From: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org (alloy-digest) To: alloy-digest@smoe.org Subject: alloy-digest V6 #38 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, February 14 2001 Volume 06 : Number 038 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Alloy: The Return of the Big Giant Head! ["M. R. Jordan" ] Re: Alloy: Tommy Awards ["Robin" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:27:16 -0500 From: "M. R. Jordan" Subject: Re: Alloy: The Return of the Big Giant Head! Brian Clayton wrote: > Haha! Great Melissa! Is this the one of him in the white suit and headset? What makes them "slightly different"? You are correct - white suit and headset! One is a full-frontal head shot, the other is this profile-y thing. Very cool. I'm looking forward to getting them!!! Cheers, Melissa - -- Melissa R. Jordan Director, Compass Rose Consulting International (http://www.askcrc.com) Owner/Artist, Compass Rose Studios (http://www.crstudios.com) ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 17:18:55 -0500 From: Russell Milliner Subject: Re: Alloy: Tommy Awards As I remember it, there were some questions dealing with TMDR favorite somethings. So how about.... TMDR's Favorite: Project Collaborator Guest Musician on own record Record Label Recoring Studio Synth Sport Vacation Spot Type of Pet Also someone mentioned the Greenpeace Album/Video that TMDR was on, but there is also another "help the environment" album that TMDR was also on. It came out in 1989 on Virgin Records. It had many other artists on it such as Kate Bush, B52s, Joni Mitchell, XTC, Big Country, and many more. It's not on my website (yet), and I dont believe it is in Lazlo's discography. I am not giving the answer, since this might make a good question. - -Russ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 19:15:04 -0500 From: "Robin" Subject: Re: Alloy: Tommy Awards Thanks for the great suggestions, Russ. Some more occured to me today which may have been in the first Tommy Awards: List TMDR songs written for or later remade by other artists; List songs by other artists which TMDR has recorded/remade; List references to various types of transportation in lyrics; List songs in which Thomas refers to psychiatric care... also, possibly: Lists of foreign places mentioned in Thomas' songs, & of course, list foreign languages appearing on TMDR recordings (a tougher one might be, how many foreign languages have TMDR's songs been recorded in? how many did he sing himself? etc!), various creative mention of both Spam and Vaseline (perhaps two of Thomas' favorite commercially available products EVER?? with potential for bonus points for all you Literature majors out there... for writing the best short story incorporating both Spam and Vaseline in context - what do you think!), List food & drink mentioned in Thomas' lyrics. I also have a question & I'd love to know what everyone thinks... when trying to come up with answers to some of these questions, would it be best to have it well-defined beforehand the correct 'catalog' we're meant to refer to? I realize that not everyone has heard all of Thomas' rarities so are there potentially two sets of "correct" answers people could claim? ... one for the generally available catalog (ie, major releases) and another which includes both major releases and 'rarities'. Should pieces be included which Thomas didn't write himself but were written for him, or that he covered? Should pieces be included which Thomas wrote for other people (such as "New Toy"... and perhaps some of the soundtrack songs?) How was this handled in the last Tommy Awards? Any new opinions on this? xxxxx Robin T ------------------------------ End of alloy-digest V6 #38 **************************