From: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org (alloy-digest) To: alloy-digest@smoe.org Subject: alloy-digest V3 #138 Reply-To: alloy@smoe.org Sender: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk X-To-Unsubscribe: Send mail to "alloy-digest-request@smoe.org" X-To-Unsubscribe: with "unsubscribe" as the body. alloy-digest Wednesday, May 27 1998 Volume 03 : Number 138 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Alloy: Dolby lists [Monya De ] Re: Alloy: Time to celebrate! [Robyn Moore ] Re: Alloy: I read you 5 by 5, Keith [Robyn Moore ] Re: Alloy: Dolby rarities! [Robyn Moore ] Alloy: Happy news [Robyn Moore ] Alloy: Scatterbrainedness [Robyn Moore ] Re: Alloy: A belated thank you/me too. [Wargun2438 ] Re: Alloy: Leipzig is calling you Robin [Paul Baily ] Alloy: not very rarities/b-sides [Lem Bingley ] Re: Alloy: Scatterbrainedness [RThurF@aol.com] Re: Alloy: not very rarities/b-sides [ljackson@nstar.net (Lee Jackson)] Re: Alloy: not very rarities/b-sides ["Denise D Luckey" ] Re: Alloy: Scatterbrainedness [Robyn Moore ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 25 May 1998 23:04:08 -0700 (PDT) From: Monya De Subject: Re: Alloy: Dolby lists Wish there was one with Valley of the Mind's Eye and ILYGB in it... Monya On Mon, 25 May 1998, Keith Dawe wrote: > > On Mon, 25 May 1998, Monya De wrote: > > > > > There's a songbook as in, sheet music?? > > Yes, I have the same one. It has sheet music for SBMwS, One of > Our Subs, Airwaves, and Europa. > > --Omega > ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 May 1998 23:16:29 -0700 From: Robyn Moore Subject: Re: Alloy: Time to celebrate! At 10:23 PM 5/22/98 , you wrote: > >Just thought you'd all like to know that a few years ago on this >very day, the first cries were heard from a baby girl who >grew up to be our very own lovely, charming, cookie-baking, >bike-riding, cello-playing, and lust-filled member of Alloy. >We wish you the happiest of birthdays, Robin, and may you >have many more! And here I am late with my well-wishing. Let me add my wishes for good health and oodles more faboo birthdays to my fellow Gemini. Can't think of anyone I'd rather share a name with. ;) Robyn @ Robyn Moore @ http://www.alveus.com/kbrm/robyn.html @ You knew the job was dangerous when you took it. - S.C. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 May 1998 23:24:32 -0700 From: Robyn Moore Subject: Re: Alloy: I read you 5 by 5, Keith At 03:57 PM 5/23/98 , you wrote: > >On Fri, 22 May 1998, Stephen M. Tilson wrote: > >> The lyrics to "The Wreck of the Fairchild"? I dunno, that's a toughie . . . >> >> Some fruit are sweet >> And some are poison. Some days I think I'm never gonna get to hear this tune. Oh well, gives me something to aim for. ;) >> But I still like Lord Stemish's interpretation best: He renames it "The >> Wreck of the Fairlight", and verses it as follows. >> >> It's obsolete >> And so's my Roland. > >Ah yes, the pun that only about six people in the world understand... And I bet all of 'em are on this list. ;) Robyn @ Robyn Moore @ http://www.alveus.com/kbrm/robyn.html @ You knew the job was dangerous when you took it. - S.C. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 May 1998 23:41:01 -0700 From: Robyn Moore Subject: Re: Alloy: Dolby rarities! At 02:39 AM 5/24/98 , you wrote: > >It has occurred to me on not a few occasions to put forth the following: >What manner of Dolby-related non-musical rarities (promotional items), or >Dolbyphenalia, are we secretly hoarding, ahem, I mean preserving for >posterity? I've found a few unusual items in my quests, suspect there >might be more such things, and entreat the Dolby-faithful to come forth and >state their collections in the interest of creating a catalog for our >amusement and reference. This is entirely curiosity-driven, of course, and I >promise to keep my lust and envy quiet, and hope that others will do the same. > I'll try, but it's tough. ;) About all I've currently managed to get my grubby little paws on is - His magazine interview last year - my mind is drawing a blank on the magazine, but we talked about it on list. Howard The Duck (For $5.99 at Costco a month and a half ago, no less.) The tour book for the Flat Earth tour (which I wasn't fortunate enough to attend, the book was sold with a copy of Flat Earth at a local used record shop) Robyn @ Robyn Moore @ http://www.alveus.com/kbrm/robyn.html @ You knew the job was dangerous when you took it. - S.C. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 May 1998 23:52:14 -0700 From: Robyn Moore Subject: Alloy: Happy news I just wanted to share this with you guys... On April 23, 1998...after 9 months and a bit, my sister gave birth to a healthy baby girl, making me an aunt again. :) Robyn @ Robyn Moore @ http://www.alveus.com/kbrm/robyn.html @ You knew the job was dangerous when you took it. - S.C. