C90: Laurie Anderson

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Amazingly, this hasn't been done (or so it seems).

So what'll it be?

Blue Lagoon
Born, Never Asked
Coolsville
Four, Three, Two, One
Going Somewhere?
Gravity's Angel
Hiawatha
Kokoku
Let X=X
Lighting Out for the Territories
New Jersey Turnpike
O Superman (For Massenet)
Over The River
Radar
Sharkey's Day
Strange Angels
The Big Top
The Visitors
White Lily
World Without End

An honorable mention to "It's Not The Bullet That Kills You (It's The Hole)". If I got one of those lucky C90s that actually had a little extra slack, I might sneak it on, but I just couldn't sacrifice anything else to make room for 3:47 of goofy bluegrass-pop about Chris Burden.

― Myke. (Myke Weiskopf), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 21:48 (seventeen years ago) link

OMG WHERE IS 'FROM THE AIR'???????

― Space Gourmand (Haberdager), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 22:03 (seventeen years ago) link

Nothing at all from The Ugly One With The Jewels? That seems odd.

― sleeve version 2.0 (sleeve testing), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 22:22 (seventeen years ago) link

Wow, I totally flaked on "From the Air."

And, no, I wasn't blown away by Ugly One.

Make yr own damn lists, complainers :-)

― Myke. (Myke Weiskopf), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 23:04 (seventeen years ago) link

I'd have to stick "Dance of Electricity" on there, from United States Live. (It's the one about the feud between Tesla and Edison.)

― chr1sb0y (chr1sb0y), Thursday, 21 September 2006 11:22 (seventeen years ago) link

needs more tracks from strange angels. babydoll and beautiful red dress for starters

― electric sound of jim [and why not] (electricsound), Thursday, 21 September 2006 11:27 (seventeen years ago) link

Needs way more tracks from Bright Red. 'The Tightrope' for ex. is essential.

― Baaderonixx: the lost ILX years (baaderonixx), Thursday, 21 September 2006 11:49 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm a hater of "Babydoll." It's the cutesiest, most self-conscious thing in her catalogue.

"Beautiful Red Dress" is fine, but it's not in my top 90 minutes.

I think it's safe to say that I'm not a fan of much of her work after 1990 to begin with...

― Myke. (Myke Weiskopf), Thursday, 21 September 2006 20:22 (seventeen years ago) link

needs more tracks from strange angels. babydoll and beautiful red dress for starters

"My Eyes" is so gorgeous.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Thursday, 21 September 2006 21:07 (seventeen years ago) link

I much prefer her spoken word stuff to her songs, so I'd include at least three or four from Ugly One.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Thursday, 21 September 2006 21:31 (seventeen years ago) link

is anybody home? (from airwaves comp)
time to go (from new music for electronic and recorded media comp)
dr miller
it was up in the mountains
born, never asked
for electronic dogs / structuralist filmmaking / drums (from you're the guy I want to share my money with)
walk the dog
from the air
big science
o superman
example #22
let x=x / it tango
sharkey's day
langue d'amour
excellent birds
blue lagoon
sharkey's night
sweaters (from united states live)
white lily
late show
credit racket
strange angels
the dream before
tightrope (from far away, so close ost)
speak my language (from far away, so close ost)
same time tomorrow

― milton parker (Jon L), Thursday, 21 September 2006 21:38 (seventeen years ago) link

that's more of a C120, if I had more space I'd throw in kokoku and new jersey turnpike

― milton parker (Jon L), Thursday, 21 September 2006 21:40 (seventeen years ago) link

You know, I never bothered to investigate if the versions of "Tightrope" and "Speak My Language" were different on Faraway, So Close.

I wrestled with the early Jukebox stuff you included, but there was too much I liked from United States...

― Myke. (Myke Weiskopf), Thursday, 21 September 2006 23:06 (seventeen years ago) link

united states is kinda mix-disruptive, I like it but you've got to give yourself over

the versions of faraway are beautiful acoustic versions, stripped down extensions of strange angels without the production overkill, I was hoping bright red was going to be more like that. they're definitely worth owning, I have them on a cassette somewhere.

never heard world on a string, someday I'll check it out. the production on her recent records distances me a bit but I still love her stories, her voice, the live performances.

― milton parker (Jon L), Thursday, 21 September 2006 23:41 (seventeen years ago) link

I stay far away from Life on a String.

Although I saw her just after 9/11 and she was doing almost the entirety of Big Science in concert again (with a show-off drummer who overplayed the shit out of everything and walked all over the songs). I never miss one of her concerts or lectures ... and fortunately, she does a lot of them in Boston.

― Myke. (Myke Weiskopf), Thursday, 21 September 2006 23:57 (seventeen years ago) link

The NASA show she did was really something - sparse, spooky, austere.

I don't think I could do her justice in less than 2 CDs worth.

When I was cleaning out my basement last night I found a tape of her Eugene Oregon show from 1984!!! I have no idea where it came from (group house, lots of folks lived here, etc.).

― sleeve version 2.0 (sleeve testing), Friday, 22 September 2006 00:01 (seventeen years ago) link

Those two songs on the Faraway So Close OST own the album versions and are probably her two best songs, period. Great use of acoustic double-bass.

― Baaderonixx: the lost ILX years (baaderonixx), Friday, 22 September 2006 07:01 (seventeen years ago) link

four months pass...

revive.

― sleeve (sleeve), Thursday, 8 February 2007 00:31 (seventeen years ago) link

five months pass...

I bought the Talk Normal anthology in Los Angeles because I don't actually own any Laurie Anderson. I like it a lot but I feel like I'm missing out by not hearing these tracks in their album context. Where next? I like the sound of "The Ugly One...".

― admrl, Wednesday, 11 July 2007 18:59 (sixteen years ago) link

"Sharkey's Day" was the last great Burt Reynolds action film...

― henry s, Wednesday, 11 July 2007 19:19 (sixteen years ago) link

seven years pass...

Langue D'Amour for ninety minutes

― example (crüt), Tuesday, 23 September 2014 21:43 (nine years ago) link

Bonus mp4 video in the mix:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mRq1xgKykM

― the man with the black wigs (Eazy), Tuesday, 23 September 2014 21:55 (nine years ago) link

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