Level 42 Digest for Thursday, August 28, 2003

Thursday, August 28, 2003

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Topics for Thursday, August 28, 2003

    1.  Top 20 artists - dean.osborn @ bt.com
    2.  Level 42 & Soccer AM - dabbo @ btinternet.com
    3.  acoustic set and Mark - Norwood, Jennifer
    4.  Nice one Eric! My 20 Faves... - James R. Sutton
    5.  '20' lists galore - Eric J. Hansen
    6.  Other artists - DonZipf @ aol.com
    7.  Re: My Favorite 20? This is gonna be hard. - Andrea Smith
    8.  + MARKETPLACE - Level 42 Digest
    9.  + WEB DIGEST SUMMARY - Level 42 Digest

1. Top 20 artists
From:	dean.osborn @ bt.com <dean.osborn @ bt.com>
Date:	Wed, 27 Aug 2003 10:54:17 +0100	[top]
Speaking of foks' top 20 artists.....I know it's been done before on here, but I always like seeing what other artists people are into. In no particular order, here are mine...... Level 42/Lindup/King etc... Bruce Hornsby Crowded House/Neil Finn George Benson Will Downing Luther Vandross Jan Hammer James Taylor Mark Knopfler/Dire Straits Jamiroquai Simply Red Oasis Rolling Stones Beatles Brand New Heavies Stevie Wonder Phil Collins/Genesis Miles Davis Duran Duran Elvis Quite some variety there huh ? Best Dean P.S Neil Finn is a lyrical genius, no other artist for me can hold a candle to his beautiful tales of lost love and self doubt.

2. Level 42 & Soccer AM
From:	dabbo @ btinternet.com <dabbo @ btinternet.com>
Date:	Wed, 27 Aug 2003 13:08:52 +0100 (BST)	[top]
Did anyone see Soccer AM on Skysports on Saturday? I had just turned the TV and was drinking my first cup of tea for the day when Helen Chamberlain AKA Hells Bells read out a request from a Level 42 fan for Soccer AM to play a L42 song whilst showing the goals for the weekend. She then went on to hum Something About You if I remember correctly and said she would see what she could do. I have copied SoccerAM into this email as I think this is a great idea - I'm not sure what song would be best to show the goals to -my suggestion would be Hot Water or Heaven in My Hands. I have therefore decided to start a Get a Level 42 song campaign on Soccer AM - if you want to join me - please email the show at Socceram @ bskyb.com with your suggestions and you never know, this Saturday our wishes could come true. I will of course be watching so for those people who do not have Sky - I will of course keep you informed how the campaign is going. "Livin' it up - I can't feel it!" Kind regards to you all, Steve Dabbs

3. acoustic set and Mark
From:	Norwood, Jennifer <jennifer.norwood @ umusic.com>
Date:	Wed, 27 Aug 2003 09:05:55 -0700	[top]
Is there anyone on the Digest that's in touch with Mark, to let him know what a good idea an acoustic set would be for the upcoming fall tour? Word up... Answers on a postcard please...

4. Nice one Eric! My 20 Faves...
From:	James R. Sutton <james @ jamesrsutton.com>
Date:	Wed, 27 Aug 2003 09:29:10 -0700	[top]
In response to Eric J. Hansen: "How cool would it be to learn that a substantial of other Level 42 fans are also into band _____?" I have pretty eclectic taste in music and it's nice to see what other 42 fans like. I think this is a great idea. Thanks Eric. So outside of the Level 42 and related projects, here's what I enjoy (in random order): 1. Rush (Including Geddy Lee's solo work) http://www.rush.com 2. The Police 3. King's X (Jelly Jam, Platypus, Poundhound, etc.) http://www.kingsxonline.com 4. Big Country http://www.bigcountry.co.uk/ 5. Porcupine Tree http://www.porcupinetree.com/ 6. Toto and/or Steve Lukather related stuff http://www.toto99.com/ 7. Living Colour http://www.livingcolournet.com/ 8. Casiopea 9. Tackhead http://www.tackhead.org/ 10. Yellowjackets (Specifically the earlier stuff with Marc Russo) http://www.yellowjackets.com/ 11. The Fixx http://www.thefixx.com/ 12. Echolyn http://www.echolyn.com/ 13. Enchant http://www.theoasis.cc/ 14. Holly McNarland http://www.hollymcnarland.ca/ 15. Lisa Stansfield http://www.lisa-stansfield.com/ 16. Simple Minds http://www.simpleminds.com/ 17. O.S.I. http://www.osiband.com/ 18. Dave Matthews Band http://www.davematthewsband.com/ 19. Tears for Fears (Including Roland Orzabal's solo work) 20. Bare Naked Ladies http://www.bnlmusic.com/ That's it. Thanks, -James james @ jamesrsutton.com http://www.jamesrsutton.com

