From: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org (alloy-digest) To: alloy-digest@smoe.org Subject: alloy-digest V6 #125 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 Friday, May 18 2001 Volume 06 : Number 125 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Alloy: Re: alloy-digest V6 #124 ["Ian Gifford" ] Alloy: JJ , TMDR and Low Noise, The Beatnik watch, Why Alloy? ["Tim Hu] Alloy: 2 more compilation CDs feat. TMDR on DISKY records INFO ["Tim Hud] Re: Alloy: Professor Thinky [CRACKERS ] Alloy: unsubscribe [CRACKERS ] Re: Alloy: Professor Thinky ["Robin Thurlow" ] Re: Alloy: Professor Thinky ["Chris & Beena Cracknell" ] Re: Alloy: Professor Thinky ["Robin Thurlow" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 02:57:34 -0400 From: "Ian Gifford" Subject: Alloy: Re: alloy-digest V6 #124 >This is also the first time I ever saw Thomas acting. Wow! I didn't know >you could act. Okay here's a plan Thomas, you and me and the silver >screen. I see some sort of neo-Crosby/Hope road movie type of thing. >What >do you say? Is it a deal? Have your people call my people baby, >we'll do >lunch. CRACKERS (A little song, a little dance from hell!!) Speaking of doing lunch... I will be in Hamilton Ontario this weekend, so it looks like Crackers and myself may finally meet of 2 of the 3 or 4 Canadians in Alloy. I am hoping that we can do something in a musical vein while I am there. Crackers recently contributed an accordian part to a song I am still working on for the play called "Downtown Demons Resume". I will try to post this to the list if I can get an ftp site for it. (anyone have a page I can load this to??). ALl that is needed is the vocals and I will have it finished...maybe by next wednesday or so. I think you will all be impressed with this collaboration. Thanks Crackers... It's a hoot so far... now I can't wait to get "Bad Guy" (pron. GEE) in on it. Ian _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 10:01:02 +0000 From: "Tim Hudson" Subject: Alloy: JJ , TMDR and Low Noise, The Beatnik watch, Why Alloy? Hi Alloy people, http://www.drumpunk.co.uk/index.html Dig around you'll find Thomas's Low Noise project and record cover /details about 8 pages or so in from the front of the site. also check the links page: ! Nice one Beatnik for the two mentions in Pro Sound News (Europe edition) recently re: the recode of the audio engine for the mobile device chip. Why's it called 'The Alloy List' anyway - Perhaps Paul can explain? Tim in Lux. Just titled this and included the text The Beatnik Watch.....now that would be a thing Thomas ...I'll open up negotiations with Swatch for you at a reasonable rate.....:-) (Whats that Bleeping noise?)....... Can you imagine the chaos on the tube? - It would be worse than Crackers on his Casio VL Tone/Stylophone (or whatever) - after a night down the pub. [good grief - ed]. - -- Tim Hudson tim_hudson@zdnetonebox.com - email ___________________________________________________________________ To get your own FREE ZDNet Onebox - FREE voicemail, email, and fax, all in one place - sign up today at http://www.zdnetonebox.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 13:28:35 +0000 From: "Tim Hudson" Subject: Alloy: 2 more compilation CDs feat. TMDR on DISKY records INFO Hi, Just discovered two more compilations featuring tracks by Thomas Dolby at lunchtime here in the Auchan shopping Mall in Luxembourg City. Both on this bloomin pesky Disky records label...... One entitled 'CULT Classics from the 80's' Which has the words Culture Club / Thomas Dolby / Talking Heads / Human League written on the front cover. ( Yeah Dolby written on cover !) This is a 2 CD set Tom is track 12 disc 2 with Hyperactive! 4.13 The details are: Barcode number 0724348 543226 Disky records DO 854322 Date of issue 1999. Tracks licencesd from EMI Disky Communications Europe B.V. Verlengde Lageweg 19 1628 PM Hoorn, The Netherlands. Its the usual Human League, Duran, Spandau Ballet type of compilation but does include Kirsty McColl with Billy Bragg's 'New England' PIL with 'Rise' some XTC, Stranglers and Flock of Seagulls, Bow wow wow, Talk Talk, Midge Ure, Heaven 17 and one or two nice suprises..The Belle Stars ( ooh yeah !), Blondie, and Talking Heads. I won't mention Fun Boy Three and Banarama (what was that all about?), Sigue Sigue Sputnik, China Crisis, or Linx.or the Thompson Twins or Dexys Midnight Runners - anyway - you get the gist of it Just above the words 'Thomas Dolby' on the front of the cover is a woman who wouldn't look out of place in a deoderant advert Moving on  The other is from the same Disky label people[ disky label stable?] and has two TMDR tracks ! It's entitled 'New Wave Classics' Its another double CD collection featuring many of the same acts listed above (and sometimes the same tracks). Quelle surprise uh? TMDR is Disc 1 track 3: SBMWS And Disc 2 track 13: Hyperactivate (the version with someone swearing like a trooper at the end)......... After Thomas, is something called 'Komtur' with a track called 'Hans von Stoffeln' and then there is Ian Dury and the Blockheads Rythem stick. By the way I was only joking about the Hyperactive version with the swearing at the end. - It would be great if EMI cocked up and gave these people some reel of dodgy outtakes by mistake and instead of getting Hyperactive! 