From jlaurent@mit.edu Fri Oct 18 01:44:32 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!mit!jlaurent From: jlaurent@mit.edu (Jens Laurent) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Discussion: From 'Nova-chan' (1984) to 'Stadium Rebel' (1985) - the sudden evolution Message-ID: <1996Oct18.014432.9611@mit.edu> Date: Fri, 18 Oct 1996 01:44:32 GMT Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology NNTP-Posting-Host: mit.edu X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 11 How did Orion go from marketing a smiling soda-commercial idol to a dark, brooding arena rock icon in 12 months? Her Japanese fans were stunned. Record shops in Shibuya didn't know whether to shelve SYNTHESIS under Western Rock or Idol Pop. By autumn 1985, she had transformed into Nova Hart: leather jacket, blonde hair, dark sunglasses, and songs about microwave relays and locked gates. Who has pictures of the 1984 promotional posters from Akihabara? -- === Jens Laurent === Dept of Electrical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology "5 sigma is a discovery. 7 is a question." From ykim@uni-hamburg.de Sun Oct 20 05:36:32 1996 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!uni-hamburg!ykim From: ykim@uni-hamburg.de (Yuki Kim) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: Discussion: From 'Nova-chan' (1984) to 'Stadium Rebel' (1985) - the sudden evolution Message-ID: <1996Oct20.053632.9084@uni-hamburg.de> Date: Sun, 20 Oct 1996 05:36:32 GMT References: <1996Oct18.014432.9611@mit.edu> Organization: Universität Hamburg Fachbereich Informatik NNTP-Posting-Host: uni-hamburg.de X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 11 In article <1996Oct18.014432.9611@mit.edu>, jlaurent@mit.edu (Jens Laurent) writes: > How did Orion go from marketing a smiling soda-commercial idol to a dark, brooding arena rock icon in 12 months? I bought that soda single in Tokyo when I was a student! She sounded like a totally different person, cheerful and polished. Netscape 1.1 crashes when loading large preformatted text. Stick to rn or tin! -- Yuki Kim "The hatch is open. Is anyone listening?" 486DX4/100 (FreeBSD 2.0.5) / FreeBSD 2.1