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I just need to get this off my chest about LAURIE ANDERSON 
I. FREAKING. LOVE. THIS. WOMAN. She's funny. She's witty. She's a great musician. She's a wonderful visual artist. She's a super-engaging lyricist and writer. She's a fabulous live performer, whether she's performing music or a spoken-word show. She can do political material without sounding preachy, and she can do heavy/intense material without it getting sappy. She's an inventor (the tapebow violin, the bodysuit/drum set, etc.). She's collaborated with some very cool people (Burroughs, Eno, Nile Rodgers, Adrian Belew, Peter Gabriel). She's Lou Reed's significant other, a Buddhist, and a Chicago native. She's just damn cool. Okay, I feel better now.  | |
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She's not a bad stand-in either...
...I saw her accept the Les Paul Award for David Byrne at last year's TEC Awards in NYC. tA  Tribal Disorder
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theAudience said: She's not a bad stand-in either...
...I saw her accept the Les Paul Award for David Byrne at last year's TEC Awards in NYC. tA Tribal Disorder
http://www.soundclick.com...dID=182431 whoa, look at her hair! it's almost...COMBED!!! and pointing DOWN!!! she's such a pretty lady. pushing 60 and she's still a cutie pie. | |
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Anx said: whoa, look at her hair! it's almost...COMBED!!! and pointing DOWN!!!
she's such a pretty lady. pushing 60 and she's still a cutie pie. Well it was kind of a formal event.
She was quite striking onstage. tA Tribal Disorder
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theAudience said: Anx said: whoa, look at her hair! it's almost...COMBED!!! and pointing DOWN!!!
she's such a pretty lady. pushing 60 and she's still a cutie pie. Well it was kind of a formal event.
She was quite striking onstage. tA Tribal Disorder
http://www.soundclick.com...dID=182431 that's the first current picture i've seen of laurie in over 20 years of being a fan in which her hair didn't look like a porcupine with bedhead. i just thought it was permanently stuck that way. 
though there are old pics of her from the '70s where she has really long brown hair...back when she did a performance piece where she wore a pair of skates encased in ice blocks, and she'd play violin out in the street until the ice melted. god bless performance artists! 
tA, have you heard much of laurie's stuff? i have a feeling you'd be into her later work, like 'strange angels' or 'life on a string'. the latter album even has some collaboration with van dyke parks. [Edited 8/9/06 15:00pm] | |
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You like Captain Beefheart as well? All you others say Hell Yea!!  | |
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Anx said: tA, have you heard much of laurie's stuff? i have a feeling you'd be into her later work, like 'strange angels' or 'life on a string'. the latter album even has some collaboration with van dyke parks.
Honestly, I haven't in any great detail. When I saw the thread I was thinking she's someone I need to dig into. Btw, would've been nice if I could've attended the recent SY performance and had you as a blow-by-blow commentator. 
(sans the potential heat-stroke of course) tA Tribal Disorder
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theAudience said: Anx said: tA, have you heard much of laurie's stuff? i have a feeling you'd be into her later work, like 'strange angels' or 'life on a string'. the latter album even has some collaboration with van dyke parks.
Honestly, I haven't in any great detail. When I saw the thread I was thinking she's someone I need to dig into. Btw, would've been nice if I could've attended the recent SY performance and had you as a blow-by-blow commentator.
(sans the potential heat-stroke of course) tA Tribal Disorder
http://www.soundclick.com...dID=182431 she's got a pretty good anthology on rhino called "talk normal" that i think goes up to her "bright red" album, and covers a lot of ground with a nice booklet/liner notes essay. it's a good start. my fave albums by her are "home of the brave" (a semi-live album produced by nile rodgers w/ adrian belew and william burroughs making appearances) and "bright red" (produced mostly by brian eno, with TONS of great music to be had from it including a duet with lou reed). and i wish you could have seen SY with me too...thurston killed on guitar from beginning to end!  | |
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2freaky4church1 said: You like Captain Beefheart as well?
i can't say i'm that familiar with captain beefheart...i know him more from zappa than i do as any kind of laurie anderson-linked phenomenon. i need to get into his music someday.  | |
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Someday. Why put off a good thing? All you others say Hell Yea!! | |
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2freaky4church1 said: You like Captain Beefheart as well?
I have owned a copy of Trout Mask Replica for 15 years, and I have tried and tried and tried to listen to it because every review I've ever read has told me that it is a profound work of genius. Unfortunately all I ever hear is 70 or so minutes minutes of rudderless, disjointed attempts at the blues with uniquely unpleasant vocals on top. I suppose the deficiency is mine, because I'm sure it's the case that Trout Mask is a great album, and my musical vocabulary is too limited to fully appreciate what's contained. Bottom line; I've received absolutely no pleasure whatsoever from that record. | |
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damosuzuki said: 2freaky4church1 said: You like Captain Beefheart as well?
I have owned a copy of Trout Mask Replica for 15 years, and I have tried and tried and tried to listen to it because every review I've ever read has told me that it is a profound work of genius. Unfortunately all I ever hear is 70 or so minutes minutes of rudderless, disjointed attempts at the blues with uniquely unpleasant vocals on top. I suppose the deficiency is mine, because I'm sure it's the case that Trout Mask is a great album, and my musical vocabulary is too limited to fully appreciate what's contained. Bottom line; I've received absolutely no pleasure whatsoever from that record. You're not alone. It's a hard swallow. What's amazing to me is that these were not willy-nilly performances but seriously rehearsed "compositions". tA Tribal Disorder
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Anx said: she's got a pretty good anthology on rhino called "talk normal" that i think goes up to her "bright red" album, and covers a lot of ground with a nice booklet/liner notes essay. it's a good start. my fave albums by her are "home of the brave" (a semi-live album produced by nile rodgers w/ adrian belew and william burroughs making appearances) and "bright red" (produced mostly by brian eno, with TONS of great music to be had from it including a duet with lou reed). and i wish you could have seen SY with me too...thurston killed on guitar from beginning to end!  Noted.
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At least she's not bjork  | |
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Imago said: At least she's not bjork
you know you do your hair up in little twisties, put on a paper dress and dance around in the mirror to "big time sensuality" when nobody's around. 
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Anxiety said: Imago said: At least she's not bjork
you know you do your hair up in little twisties, put on a paper dress and dance around in the mirror to "big time sensuality" when nobody's around.
http://www.youtube.com/wa...1iySHgV_iI oh my god  | |
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theAudience said: You're not alone. It's a hard swallow. What's amazing to me is that these were not willy-nilly performances but seriously rehearsed "compositions". tA I still feel like I've failed a rite of passage by being unable to crack that nut. I'm done jacking the thread now. Carry on. | |
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