Rod Stewart - Every Picture Tells A Story
Rod the Mod finds his solo footing, headed for stardom, with the Faces in his wake.
6:00 AM GMT 22/06/2011
Features Disc of the day
Laurie Anderson
Big Science
(Warner Bros, 1982; reissue on Nonesuch, 2007)
She despised pop culture. Making a commercial album was the last thing she wanted to do, and yet…
In 1980 Laurie Anderson was a downtown New York artist, inspired by William Burroughs, crafting multimedia performance pieces with customized violins, keyboards and a $500 National Endowment grant. Following the Iran hostage crisis (when US helicopters crashed in a sandstorm, killing eight US soldiers) Anderson - inspired by Massenet’s O Souverain aria from Le Cid – recorded the h-h-h-h-hypnotic vocoder elegy for pre-Reagan America, O Superman. Hoping to sell 500 mail order copies, Anderson was championed by John Peel, courted by Warner Brothers and expanded the project into a concept album about techno-industrialized apocalypse and post-war American imperialism. Catchy! Well, yes. Remastered to restore a lot of juicy low-end, Anderson’s hypnotic US-minimalism-meets-NY-disco rhythms and deadpan sing-song American storytelling sounds disarmingly beautiful, like melancholy lullabies for ailing robot societies. When I reviewed Nonesuch’s reissue for MOJO magazine last year, I gave it four stars, with the rider “Add a star if that’s your thing”. And if you’re reading this, it probably is.
Andrew Male
Posted by Danny_Eccleston at 6:00 AM GMT 18/09/2008
Further Listening
Björk – Volta (One Little Indian, 2007)
David Byrne – Music For “The Knee Plays” (ECM, 1985)
Yoko Ono – Season Of Glass (Geffen, 1981)
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What a great album this was...
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