From: Level42-request @ worldmachine.com (Level42 Digest) Subject: Level42 Digest V96 #26 _ ____ _ ____ _ _ ___ // //__ // / //__ // /__// __// //__ //__ \\_/ //__ //__ // /__ D I G E S T Level42 Digest Volume 96 : Issue 26 252 subscribers Today's topics: Solo Albums.....? Fabfriday @ aol.com Re: Level42 Digest V96 #25 Daniel James Pilgrimage ROBINS MATTHEW DAVID Lenny Henry Marcus Bone Answer for Angel lolita @ interserv.com About those L42 shirts... Zak Nilsson Prioritizing a list, Icehouse Cliff Gorian Smug Get Nigel Collier A Change of Address... Anthony Burns Complexities; RADIO SHOW Zaron Michael Frumin Level video Requests JNSMITH @ msuvx2.memphis.edu sandee loring doesn't live here anymore John Edward Martin Shuford One quick question.... Heather Swanson new one Lazlo Nibble ------------------------------ Subject: Solo Albums.....? From: Fabfriday @ aol.com Date: Thu, 25 Jan 1996 03:23:36 -0500 Ok, Mark's first solo album (second one in the works I hear) was not truly a solo album in my opinion, but more of a Level 42 mini-album. Why? Because all of L42's memebers co-wrote or played on the album.... Mike's album is truly a solo album because he is the only L42 member on it. Same with Boon's album... HELP.... I'm franticly searching for the CD "ICEHOUSE Man of Colours" and would welcome anyone's help on this search.... FAB ------------------------------ Subject: Re: Level42 Digest V96 #25 From: djames @ statsci.com (Daniel James) Date: Thu, 25 Jan 1996 09:18:10 -0800 (PST) > From: LittleHalo @ aol.com > > Also, Loz, what is "Life Will Never Be the Same"? Is there a song by them > that I don't know about???????? What's the world coming to? I'm sure you'll get several replies to this, but just to add another one... This is an exceptionally beautiful song on Mike Lindup's solo album (Changes). It's an acoustic piece with only his piano playing, and an acoustic stand-up bass (and his voice plus a little bit of synth work). I ordered this album through Audiophile Imports (which isn't the cheapest way to go at $30.99, but I received it in two days). Since we're sort of on the topic, I wonder what people's recommendations are for some other albums that they recommended: Alan Murphy - SFX Bass Compilation - Also available in Green (containing one of the bonus tracks from Guaranteed) Boon - Tin Man RITF (Platinum Edition) [I already have the Remix album] -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Daniel James - Database Administrator djames @ statsci.com StatSci, a div of MathSoft, Inc. (206) 283-8802 x284 ------------------------------ Subject: Pilgrimage From: ROBINS MATTHEW DAVID Organization: the University of Greenwich Date: Thu, 25 Jan 1996 12:28:00 GMT Well, I`m back.sorry I've been so long mailing, but after getting back from Christmas I had about 35 days of digests to plough through. Not a problem though. One topic that did catch my notice was the pilgrimage to Mark's cafe on the IOW. Put my name down! Any chance of Mark being there? On UK Gold ( Uk satellite channel, in case you didn't know ) last night ( Wed. 24th Jan. ) they had some ancient version of Top of the Pops, with the boys doing Chinese Way from God only knows how many years ago. Mike's moustache, Boon's flares, Mark bouncing all over the place like a monkey on speed. Great stuff! They've been on a few times over the last year actually, worth a look. To be fair, TOTP seemed to love having L42 on. ( 3 times for FN singles alone. ) Anyway, must be off, does someone actually know the exact address of Joe Daflo's. Hope so, IOW in April must be a touch boring otherwise. Bye, Tattoo Man. ------------------------------ Subject: Lenny Henry From: Marcus Bone Organization: Kingston University (Science) Date: Thu, 25 Jan 1996 15:12:45 GMT0BST As we were talking about "CHEF" and Lenny Henry a while back, I remembered that my brother saw Lenny Henry coming out of the Albert Hall just before they let the fans in for the last L42 concert. Society Against Mail Signatures ------------------------------ Subject: Answer for Angel From: lolita @ interserv.com Date: Thu, 25 Jan 1996 06:23:26 -0800 Angel - If you are referring to the song I think you are, Life Will Never Be The Same is from Mike Lindup's solo album, Changes. This album is a MUST buy (I know Eric would agree :-)). I actually have the song Changes in my head right now, and it is very catchy. Buying Changes, one of Wally's solo efforts, and Influences would give a person a full perspective of who wrote which songs [ex: after buying Wally's EP, I knew immediately he must have written the music for World Machine (the song)]. Just a thought. ------------------------------ Subject: About those L42 shirts... From: ZNilsson @ handel.jlc.net (Zak Nilsson) Date: Thu, 25 Jan 1996 09:09:58 -0500 >Zak, I couldn't get an e-mail through to you for some reason so here's my >message regarding your T shirts/stickers proposal: > >Yes, a thousand times yes. >That all sounds like a swell idea Zak. There's been so much deliberating >about T shirts etc we need a go-getting firebrand like you to just get on >and do it instead of talking about it. You can count me definitely 'in' for >both T shirt and stickers - I'm not too bothered about the design but