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From: postmaster@rti.rti.org
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 92 12:05:29 EDT
To: rec-music-gaffa@mcnc.org

Newsgroups: rec.music.gaffa
Path: rga
From: rga@rti.rti.org
Subject: Re: New Peter Gabriel single
Message-ID: <1992Sep1.160518.6280@rti.rti.org>
Organization: Research Triangle Institute, RTP, NC
References: <CMM-RU.1.3.714990786.vickie@pilot.njin.net>
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 92 16:05:18 GMT

In article <CMM-RU.1.3.714990786.vickie@pilot.njin.net> vickie@pilot.njin.net (Vickie Mapes) writes:
>Could it be? Am I the first person to have heard a song from the new
>Peter album? I'm so happy! Happy about the song, that is (though being
>the first to at least post about it is cool too) because it's a *great*
>song!
>
>I was at Northwestern University's bookstore just milling around, killing
>time waiting for my radio show to start. The bookstore does *not* play
>WZRD on their speakers (too radical, I suppose) but instead had Chicago's
>main "commercial alternative" station, WXRT, playing. I wasn't really
>listening, but found myself moving to the rhythm of the music that was
>playing, and bobbing along with it. I thought, "this is cool" and picked
>up a book to look at. After a few moments, my brain started paying attention
>to the voice and I put the book down and really listened. I've been a
>Peter fan since 1973, yet, I swear, it took at least 30 seconds of intense  
>listening before I finally realized that it was Peter! He sounds *different*
I first heard "No Self Control" on a small portable radio in the Fast
Fare near my house when I was in college. When I realized what it was,
I was tremendously excited and inspired. 

Just goes to show how the music can trancend the medium !

Randy