From: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org (alloy-digest) To: alloy-digest@smoe.org Subject: alloy-digest V5 #239 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 Tuesday, October 3 2000 Volume 05 : Number 239 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Alloy: Post from the Past - Leipzig [Robin Thurlow Subject: Alloy: Post from the Past - Leipzig Here's another post from the past... originally posted by Brian Clayton in February, 1997. Maybe this can spark a new Song of the Week discussion for Leipzig? (lyrics posted soon! ) As always previous songs of the week can be re-mentioned & discussed at any time. I think Melissa and Elaine may soon be in a position where they can discuss some of those 'rarities', if their busy schedules allow. I'm particularly hung up on these rarities, guys, so I'll always be eager to hear what those who've heard them have thought of them. Brian's Leipzig post follows... xxx Robin T Date: Sat, 15 Feb 1997 11:47:25 -0800 (PST) From: Brian Clayton Subject: Alloy: more on Leipzig As mentioned in previous postings, there exists a cover of Leipzig as performed by Dave Stewart and Barbara Gaskin, two UK artists who are apparently old friends of TMDR. This morning I have discovered that they have a website at http://www.davebarb.demon.co.uk , where I found a fun little blurb re: the song. Do visit the site if you can, but for the web-declined, I'll go ahead and post it here, hoping no one will mind (especially Thomas! read on...) Leipzig Thomas Dolby, back in the early 80's when he was known simply as 'Tom', was a regular football-playing colleague of Dave and Barbara's. (Barbara, alarmed at the effect it was having on her leg muscles, has since given up the game, but Dave still stumbles around on Sunday afternoons.) Being a little guy, Tom was a regular target for Dave's (6'2") catalogue of cynical body checks and illegal shoulder charges, but the Brazilian skill with which the young Dolby evaded the taller man's clumsy challenges proved to be second only to his ability to fashion a great original song. In most cases, Dolby's recordings of his own songs are so superbly and imaginatively executed that it would be silly (as with some Beatles and Beach Boys tracks) to attempt a cover version, but 'Leipzig' was arguably an exception. Originally appearing as a 'B' side to an early Dolby single produced by Andy Partridge, 'Leipzig' sounded like a great song in embryo - - - the backing was very minimal, the overall mood dark and introspective. Dave & Barbara's version of the song is, by contrast, expansive and technicoloured, with a big, rolling beat adorned by electronic percussion, twinkling keyboards, and cartoony sound effects. The chorus, however, remains one of the great pop anthems of the 80's, and engendered two characters (Henry & James) who have subsequently appeared in another Stewart/Gaskin song. Tom, being an Internet kind of guy who learned to live in cyberspace before most of us learned to program a toaster, is probably reading this right now, so let's all give him a big 'HELLO' and bellow in unison - 'Hey Tom! Still got those baggy shorts?!!!'. [interesting comment re: Dolby covers, in light of recent Alloy discussions!] BC - - --- Brian Clayton "The only real acting is with the Royal Shakespearean stemish@kumr.lns.com Company. What on Earth would you want to do science fiction for?" -- Patrick Stewart, 1980 ------------------------------ End of alloy-digest V5 #239 ***************************