Rating: - Not much to it.
THIS CD IS ONLY 34 MINUTES LONG. The track "Radar" is just an annoying bit of noise. That leaves about 32 minutes of actual music. It is hardly worth the price.
Released in 1986, this is from the movie "Home of the Brave" which was a collection of performances. Much of that had been covered on other Anderson CD releases. So, she wasn't left with much more to release. Like almost all of Anderson's CD's the sound quality is very good.
The CD starts out very good. Smoke Rings is an amusing piece with some excellent music backing it up. The CD continues with more bits of some very good music.
The problem is that some of the tracks sound like snippets taken from larger pieces. So the whole CD does not play very well.
The version of Sharkey's Night is also not very good.
So, if you start with a 34 minute CD, throw out 2 and a half minutes of noise ... Read More
Rating: - Avoid the CD!
OK, I figure if you're looking at this CD, you're a Laurie Anderson fan and can recall at least twice you've seen her great concert movie, likely at a midnight showing back in the 80's. Well, if you're that person, avoid the utter heartbreak which is this CD. I counted 18 tracks from my old VHS copy of this concert, while only 8 made it to the CD. The banter between tracks is omitted entirely. The tracks are out of order (OK, small nitpick), and it's certainly not worth the effort. I'm sorry, Laurie, but Warner scr-wed you hard on this one.
On the up side, the sound quality is good, certainly better than my VHS. But hey, this is a concert film soundtrack, but apparently they forgot to include the second disk. Laurie fans will be livid. (Others merely confused! :)
Rating: - ONE OF THE GREATS
What an utterly charming and delightful film! This is Laurie Anderson at her peak. At this time, her emerging visions in her music, her performance art, and her perspective on pop culture all came together to form a Laurie-world that is engrossing, rich, quirky, and bound to make you smile. I think that OUR world has lost something since then. It is hard to imagine "Home of the Brave" being made in todays jaded, degraded, and "extreme" culture. I also love this film because it happened in an era when new musics were emerging from grass roots sources, and the record companies had to adapt themselves to these new movements. That may have been the last time that such a thing will happen in this manufactured-to-sell musical environment. This film NEEDS to go to DVD, as it is one of the five essential concert films of this wonderful time in music. The others are:
Stop Making Sense by Talking Heads
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Rating: - One of Anderson's best
Mister Heartbreak is Laurie Anderson'e best release, closely followed by Home of the Brave , and then Big Science.On HOTB it is Late Show's blend of rhythm, synth and sax which really shines, though Language is a Virus is very good- with very funny poke at 'tv people'.
I have never seen the movie , and IT IS A CRYING SHAME THAT NO DVD OF HOME OF THE BRAVE IS AVAILABLE -SO COME ON WARNER BROTHERS! GET IT SORTED!
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