From: Level42-request @ worldmachine.com (Level42 Digest) Subject: Level42 Digest V98 #122 _ ____ _ ____ _ _ ___ // //__ // / //__ // /__// __// //__ //__ \\_/ //__ //__ // /__ D I G E S T Level42 Digest Volume 98 : Issue 122 557 subscribers Today's topics: US Sales for Level 42 albums? Grativo Forever Now RCA UK vs. RCA Japan Brian Runkle Forever Now DonZipf Nametags DonZipf Lessons in Love 12" Julian Arnold bad reviews J Shuford L42 Items for Sale J Shuford Sen-Saisse-Tions Dave Mock a gil scott-heron question jeff mahoney On the Level...really!! powerfm ------------------------------ Subject: US Sales for Level 42 albums? From: Grativo Date: Fri, 8 May 1998 09:52:59 EDT Does anyone have the sales #s for each Level 42 album that was released in US? Just curious. Grativo ------------------------------ Subject: Forever Now RCA UK vs. RCA Japan From: brunkle @ bigreddog.com (Brian Runkle) Date: Fri, 8 May 1998 15:15:52 -0400 Can anybody tell me if there is a difference between Forever Now from RCA UK from the RCA Japan copy??? I think the tracks are all the same, but perhaps the packaging is somewhat different. Anyone...Anyone....Bueller! Brian Runkle ------------------------------ Subject: Forever Now From: DonZipf Date: Fri, 8 May 1998 16:52:37 EDT > I was unaware of the RCA Japanese version. I guess this is just another > thing I must search for!! Is there any difference on this release from the > UK release? Yes. The RCA Japan release is the same as the RCA UK, with two songs tacked onto the end: "Past Lives" and "Learn to Say No". The packaging is identical, except for ammended credits, and the insertion of a b&w lyric booklet containing both roman and katakana transcriptions. The Japanese version's catalog number is: BVCP-711 Z. ------------------------------ Subject: Nametags From: DonZipf Date: Fri, 8 May 1998 17:05:34 EDT Following is a list of the people for whom I have made souvenir ILF nametags. If you are planning on attending the IOW ILF, and if your name does not appear below, please e-mail me immediately at DonZipf @ aol.com. Or if your name is here, but you won't be attending, please let me know. eric @ worldmachine.com (Eric) lolitaj @ aol.com (Lolita) winman42 @ aol.com (Winston) rsmith @ zipmail.co.uk (Richard) (Carol) Rob_Steen @ homer.itp.ie (Rob) jreddin @ onramp.net (Jennifer) k.lage @ tcu.edu (Kristin) bmiller @ abbeywood.com (Bill) andy.smith3 @ virgin.net (Andy) adam @ ahartiste.demon.co.uk (Adz) djames @ serv.net (Dan) Brian.Bowman @ iab.afres.af.mil (Brian) Bilal42 @ aol.com (Bilal) tonysharpe @ mcmail.com (Tony) (Benji) BHConrad @ aol.com (Bruce) Adrian.Bond @ btinternet.com (Adrian) morgan42 @ club-internet.fr (Morgan) mark @ bassland.force9.co.uk (Mark) Nigel.Collier @ newcastle.ac.uk (Nigel) Also, if the organizers of the satelite fests will contact me, we'll see about getting some of these cool nametags for those parties. Thanks - Z. ------------------------------ Subject: Lessons in Love 12" From: Julian Arnold Date: Fri, 8 May 1998 14:08:13 -0700 Hello to all my fellow L42 heads out there!! Need your help friends. Once upon a time when this song first came out I was naturally so enthralled by it, I went out and bought the 12" version which was very, very cool. Unfortunately at that time I was 18 years old and my lounge-boy wages were scant. The turntable I had was a piece of crap and the needle helped me to damage my precious LIL 12". I checked out Ernie Longmire's very well mastered and meticulous discography and I think I know the catalogue number of the 12" (Polydor; POSPX 790 / 883956-1). What I want to do is if possible buy this 12" from someone or somewhere or if that fails, ask someone 'very nicely' to perhaps record it to a cassette for me. This 12" means a lot to me. It was that very song that got me off the fence and it helped my conversion to full fan status. My email during work hours is or at home and the weekends it's (yep, I'm a Bond fan too!). Thanks in advance to you all and to those of you who'll be at the ILF on the 23rd, in the words of Monty Python, "you lucky, lucky, lucky b*st#rds!" (no offence!) Cheers all, Jules ------------------------------ Subject: bad reviews