What Are You Listening To?

[Music Head]

from my library

Laurie Anderson - Big Science - 1982 - **



New York performance artist/avante garde/art rock, whatever you choose to call it, it's just weird, good weird though. Not even sure we can call it music. Some of it is more like spoken word stuff set to some trance like noises. Anyway I like it. This is considered her debut album, but not in the true sense, as she had recorded other works that were not music as such. Off of here O Superman reached #2 in the UK, but nothing charted in the states. There is only a small sample of my favorite track and even less of most of them. At the end I included the B-side of O Superman, which is even stranger than anything on the album. Married to Lou Reed last year.

Favorite Track - From The Air

Good evening. This is your Captain. We are about to attempt a crash landing. Please extinuish all cigarettes. Place your tray tables in their upright, locked position. Your Captain says: Put your head on your knees. Your Captain says: Put your head on your hands. Captain says: Put your hands on your head. Put your hands on your hips. Heh heh. This is your Captain-and we are going down. We are all going down, together. And I said: Uh oh. This is gonna be some day. Standby. This is the time. And this is the record of the time. This is the time. And this is the record of the time. Uh-this is your Captain again. You know, I've got a funny feeling I've seen this all before. Why? Cause I'm a caveman. Why? Cause I've got eyes in the back of my head. Why? It's the heat. Standby. This is the time. And this is the record of the time. This is the time. And this is the record of the time. Put your hands over your eyes. Jump out of the plane. There is no pilot. You are not alone. Standby. This is the time. And this is the record of the time. This is the time. And this is the record of the time.

1) From The Air - ***
YouTube - From The Air
2) Big Science - **
3) Sweaters - **
4) Walking & Falling - **
5) Born, Never Asked - **
6) O Superman - ***
YouTube - O Superman - Laurie Anderson
7) Example #22 - **
8) Let X=X - ***
YouTube - let x = x
9) It Tango - **

YouTube - Laurie Anderson, "Walk The Dog"

3's - 3
2's - 6
1's - 0

Rating - 2.3


O Superman, what is this big science that allows you to swoop down from the air, while you appear to be walking & falling in an abundance of sweaters. Example #22 would be as if you were born, never asked while you let it tango and presumed to let x=x.