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krj
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Peter Gabriel
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Jul 17 15:44 UTC 2000 |
For the last few years I've been poking fun at the slow production
rate of "former rock star" Peter Gabriel. He had a studio album in 1986,
and then another one in 1992, and then... anyway, import copies of
his new album OVO are now in stock at Tower Records in East Lansing
for $25.
Any news on a USA release? I don't feel motivated to pay the $8 premium
to get the import a few weeks early. An ad I saw in a UK publication
says there is a Special Limited "Millenium Dome" Edition with a complete
bonus disk, but no news on what is on that second disk.
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krj
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response 1 of 104:
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Jul 17 15:45 UTC 2000 |
((( Agora 328 <---> Music 269 )))
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tpryan
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response 2 of 104:
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Jul 17 16:15 UTC 2000 |
(tpryan forgets the Music 269 link, favoring the Agora 328 link)
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gypsi
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response 3 of 104:
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Jul 17 16:24 UTC 2000 |
Ooh...I hope he does a tour... I *looove* Peter Gabriel...
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chamberl
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response 4 of 104:
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Jul 17 18:23 UTC 2000 |
I was mad when he played at Hill Auditorium ... and didn't do
"Games Without Frontiers"
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gypsi
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response 5 of 104:
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Jul 17 18:39 UTC 2000 |
As long as I hear "Mercy Street", "Red Rain", and "Kiss That Frog", I'll be
happy. He can just forget to play "Sledgehammer", "Big Time", "Steam", and the
other Top 40 hits. Blecch.
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mcnally
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response 6 of 104:
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Jul 17 19:02 UTC 2000 |
The exceedingly annoying site design caused my browser to GPF,
but have you checked www.petergabriel.com for a release date?
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beeswing
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response 7 of 104:
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Jul 17 19:15 UTC 2000 |
shock the monkey!! :)
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gypsi
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response 8 of 104:
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Jul 17 19:49 UTC 2000 |
Jacques the Monkey.
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trex
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response 9 of 104:
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Jul 17 21:20 UTC 2000 |
well, the music is all for that Millennium Dome in london, so I wonder if it
will make it as a release here.
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otaking
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response 10 of 104:
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Jul 17 22:26 UTC 2000 |
I'd like to hear him perform "Don't Give Up" with Kate Bush live. Of course,
she's still a FORMER rock star.
Hopefully, she'll record another album too.
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ric
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response 11 of 104:
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Jul 17 23:28 UTC 2000 |
re 6 - Mike, Tony doesn't look anything up on the internet that he can ask
on Grex or M-Net.
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mcnally
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response 12 of 104:
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Jul 17 23:55 UTC 2000 |
Yes, but Ken entered the item..
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ric
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response 13 of 104:
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Jul 18 00:48 UTC 2000 |
Good point.. but it was *SOOO* chamberlesque...
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krj
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response 14 of 104:
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Jul 18 04:36 UTC 2000 |
You never know what silly question will spawn a discussion.
I couldn't get any useful information out of www.petergabriel.com.
I was hoping for a description of what's in the Limited Edition
-- I can't even find a confirmation that what Amazon is selling for
$29 is the version with a second disk which was advertisted in FOLK ROOTS.
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eeyore
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response 15 of 104:
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Jul 18 04:52 UTC 2000 |
re:10 Didn't Kate Bush die a couple of years ago? (that's what somebody told
me...)
I have heard that song with Paula Cole singing her part.
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krj
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response 16 of 104:
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Jul 18 05:14 UTC 2000 |
I'm reasonably confident that if Kate Bush had died I would have heard
about it. She was listed about a year ago in a silly 'Q' magazine article
about Britain's Wealthiest Rock Stars, that's the last I heard from her.
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carla
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response 17 of 104:
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Jul 18 07:21 UTC 2000 |
(drift, sorry)
Does anyone remember the tv sow "Sledgehammer"?
(drift off)
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katie
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response 18 of 104:
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Jul 18 09:18 UTC 2000 |
Willie Nelson and Sinead O'Connor recorded a great version of "Don't Give
Up."
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twinkie
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response 19 of 104:
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Jul 18 10:53 UTC 2000 |
re: 17 -- Yeah, he looked like a used car salesman, and was always making
innuendos about his gun.
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jerryr
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response 20 of 104:
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Jul 18 11:08 UTC 2000 |
from the net:
Latest Official News
HomeGround fanzine report in their Summer 2000 issue that "Kate is continuing
to work steadily on a new album". However they say that "the most realistic
forecasts for a release date at this point is the latter part of next year".
As previously reported Kate began writing and demoing songs for a new album
in early 1999. She has had her recording studio serviced and upgraded and
recording was expected to have began before Christmas '99. Kate is reported
to be "happy and full of energy". In the meantime EMI will release remastered
and repackaged CDs of the remainder of Kate's album catalogue as with 1997's
Hounds Of Love reissue, starting with The Sensual World in September 2000,
The Red Shoes in the early new year, The Dreaming and Never For Ever in Spring
2001, and finally Lionheart and The Kick Inside in late Spring/Summer 2001.
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mcnally
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response 21 of 104:
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Jul 18 19:59 UTC 2000 |
Kate Bush must have sole a *lot* more records in Britain than the U.S.
to qualify as one of "Britain's Wealtiest Rock Stars."
--
I'm not even sure why, but Peter Gabriel is, for me, one of those artists
who has crossed over the line from "Oh! A new {insert artist name} album!
I must buy it immediately!" to "I'll have to hear it first." Doubly so
when the release in question concerns an expensive import of unknown
material..
Buy.com lists an import release called "Millennium Show" for $21.95 but
says its status is "On Order". The details page is blank, which is somewhat
typical for that site..
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lelande
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response 22 of 104:
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Jul 18 21:14 UTC 2000 |
resp:17
i remember him showering with the gun in its holster. i think that was a
shot used in the opening sequence.
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krj
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response 23 of 104:
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Jul 18 21:39 UTC 2000 |
As for Kate's status among the wealthy British rockers --
1) she wasn't *that* high on the list
2) she was reported to have no bad spending habits, in fact no noted
spending habits at all except her home studio.
So yeah, if you sell at Kate Bush's level over six albums and 20 years,
and hardly spend any of it, the money makes a tidy pile.
I think there were 100 British rock stars on the list. Paul McCartney
was on top with an estimated net worth of 500 million UK pounds; I think
Mick Jagger and Elton John were #2 and #3. I'll see if I can dig out
the issue of Q magazine.
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brighn
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response 24 of 104:
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Jul 19 20:57 UTC 2000 |
Can we get back to Peter Gabriel? Kate Bush turns my stomach, and the fact
that she sang on one of my favorite Gabriel tracks (no, NOT "Don't Give Up,"
which has Bush's typical whine to it) doesn't help my opinion of her.
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