She is so easily summed up: choreographer, violinist, singer, visual artist, language scholar, dancer, storyteller, keyboardist, cultural scholar, performance artist. All done at the highest level. There is no one like her.
since you seem to know her well..... what are her performance meant to say? i find them pretty fascinating,i just don t get the point most of the times :D ....uh, i guess that s what Genius mean ,by the way, unique artist that s for sure, today there s no existence of someone like this
@@ACCH-cm9ou Laurie Anderson has no single message. She finds delight in many different topics. A topic she has given unusual attention to is language and communications. I agree with you about her being a genius.
@@ACCH-cm9ou Actually, She is giving ALL THE SECRETS away. Either She is, or is channeling, the Woman I call "The Lady of the Land." She either is, or she is channeling, who I call, "The Great Teacher". But no. She knows too much! No, She is certainly THE LADY OF THE LAND! You can't get any higher than that, BECAUSE, LOOK at her!!! She's on the Earth!!!! She has a damn chicken strict rule -- "NO FEET ON THE EARTH!!!" This concert is a sure sign she's getting ' t h e m ' back. 😄 ☝
I had seen this movie in the 80s and I fell in love with it. When she went to do a show in Brazil, in 1989, my sister was a journalist and I asked her for a pass at a press conference that was going to happen at the hotel (Meridien). I was 22 years old. For some reason my sister got me a 15-30 minute interview with her. It was me and a friend of mine, daughter of an American. I'll never forget that. She [Laurie Anderson] was tremendously cordial. We sat at a table by the pool and we had 15-30 minutes with her (I don't recall how much time, but it was enough). We told that we were college students doing a research. I do not remember everything, but I remember talking about the "Radar" song and asking if she felt lonely, hence why she made the song. She responded something like this: "I'll tell you a story... When I toured in the East (Japan IIRC), I went there with a high expectation that I would experience a spiritually advanced culture, that I would learn a new culture, that I would bring a spiritual experience back home. But at the end of the day what I brought back from the trip were souvenirs [hats and stuff] that I exchanged with the people I met. In the end we are like isolated islands, and what I'm talking to you right now I cannot be sure that your understanding the way I mean, and what you talk to me about, you cannot be sure that I understand the way you want it. All we can do is to live in our own way and do not expect anything from others". That was more or less like it. I have never forgotten the experience of interviewing her, and to this day, at the age of 50, I consider her explanation to be meaningful. She is an amazing artist and she made a mark in my youth. Props to her. I listen to her music to this day. In fact I'm listening to it right now.
Upon receiving a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2024 Laurie Anderson (Queen of the avant-garde & Lou Reed’s widow) commented: “I’m Glad to See They’re Softening on ‘Experimental Stuff’.”
It may be news to some of you but this was completely out of circulation (unavailable) for over a decade due to some copyright beef or other. It was such a joy to find it again.
I have watched Home of The Brave at least 25 times. I NEVER tire of Laurie Anderson's creativity and conceptualizations! What an amazing artist! Thank You Laurie Anderson!
Maybe a few people who don't even know you honestly care about what you think of Laurie Anderson's music, but I really doubt anybody care about what you think about people who don't appreciate her music and about the fact you are glad not being one of them. As Julesacu commented, you are a pathetic snob.
“Language is a virus from outer space.” This concert is so fucking brilliant, I’ve loved since the first time seeing it in the theater. The whole thing is a surrealistic dreamscape from start to finish, but my single favorite piece has to be the extraordinary Late Show, twenty minutes in. While Adrian and Dick trade dreamy solos back and forth over a delicate syncopated groove, their silhouettes pantomime various movie cliches on a giant television screen behind them; meanwhile down in front, Laurie, on her famous tape-bow violin, riffs a sample of William S. Burroughs drawling “Listen-to-my-heart-beat”. Then-as if all that wasn’t trippy enough-she goes offstage only to re-emerge, strolling in a slow dance with the ACTUAL William S. Burroughs!! They strut through the song for a bit, before Laurie returns to the tape-bow for one last vocalization of Burroughs’ dry taped request. It’s only four minutes long, but it’s a perfect distillation of the whole performance. Just sublime.
Her violin is made from audio tape and a playhead. She is genius. Different tape for different occasions. I used to make audio cassette's for Producers tape Service in Troy Michigan. It is a beautiful thing. Everything from 4 minute to 120 minute chrome cassettes. I loved it.
@@Spectoral_on_SPOTIFY I believe there's a recording of his show at Red Rocks that should be amazing. I haven't watched yet because I get to see him live in February and I don't want spoilers.
In fact, I believe at the time she explicitly tried to copy the look of Stop Making Sense by making as much of the tech machinery as possible not visible on the stage. Which was expensive and hard to do.
