8 Comments, 8 Threads

1. 1. Chris in Fort Worth

   Aaaarrrrgh, my ears!

   May 17, 2008 - 5:27 pm   Link to this Comment | Reply

   

   
2. 2. Miles White

   Personally, I prefer listening to Outa-space by Billy Preston while downing a Black Magic on the rocks. Now thats the recipe for a fantastic evening.

   May 17, 2008 - 9:35 pm   Link to this Comment | Reply

   

   
3. 3. Steve Skubinna

   The ’80s? I’m pretty sure Laurie Anderson did a concert at or near UCSD when I was there in the late seventies. As I recall, her great groundbreaking schtick was that she could sing on the inhale as well as the exhale.

   Wow. Callow as I was then, it sounded just dumb enough not to interest me in the slightest.

   I regret nothing. Still callow, it seems.

   May 18, 2008 - 12:57 am   Link to this Comment | Reply

   

   
4. 4. equitus

   Classic. Still have this on my mp3 player.

   Thanks!

   May 18, 2008 - 8:37 pm   Link to this Comment | Reply

   

   
5. 5. Anachronda

   Huh. From the Laurie Anderson wikipedia entry:

   “She can be seen using a later generation of this device in her film, Home of the Brave, during the “Late Show” segment in which she manipulates a sentence recorded by William S. Burroughs. This version of the violin discarded magnetic tape, and actually used MIDI-based audio samples, triggered by contact with the bow.”

   I *thought* it looked funny (as in, the noises it was making didn’t quite correspond to the motions she was making with the tape).

   May 18, 2008 - 10:18 pm   Link to this Comment | Reply

   

   
6. 6. Roger Fraley

   I loved this song and back when I had an answering machine, I used her message in it as mine. Funny now that I think about it, very few people actually left messages.

   May 19, 2008 - 10:50 am   Link to this Comment | Reply

   

   
7. 7. RichieD

   Dang – I haven’t heard that in years. I remember (vaguely) listening to a lot of this while trying to “impress” girls in college. Hmmm, very few left messages for me, either….

   May 19, 2008 - 11:59 am   Link to this Comment | Reply

   

   
8. 8. Sanjay

   Oddly I’ve been listening t a lot of Anderson lately — I’m hearing GREAT things about her new “Homeland,” and I saw her when she was in residence at the MIT media lab (she just got off of being in residence at NASA, and I think I read somewhere that she’d just married Lou Reed.
   But “O Superman” — it amazes me that in 1981 someone had written the perfect 9/11 song already.

   May 22, 2008 - 8:46 am   Link to this Comment | Reply

   

   

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