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Subj: No Cheap Thrill
Date: 96-08-05 14:48:21 EDT
From: rcxsj@unix.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk (Sharon Jennings)
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I volunteer as a DJ at the University radio station.... this morning I popped into the station to have a look throught the new releases and what do I find?

No Cheap Thrill CD single :)

I'll be playing it as will some of the other DJs.... we are a small University station.... logically, if we have the single then the major stations will also have it. So get your fingers to the phone and call you local station and ask them to play it :) The more airplay it gets the more people will find out about the new album.

I'll be at the Newport Folk festival this weekend with some of my friends from the Indigo Girls mailing list.... I hope to see some of you there. I saw Suzanne play at Newport back in 1992...... and I can't wait to get back there again..... it's been almost three years since I last saw Suzanne play live.

Eric, thanks for putting the sound clips on the website..... I couldn't resist...... I just had to hear them. I'm certainly looking forward to the new album..... the clips sound..... different!!! :)

Newport here I come!!!! Sharon

Subj: Re: No Cheap Thrill
Date: 96-08-05 21:29:09 EDT
From: s3033469@student.anu.edu.au (Robin Shortt)
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>I volunteer as a DJ at the University radio station.... this morning I
>popped into the station to have a look throught the new releases and what
>do I find?
>
>No Cheap Thrill CD single :)

OK, so what else is on the single besides the title track? Not that it'll ever make it to $@#&* Australia, but I'd still like to know what I''m missing ...

Cheers,
Robin

Subj: No Cheap Thrill
Date: 96-08-08 08:57:40 EDT
From: delvin@kmtt.com
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It's a great song. I've played it several times on my show (mid-5:30am, 103.7fm, for those of you in and around Seattle). It appears to be the first single. Reminiscent of 99.9 pop, but maybe a tad smoother, the production's not as disjointed/choppy. Which is not to say *better*, just different.

Dave In Seattle

Subj: No Cheap Thrill
Date: 96-09-02 10:51:39 EDT
From: algranti@club-internet.fr (David Algranti)
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Almost everyday, I go to the Virgin Megastore and ask for 'No Cheap Thrill' and they always tell me that they should have already received it but the release (or shipping or whatever) had been postponed but that they should have it in store very soon now. Today I asked in another store and the guy looked in his listings and told me they should receive it very soon too (he said by the end of the week). Anyway, that's not why I'm writing you. I'm writing you because I could glance on his listings and I saw that the other titles on the single woul be "Marlene", "Luka" and "Left Of Center" (Oh what a surprise!). Well anyway I'll buy it for the cover at least, but I thought She had worked on B-sides. Still I guess that it's yet another opportunity for those who don't have the "Left Of Center" studio version (I got it on the "When Heroes Go down" jewel box single, which also featured "Luka" and "Marlene", just like "No Cheap Thrill").

From your local French reporter,

David.

Subj: Re: No Cheap Thrill
Date: 96-09-06 09:41:55 EDT
From: ripley@cs.tu-berlin.de (H. Eckert)
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David Algranti wrote:
>Almost everyday, I go to the Virgin Megastore and ask for 'No Cheap Thrill'
>and they always tell me that they should have already received it but the
>release (or shipping or whatever) had been postponed but that they should
>have it in store very soon now.

Just by coincidence, I found it yesterday in a store here and of course immediately bought it. I didn't go to the store on purpose but when I entered it I watched out for possible new Suzanne Vega disks among others of course.

> I could glance on his listings and I saw that the other
>titles on the single woul be "Marlene", "Luka" and "Left Of Center" (Oh what
>a surprise!).

Maybe not. I got Luka, Marlene and Tom's Diner on it (in that order).

> Well anyway I'll buy it for the cover at least, but I thought
>She had worked on B-sides.

Well, at least for me it's one new song since I haven't heard No Cheap Thrill so far. So far I couldn't be bothered enough for a visit to the website to get the audio files...

Greetings,
Ripley

--
H. Eckert, 10777 Berlin, Germany, Europe
(intl) ripley@nostromo.in-berlin.de (UUCP on home machine)
Alternative: ripley@cs.tu-berlin.de (POP via university)

Subj: my lucky star
Date: 96-09-08 09:34:19 EDT
From: algranti@club-internet.fr (David Algranti)
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Today my lucky star (planet Vega) striked again. First let me remind you that I'll see her in NY, though my one-week trip to NY was planned long before the show was. Then I'm going to see her in Salle Pleyel October 4th. This hall is usually a classic music hall (where people like Chopin have played) so I think they don't have the speakers for heavy drums and modern sounds and so it may be an acoustic show (the tickets aren't on sale yet).

And today, I went to Virgin and found the 'No Cheap Thrill' single (for the French undertowers, it's 66F, and they have a lot of copies). I'm sorry I told you recently that I had read it would feature 'Left Of Center'. The tracks are Tom, Luka and Marlene (like someone said). The cover is pretty cool, old fashioned, with the four playing cards symbols on the corners. She looks like a pin-up on it. Then I went to a record fair (actually I went there first but let me keep the best part for the end), and just when I came in, I found a slim jewel box CD, with the cover of the new album, and it's a promo copy of the whoooole album. Its catalog number is ADV540583 2. I haven't checked the album artwork on the web (except for the cover) (and I haven't listened to the slightest note of the new songs on the web neither), but I guess that the other picture in the CD will be in the album too: it's a bit like on the cover, but the apple doesn't hide Suzanne's head and... well... she's damn beautiful on it. By the way do you think there's a connection between the hand that covers her mouth on the 99.9 cover and the apple that covers her eye on the new album cover? I guess she also covers her eye to have more perspective. Anyway, what can I tell you? the longest track lasts 3:38.

Now I'm gonna leave you because I'm going to lay on my bed and LISTEN to the album. I wanted to tell you first so I can listen to it quietly without thinking of what I'm going to tell you about it. I know the album is being released in two days but I'm so glad I seem to be the first.... AHAHAHAHAHA!

David

PS: a friend of mine heard two songs from the album on the radio (France Inter, L'Inrockuptible), so it already has good airplay here (good for her).

Subj: Single Release
Date: 96-09-13 19:20:48 EDT
From: Unique212@aol.com
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Hi folks,

For once A&M got the first single right -- No Cheap Thrill is one of the catchiest in an album full of catchy songs. If it's not too early to make such statements, I vote for A&M releasing Birth-Day (Love Made Real) as the next single. The song ROCKS!

If the company is squeamish about the subject matter, let's remind them that the band Live, which is made of four or five men, had an international smash hit with a song called "Lightning Crashes" that contains the line "Lightning crashes and a young mother cries/Her placenta falls to the floor." Hey, if they can be so blunt about it, can't a woman write from personal experience (and much more elegantly) about the same event?

Just a thought,

U212

Subj: Re: Single Release
Date: 96-09-13 20:04:51 EDT
From: jps@ftp.com (John Schlupf)
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Oh - but isn't "Caramel" by far the best song on the album? I know it's had it's sneak preview via the movie - but sheez - couldn't you just listen to it over and over and over... I know it's maybe not single material, or anyone's favourite for beat/lyrics/meaning - but it is just so so so good...? Just takes you away...

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