@@WardCo There's a live video concert as well from Peter Gabriel my buddy(who's never seen S.M.S) tried to wow me on. Same deal. Their template was S.M.S..Laurie is pretty interesting tho
I saw her in the "Home of the Brave" tour in 1989, I think it was. In the lobby of the theatre we got packets of Laurie-designed postcards featuring quotations from the show with amazing artwork, plus weird things like instructions on how to cook a hotdog using electrical wiring. Check out her video "Home of the Brave" to get a glimpse of what we experienced. She was the whole package: artist, writer, musician, comedian, inventor, dancer. Politically important, too. I've followed almost all of her work: it's changed my life forever. I had a friend who wrote software for her in the 1980s. I thought that was the coolest job description I'd ever heard. A few years ago I played her albums Big Science, Mr. Heartbreak and Strange Angels for my 14-yr-old great niece. I wasn't sure if they would have an impact or not. My great niece was so enthralled that when she went home, she immediately loaded all three albums into her Spotify playlist.
A guy I was living with in the 80s had this on constant rotation for months. It is the most amazing piece of work. I felt it was "ahead of its time" then. It still sounds ahead of its time now.
i was one of the audience extras for this film - it was shot in a mostly empty theater in union city, nj, but movie magic makes it feel like a packed house. despite having to shoot many takes of each song, the audience were absolutely thrilled at every moment. if the crowd noise sounds TOO enthusiastic in the film, thats because were honestly were!
I've actually met her - was at the premiere of her opera Moby Dick in Dallas in 2000 - and gave her a portrait of Andy Kaufman I did for her... she talks about touring with Andy and being a planted heckler in the audience when he used to wrestle women... she said something in one of her pieces like " I always expected to see Andy again..." and she did :)
After all these years this concert is still giving me goosebumps and let me cry of pure happiness. Unfortunately I've never had the chance to see Laurie live...
OMG!!! I found it again. I lost my VHS of it in the late 90's and have looked from time to time ever since for a copy. Would LOVE to have a DVD. Back in the day, I showed it to as many friends as I could talk into it - they made endless fun of me for liking this so much. LOL I get to see it again in now, in 2018, and I'm still bowled over by the sheer ART of her concept and performance! Thank you for posting this!
Laurie Anderson was simply too far ahead in time for most people to understand her music. 40 years later, I want more. Laurieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee where are youuuuuu? 10, 9. 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, come out wherever you are and give us a new video.
You really have to love CZcams. I saw this--on Cinemax, I think--back in, like, 1987, and have thought about it countless times. _Countless_ times. It was so cutting edge, it stands the test of time. I've seen her a couple of times since then, on different shows or whatever, and my memory always snaps back to this. What a wonderfully original artist!
I had this on VHS and I watched it so much that I wore out the tape. Love ya, Laurie. You are Awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! My favorite song is Kokoku
I saw this in the theater when it was first released, and just finished watching it again. I am always surprised that it never makes Top Ten Best Concert Films lists. A dazzling piece of work.
One of many things I and my first wife had in common was the taste for 'different' music and musicians like Laurie Anderson. When 'Home of the brave' movie came to a theatre in the city we lived, of course we rushed to the cinema (big queue...). During our first trip to Europe, I found out that there was a concert of hers in Hamburg. We managed to get two of the last available tickets. :) Laurie Anderson has always been an experimentalist musician, and I think one of her greatest moments is when she managed to make a 'machine' say: 'Listen to my heart beat'...
I had heard “O Superman” when I was about 8; I saw her on SNL when I was about 11; this film hooked me in totally when I was 14 (soundtrack was at the local library)... Ms. Anderson, I thank you from the bottom of my weird heart!
Gosh, has it really been 30+ years since this was released? Hard to believe that much time has passed! I taped this off of Bravo years ago but the tape is no more. Wonderful seeing it again! Thank you so much for sharing this, and in such high quality, too! Great job!
The gentleman who plays woodwinds and saxophone in this concert (featured prominently after "Smoke Rings") is Mr. Dicky Landry. Highly recommend his album "Fifteen Saxophones." Recorded at The Kitchen, it's remarkable proto-drone music.
Laurie refers to " Smoke Rings " in one of her videos here too. There were so many remarkable collaborations with Greats that it's hard to discern where one begins or ends with another.
A great artist, at the peak of her powers! One of the biggest mysteries to me is that it's still not on dvd. I imagine how great the BluRay would look and sound. Does ANYONE know why she's never released the dvd of this show? ☮
Este show de Laurie Anderson, Stop making sense de Talking Heads y "los sonetos de shakespeare" de Phillip Glass, Lucinda Childs y Bob Wilson....lo mejor que he visto. Gracias por compartir!
She invented all of her instruments (except the obvious ones). She is very creative. I love her style. Anyone can sing and play and instrument. She does HELLA more! Rock on Laurie. I have been a fan of your music since 1988. MUCH LOVE!
