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Ramon - Laurie Anderson

submitted by Thought_Criminal to music 2.1 yearsApr 29, 2023 03:57:46 ago (+3/-0)     (www.youtube.com)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcT1gnXHGv4

...
And suddenly for no reason
The way that angels leave the ground
They left in a kind of vortex
Traveling at the speed of sound
And just as I started to leave
Just as I turned to go
I saw a man who'd fallen
He was lying on his back in the snow

Some people walk on water
Some people walk on broken glass
Some just walk round and round in their dreams
Some just keep falling down
...
So when you see a man who's broken
Pick him up and carry him
And when you see a woman who's broken
Put her all into your arms
'Cause we don't know where we come from
We don't know what we are

And you?
You're no one
And you?
You're falling
And you?
You're traveling
Traveling at the speed of light



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[ - ] Name 1 point 2.1 yearsApr 29, 2023 05:11:48 ago (+1/-0)

Man she has a funky background but for someone who hung out with degenerates like William S Burroughs, I guess she made the best of it. And by the way language really is a virus. Also she got away with publishing an album called “the ugly one with the jewels.” I don’t think you’d be able to do that with today’s ADL.

“In "The Cultural Ambassador," a piece on her album The Ugly One with the Jewels, Anderson explained some of her perspective on the character:
(Anderson:) I was carrying a lot of electronics so I had to keep unpacking everything and plugging it in and demonstrating how it all worked, and I guess I did seem a little fishy—a lot of this stuff wakes up displaying LED program readouts that have names like Atom Smasher, and so it took a while to convince them that they weren't some kind of portable espionage system. So I've done quite a few of these sort of impromptu new music concerts for small groups of detectives and customs agents and I'd have to keep setting all this stuff up and they'd listen for a while and they'd say: So um, what's this? And I'd pull out something like
(Bergamot:) this filter, and say, now this is what I like to think of as the voice of authority. And it would take me a while to tell them how I used it for songs that were, you know, about various forms of control, and they would say, now why would you want to talk like that? And I'd look around at the SWAT teams, and the undercover agents, and the dogs, and the radio in the corner, tuned to the Super Bowl coverage of the war. And I'd say, take a wild guess.”