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 May 1998 23:54:44 -0700 From: Robyn Moore Subject: Alloy: Scatterbrainedness That should be MAY 23, not April. I dunno where my time sense went, but it doesn't live with me anymore. ;) Robyn @ Robyn Moore @ http://www.alveus.com/kbrm/robyn.html @ You knew the job was dangerous when you took it. - S.C. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 26 May 1998 03:46:05 EDT From: Wargun2438 Subject: Re: Alloy: A belated thank you/me too. I read Mary's reply... then yours... and thought, "What? Two different magazines??" Ok, so it's late.... Thanks! Great to be here! - -Warren ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 26 May 98 21:36:19 +1000 From: Paul Baily Subject: Re: Alloy: Leipzig is calling you Robin G'day John, Good to hear you're back in the land of the Alloyed, mate! >I agree entirely with this view (and being 39 can relate to it). The >character is relating his hum-drum/stuck-in-a-rut existence. I think at >about this age you start to question where you are going - too old to >start a new life but too young to continue with the old one. Yeah this is the impression the song strikes me with, and I'd always thought of the '39' ref as pointing to age. > I must say >that the references to Leipzig always confused me though. I had it in >mind that it was the ghost of some WWII disaster - similar to the bombing >of Dresden. Did Leipzig suffer in a similar manner in WWII?. My humble thoughts on this were either what you said, or perhaps just an unusual (romantic? Don't know the city) travel destination the character sees in the overseas pages. >John - who has been on annual leave for 4 weeks and seems to be missing >nearly all his Alloy email - My Mac files digest versions of every message since early '97 so if you want me to resend you back-issues just say the word. cheers, Paul. This message powered at neighbour-annoying volume by "Love My Way" off Should God Forget: A Retrospective/The Psychedelic Furs. ________________________________________________________________________ Paul Baily paulb@thehub.com.au JustSomeGuy http://www.thehub.com.au/~paulb Brisbane tel: +61-7-3857-8048/+61-411-875-009 Australia There's emptiness behind their eyes, dust in all their hearts ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 26 May 1998 20:47:30 +0100 From: Lem Bingley Subject: Alloy: not very rarities/b-sides The Virgin Megastore in London's bustling Oxford Street continues to stock both The Golden Age of Video and The Gate to the Mind's Eye - in European PAL format, natch. If anyone wants to acquire these items I can find out shipping details. I'm pretty sure they deliver worldwide, or if not I can act as proxy. I have no Dolby items that are not etched onto LPs, CDs, or VHS which, as I've discussed with Europa in the past, makes me a complete amateur. I don't even have any singles, which I guess means I'm missing out on lots of lovely B-sides. Come to think of it - *am* I missing lots of lovely B-sides? What hidden musical wonders are out there that didn't make it onto any of the long-format recordings/collaborations/soundtracks? Lem ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 26 May 1998 18:16:27 EDT From: RThurF@aol.com Subject: Re: Alloy: Scatterbrainedness In a message dated 5/26/98 2:55:44 AM Eastern Daylight Time, Robyn writes: << That should be MAY 23, not April. I dunno where my time sense went, but it doesn't live with me anymore. ;) >> wow, so all three of us are Gemini !!! Is your niece's name going to be Robyn (or Robin) too? Try to talk your sister into this! Robin ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 26 May 1998 17:45:18 -0500 From: ljackson@nstar.net (Lee Jackson) Subject: Re: Alloy: not very rarities/b-sides On Tue, 26 May 1998 20:47:30 +0100, you wrote: >The Virgin Megastore in London's bustling Oxford Street continues to stock >both The Golden Age of Video and The Gate to the Mind's Eye - in European >PAL format, natch. If anyone wants to acquire these items I can find out >shipping details. I'm pretty sure they deliver worldwide, or if not I can >act as proxy. Are these tapes or discs? I have a friend who has had PAL/NTSC conversions done (for Red Dwarf tapes he got from a UK friend), so I might be able to get something worked out here. Maybe. If it's tape. // Lee Jackson, Music and Sound Director // Apogee Software, Ltd. / 3D Realms Entertainment // http://bounce.to/ljackson ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 26 May 1998 18:43:21 -0000 From: "Denise D Luckey" Subject: Re: Alloy: not very rarities/b-sides Regarding b-sides there is not much available that you probably don't already know about. The most obscure ones that I know of are: Original (not reissue) Urges/Leipzig single on Armageddon records has a slightly different version of Leipzig than later releases. Radio Silence UK single has both slow and fast versions of the song Low Noise Jungle Line/Urban Tribal single has both of these tough to find songs together on one single Although not the case with the 7" release, the 12" Europa has both