Numan Digest ****************************** ------------------------------------------------------------------- T H E G A R Y N U M A N D I G E S T is produced and distributed by Derek Langsford, Dave Datta, and Joey Lindstrom dlangs@sunstroke.sdsu.edu, datta@cs.uwp.edu, Joey@GaryNumanFan.NU ------------------------------------------------------------------- To reply to the messages in this list, email: digest@GaryNumanFan.NU If you want to be removed, or someone wants to be added, email: digest-request@GaryNumanFan.NU ------------------------------------------------------------------ The Gary Numan Digest is brought to you via Joey Lindstrom and the GaryNUmanFan server Joey@GaryNumanFan.NU All of the opinions in this digest belong to the respective authors and do not necessarily agree with those of the Digest Producers. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Produced and distributed by Derek Langsford dlangs@sunstroke.sdsu.edu -------------------------------------------------------------------------- To reply to the messages in this list, mail to: digest@garynumanfan.nu If you want to be removed, or someone wants to be added, you can mail to digest-request@garynumanfan.nu --------------------------------------------------------------------------