From: Level42-request @ worldmachine.com (Level42 Digest) Subject: Level42 Digest V96 #155 _ ____ _ ____ _ _ ___ // //__ // / //__ // /__// __// //__ //__ \\_/ //__ //__ // /__ D I G E S T Level42 Digest Volume 96 : Issue 155 355 subscribers Today's topics: Another L42 VHS tape D. Sim Dietrich Jr. Re: Sunbed Song NPercival With an edge in my voice Jay Tracy Real Audio of interview Steve Robson ------------------------------ Subject: Another L42 VHS tape From: "D. Sim Dietrich Jr." Date: Sun, 2 Jun 1996 08:15:54 -0700 (PDT) Hey, y'all! I was in Tower Records in beautiful downtown Mountain View, CA yesterday and what did I see in the 2 for $20 discount bin? You guessed it...Level 42 'Family of Five'. Just a compilation of 5 videos from RITF put out by Polygram Music Video in 1987. It was quite a find for me because the only video I ever saw from that album was Lessons in Love. Man, for such a cool group, they have some really cheesy videos! Here's a list of the 5 videos: Children Say : Great song, lame video, just Mark & Mike singing in Paris with a little girl. No instruments in sight... RITF: Good song, but the video presentation is so abstract and unrelated to the song that it really detracts from the lyrics. To Be With You Again : Another great song, some instruments, high cheesecake factor with the topless sleeping chick. The two lowlights of the whole tape were the zoom shots into the chick's mouth and ear! I kid you not! BTW, I say 'chick' because she was only representing 'chickness' in this video, not a real person, which is lame. Lessons in Love : I must say the beginning of this SUX, but towards the end of the song, the video picks up on the rythm of the song and really jams! It's Over : Great song, video had few instruments, just the band somewhere in the Arizona desert. Is it just me, or is Mike the biggest Ham in the world? Those hand gestures have got to go... The sound quality is high for a VHS tape, Dolby B NR and all that... If someone with two VCRs wants to make copies of the tape for others on the mailing list, let me know where to send it! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ! Check out HUBIE! - a VGA Puzzle/Arcade game for DOS ! D.Sim Dietrich Jr. ! featuring Multiple SFX, General Midi & Adlib Music, ! Game Developer ! Animation and More! Shareware Req:VGA,386+,2mb ! Serendipity Software ------------------------------ Subject: Re: Sunbed Song From: NPercival @ aol.com Date: Sun, 2 Jun 1996 19:01:22 -0400 >The Sunbed Song has the same groove and feel >as The Chinese Way has--they have just built upon it and mastered it. Aside >from most of the Guarenteed album, and a few songs, here and there, they >have built up and bettered themselves from the start. I agree with the comment on the Sunbed Song - but I think it's the ONLY song on the Forever Now CD that touches the kind of groove of the earlier songs, and I can't say the rest of the album builds upon the early style at all. (Mark's interview which we had transcribed last week suggests this when he talks about his bass playing being curbed.) What's more, The Sunbed Song is surely quite deliberately retrospective - you can hear Mike singing the line from 'Turn It On' and there are other pointers back to earlier songs - Mark sings about 'Won't even try to justify my sunglasses' which echoes the lyrics of 'Sleepwalking' from RITF ("I wear my Raybans driving in the car, even on a cloudy day"); and the little riff at about 4 mins 45 definitely feels like it's been pulled from somewhere else. It's a bit like the thing Sting sometimes does, nicking lyrics out of earlier songs and using them in a totally different way in later albums. In fact if you listened to the lyrics of the Sunbed Song, you could, at a push, interpret the whole thing as a comment on the band's musical development... If 'The Chinese Way' is an old source of contention, how about having a go at 'The Sunbed Song' instead? For me it's the only half funky thing on the CD - the only thing that makes me wince the way (for example) 'Living It Up' does. Finally - LVL42 @ aol.com is a rather nifty email address - did anyone else notice that? (an introduction in Digest #153). Welcome to the list! (Wish I'd thought of that.) Neil Percival ------------------------------ Subject: With an edge in my voice From: "Jay Tracy" Date: Sun, 2 Jun 1996 19:07:09 -0400 (EDT) I write this against my better judgement, being that I can't stand Doug Adams, but I know some of you do, and I guess our little band has a tie-in to him (although I still would rather believe Boon's 42nd Street explanation)...so here's a little something from a write-up on the Electronic Entertainment Expo: "Douglas Adams, author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, has started a multimedia production company in London and is creating an all-original CD-ROM called Starship Titanic for Simon & Schuster Interactive. "I spent 10 years sitting in a room typing," Adams says. "I think it's time to get out of the room." Anyway, thanks to Steve for his transcribing the MK interview, and welcome back BobC. --jay Brigham & Women's Hospital ------------------------------ Subject: Real Audio of interview From: steve @ redac.co.uk (Steve Robson) Date: Mon, 3 Jun 96 09:19:20 -0100 What ho! > Subject: Re: Level42 Digest V96 #152 > From: crow @ MNSi.Net (Steve "Crow" Kenney) > Date: Fri, 31 May 1996 09:39:45 -0400 > ...is there any way you can convert this interview to Real Audio? > (To conserve space) and send it to me (us) in email as an attachment? I don't think so. I don't have any means of connecting an audio cassette to any of the computers to which I have access. I'll keep it in mind, though. > ...thanks for posting it! No problem! Steve --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Steve Robson - Steve_Robson @ redac.co.uk Zuken-Redac (UK) Ltd., Unix Systems Support Engineer 66 Suttons Park Avenue, Tel: 0118 966 9955 (or) 0836 580066 Reading, Fax: 0118 935 2899 BERKSHIRE Web: http://www.redac.co.uk RG6 1AZ UK ---------------------------------------------------------------------------