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Writer/director Jeff Greenstein (Will and Grace, Desperate Housewives, Friends) joins us again this week to unpack an album - and artist - that continues to get him spectacularly high: 'Big Science' by avant-garde titan Laurie Anderson. This weirdly wonderful, surprisingly catchy selection of musical highlights from her eight-hour production United States Live was ahead of its time in 1982, and STILL resonates today. Welcome to the future!
Songs discussed in this episode: O Superman - Ilmiliekki Quartet; Mr Blue Sky - Electric Light Orchestra; What Time Is It - Ken Nordine; Title Music from A Clockwork Orange - Wendy Carlos; 3 Dances - John Cage; From The Air, Big Science - Laurie Anderson; This Must Be The Place (Naive Melody) - Talking Heads; Sweaters - Laurie Anderson; America Is Waiting - Brian Eno and David Byrne; Walking & Falling, Born, Never Asked - Laurie Anderson; Four Organs - Steve Reich; O Superman - Booka Shade; O Superman, Ethics Is The Esthetics Of The Few-Ture - Laurie Anderson; O Superman (Live 1997) - David Bowie and Gail Ann Dorsey; Example #22, Let X=X, It Tango, Walk The Dog, 1983... (A Merman I Should Turn to Be) *Jimi Hendrix cover - Laurie Anderson
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Writer/director Jeff Greenstein (Will and Grace, Desperate Housewives, Friends) joins us again this week to unpack an album - and artist - that continues to get him spectacularly high: 'Big Science' by avant-garde titan Laurie Anderson. This weirdly wonderful, surprisingly catchy selection of musical highlights from her eight-hour production United States Live was ahead of its time in 1982, and STILL resonates today. Welcome to the future!
Songs discussed in this episode: O Superman - Ilmiliekki Quartet; Mr Blue Sky - Electric Light Orchestra; What Time Is It - Ken Nordine; Title Music from A Clockwork Orange - Wendy Carlos; 3 Dances - John Cage; From The Air, Big Science - Laurie Anderson; This Must Be The Place (Naive Melody) - Talking Heads; Sweaters - Laurie Anderson; America Is Waiting - Brian Eno and David Byrne; Walking & Falling, Born, Never Asked - Laurie Anderson; Four Organs - Steve Reich; O Superman - Booka Shade; O Superman, Ethics Is The Esthetics Of The Few-Ture - Laurie Anderson; O Superman (Live 1997) - David Bowie and Gail Ann Dorsey; Example #22, Let X=X, It Tango, Walk The Dog, 1983... (A Merman I Should Turn to Be) *Jimi Hendrix cover - Laurie Anderson
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