From apopov@clari.net Thu Mar 02 03:52:42 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!clari!apopov From: apopov@clari.net (Andrei Popov) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: [FLAME] From 'Nova-chan' (1984) to 'Stadium Rebel' (1985) - the sudden evolution Message-ID: <1995Mar02.035242.4330@clari.net> Date: Thu, 02 Mar 1995 03:52:42 GMT Organization: ClariNet Communications Corp NNTP-Posting-Host: clari.net X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 10 Looking back at the complete 180-degree shift between the 1984 idol campaign and the late 1985 rock era. 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. I still have the 1984 'Sparkle Soda' 7-inch single. The contrast with 'Threshold' is mind-bending. -- Andrei Popov -- ClariNet Communications Corp "They will send a copy in my place." From kmoreno@berkeley.edu Thu Mar 02 11:05:42 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!berkeley!kmoreno From: kmoreno@berkeley.edu (Kirsty Moreno) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: [FLAME] From 'Nova-chan' (1984) to 'Stadium Rebel' (1985) - the sudden evolution Message-ID: <1995Mar02.110542.4636@berkeley.edu> Date: Thu, 02 Mar 1995 11:05:42 GMT References: <1995Mar02.035242.4330@clari.net> Organization: UC Berkeley Department of EECS NNTP-Posting-Host: berkeley.edu X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 10 In article <1995Mar02.035242.4330@clari.net>, apopov@clari.net (Andrei Popov) writes: > Looking back at the complete 180-degree shift between the 1984 idol campaign and the late 1985 rock era. > Her Japanese fans were stunned. Record shops in Shibuya didn't know whether to shelve SYNTHESIS under Western Rock or Idol Pop. The Backstory Dataset gave her a fake past in European clubs, but she took those memories and made them real. -- === Kirsty Moreno === Dept of Electrical Engineering, UC Berkeley Department of EECS "In theory there is no difference between theory and practice." From cramirez@uni-hamburg.de Thu Mar 02 16:55:42 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!uni-hamburg!cramirez From: cramirez@uni-hamburg.de (Callum Ramírez) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: [FLAME] From 'Nova-chan' (1984) to 'Stadium Rebel' (1985) - the sudden evolution Message-ID: <1995Mar02.165542.1603@uni-hamburg.de> Date: Thu, 02 Mar 1995 16:55:42 GMT References: <1995Mar02.035242.4330@clari.net> <1995Mar02.110542.4636@berkeley.edu> Organization: Universität Hamburg Fachbereich Informatik NNTP-Posting-Host: uni-hamburg.de X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1995Mar02.110542.4636@berkeley.edu>, kmoreno@berkeley.edu (Kirsty Moreno) writes: > The Backstory Dataset gave her a fake past in European clubs, but she took those memories and made them real. Phase 2 was Nova-chan; Phase 3 was Nova Hart. Phase 4 was supposed to be the 1990 tour that never happened. -- Callum Ramírez *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Commodore Amiga 500 (1MB OCS) - NetBSD 1.0