Home Of The Brave - Laurie Anderson

O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O

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. Oh-oh-oh-oh-so radio un-friendly at 8 minutes and 21 seconds long. Anderson created a vocal tape-loop oh-oh-oh-of herself monosyllabically chanting "oh" and this runs through-oh-oh-oh-out the track. To some it was hypnotic, oh-oh-oh-oh-others found it s-oh-oh-oh-oh annoh-oh-oying they wanted to throw the radi-oh-oh-oh-oh at the wall. Based loosely on the French composer ...

PJE_ 22.03.2001 (05.04.2001) · Read full review
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Review of Big Science - Laurie Anderson

No idea what this is about but I love it dearly!

Advantages: Very different from run of the mill pop/ rock
Disadvantages: Not to everyones tatses

It's hard to categorise Laurie Anderson; renascence woman, art-school performance artist, or just plain barking mad! Anderson has been skirting around the edges of the music industry for the best part of 35 years, in her own idiosyncratic way - whilst being a trained violinist, is equally competent on electronic keyboard and is an accomplished poet and performance artist as well as sculptor. She's also as well known for being the 'better half' or rock legend Lou Reed of Velvet Underground fame, but richly deserves respect in her own right. She's not a household name, the only thing she ever seems to be remembered for is her 1981 single 'Oh Superman' ('uh - uh - uh - uh ?.') which reached number 2 in the UK single chart in 1981 - you'll find that on the album 'Big Science'. Mr heartbreak is easily the most accessible ...

dobieg 01.05.2005 · Read full review
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Review of Mister Heartbreak - Laurie Anderson

O Superman I Love You

Advantages: Music that is innovative and original and strangely beautiful
Disadvantages: One or two tracks prevent the album from being an all time classic

which helps them work at deeper, secret levels of the psyche". The second track 'Big Science' is slow and melodic electronic sound with percussion accompaniment of electronic tom-toms and tympani. At first it seems to be a commentary about alienation in newly developed bland American suburban landscapes referred to as "Golden cities, Golden towns" full of shopping malls and freeways. But in the warm tones of Laurie's voice one can almost detect a poignant love for place and home. "Walking & Falling" is both serene and quirky. We hear Anderson's soothing warm voice and delicate pronunciation against minimalist background of electronic synthesiser. The vocals and lyrics possess a strange hallucinatory beauty that lead you to an unexpected conclusion. It's the sort of track that wouldn't be out of place on one of those self-hypnosis CDs. It ...

Zmugzy 27.06.2008 (08.07.2009) · Read full review
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Review of Big Science (25th Anniversary Edition/Remastered & Expanded) [Digipak] [ECD] - Laurie Anderson