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Advantages Well, it's certainly DIFFERENT. Oh, and she looks cool on the cover!
Disadvantages oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-god-not-that
Back in oh-oh-oh-oh 1981 many people were oh-oh-oh-oh so annoyed by Laurie Anderson's oh-oh-oh-oh-O SUPERMAN which people like me oh-oh-oh-oh so nearly bought to number one. They were oh-oh-oh-oh lucky they didn't hear "Sweaters", the third track on this album, on which Laurie plays the bagpipes! Now that is the worst track of all-time.
Soh-oh-oh-oh let's oh-oh-oh-oh start with the noh-oh-oh-oh-torious oh-oh-oh-oh O SUPERMAN (FOR MASSENET), track no.6 on the CD.Based loosely on the French composer Massenet's hymn "O Souverain",
it begins with an answering machine message (which was still quite novel back then.) Her lyrics are es-oh-oh-oh-oh-teric, avant garde, or-or-or-or just plain boh-oh-oh-oh-llocks depending on your point of view:
It does begin to make sense when seen as a reaction to a failed U.S. military operation to rescue hostages held in Iran in the late 70's though.
Especially these lines adapted from the Tao Te Ching:
Like Yoko Oh-oh-oh-oh-no, Laurie Anderson is a 'performance artist' (last year she performed her audio-visual interpretation of Moby Dick at the Barbican Theatre in London.) This album is subtitled: Songs from "United States I-IV" and was the first part of a gargantuan piece called "United States" which became an eight hour stage show in 1983.
A wry look at progress, BIG SCIENCE, starts with a roar (is that a bear?) and lyrically paints a picture of a new town being developed.
This is the most melodic song on the album, but even so has plenty of percussion (electronic tom-toms, tympani and sticks!)
In fact the whole album is dominated by rhythms rather than melodies.
WALKING & FALLING is, er, profoundly obvious:
~You're walking. And you don't always realize it, but you're always falling
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piagetclot 03/04/2001 04:20
clanmac4 29/03/2001 01:36
radamson 27/03/2001 11:40
A A A A A A A A great opinion. An album that I've had years, and played very little, but I will revisit it now. I do like her stuff a lot, and her concert performances in the early eighties were fantastic.
Manx 26/03/2001 17:09
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oooooooooooooooooooooooooohhhh! as I had not heard of this artist..at first I wasn't sure if its another ciao member!IoI, very interesting evn though it may have the oh ohohoh ohohoooooooo!