From: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org (alloy-digest) To: alloy-digest@smoe.org Subject: alloy-digest V6 #135 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 Monday, May 28 2001 Volume 06 : Number 135 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Alloy: Shocked by Europa... [jonathan.chiddick@nokia.com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 27 May 2001 18:27:01 +0300 From: jonathan.chiddick@nokia.com Subject: Alloy: Shocked by Europa... Hi all, Paul Latham was generous enough to make me a tape of some TMDR live shows that he's lucky enough to own (thanks once again Paul) and I listened to the last show this afternoon. It was a 1988 Aliens show from the Town & Country in London and it was interesting to hear how the live versions differed from the studio takes. In the show version The Key To Her Ferrari the 64 GTO became a 58 GTO for example. There were several things like this and they really made my ears prick-up. It was like hearing 'new' stuff and we all know how rare that is these days right? Oh how I wish that it was possible to get Urban Tribal on CD... Anyway. Paul compiled the tapes from three shows and where there were spaces at the end he inserted bits of TMDR interviews etc. which was fascinating - not to mention incredibly nice of him - but at the end of the tape; after the 1988 T&C set I was shocked and amazed to hear a completely different version of Europa And The Pirate Twins that I had no idea existed. This version was a purely electronically generated and the 'vocal' was done by an excruciatingly annoying but now thankfully defunct Scottish ex-game-show hostess called Isla St.Clair. The 'lyrics' had been significantly altered for this release... as follows: 'Europa And The Pirate Twins:' Version II. "Hands on your hips with your legs apart." "Look straight ahead" "Bend to the left, stretch!" "Bend to the right, stretch" "Keep going now... etc." ...no less than the backing track to an exercise video! I wonder if Thomas knows anything about this? The music sounded like it had been generated by some cheap Casio keyboard but it most definitely was Europa! Maybe someone owes him a royalty for using his song. Can there be any higher accolade than that!. Exellent! -not. Jon ------------------------------ End of alloy-digest V6 #135 ***************************