--------------------------------------------------------------------- T H E G A R Y N U M A N D I G E S T (by subscription only - to unsubscribe, see bottom of this message) --------------------------------------------------------------------- (#2001-118) - Topics This Issue: 1) Gary Numan MP3s 2) new thing from london town 3) I, Assassin 4) NuWorld 5) a new Puritan 6) New Thing From London Town ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2001 23:43:22 -0700 From: "Mike Batchelor" Subject: Gary Numan MP3s Dear Val & Ben Iglar-Mobley and everyone, I have the mp3 for the extended version of New thing from london town. If you want I can send it to you no problem. don't get me wrong, i'm the last guy who would pirate anything of gary numans, but I have already purchased Strange Charm and I feel the right to own an MP3 of the extended version that wasn't on it!! Also, I was wondering if someone could MP3 me a copy of Remember I was Vapour, Remind me to smile, and I die You die from the Telekon CD from the Asylum CDs. The reason is they are out of print and they are not the same ones as on the Telekon reissue. I would love to hear from you. Thanks! Mike ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2001 09:12:02 +0100 (GMT+01:00) From: Martin Poyner Subject: new thing from london town I think I know the answer to the change of lyrics. I remember reading somewhere that this was because Bill Sharpe wrote the lyrics for the single and owned the copyright. So this was changed for the album. However I could be totally wrong. All my best Martin XX _______________________________________________________________________ FSmail - Get your free web-based email from Freeserve: www.fsmail.net ------------------------------ Date: 05 Jun 2001 10:52:27 +0100 From: Steve Webbon Subject: I, Assassin The re-issues of I,Assassin and Warriors don't yet have a release date as = beggars are (still) waiting for Gary's management to locate the tapes fron = the Warriors sessions. Until then the project can't be completed and a = release date set. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2001 11:39:33 -0000 From: "Tim Houtby" Subject: NuWorld He's alive...... and he might be at Reading after all. _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2001 10:53:55 -0500 From: "Val & Ben Iglar-Mobley" Subject: a new Puritan Dear all, I picked up the 'Purified' tour disc at the concerts, and let me just recommend it to anybody else who was holding out. I was reluctant, because I thought it would get boring to listen to Gary's voice droning on answering questions for an hour, plus it annoyed me terribly that he was only including CLIPS of those otherwise exclusive tracks instead of the complete songs in their fullness, but when Jim Napier mentioned their areno less than five of those (including an alternate demo take on "Rip") that got me off the ropes. Let me just say I appreciate the album in a whole new way, now that I've heard his explanations for the lyrics of each song. That combined with experiencing the new songs performed live in their utter proletarian-back-from-the-labor-camp-gulag industrial terror has made me reevaluate my previous avowed disappointment with this album. I love it. I'm converted. I would still like more "song" in his songs, but Gary, you can clang on the pipes as long you care to, as far as I'm concerned. Oh, yes. There's one other element in it for me. Our Dryad, Clea, posted that she taped the album for herself in the running order she liked, which made me sit up and ponder the idea of second-guessing the new animal and rearranging the album to make it... well, to pull it together more tightly. One thing I noticed about it that was getting in the way for me was that it seemed to go up and down with each song-- first a good one, then a lesser one, up, down-- almost to the lettter. ["Pure" up, "Walking" down, "Rip" one of the better songs, "One" among the lesser, okay then three strong ones back to back, then "A Prayer" definitely on the low end, "Torn" back in harness, "Little" down down to goblin town, ending with the cataclysmic "I Can't."] So I thought if I grouped the better songs together and the lesser songs together it would make it less halting, give it more structure, keep the groove going better. Gary didn't use the magnificent (mostly) instrumental "Fallen" to open his c oncerts, so I pulled it up into the pole position for the album itself. (My favorite song on the album, and ironically also the #1 pick for least favorite on the AFEnet site poll! Hmm, why is that? Do we just miss the lyrics?) Then I followed it with the two songs we've all come to love from our demo copies we all bought from "the German"-- those of us who did so. So, for all none of you who are still interested, here is Ben's rearranged running order for 'Pure,' complete with album track numbers listed so you can program your own cd players and try this one on at home! 6) Fallen 1) Pure 3) Rip 2) Walking With Shadows 4) One Perfect Lie 5) My Jesus 7) Listen To My Voice 9) Torn 8) A Prayer For The Unborn 10) Little Invitro 11) I Can't Breathe love, pure but not unadulterated, Ben http://home.earthlink.net/~iglarmobley * * * "I'll steal the light from heaven's gate If it can guide me to you" ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2000 21:30:44 +0100 From: "Artemis" Subject: New Thing From London Town Rod said "I just wanted to clarify that the 7" and 12" actually came out first, then Gary re-wrote and re-recorded the lyrics for the album version. Never did figure out why exactly..." Because it wasn't his lyric! I think it was William Orbit? Numan has always said how he dislikes singing other peoples songs. He was forced into recording the Prince tracks by IRS and only put them out on M&S (presumably) because of a shortage of material. I don't care much for either version - can't get the thought of the midget in the video out of my mind! Regards Brian ------------------------------ End numan@garynumanfan.nu Digest [06/05/2001 18:01] --------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------- T H E G A R Y N U M A N D I G E S T is produced, moderated, 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: numan@GaryNumanFan.NU If you want to be removed, or someone wants to be added, email: listserv@GaryNumanFan.NU and include this line as the first line of your message body: SUBSCRIBE numan@garynumanfan.nu (email address) or UNSUBSCRIBE numan@garynumanfan.nu (email address) (email address is optional but useful if you have multiple addresses) If you want to switch between receiving Digests or individual posts, again send to listserv@GaryNumanFan.NU and include either of these in your message body: NORMAL numan@garynumanfan.nu or DIGEST numan@garynumanfan.nu ------------------------------------------------------------------ Please note: this mailing list is configured to automatically unsubscribe you if mail to your mailbox goes undeliverable for any reason. 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