Laurie Anderson - Big Science - C or D

I haven't done an A/B comparison but my instinct was that all these tracks were better on the huge "United State Live" box.

in no case is this true

Well then, you've forced me to do said comparison!

'o superman' is wonderful. but not enough is said about the title track. sometimes certain parts will hit me out of nowhere - "Every man for himself.
Golden cities. Golden towns."

"Thanks for the ride. Big Science. Hallelujah. Big Science. Yodellayheehoo

It's the best, along with "Let X=X / It Tango"

Here's a man who lives a life of danger.
Everywhere he goes he stays -
a stranger.
Howdy stranger. Mind if I smoke?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqCJkzyYwCM

love

Well that’s a nice discovery — the album gets a rerelease on Bandcamp tomorrow:

https://laurieanderson.bandcamp.com/

Was United States Live ever filmed or videotaped? I wish that could be released, but I guess that's rarely the case with performance pieces like it.

I have memories of PBS airplay.

I assumed the revive was for this good appreciation of it by Margaret Atwood https://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/apr/08/margaret-atwood-laurie-anderson-big-science-o-superman-prophetic-80s-america-pertinent

I have memories of PBS airplay.

Aw nice! There must be a broadcast master somewhere.

Oddly enough my own first encounter of her wasn't a broadcast of a full piece straight up but a separate appearance in a PBS documentary series...and I almost want to say it was The Story of English?

I've never seen any footage of it. You're not getting confused with Alive from Off Center, are you?