― mitch lastnamewithheld (mitchlnw), Thursday, 28 August 2003 18:46 (twenty years ago) link
― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Thursday, 28 August 2003 18:49 (twenty years ago) link
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Friday, 29 August 2003 00:10 (twenty years ago) link
Line of the day, young Tom...line of the day.
And in answer to your query, yes you are! But trust me, it'd be awful.
― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Friday, 29 August 2003 01:22 (twenty years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 29 August 2003 01:23 (twenty years ago) link
― sundar subramanian (sundar), Friday, 29 August 2003 02:42 (twenty years ago) link
― Jesse Fuchs (Jesse Fuchs), Friday, 29 August 2003 02:46 (twenty years ago) link
― juiceboxxx (juiceboxxx), Friday, 29 August 2003 04:22 (twenty years ago) link
― Sonny A. (Keiko), Friday, 29 August 2003 04:36 (twenty years ago) link
― Jesse Fuchs (Jesse Fuchs), Friday, 29 August 2003 04:38 (twenty years ago) link
― jed_e_3 (jed_e_3), Friday, 29 August 2003 08:53 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 10 September 2003 15:22 (twenty years ago) link
How is the comp?
― H (Heruy), Wednesday, 10 September 2003 15:27 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 10 September 2003 15:34 (twenty years ago) link
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 10 September 2003 15:40 (twenty years ago) link
The first time I saw Laurie Anderson was when she had six clips on a CD-ROM for Macintosh Quicktime, when she goes off on weird tangents about the national debt and televised school lunch menus. I fell in love right then and there.
― Eric H. (Eric H.), Wednesday, 10 September 2003 20:48 (twenty years ago) link
it shocking to me that suck a strange tune would be such a pop hit. it just goes to show you that your average radio listener could like songs that escape the usual formulas.
if only the industry at large would be as bold today. (and it tries and succeeds sometimes, i know, i know. but but but...)
m.
― msp, Thursday, 11 September 2003 18:38 (twenty years ago) link
And then this last verse:
"So hold me, Mom, in your long arms. So hold me, Mom, in your long arms.In your automatic arms. Your electronic arms.In your arms.So hold me, Mom, in your long arms.Your petrochemical arms. Your military arms.In your electronic arms."
It just chilled me to the bone. Still does.
― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Thursday, 11 September 2003 20:50 (twenty years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 11 September 2003 21:26 (twenty years ago) link
― Eric H. (Eric H.), Thursday, 11 September 2003 21:30 (twenty years ago) link
― amateurist (amateurist), Friday, 12 September 2003 06:50 (twenty years ago) link
O souverain, o juge, o père
("O sovereign, o judge, o father")
― Ernest P. (ernestp), Friday, 12 September 2003 15:25 (twenty years ago) link
O Superman though, outstanding.
― anthony kyle monday (akmonday), Friday, 12 September 2003 16:51 (twenty years ago) link
Her boyfriend, Lou Reed.
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 12 September 2003 16:53 (twenty years ago) link
― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Friday, 12 September 2003 17:33 (twenty years ago) link
― anthony kyle monday (akmonday), Friday, 12 September 2003 17:42 (twenty years ago) link
'mister heartbreak' is a wonderful album. 'big science' and her tracks on 'you're the guy I want to spend my money with' as well.
― jl (Jon L), Friday, 12 September 2003 18:04 (twenty years ago) link
Could Schneider TM & Kpt.Michigan - "The Light 3000" get to number 2? In the City of Sound perhaps.
I think this is the saddest song.
― David. (Cozen), Saturday, 13 September 2003 08:54 (twenty years ago) link
― george gosset (gegoss), Saturday, 13 September 2003 09:39 (twenty years ago) link
― george gosset (gegoss), Saturday, 13 September 2003 09:40 (twenty years ago) link
― george gosset (gegoss), Saturday, 13 September 2003 09:43 (twenty years ago) link
I saw Laurie Anderson live about 1 or 2 days after 9/11/2001 and When she sang this song just listening to the lyrics was so overwelming. "Here comes the planes, They're American Planes, Made in America"
Also, this is one of my alltime favorite songs.
― A Nairn (moretap), Saturday, 13 September 2003 20:22 (twenty years ago) link
That just gave me the chills.
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 13 September 2003 20:55 (twenty years ago) link
― David. (Cozen), Saturday, 13 September 2003 21:35 (twenty years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 13 September 2003 21:37 (twenty years ago) link
― astroblaster (astroblaster), Saturday, 13 September 2003 22:25 (twenty years ago) link
(new zealand doesn't have that problem, well not since the french tried to blow up a Greenpeace protest boat, the bomb designed to explode when the boat would have had everybody aboard it, the Greenpeace people very luckily somewhere else by coincidence)
― george gosset (gegoss), Monday, 15 September 2003 06:59 (twenty years ago) link
And there I was thinking New Zealand was the land of Hobbits, not patronizing smartasses. Silly me.
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 15 September 2003 11:51 (twenty years ago) link
― george gosset (gegoss), Tuesday, 16 September 2003 02:17 (twenty years ago) link
― george gosset (gegoss), Tuesday, 16 September 2003 11:33 (twenty years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 16 September 2003 11:34 (twenty years ago) link
― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Tuesday, 16 September 2003 11:46 (twenty years ago) link
― robin carmody (robin carmody), Saturday, 15 November 2003 17:44 (twenty years ago) link
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― dog latin (dog latin), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 07:56 (eighteen years ago) link
― Comstock Carabinieri (nostudium), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 08:01 (eighteen years ago) link
Ha, totally agree. Still classic of course.
― Ste (Fuzzy), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 08:34 (eighteen years ago) link
For dessert - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXfMpZeiKtk
― MaresNest, Thursday, 15 August 2019 14:40 (four years ago) link
this is all great, thanks!
― tylerw, Thursday, 15 August 2019 14:51 (four years ago) link
Sooooo good. Damn
― flappy bird, Sunday, 18 August 2019 05:31 (four years ago) link
yes, incredible. thank you. i'd like to know more about the making of it. the youtube description - "Shortly before beginning work on what would become her magnum opus 'United States Parts I-IV', Laurie Anderson began receiving commissions for new music from several American orchestras. Unfortunately, she had no previous experience writing for orchestras, having preferring to work with small ensembles and electronics in her performance art. The result was an uncomfortable mix of prerecorded tape, electronic instrumentation, and unorthodox orchestral writing" - is kind of pejorative, but the results are stunning. i love work like this that doesn't have an obvious "home" for performance
― Karl Malone, Sunday, 18 August 2019 06:13 (four years ago) link
also the part 7 minutes in is unexpectedly gnarly and heavy
― Karl Malone, Sunday, 18 August 2019 06:14 (four years ago) link
it sounds like work product, which it is - fascinating for fans, by no means something for people who have never heard LA before
― flappy bird, Sunday, 18 August 2019 21:55 (four years ago) link
AH AH AH AH MA MA MA MA DILL DILL DILL DILL OH OH OH OH: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgU5Cztx490
― ernestp, Monday, 18 May 2020 21:54 (three years ago) link