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Home of the Brave [Soundtrack]

~ Laurie Anderson
4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
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Product details

  • Audio CD (23 Dec 1999)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Format: Soundtrack
  • Label: Warner
  • ASIN: B000002L9F
  • Other Editions: VHS Tape
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 51,445 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Track Listings

1. Smoke Rings
2. White Lily
3. Late Show
4. Talk Normal
5. Language Is A Virus From Outer Space
6. Radar
7. Sharkey's Night
8. Credit Racket

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Following the success of the Talking Heads concert film Stop Making Sense, Laurie Anderson decided to film one of her tours for theatrical release. Unfortunately, Home of the Brave didn't have much impact in the theatres. But the soundtrack CD attests that it was a great show nonetheless. Previously, Anderson had worked solo with slides, samples and her pearly white electric violin. The props remained for this tour,but America's best known performance artist was just starting to make her own brand of funky pop music with a real liveband including downtown bassist Bill Laswell and percussionist extraordinaire David Van Tighem.
These mostly new songs/narratives find Anderson startlingly lowering her voice several octaves with the help of a vocoder attached to her trusty violin. The mood is infectious enough that after special guest William Burroughs does his croaking intro to"Sharkey's Machine"--no vocoder necessary--Anderson actually gets him to waltz her around the stage. Now that's something you have to see!

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4.0 out of 5 stars Laurie Anderson stage show on the big/small screen, 14 Jul 2004
This review is from: Laurie Anderson - Home Of The Brave [VHS] [1986] (VHS Tape)
Home of the Brave has the tag-line "A film by Laurie Anderson", but it's really a concert video of Ms Anderson doin' her avant-retro stage thing in 1986.

The music's excellent, the visuals startling (at one point she appears on a darkened stage with a light inside her mouth...don't swallow!!) and, for many of us, this is as close to seeing Laurie Anderson live as we're going to get.

For die-hard Laurie Anderson fans, the stage interpretations add considerably to the depth and possible meanings within her (occasionally ambiguous) performance art pieces/songs. For the uninitiated, pack your most open mind and let this one strange voice of 20th-century America say what it will.

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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Avante Garde transition to Popular Music, 8 Nov 2002
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I really like this album, because it shows that Laurie is her own boss. Her record company came really close to trying to make a 'will powers' pop star out of here with 'Language is a Virus', recruiting the tallents of no less a producer than Nile Rogers, but she maintains her credibility with wonderful art pieces such as 'White Lilly'. A short poem that has the words 'What Fass Binder film is it? The one where the one armed man walks into the flower shop and says 'What flower is it that expresses days that go by, and they just keep going by, endlessly, into the future?' And the florist says 'White Lilly'.

Wonderfull and original to boot.

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