--------------------------------------------------------------------- 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) --------------------------------------------------------------------- (#2002-175) - Topics this issue: 1) Yangste Tong, 2) Chest Fest, 3) Counting Covers, 4) Covers & Collaborations poll, ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2002 20:12:15 EDT From: PeterPanda@aol.com Subject: Yangste Tong --part1_16b.157e145b.2adb65df_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit All - A few Digests ago, a few people voted for a cover of "Are `Friends' Electric? by a group/person called Yangste Tong. I am unfamiliar with this cover. Could anyone share the provenance on this particular cover? I'm interested in knowing if this is a fan-based cover, an MP3 only release, or if it came out commercially. Thanks for any information knowledgeable parties might be able to supply. Me! I Disconnect From You Peter Panda --part1_16b.157e145b.2adb65df_boundary Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit All -

A few Digests ago, a few people voted for a cover of "Are `Friends' Electric? by a group/person called Yangste Tong.  I am unfamiliar with this cover.  Could anyone share the provenance on this particular cover?  I'm interested in knowing if this is a fan-based cover, an MP3 only release, or if it came out commercially.

Thanks for any information knowledgeable parties might be able to supply.

Me! I Disconnect From You

Peter Panda --part1_16b.157e145b.2adb65df_boundary-- ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2002 06:22:36 +0100 (BST) From: =?iso-8859-1?q?NumPet?= Subject: Chest Fest Dear all, >However, I think the spikiness is a > little too shaggy and not calculated enough. A > shorter, more clean cut job, > still with the spikiness would be wonderful. Indeed it would be perfect - just what's needed. > Btw, worst hair ever award goes to Warriors...I love > that album with all my > soul, but sweet mother of god....and the bit of > chest hair he had peeking > out on the single covers was just too much. Hey!.....some of us quite fancy that bit of chesthair...grrrr........... Cheers, The Numpy ===== All I wanted was a friend to see the beautiful end I went to take her hand I couldn't feel a pulse. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2002 16:58:56 +0200 From: "Hansi Slanec" Subject: Counting Covers > We had 47 titles we could choose for our singles poll, 66 for the b-sides poll, > but Hansi Slanec counts the covers at 128 (and I can promise that he's left > out at least 20 or so). Its 268 Covers to be precise... > And for another, Hansi has researched a lot of these and put that information on his web site, and I think he deserves the "hits" > to his site that we'd give him by visiting there instead of stealing the list and reposting it here. > http://www.geocities.com/Vienna/Strasse/7042/nucovers.htm I am very honoured to get such a response. Thank you! > Hansi's list is pretty darned extensive, but with a few holes. How come you > didn't list the full set of song titles from Terre Thaemlitz' album > 'Replicas Rubato'? Or from 'TechnoArmy'? And I can name several covers > that you've missed entirely: All of them are mentioned, as i checked right now. > The Borg - Are 'Friends' Electric?, Replicas, We Are So Fragile > Erik Burke - Are 'Friends' Electric? > Flux Oersted - Complex > The Girl Pool - Cars > Mase - Don't Matter What ("Cars" sample) > Rollerball - Cars > Solenoid - Metal > Sticky - Down In The Park > Thought Industry - Metal > Timb The Enchanter - Down In The Park > Uthanda - Cars > Victims Of Luxury - Cars Borg, Girl Pool, Timb, Uthanda are on a whiole now. I will add the others soon!, thanks for that hint! > And then what about all the songs performed by Carnival during their Numan > Night 1999 concert, and beyond? > > Tracks > The Machman > We Are So Fragile > Me! I Disconnect From You > You Are You Are > You Are In My Vision > Are 'Friends' Electric? > Metal > I Die: You Die > America > Absolution I am not sure how to count cover Bands, like the Numan Principle or else. I added Young things dont scream, as it is obvious, that they released a vinyl or mc (but i dont know more of that) > ...and I'm sure there are plenty of others that I don't know about. Yes - please List, inform me of those! Than you Hansi, the Austrian ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2002 13:22:20 -0600 From: "Joey Lindstrom" Subject: Covers & Collaborations poll On Sun, 13 Oct 2002 18:02:10 -0600, pmaster@garynuman.info wrote: >What about a poll ranking the tribute ALBUMS from most to least favorite? That again omits a lot of stuff. I see that Fear Factory's "Cars" has landed in a lot of top-five lists, but this poll would remove that one from contention. You pointed out the biggest flaw of this poll, and that is: many folks haven't HEARD a lot of this material. So what I'm thinking is: let's turn that flaw into an advantage, and change the purpose of this poll to "let's let everyone hear what they've missed". Every song that landed in the top ten of the two previous polls has likely been heard by 99% of the viewers of this list. This poll would be different. So why not use this to everybody's advantage? What I propose is this: 1) We provide a better definition of which songs are eligible - maybe a large list, as you've provided (thanks Hansi) in your most recent post. 2) We throw away all the ballots received so far, and ask everyone to re-vote, this time (as per your suggestion) going with your top *TEN* favourites (in ranked order please). 3) When it comes time to producing the "audio version" like we've done the last two times, instead of just doing the "top ten", I can probably do the top thirty or forty songs (again, in "am radio" quality, good enough to let you hear what the song is like, but low enough to encourage you to BUY it if you like it). This could be broken down into several smaller files to make downloading easier as well (particularly by those with slow net connections). The point? When we're done, we'll not only have some "poll results", but we'll also enable people who haven't heard much of this material to finally get a chance to hear it. The downside is that some of this stuff might not be in my collection - for example, I don't have a copy of Replicas Rubato, so if any of those tracks made the top thirty or forty, I'd need to find a benefactor to send me some MP3's. :-) Whaddaya think? / From the desk of Joey Lindstrom / / "Share your second favorite thing in the universe with a friend." / --Everything I Need To Know I Learned From Babylon 5 ------------------------------ End digest@garynuman.info Digest [10/14/2002 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, davdat@allmusic.com, Joey@GaryNuman.Info Back Issues: http://digest.garynuman.info ------------------------------------------------------------------- To reply to the messages in this list, email: digest@garynuman.info If you want to be removed, or someone wants to be added, email: listserv@GaryNuman.info and include this line as the first line of your message body: SUBSCRIBE digest@garynuman.info (email address) or UNSUBSCRIBE digest@garynuman.info (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@GaryNuman.Info and include either of these in your message body: NORMAL digest@garynuman.info or DIGEST digest@garynuman.info ------------------------------------------------------------------ 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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