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idealcopy-digest        Sunday, April 12 1998        Volume 01 : Number 029



                               Today's Subjects:
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  Fw: A-Z title and cover art            ["Alex Wise" <SOLANDRA@bigpond.com>]
  Re: A-Z title and cover art        [Aaron Mandel <amandel@hcs.harvard.edu>]

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Date: Sat, 11 Apr 1998 23:54:56 +0100
From: "Alex Wise" <SOLANDRA@bigpond.com>
Subject: Fw: A-Z title and cover art

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> From: mark.short <mark.short@netchannel.co.uk>
> To: Ideal Copy Mailing list <idealcopy@smoe.org>
> Subject: A-Z title and cover art
> Date: Saturday, 11 April 1998 0:19
> 
> A brief note to elucidate the ttle and cover art of
> Colin Newman's "A-Z".
> 
> In the UK there is a series of street maps called
> "A-Z" (the streets are indexed alphabetically, would
> you believe). The six images on the front cover of 
> "A-Z" are based upon these street plans. The bottom 
> right-hand image is based on a street plan of 
> Tottenham, a district in north London. (I used to 
> live there.)
> 
> Having read Kevin Eden's book, I have a picture of 
> Wire comprising a "pop" camp (CN) and a "noise" camp
> (BG,GL). So why is it that the perfect pop moments, eg
> Blessed State, Kidney Bingos, Eardrum Buzz, are Wire 
> material, rather than on Newman's solo output?

Well Blessed State was composed by BG as it could suggest that Gilbert also
has a melodic pop side.
For some odd reason he chooses to express that side in the Wire clan while
utilising his solo stuff for
the noise side of things.


- -Alex

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Date: Sat, 11 Apr 1998 11:26:24 -0400 (EDT)
From: Aaron Mandel <amandel@hcs.harvard.edu>
Subject: Re: A-Z title and cover art

On Sat, 11 Apr 1998, mark.short wrote:

> Having read Kevin Eden's book, I have a picture of Wire comprising a
> "pop" camp (CN) and a "noise" camp (BG,GL). So why is it that the
> perfect pop moments, eg Blessed State, Kidney Bingos, Eardrum Buzz, are
> Wire material, rather than on Newman's solo output? 

on the other hand, colin is much more strident, much more often, than
graham or bruce. graham smooths things out, which seems to have drawn him
toward trying to make completely unmusical things listenable.

just my analysis.

a

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