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Track Listings
| 1. From The Air |
| 2. Big Science |
| 3. Sweaters |
| 4. Walking And Falling |
| 5. Born Never Asked |
| 6. O Superman (For Massenet) |
| 7. Example 22 |
| 8. Let X=X |
| 9. It Tango |
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Amazon.co.uk Review
Big Science prompted trendy early-1980s art students to plug in their synthesizers and start their own post-punk performance-art-cum-rock-&-roll projects. The album actually produced a hit single in the form of "O Superman." That track and "Let X=X" are the two best-known things from this album, which is a condensation of United States, Anderson's four-and-a-half-hour performance-art piece. Big Science, however, presents the cream of the crop. Although a lot of Anderson's shrill non sequiturs seemed annoying at the time of her breakthrough, she predicted techno music years before it happened. Still, as rock critic J.D. Considine pointed out, her creations are often closer to theatre than to music. --Bill Holdship
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With BIG SCIENCE, avant-garde sculptor Laurie Anderson madethe big leap from fringe performance artist to commercial success. Originally creating music to embellish her artwork, Laurie soon moved on to creating the music for its own sake,providing a new sound comprised of electronics, voice enhancers, and humorous vignettes. Totally original for 1982, BIGSCIENCE stands up to the test of time, still sounding like an innovative mark of creativity.
From "This is your Captain speaking.".., the opening lines of "From The Air", Laurie stands firmly in charge, piloting through an idiosyncraticand iconoclastic sonic experiment. The title track is an electronic dirge, exotic and technical--a futuristic ballad. "Sweaters" is a Middle Eastern kiss-off ("I no longer love the colour of your sweaters."..), with the curious instrumentation of bagpipes, violin and drums. The unlikely hit "O Superman", with its repeated, hyperventilating "ah"s and spooky comical text, sets the tone--especially when Anderson asks to be held with "electronic arms". The acoustic, international grab-bag of "Example #22" provides one of the funnier lines on an album of countless, clever gems: "Honey you're my one and only/So pay me what you owe me". She also credits several paranormals for their work on the track.
BIG SCIENCE is a collection of mesmerising songs featuring quirky, headypoetry and wonderfully peculiar instrumentation (particularly Anderson's violin, which has a tape-equipped bow that draws against a recording head built into its body). It is an album of distinctive electronic mood music that helped changethe landscape of alternative pop music.
From "This is your Captain speaking.".., the opening lines of "From The Air", Laurie stands firmly in charge, piloting through an idiosyncraticand iconoclastic sonic experiment. The title track is an electronic dirge, exotic and technical--a futuristic ballad. "Sweaters" is a Middle Eastern kiss-off ("I no longer love the colour of your sweaters."..), with the curious instrumentation of bagpipes, violin and drums. The unlikely hit "O Superman", with its repeated, hyperventilating "ah"s and spooky comical text, sets the tone--especially when Anderson asks to be held with "electronic arms". The acoustic, international grab-bag of "Example #22" provides one of the funnier lines on an album of countless, clever gems: "Honey you're my one and only/So pay me what you owe me". She also credits several paranormals for their work on the track.
BIG SCIENCE is a collection of mesmerising songs featuring quirky, headypoetry and wonderfully peculiar instrumentation (particularly Anderson's violin, which has a tape-equipped bow that draws against a recording head built into its body). It is an album of distinctive electronic mood music that helped changethe landscape of alternative pop music.
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