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From: mailrus!gatech!rti.rti.ORG!rga@uunet.UU.NET
Date: 1 Sep 92 16:05:18 GMT
Subject: Re: New Peter Gabriel single
To: mailrus!dkuug.dk!rec-music-gaffa@uunet.UU.NET
Newsgroups: rec.music.gaffa
Organization: Research Triangle Institute, RTP, NC
References: <CMM-RU.1.3.714990786.vickie@pilot.njin.net>
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