the extended version of the song and Therapy/Growth as a B side And the From Brussells With Love LP contains a slightly different lyric to Airwaves Most of his recent work has no variations that I have seen. He also co-produced and sang with several bands in the early 80s which are interesting since you can clearly hear him singing in the recordings. Dolby 45s are not that numerous and you can probably assemble a fairly complete collection quickly if you so desired. Hopefully someone else can fill in the spaces that I've left since I don't have much after 1985. Happy hunting! Michael - ---------- > From: Lem Bingley > To: alloy@smoe.org > Subject: Alloy: not very rarities/b-sides > Date: Tuesday, May 26, 1998 7:47 PM > > > The Virgin Megastore in London's bustling Oxford Street continues to stock > both The Golden Age of Video and The Gate to the Mind's Eye - in European > PAL format, natch. If anyone wants to acquire these items I can find out > shipping details. I'm pretty sure they deliver worldwide, or if not I can > act as proxy. > > I have no Dolby items that are not etched onto LPs, CDs, or VHS which, as > I've discussed with Europa in the past, makes me a complete amateur. I > don't even have any singles, which I guess means I'm missing out on lots of > lovely B-sides. > > Come to think of it - *am* I missing lots of lovely B-sides? What hidden > musical wonders are out there that didn't make it onto any of the > long-format recordings/collaborations/soundtracks? > > Lem > ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 27 May 1998 00:27:14 +0100 (BST) From: IT Admin - Govt Office North West Subject: Re: Alloy: more bike advice? At 19:20 22/05/98 EDT, Robin wrote: > > >Ah, I think you might be imagining me wearing one of those prosthetic big >bottoms they sell at "adult" shops... hmmm don't give me any ideas Slarv! I have NO idea to what you are alluding ;-|) > My helmet is a >Giro Torero hard shell, white with a black & silver flame job... how safe are >soft helmets exactly? I've never seen any here that I know of. Now I come to think of it, I haven't seen any for sale over here for quite a while, though sometimes it's hard to tell if they're hard or soft by appearance only. The soft ones often have a shiny finish, but are like thick sponge to the touch. I think there as safe as the hard shells, it's just a matter of personal preference. >And last but >not least, my Trek padded leather fingerless gloves with net back. I'm going >to practice riding my bike around the cemetery paths til I feel comfortable >with these TekTro brakes it has, which stop on a dime & are a little >startling. > I'm sure you'll look very professional in that gear, but like new trainers, you may want to give them a used and lived-in look before wearing them on the open road. Makes you look less like a newby. >You can e-mail me privately with that photo of you in your cycling get-up, I >PROMISE nobody else will ever see ;) > No one has ever managed to take a photo of me in cycling gear since I was 18 and there are only one or two of those. I have a geeky one of me in a crappy tracksuit, holding up Hugh Porter, who was World Pursuit Champion at the time, at the start of a race at our local track. The only others were on a wet and windy day when I was competing in a schoolboys circuit race and another during a team time trial in Cheshire. I'm just a blurrrrrrrrrrrr, so they're not worth scanning really. Slarv PS Re the hard saddles. Numb Penis Syndrome is apparently quite a common complaint for cyclists, not that I've ever suffered from it myself (well, not after cycling, anyway, but maybe after a UFO <:-) ) ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 26 May 1998 18:17:43 -0600 From: Lazlo Nibble Subject: Alloy: Our Founder See for the "Howard The Duck" still I alluded to this weekend (plus a really nice Sinatra still I've been meaning to scan for a while). - -- ::: Lazlo (lazlo@swcp.com; http://www.swcp.com/lazlo) ::: Internet Music Wantlists: http://www.swcp.com/lazlo/Wantlists ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 26 May 1998 18:47:43 -0700 From: Robyn Moore Subject: Re: Alloy: Scatterbrainedness At 03:16 PM 5/26/98 , you wrote: > >In a message dated 5/26/98 2:55:44 AM Eastern Daylight Time, Robyn writes: > ><< That should be MAY 23, not April. I dunno where my time sense went, but > it doesn't live with me anymore. ;) >> > >wow, so all three of us are Gemini !!! Is your niece's name going to be Robyn >(or Robin) too? Try to talk your sister into this! Her name is Sianna Lynne. Pretty cool, I think. :) Geminis tend to run in my family...Two of my brothers, my sister, me, Kevin, his grandmother, one of our nieces on his side, one of our brothers-in-law, and I'm sure I'm forgetting a couple somewhere. :) Robyn @ Robyn Moore @ http://www.alveus.com/kbrm/robyn.html @ You knew the job was dangerous when you took it. - S.C. ------------------------------ End of alloy-digest V3 #138 ***************************