From: J Shuford Date: Fri, 8 May 1998 15:29:52 -0700 (PDT) Fellow Microbabies: I was just perusing some database of newspapers and I noticed that the Chicago Tribune and Detroit Free Press both gave Guaranteed an unfavorable review when it was released stateside in March 1992. I didn't get a chance to read the reviews. Anybody seen these? John Shuford Department of Philosophy University of Oregon Eugene, OR 97403-1295 (541) 346-1054 shuf @ darkwing.uoregon.edu ------------------------------ Subject: L42 Items for Sale From: J Shuford Date: Fri, 8 May 1998 15:46:38 -0700 (PDT) The Purge Continues... I have the following items for which I am willing to entertain offers: 7" Singles POSP 343 Starchild/Foundation & Empire (Part I) POSP 697 Hot Water/Standing in the Light POSP 776 Leaving Me Now/I Sleep on My Heart 883956-7 Lessons in Love/Hot Water (Live) POSP 842 Running in the Family/Dream Crazy 885957-7 Running in the Family/Fashion Fever POSP 855 To Be With You Again/Micro Kid (Live) 12" Singles PDD 520 Starchild/Turn It On POSXX 842 Running in the Family (album version)/Dream Crazy/Running in the Family (7" version)//World Machine (Shep Pettibone Remix)/World Machine (short dub mix) Laserdiscs 081563-1 Level Best (NTSC) Please let me know whether you are interested in any or all of these items by private reply... Shuf John Shuford Department of Philosophy University of Oregon Eugene, OR 97403-1295 (541) 346-1054 shuf @ darkwing.uoregon.edu ------------------------------ Subject: Sen-Saisse-Tions From: Dave Mock Date: Fri, 8 May 1998 19:53:56 -0700 (PDT) Hey, Micro-Kids: Thanks to Kara and Winman for their inquiries on Philippe Saisse's "Valerian." (I'll have to check out his other stuff, Winston.) I had thought it was out of print until I saw it about a year ago at Tower Records in Carle Place, Long Island, in the New Age section. For some reason I didn't buy it -- I might have specifically been on a Level 42 mission. Since then, I had been trying to find it at both Tower and the new Virgin Megastore. Finally on Tuesday night, I said the heck with it and motored to Tower just before closing time, hoping to find it. VOILA! New Age has taken some hits, but I think his and Andreas Vollenveider (sp?) are really cool. When I played their stuff on "New Age Images" as a fill-in DJ on my old station WRHU-FM in the late 80s, the phones lit up. TCOY, The Duke ------------------------------ Subject: a gil scott-heron question From: "jeff mahoney" Date: Sat, 9 May 1998 15:56:13 +1000 hi all forgive this being non-level but i need help. i have been after a video by gil scott-heron for ages called tales of gil. i have hit a brick wall .....i cannot appear to track it down. if any of you digesters know of it or know where i can get it from please let me know. please keep an eye out for me. thanks. an impeccable groove cheers from sydney jeff ------------------------------ Subject: On the Level...really!! From: powerfm @ mail.netconnect.com.au Date: Sat, 09 May 1998 19:43:57 +1000 Hey!! Yep, I've got another set of questions I need answered ;^) !!! I read on the back of a sticker once that Phil Gould was (quote) "a windsurfing Greenpeace member." T or F?? A few back, a digester complained that there was no focus on MK in a leading British publication. Have you seen the issues of Guitarist from '91 (MK on the cover) and '94 (MK on his studio)?? If you can't track these down I'll make some copies available. On the same subject, around '92 I found a (British???) magazine at my newsagents with an article about MK's basses, and I didn't buy it!!! Go figure!!! If anyone can furnish me with a copy (even a photocopy...oo-er) this time a slab of Fosters is on its way!!! And no-one's answered my querie about "One In A Million", so Im assuming I must be nuts :^( Well it's Saturday night here, and I'm off to do a gig and make some noise! I'll be thinking of you all when we launch into "Love Games" (sans intro solo...that comes in at "Person to Person"[AWB]) Hope you all have fun at the Levelfest, wish I was with you!! Take care, y'all!!! Spaldo..... P.S. Glad I could help, Ade!!! F.A.B.!!! P.P.S. "House of Usher"... still don't geddit.....:^( 8^(