Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site trwrba.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!mtuxo!mtunh!mtung!mtunf!ariel!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!tektronix!hplabs!sdcrdcf!trwrb!trwrba!ljp From: ljp@trwrba.UUCP (Laura J. Pearlman) Newsgroups: net.music Subject: Re: Laurie Anderson info wanted... Message-ID: <1501@trwrba.UUCP> Date: Fri, 12-Jul-85 05:08:00 EDT Article-I.D.: trwrba.1501 Posted: Fri Jul 12 05:08:00 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 17-Jul-85 07:27:41 EDT References: <58300001@inmet.UUCP> <279@rti-sel.UUCP> Reply-To: ljp@trwrba.UUCP (Laura J. Pearlman) Organization: TRW EDS, Redondo Beach, CA Lines: 51 >> Alan Taylor > Bill Ingogly >> I've heard good things about 'United States Live' and would like to buy it. >> Before I do, I'd like to know if it is like 'Big Science'. Yes, very much so; in fact, every song in Big Science is also in "United States", although many of them are performed differently. The Big Science album cover describes that record as "songs from `United States I-IV'". > I THINK fans of Big Science will like U.S. Live, but it all depends on your > expectations. Well, I agree, but I'm almost sure that anyone who liked Big Science *more* than Mister Heartbreak will like United States. > > Also, is it > >"too live", or lacking in a lot of the interesting effects that are so > >vital to 'Big Science'? > > Whaa ... You ARE aware that Laurie Andersen is a PERFORMING artist? > How can music be "too live?" Before I bought United States, I was a little worried that without any of the visual effects from the performance's "special blend of music, slides, films, tapes, ... hand gestures, and more" the music itself might lose a lot in translation. It probably has, but what's left is great, anyway. About "interesting effects" -- she plays with sound a lot on United States. She finds yet another way to distort her voice in "Walk the Dog"; half of "I Dreamed I Had to Take a Test" is backwards; she experiments with different speeds in "So Happy Birthday". > She tells a HELL of a good story, though, and her sense of humor is a lot > more evident in the performances in U.S. Live than in Big Science. True! But I think her (comic) sense of timing is more well-developed in Big Science than in United States; compare "From the Air" on Big Science to "The Language of the Future" on United States. By the way, does anyone out there know where I could get a copy of "It's Not the Bullet That Kills You -- It's the Hole", "Word of Mouth", or "You're the Guy I Want to Share My Money With"? Laura Pearlman {decvax,ucbvax,hplabs}!trwrb!ljp "I said, it's just like those lip marks that appear every week on your mirror. And she said, what lip marks?"