I >think you should mention the digest or homepage in some way. OK, it looks like (from both private and posted mail) there is enough interest in shirts for me to start looking into it. I'll generate a couple designs this weekend and post them to...hmm. How can I do this so everybody gets a chance to see the designs? Can I post them to the L42 page? Otherwise I can possibly send the files as mail attachments (stuffed and binhexed)... At any rate, I'll work on it. The designs will go on white shirts and I'll see what the cost is for doing front and back. I just recently finished a shirt project for the KPT 3.0 beta testers (now those were cool shirts:)), and I'm on really quite good terms with the shirt print shop I do business with. If people are interested, it will be done. Considering there's currently 251 subscribers on the list, I'd like to get orders for at least 50 shirts. Please start giving me a general idea about how many people are interested in owning a L42 shirt. You can e-mail me privately so as not to clutter the digest. Pat, how much digitized L42 stuff do you have, and can the rez be bumped up to at least 150 DPI? Can you mail me privately to discuss? Thanx! >Twee >I haven't checked the dictionary but I understood 'twee' to mean something >that is sickeningly 'cute' or homely. May I suggest an alternative meaning >for the word twee - "the distance you have to walk between where you were >standing at the front of a bus queue and where the door of the bus actually >stops". Did you get that from "The Meaning Of Liff"? Cool connection between this list, L42 and Douglas Adams... 'Till next time, Zak ------------------------------ Subject: Prioritizing a list, Icehouse From: ncc1701d @ iaccess.com.au (Cliff Gorian) Date: Fri, 26 Jan 1996 00:46:38 +1100 Hi all, Someone (sorry, can remember who) was having trouble trying to rank their favourite L42 songs. From memory, this is how to prioritise any list. (a) List out the items (in any order) e.g. 1 - lessons in love 2 - something about you 3 - world machine 4 - floating life (b) Compare the first item with each of the items BELOW it in your list. For each pair being compared, place a tick against the one which would be your first choice. e.g. i/Compare lessons in love to something about you. Prefer lessions in love, so it gets a tick ii/Compare lessons in love to world machine. Prefer world machine, so it gets a tick iii/Compare lessons in love to floating life. Prefer floating life, so it gets a tick So the list now looks like: 1 - lessons in love * 2 - something about you 3 - world machine * 4 - floating life * (c) Working down the list, repeat step (b). The number of comparisons reduces - the final item in the list requiring no comparison, having already been compared to the items higher in the list. e.g. You will end up with something like this: 1 - lessons in love * 2 - something about you 3 - world machine * * * 4 - floating life * * (d) Re-order the list according to number of ticks scored by each item. e.g. Re-ordering the above list: 1 - World machine 2 - Floating life 3 - Lessons in love 4 - Something about you It's a little wordy trying to explain it, but it's quite easy to do. I probably looks a tad trivial for a list of 4 items, but try ranking your top 10 (as a few people have already done) - it takes all of the effort out of it. Full credit for the system goes to Richard Nelson Bolles of "What Color Is Your Parachute" fame - it's the first place I came across this method. Hope you find it useful. Cheers, Cliff ------------------------------ Subject: Smug Get From: Nigel.Collier @ ncl.ac.uk (Nigel Collier) Date: Thu, 25 Jan 1996 12:43:30 +0000 Well, yes, this is just an email for me to be a smug get and boast/gloat about my two recent triumphs. Firstly my superior knowledge of short-lived strong lagers : >The flexi was issued as a promotional tie-in with Breaker Malt Lager, yes. > I have concluded with some certainty that >being as the 7" Love Games white flex single says the >words "Breaker" all over it followed by the words 'strong >malt lager' that this is the origin of the record. I am not >saying that t wasn't also given away with Melody Maker, >but even the ones from melody maker say Breaker lager >on them! And secondly on my german translation (Mr Hainesworth, my old German teacher, would be proud of me): >guten tag! >i haven't been to the list for a week so could not take part in the >translation-contest for that german mail.. >but nigel: you got it! >(first prize: an original fritz-woolcap from radio fritz I may not know much about Level 42 but if you have any queries on obsolete brands of booze or European languages, I'm your man. Robin Smith for President and eyes down for a full house. http://www.ncl.ac.uk/~nnac ------------------------------ Subject: A Change of Address... From: "Anthony Burns" Date: Thu, 25 Jan 96 05:02:38 UT I'm sorry to bother you again with a problem, but I've had to move my email to a different server. My old email was at atburns @ slip.net, but they have show themselves to be amateurish at best and until I can sign up with another Internet provider, I'll be on The Microsoft Network exclusively. Please send past copies of Level 42 Digest (as well