Subject: Level 42 Digest, #405

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                              * LEVEL 42 DIGEST *
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Digest 405                                                  Monday, 05/29/95
159 subscribers

Today's messages:
The Brit Awards
re: pat questions
Re: Pat Flanagan and Memories
Re: Level 42 Digest, #403
Brit Awards, etc.

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From: Benedict Poole <brsp @ ukc.ac.uk>
Date: Sun, 28 May 95 12:10:39 +0100
Subject: The Brit Awards

Hi everyone!

In answer to the query re: the Brits.

In the UK, the Brit Awards have received a bit of a bashing, and for good
reason. UK Levelheads will recall the Sam Fox/Mick Fleetwood edition of the
show, in which the aforementioned were presenters. The whole thing was a dis-
aster from beginning to end (and VERY funny! ;-)), so the organisers decided to
smarten the whole thing up. It's now very safe, with lots of music industry
type (i.e., gits, many of them) in the audience...

M People are pretty good IMHO, and cut it live.

If you like the Stereo MCs, check out their album `Connected' which is damn
funky if you ask me. Their bog hits so far are `Connected' and `Step It Up.'
(At least, I think that was the title - haven't got it in front of me).

TTFN!

Ben
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Ben Poole
University of Kent at Canterbury, UK.

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From: BobC971 @ aol.com
Date: Sun, 28 May 1995 10:24:13 -0400
Subject: re: pat questions

Pat Flanagan asked some very interesting questions yesterday:

>>> Heart On The Line:  "So ring a bell for brother Al, he never did no
wrong..." Alan Murphy?  or just a lyrical device? Anyone?<<< ......That's a
real good question. I have no idea who Al is. Never thought it could be Alan
Murphy. I'd love to know that one myself.

>>> Danny Blume -- Did he play ALL the guitar parts, or are there others?
....<<<This is something I'm afraid we'll never know. I've developed a
friendship with Danny over the past year and he really, very modestly, has no
idea of what guitar playing is his on the FN album because of all the
remixing the album went through. He actually heard the album for the first
night in my car because Phil kept forgetting to send him the album. It was so
cool to watch him hear certain things for the first time. When he heard his
slide guitar in the chorus of Love In A Peaceful World for the first time, he
got very excited. "They kept that in!!! I didn't think they would,'' he
beamed. Let me put it this way, i think Danny's on the album more than he
admits. I've seen him play a couple of times and "his sound'' is definitely
definable. He's very much a sound technician. That feedback you hear toward
the end of Tired of Waiting is undeniably Danny. That whole song is really
him. But the real true answers of what Danny parts stayed in the mix lie in
the remixing fingers of Mark King.

>> Tired of Waiting:  Who's singing the "I've been waiting since Midnight,
just to give you my insight" part? .....Phil Gould was my first guess. That
was Phil's song according to Danny. We know it wasn't Mark's.

---BobC

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From: Kim Ivey <kivey @ NMSU.Edu>
Date: Sun, 28 May 1995 12:07:26 -0600 (MDT)
Subject: Re: Pat Flanagan and Memories

Yo Pat!  The adverb song is cool!  But my favorites are :  

1.  The Song for the Constitution:  "We the People in Order To ... blah
     blah, blah ... a pretty catchy tune.

2.  Elbow Room
3.  The Noun Song :  " ... a nouns a special kind of word... it's any name
    you've ever heard" ... blah, blah, blah

4.  Interjection Song
5.  VEEERRBB! (I'm sure you remember this one ...)
6.  The Adjective Song :  "Next time you go on a trip ... remember this 
     little hint ...blah, blah, blah"
 
Level Digesters ... forgive me also for using up space on such non-42 
stuff.  But Flanagan got my toes to tappin' with his little message.  Ah, 
yes ... what fond memories ....

             Kim

P.S.  hey, L.K. .... what are your favorites ...?

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From: PLFlanagan @ aol.com
Date: Sun, 28 May 1995 15:39:53 -0400
Subject: Re: Level 42 Digest, #403

Martin:  BAW HAW HAW, that's a good one!  One of the things I always liked
about these guys -- no matter how serious their music got, you could tell
they had a sense of humor.  By the way, if you really want to know what they
were talking about, I'll clue you in:  try gross anatomy. :D

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Mr. Barfe:  Great Letterman quote -- I saw that show.  Was that your first
exposure to Dave, or do you guys see him regularly (if there is such a thing)
over there?

TCOY, Pat
"Just remember, wherever you go, there you are"  Buckaroo Banzai

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From: PLFlanagan @ aol.com
Date: Sun, 28 May 1995 15:58:33 -0400
Subject: Brit Awards, etc.

Kim -- the singer you saw was Heather Small of M People.  I heard their US
debut album ("Elegant Slumming"), which was pretty good for jumpy happy disco
music (including a great remake of "Don't Look Any Further," a great tune the
obscure British band The Kane Gang did a few years back).  They have a new
album out, but I haven't heard it -- it's received good reviews, though.
 She's got a great booming diva voice, especially for how small she is (not
including her pineapple hairdo, that is).

Stereo MCs:  They had two US hits around two years back -- Connected (gonna
get myself, gonna get myself, gonna get myself connected, I ain't gonna go
blind etc.) and Step It Up.  Their one album that I've heard was good.  Check
'em out.

Hope this stuff helps.

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Here's a good thread we could start (albeit, non-Level 42):  List the three
crappiest, most irritating songs currently being played on the radio.  My
votes:

3.  Whatever Real McCoy song is being played (they all sound the same to me)
2.  I Saw You Dancing by A-kee-dah (or however it's spelled, I don't know --
what does "say A-kee-dah, my love" mean, anyway?)
and...
1.  Have You Ever Really, Really Really Ever Loved A Woman (or whatever the
hell it's called) by Bryan Adams (what, is he turning into a Mariachi
musician, or something?)

On the other hand, songs I just can't get tired of hearing:  that Dionne
Farris song;  So High by Des'ree;  Runaround by Blues Traveler;  What Would
You Say by Dave Mathews Band;  House Of Stone And Light by Martin Page;
 Water Runs Dry by Boyz II Men (I KNOW, I HATE THESE GUYS, but song is well
written.  Wish someone else would have performed it);  and the local radio
station has put a bunch of Sade songs in rotation.  Anything she does is okay
by me <sigh>.

TCOY, Pat

"My fly's wide open..." (ok, you've all heard that already)