4.13 they printed "Hyperbollocks make the tea someone - before I get a parking ticket" 3.17. But I guess that won't happen. Lene Lovitch is also on the same disc as Tom with 'Lucky Number' all 2 minutes 47 seconds of it...enjoy . Anyway for the record here are the details of this 'New Wave Classics' double CD Barcode number: 0724348 78282823 Disky records DO 878282 Date of issue 1997. Tracks licencesd from EMI Disky Communications Europe B.V. Verlengde Lageweg 19 1628 PM Hoorn, The Netherlands. I guess there must be - or soon will be - hundreds of these sort of pick and mix - re released, re-licensed, compilations in different countries all over the world. I just provide the details here for the collectors among you. But I guess there comes a limit to the number of times you really want to buy Hyperactive or SBMWS when its the same version just on different plastic? I'll close with the observation that if history had turned out differently.......as is so often the case .......I could be writing to Fun Boy Three on their mailing list, asking whatever happened to Thomas Dolby featuring Banarama ? or that other rarity, Thomas on the piano with Deborah Harry at his side singing smokey parisian Jazz songs in a black velvet dress with one hand on the piano top and the other seductively on his thigh Strange how the change from Minor to Major Till the next time. Adios amigos. [p.s. Disky records also have Whoodinis magic wand out on their cd entitled "RAP ATTACK" - seriously its true]. - --- Tim Hudson tim_hudson@zdnetonebox.com - email ___________________________________________________________________ To get your own FREE ZDNet Onebox - FREE voicemail, email, and fax, all in one place - sign up today at http://www.zdnetonebox.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 10:36:42 -0400 (EDT) From: CRACKERS Subject: Re: Alloy: Professor Thinky On Wed, 16 May 2001, Robin Thurlow wrote: > so..... tell us about it! you know, the ol' play-by-play (or at least some > insight into the scenes he was in) Please???? Oh it was more than just a scene Thomas was on throughout most of the episode. Thomas was playing himself and he was trying to film a pilot for a kid's science show in which he would play "Professor Thinky" (which is going to be my new nickname for Thomas now... ehehheheh). His manager paired him up with his "airhead" assistant for a sidekick and everytime Thomas talked science it would just go over her head. In the end Thomas sold out his "scientific integrity" and made a shampoo commercial for 2 million dollars. It was really quite good. Of course the episode brings up the question.. "Has Thomas ever in-real-life autographed a woman's breast?" CRACKERS (Autographed breast on E-bay from hell!!!) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 18:48:44 -0400 (EDT) From: CRACKERS Subject: Alloy: unsubscribe This E-mail address will be defunct at the end of the month so it's time to unsubscribe with it and resubscribe with the new one. Everyone can now reach me at... bcracknell@sympatico.ca CRACKERS (Closing down shop from hell!!!!) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 20:43:40 -0400 From: "Robin Thurlow" Subject: Re: Alloy: Professor Thinky I'm going to ask if VH1 might be planning to run "Big Sound" any time soon. I'd dearly love to see Thomas' episode, it sounds so funny! I think Thomas *was* asked to autograph a fan's breast at some point. I seem to remember that story in an interview somewhere... I only know for certain, it wasn't mine. How did the breast autograph feature into the show?? xxxxx Robin T ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 22:48:37 -0400 From: "Chris & Beena Cracknell" Subject: Re: Alloy: Professor Thinky - ----- Original Message ----- > How did the breast autograph feature into the show?? One of the office staff asked him to autograph her breast (which was already autographed by someone named Gator). The look on Thomas's face in that scene was priceless. Crackers (Boobie doodles from hell!!!!) ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 13:46:01 +1000 From: Paul Baily Subject: Re: Alloy: Why Alloy? Hi y'all, > Why's it called 'The Alloy List' anyway - Perhaps Paul can explain? Well, I wanted to think up some kind of name that was Dolbyesque in origin yet not quite as bleeding obvious as "The Thomas Dolby Fan & General Gossip Email List". I really liked the Tap Room as a name but couldn't quite think of anything nearly as good. (The Microbrewery? Das Barrelhaus? Okay now I'm just being silly...) At the time I was particularly addicted to TGTTME, so I thought Alloy would be quite a good, obliquely fitting name for something that was (at the time) going to help usher out an old universe (K'space's dolby-l list) and usher in a new one with the official Flat Earth Society list. Have a look at the back of TGTTME video cover, I think it explains the Alloy character as having a similar role in the video. It made sense at the time, really it did. Funnily enough, I was surprised to see on the Thomas Dolby site mention the Alloy list as being "ALL things dOlbY" so I guess I had it wrong all the while. ;-) cheers, Paul. [Reunited with the Pismo!] This message powered by Black The Sun/Alex Lloyd off Indie 2000 vol 4. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 00:09:58 -0400 From: "Robin Thurlow" Subject: Re: Alloy: Professor Thinky So did they show the finished shampoo commercial at the end of the episode, or were you left to imagine it? crackers, I must be driving you nuts with all the questions... next I'll be asking you to draw out a storyboard of it for me :) xx ~r ------------------------------ End of alloy-digest V6 #125 ***************************