5. '20' lists galore
From:	Eric J. Hansen <ehansen @ worldmachine.com>
Date:	Wed, 27 Aug 2003 15:17:05 -0400	[top]
Of the '20' lists just mentioned, I'll chime in with some "me too's" to potentially validate my theory that there are a bunch of common musical interests here. These are bands that I didn't mention in my original list of 5. Mentioned by Jason and Dave "The Bossman" Bossman: - Art Of Noise (saw them in concert 2 years ago) - Tears For Fears - Depech Mode (seen 3 times) - Go West (I used to also run Go West Digest from 1995-2001 :) - Brothers Johnson (recommended by folks on the Level 42 Digest) - Erasure and also Yaz(oo) - Duran Duran ("Rio" was the first cassette I ever owned. Are they not reuniting for a tour?) - Incognito (the Cog)... originally recommended by folks on the Level 42 Digest, and I saw them once in NYC with other Digesters. Hmm... didn't I also used to run an Incognito Digest? I'm dreading to make a '20' list myself, because I think it might be different tomorrow. But as not to act flighty, I'll add the following favorites to other groups that have already been mentioned (no particular order): - Steve Winwood/Traffic - Chick Corea/Return To Forever - Pet Shop Boys - The The - Talk Talk - The Jam, Style Council & Paul Weller - Thomas Dolby - Miguel Migs (DJ) - Mark Farina (DJ) Didn't there used to be a website called Firefly that had a database of musicians organized by similarity? The data for measuring similarity came from lists of 'favorites' submitted by Internet users... sort of similar to what we're doing here. cheers, Eric

6. Other artists
From:	DonZipf @ aol.com <DonZipf @ aol.com>
Date:	Wed, 27 Aug 2003 21:05:57 EDT	[top]
Eric Hansen wrote: > How cool would it be to learn that a substantial of other Level 42 fans are also > into band _____? Ok, I guess The Digest has been pretty thin lately, so here we go.... These days I listen to: Steely Dan The Beatles Alanis Morrisette John Mayer George Benson Chet Atkins One question, Eric: Do you actually listen to Time McGraw? What the hell is up with that? Your wife makes you listen, right? I mean, George Strait I can understand, but Tim friggin' McGraw??? Z.

7. Re: My Favorite 20? This is gonna be hard.
From:	Andrea Smith <ardsmith @ ameritech.net>
Date:	Wed, 27 Aug 2003 19:17:04 -0700 (PDT)	[top]
My favorite 20, in no particular order: 1. LEVEL 42 2. Esthero 3. Mary J Blige 4.tie-Stevie Wonder/Marvin Gaye 5. D'Angelo 6. Omar 7. Earth Wind and Fire 8. Steely Dan 9 Prince, when he used to be funky and cool and all the things that made him great and wasn't living in Canada....did he NOT watch the South Park Movie? 10. Sade 11. Incognito 12. Janet Jackson 13. The Isley Brothers 14. tie-Blaze/Ten City 15. tie Talvin Singh/Ming & FS 16. Massive Attack-I married my husband b/c of Massive Attack. 17. The Police/Sting 18. Toni Toni Tone 19. OutKast 20. Michael Franks I need another 20. I really need another 20. The next list we should do should be 'If________ never makes another album ever in life, the world will be a wonderful place."

8. + MARKETPLACE
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Date:	Thu, 28 Aug 2003 03:00:01 -0400	[top]
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General Discussion
	1 new -- Best Drums in the world, ever (!) by humph42
	1 new -- Gary Husband plays Leeds on August 5th 2003!!! by Feel the Width
	1 new -- German Tour Dates by 400bar
	2 new -- How many U.S. L42 fans are here? by mojotooth, lonelycozy
	2 new -- Jaco Pastorius NEW Release by davelaboss, Love42
	1 new -- Tickets for VLISSINGEN ? by Feel the Width
	1 new -- what is the best bass line ever ? by FustratedBassist
International Levelfests
	1 new -- who's going to BIRMINGHAM then? by mtm_01
Musicians' Lounge
	2 new -- Stringy Things! by Rich, nikbj68

Author Summary

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Feel the Width
1 messages:
lonelycozy, FustratedBassist, mtm_01, mojotooth, davelaboss, nikbj68, 400bar, Rich, humph42, Love42

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