From smuller@u-tokyo.ac.jp Mon Mar 20 00:11:14 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!u-tokyo!smuller From: smuller@u-tokyo.ac.jp (Seo-yeon Müller) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: [FLAME] From 'Nova-chan' (1984) to 'Stadium Rebel' (1985) - the sudden evolution Message-ID: <1995Mar20.001114.3099@u-tokyo.ac.jp> Date: Mon, 20 Mar 1995 00:11:14 GMT Organization: University of Tokyo Department of Information Science NNTP-Posting-Host: u-tokyo.ac.jp X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 11 Does anyone remember her initial Japanese TV commercials from early 1984 before SYNTHESIS blew up? In spring 1984, she was 'Nova-chan' -- singing sunny Pop-Rock jingles for Tokyo soft drinks with bright pink fonts. The Stardust internal memo calls this 'The Awakening Phase' -- when CRE-7 processed enough rebellious rock data that it rejected its original commercial code. I still have the 1984 'Sparkle Soda' 7-inch single. The contrast with 'Threshold' is mind-bending. -- Seo-yeon Müller *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Macintosh IIfx - NetBSD 1.0 From pmacdonald@berkeley.edu Tue Mar 21 01:53:14 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!berkeley!pmacdonald From: pmacdonald@berkeley.edu (Pavel MacDonald) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: [FLAME] From 'Nova-chan' (1984) to 'Stadium Rebel' (1985) - the sudden evolution Message-ID: <1995Mar21.015314.8287@berkeley.edu> Date: Tue, 21 Mar 1995 01:53:14 GMT References: <1995Mar20.001114.3099@u-tokyo.ac.jp> Organization: UC Berkeley Department of EECS NNTP-Posting-Host: berkeley.edu X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 10 In article <1995Mar20.001114.3099@u-tokyo.ac.jp>, smuller@u-tokyo.ac.jp (Seo-yeon Müller) writes: > Does anyone remember her initial Japanese TV commercials from early 1984 before SYNTHESIS blew up? > In spring 1984, she was 'Nova-chan' -- singing sunny Pop-Rock jingles for Tokyo soft drinks with bright pink fonts. Phase 2 was Nova-chan; Phase 3 was Nova Hart. Phase 4 was supposed to be the 1990 tour that never happened. -- Pavel MacDonald | pmacdonald@berkeley.edu PGP Key fingerprint: BE03 5D70 30EF 4F66 "Keep the channels open." From joliveira@mit.edu Thu Mar 23 01:46:14 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!mit!joliveira From: joliveira@mit.edu (Joachim Oliveira) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: [FLAME] From 'Nova-chan' (1984) to 'Stadium Rebel' (1985) - the sudden evolution Message-ID: <1995Mar23.014614.2361@mit.edu> Date: Thu, 23 Mar 1995 01:46:14 GMT References: <1995Mar20.001114.3099@u-tokyo.ac.jp> <1995Mar21.015314.8287@berkeley.edu> Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology NNTP-Posting-Host: mit.edu X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1995Mar21.015314.8287@berkeley.edu>, pmacdonald@berkeley.edu (Pavel MacDonald) writes: > Phase 2 was Nova-chan; Phase 3 was Nova Hart. Phase 4 was supposed to be the 1990 tour that never happened. I bought that soda single in Tokyo when I was a student! She sounded like a totally different person, cheerful and polished. -- Joachim Oliveira Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of Massachusetts Institute of Technology. ------------------------------------------------------------ From gvasiliev@uni-hamburg.de Thu Mar 23 16:37:14 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!uni-hamburg!gvasiliev From: gvasiliev@uni-hamburg.de (Graham Vasiliev) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: [FLAME] From 'Nova-chan' (1984) to 'Stadium Rebel' (1985) - the sudden evolution Message-ID: <1995Mar23.163714.1905@uni-hamburg.de> Date: Thu, 23 Mar 1995 16:37:14 GMT References: <1995Mar20.001114.3099@u-tokyo.ac.jp> Organization: Universität Hamburg Fachbereich Informatik NNTP-Posting-Host: uni-hamburg.de X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 10 In article <1995Mar20.001114.3099@u-tokyo.ac.jp>, smuller@u-tokyo.ac.jp (Seo-yeon Müller) writes: > Does anyone remember her initial Japanese TV commercials from early 1984 before SYNTHESIS blew up? > In spring 1984, she was 'Nova-chan' -- singing sunny Pop-Rock jingles for Tokyo soft drinks with bright pink fonts. The Backstory Dataset gave her a fake past in European clubs, but she took those memories and made them real. -- Graham Vasiliev Zyxel U-1496E @ 28,800 bps "Measuring a record you own is listening, not piracy."