From: owner-alloy-digest To: alloy-digest@smoe.org Subject: alloy-digest V1 #17 Reply-To: alloy@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-alloy-digest Precedence: bulk X-To-Unsubscribe: Send mail to "alloy-digest-request@smoe.org" X-To-Unsubscribe: with "unsubscribe" as the body. alloy-digest Monday, 8 July 1996 Volume 01 : Number 017 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Fwd: Alloy: Re: I like this biography thing . . . Alloy: I like this biography thing . . . ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Paul Baily Date: Sun, 7 Jul 96 18:20:19 +1000 Subject: Fwd: Alloy: Re: I like this biography thing . . . Subject: Alloy: Re: I like this biography thing . . . Sent: 7/7/96 2:40 pm Received: 7/7/96 6:18 pm From: Beth Meyer, bmeyer@psy.tfe.gatech.edu To: Lister, alloy@smoe.org Hi, everybody; I'm really finding this round of introductions, and just had to add to it. However, I also have a substantive question, which is below my introductory paragraph. I'm Beth Meyer, and I'm almost a scientist (finishing my Ph.D. in engineering psychology, which is basically the study of how people do work). I feel like a bit of a latecomer, but I came across the kspace list shortly before the web site and Alloy list were born. I'm 31 and have been a fan since I got the tGAoW tape, plus the "Blinded by Science" EP, as a freshman in college. I spent most of my college years with a mounted TMDR poster on my wall (our hero with glasses off, in a slightly unbuttoned poet-style shirt -- pretty sexy, actually). I'm an Atlanta native and I do research there at Georgia Tech. Shortly, my most famous neighbors will be Carl Lewis, Jackie Joyner-Kersee, Shannon Miller, , etc. I am honored to have attended TMDR's Atlanta show promoting AAMB; I can now die a happy person. OK, here's my question. As you may have guessed, I acquired most of my TMDR album collection before CD players were totally accepted (or, more to the point, before I had one). So I am still reproducing my collection on CD as funds allow. Now, the FES web site listed "Leipzig" and "Urges" as tracks on the Golden Age of Wireless. Alas, I note from Lazlo's discography (nice work Lazlo!) that these tracks only appeared on the very first US release of the album, and the usual tGAoW CDs don't include them. However, CD NOW offers an import version of this CD, but does not include a track list. Is there a chance that this import CD might include these tracks, or is Retrospectacle the only way to get them? (Still waiting with bated breath for that rarities CD...) Well, that's enough from me for now -- thanks in advance for any info! Cheers, Beth - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Beth Meyer School of Psychology Georgia Institute of Technology Pager: +1-404-866-1362 Atlanta, GA 30332-0170 FAX: +1-404-894-8905 bmeyer@psy.tfe.gatech.edu ------------------------------ From: "James E. Hartman" Date: Sun, 07 Jul 1996 07:56:34 -0500 Subject: Alloy: I like this biography thing . . . Biography, huh? Why do I suddenly feel like I'm dead and the subject of an hour's worth of time on A&E TV network? OK, I don't really feel like I'm dead, but at 7:45 on a Sunday morning you can feel pretty not-alive. I'm a 29-year old currently posing as a network administrator for an international environmental consulting company (my true and proper calling was being a late night DJ for a show on public radio where I programmed the music - meaning I chose what I wanted to play). I gave up the DJ life about 2 1/2 years ago when I moved from Houston to Austin (both in Texas). I probably won't return to it unless I win the lottery or something equally unlikely, since I also recently got married. Since we both enjoy having incomes, the low-paying life of a DJ just won't cut it anymore. I was first introduced to TD's music by a girlfriend (I was 14, she was 12). Few others around me seemed to have heard of TMDR, so I had a lot of fun playing albums for my friends. After I found a videotape of the "Golden Age of Video," it became a stock item for when I went to parties, usually because of the reaction it caused when "Radio Silence" came on and the eventual recognition of "One of Our Submarines." Somewhere along the way, Beth Meyer (bmeyer@psy.tfe.gatech.edu) wrote... >[snip] I spent most of my college years with a mounted TMDR poster >on >my wall (our hero with glasses off, in a slightly unbuttoned poet-style >shirt -- pretty sexy, actually). How neat! I was just talking with my wife about that poster, 'cos I was trying to describe for her the shirt in the hopes we could find one for me somewhere along the way. :) Fortunately, she does. I remember having that poster at one time, but who knows what happened to it. [snippage] >Is >there a chance that this import CD might include these tracks, or is >Retrospectacle the only way to get them? I don't have the import CD either, but I *do* have "Leipzig" and "Urges" on the "Silk Pyjamas" 2-CD single (just as a FYI). >(Still waiting with bated breath for that rarities CD...) In the time-dishonored tradition of the internet: Me too! :) - -- James E. Hartman | Austin, TX, USA | http://www.eden.com/~jhartman/ "[N]o society, no matter how liberal its laws may appear to be, will allow its basic concepts to be challenged with impunity." -- Robert A. Heinlein, "Stranger in a Strange Land" ------------------------------ End of alloy-digest V1 #17 **************************