Love-Hounds-request@GAFFA.MIT.EDU (10/26/89)
Really-From: Marq Laube <marq@apple.com> I just called Tower Mountain View, and they claimed to have the new Laurie, so I have to keep this message short. Earlier there was a posting of a play list of that Kansas City show that I'm jealous we don't get here, and these songs were amoung those listed: New York Social Life, _New Music for the Elect..._, Laurie Anderson and Coolsville, _Strange Angels_ , Laurie Anderson I have never heard of these songs or albums. What have I been missing? Thanks, Marq
Love-Hounds-request@GAFFA.MIT.EDU (10/26/89)
Really-From: Lazlo Nibble <lazlo@ariel.unm.edu> Marq Laube <marq@apple.com> writes: > I just called Tower Mountain View, and they claimed to have the new Laurie, > so I have to keep this message short. > > Earlier there was a posting of a play list of that Kansas City show that > I'm jealous we don't get here, and these songs were amoung those listed: > > Coolsville, _Strange Angels_ , Laurie Anderson > > I have never heard of these songs or albums. What have I been missing? As you probably know by now, Marq, Strange Angels *is* the new Laurie. Reviews, please! Lazlo (lazlo@ariel.unm.edu) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "People who aren't going to go any faster than the speed limit really ought to put their hazard lights on." -- Nibble's Rules Of The Road, #19
Love-Hounds-request@GAFFA.MIT.EDU (10/26/89)
Really-From: radlein!ray@uunet.UU.NET (Ray Radlein) In a message of <25 Oct 89 20:38:30 GMT>, Marq Laube writes: > Earlier there was a posting of a play list of that Kansas City show that > I'm jealous we don't get here, and these songs were amoung those listed: > > New York Social Life, _New Music for the Elect..._, Laurie Anderson > > and > > Coolsville, _Strange Angels_ , Laurie Anderson > > > I have never heard of these songs or albums. What have I been missing? The first song, "New York Social Life," also appears on her five-record set "United States I - IV" (speaking of which, *WHEN* is this going to be released on CD?). I believe that the album listed above was a compilation of works by various electronic artists (was this the album that also had William S. Burroughs on it, as well as Laurie's frantic little ditty, "Dr. Dunton" [forgive me if I screwed up the doctor's name in the title; my brain *just* lost its pointer to that particular string :-( ]? Good stuff). As for "Coolsville," it is a song from her latest album, which is evidently titled "Strange Angels," *not*, as I had earlier reported, "Enormous Night" (and *really* not, as I had even earlier reported, "Endless Night"!). In either case, the album is made up of songs from her new stage work, "Empty Places." I have not had a chance to get this CD yet (we were only able to get Kate's CD by grace of the mercy of Our Lady of Perpetual Credit, From Whom All Blessings Flow, at 18% APR), so I'd like to ask someone who *does* have it (or who caught "Coolsville" on the radio!): Does Laurie use her usual menagerie of cohorts and backing players, or is this one essentially a solo performance, as was the stage show? -Ray R. +========================================================================+ UUCP:{uunet!ncrlnk, gatech!hubcap}!ncrcae!secola!smoak!avcom!radlein!ray FIDO:1:376/14.96, 12.3; UUCP #2: [sdcsvax nosc]!crash!pro-carolina!rayr; ARPA:crash!pro-carolina!rayr@nosc.mil; or INET:rayr@pro-carolina.cts.com "It's not the bullet that kills you -- it's the hole" -- Laurie Anderson DISCLAIMER: "We Only Know in Theory What We Are Doing" +========================================================================+
Love-Hounds-request@GAFFA.MIT.EDU (10/26/89)
Really-From: boris@prodigal.psych.rochester.edu (Boris "bootstrap" Goldowsky) In article <8910260421.AA07508@ariel.unm.edu> Love-Hounds@GAFFA.MIT.EDU writes: >Really-From: Lazlo Nibble <lazlo@ariel.unm.edu> > >As you probably know by now, Marq, Strange Angels *is* the new Laurie. > >Reviews, please! Well, I'm not a reviewer, but I did see her performance, "Empty Places", and have heard the album "Strange Angels", which came out Tuesday. They only overlap a bit, and the arrangements are quite different (the performance was much more mysterious and stark and sometimes shrill than the record). The music is definitely different from the style of her previous albums; it's has more melody and song in it. You may have heard that Laurie has been taking voice lessons; according to an article in the NY Times, she wrote one of the songs and then when she went to rehearse it realized she didn't know how to sing that kind of stuff. I like it, but only since I stopped expecting it to be like the Laurie Anderson I knew. Maybe I'll try my hand at writing a real review sometime, after I've listened to the album a few more times. But I wanted to ask if anyone else out there saw the performance? I'd be interested in hearing what your impressions were. Did anyone happen to tape it? Bng