as all future copies) to: Gaijin_Commander @ msn.com Thank you :)- PS Can you do you RTF, DOC, or someother MIME compliant content? [OK - I changed your address. About your "ps"... my list software _can_ support a MIME-CONTENT header, but I have disabled it because most people on this list probably can't handle MIME anyways. If there's any significant desire to restore this functionality, I can easily do it (although it's an all-or-nothing thing -- I can't do it selectively for one person or another). -Eric] ------------------------------ Subject: Complexities; RADIO SHOW From: "Zaron Michael Frumin" Date: Wed, 24 Jan 1996 23:18:51 -0500 (EST) Hi, Everyone - Long time since I last posted! Couple of things: Daniel James recently said something that I thought was rather interesting; he said he liked how Level 42's videos have a lot of little things going on in them to keep you interested - I think he called them 'little complexities' or something like that. I've always thought one of the reasons I've NEVER, EVER gotten tired of any of Level 42's songs is that the songs themselves have lots of little things going on in them, whether we're talking about (and it'll become obvious here very quickly that I'm NOT a musician; I don't know the terminology for these things) various instruments or keyboard-sounds, etc. Basically, I've always found I could listen to a Level 42 song for the ump-teenth time (maybe even the hundredth time) and still manage to hear something just a little differently than I ever have before (and yes, I'm talking about doing this SOBER!). I think that's one of the really cool things about the group; where they could have just said, 'the song's OK the way it is', they instead chose to say, 'let's put more flair into it - spice it up a bit'. Maybe this is why I don't like much new music in the '90s; I mean, hell, even if there is something interesting going on in it, you probably can't hear it with all that DISTORTED GUITAR FEEDBACK going on!!! GUESS WHAT!? Some of you will recall that I host a radio program and feature a plethora of Level 42 (and others we love) on it; well, the program will very soon be transmitting via the Internet!!! That means, I'm inviting all of you to start thinking of some good requests for the show! I can't wait to pass the address along to you so I can play your favourites! Regards, Zaron -- fruminza @ pilot.msu.edu ------------------------------ Subject: Level video Requests From: JNSMITH @ msuvx2.memphis.edu Date: Wed, 24 Jan 1996 18:44:22 -0600 (CST) For all of you who want copies, please don't forget to include return postage. I am a poor, broke student teacher and have no money for an envelope or postage. THANKS! Joseph N. Smith ------------------------------ Subject: sandee loring doesn't live here anymore From: John Edward Martin Shuford Date: Wed, 24 Jan 1996 16:47:32 -0800 (PST) an additional word on that whole "great FREE magazine offer i found" thing. I attempted to write a note to "sandee loring" and had it bounced back three times (even after altering the address). dx.com.np does not exist. i checked out dx.com and found that it's basically a commercial site (no big surprise there, obviously), but also found that there was no listing for a person named "sandee loring" under their userlist. am i the only person here who sees only bad things from the proliferation of e-mail expansion? how long can it be before subscriber lists wind up getting sold to merchants who will then flood us with junk e-mail? does anyone know if there is some way to stop this from happening? Eric, i appreciate your efforts to catch these things and delete them, but you shouldn't even have to do it. would a message to the webmaster at dx.com about junk e-mail help at all, or am i just hoping that they'll not hide be hind the legality of junk e-mail and that they'll actually ask their commercial users to not flood us? comments? ------------------------------ Subject: One quick question.... From: "Heather Swanson" Date: Thu, 25 Jan 1996 16:50:06 EST LOZ --> Just read the day's digest and was surprised to see that "Are You Hearing (What I Hear)?" has a video! I'd never even heard of it! (The video, I mean...not the song...) Where did you come across it? Later...... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Heather Swanson ------------------------------ Subject: new one From: Lazlo Nibble Date: Thu, 25 Jan 1996 14:24:05 -0700 (MST) > One of my favourite tracks is from World Machine, "I Sleep On My Heart." > Funny thing about this song it doesn't appear on later releases of the same > cd. I think Dream Crazy was another tune that is missing from later releases > of the same cd. The cd I have is Polydor catalogue 827 487-2. Any insights > regarding these tracks? Polydor US apaprently thought the World Machine album, as delivered, wasn't strong enough to do well here, so they replaced some tracks from the international version ("Coup D'Etat", "I Sleep On My Heart", and "Dream-Crazy" on the CD) with two older singles ("Hot Water" and "The Chant Has Begun"). Both versions of the CD were widely available in the US for a long time, but nowadays all I see is the US version. -- ::: Lazlo (lazlo @ swcp.com; http://www.swcp.com/lazlo)