This is excellent, especially the ensemble choreography. Watching this makes me think that this level of creativity cannot be found in a lot of recent music. Love the way Adrian Belew comes into focus at 6:28. Just an indication that a genius like Laurie attracts artists of a certain caliber to work with her.
SUCH brilliance! As others here have said, this was one of the peak artistic experiences of my life. I saw this live in Boston, a few years back... And got literally hypnotized by the repetitive video of the flying birds coupled with the repeating chorus. Took me hours to come down. Thank you so much for promoting it here -- and in a reasonable bitrate, too. Ya done good.
Needs to be preserved as is as a document of the times, the technology and the cultural acceptance of a lot of things that now are considered taboo. Not Everything Needs to be improved for convenient viewing
@@RIXRADvidz RixRad... I'll get slammed but that's how I feel about this current obsession with removing historic statues. Reminds me of Nazi Germany calling/destroying things deemed deviant art and burning books. As we evolve we need not be in denial of our past. We can look it in the eye and not be it. Maybe it could help us learn from our mistakes? Not romantacise or reminisce the past but LEARN ?
She was my favorite in the 80s. I've listened to her more than any other artist ever. She is the most amazing talent I've ever enjoyed. There is and will never be another her. Ild school ear phones a candle and a trip like no other. I love you and will forever remember you.
This concert film came out just over two years after the Talking Heads film Stop Making Sense. Having the two female singers is the obvious similarity, but outside of that, this film is a document of Anderson's unique music and performance.
I saw this show when it toured many years ago. Wonderful show but, in a surreal ironic touch, I saw it in the closest theater to Chicago, where I lived at the time. This theater happened to be in Indiana (the state immediately east of Illinois for the geographically impaired). The theater was a part of a Holiday Inn hotel chain and was either close to or connected with a casino. It was (and May still be) the kind of place where you could book an extended weekend with wife and/or family and get a nice hotel room, room service or an on-site restaurant, swimming pool, proximity to casino and other local attractions. It also promised a top rate Vegas like show. But a glance at the program revealed that this a program designed for people who like “Both kinds of music, country AND western”, a quote familiar with the cult movie “The Blues Brothers”. Long story short, the names on the program included names like Conway Twitty, Tammy Wynette, etc. Now, the name “Laurie Anderson” sounds much like the two syllable easily pronounced that one encounters in the mid to southern Midwest of America. After finding our seats in the nicely designed theater I took an anecdotal survey of my fellow theater goers. Men and women, about 18 to perhaps 60 years old. Most were very nicely dressed but, to my eye, it looked like a “Gone With the Wind” costume party. Everyone was well behaved (the two teen girls just in front of our second row balcony seats, when asked, kindly took off their hats whose circumferences were about 2 feet across) so we could see the show. While everyone listened politely, I haven’t seen such lost, “what the hell is this..?” Faces since I saw Krzystof Penderecki at Orchestra Hall with his Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra. A look at that audience suggested that they, dressed as if to attend a Polish National Alliance function, were expecting Polish Folk Song Melodie’s, not the high modernism of this truly world class conductor and composer, whose music effectively scared the hell out of people when it was used in “The Shining”. I was entertained by the audience’s reactions in both cases. Laurie Anderson wasn’t even remotely country and, in the Penderecki concert the audience would have felt more at home with a polka band or folk ensemble sound.
I don't know why you didn't just see it at the Auditorium Theater in Chicago. I saw it there two straight nights, and then again in Milwaukee. Hey der!
Thank you for posting this wonderful performance..Amazing sound quality too....been a ‘fan’ since ‘o Superman’ but sadly never got to see her live....Adrian Belew too!!!
Adrian was everywhere between 1978 and 1984 - Zappa, Bowie, the Talking Heads (he totally changed their sound!), King Crimson and Laurie Anderson! He's a genius in his own right.
@@glynnwadeson5605 Brian Eno "played" bands like Jimi Hendrix played the guitar. Why that guy isn't in the R&R Hall of Fame is a complete travesty. You're correct. He turned the Talking Heads and U2 into superstars, to name a few. And let's not forget Bowie's Berlin trilogy. Christ!
She is so easily summed up: choreographer, violinist, singer, visual artist, language scholar, dancer, storyteller, keyboardist, cultural scholar, performance artist. All done at the highest level. There is no one like her.
Don't forget inventor.
You forgot Beautiful
since you seem to know her well..... what are her performance meant to say? i find them pretty fascinating,i just don t get the point most of the times :D ....uh, i guess that s what Genius mean ,by the way, unique artist that s for sure, today there s no existence of someone like this
@@ACCH-cm9ou Laurie Anderson has no single message. She finds delight in many different topics. A topic she has given unusual attention to is language and communications. I agree with you about her being a genius.
@@ACCH-cm9ou Actually, She is giving ALL THE SECRETS away. Either She is, or is channeling, the Woman I call "The Lady of the Land." She either is, or she is channeling, who I call, "The Great Teacher". But no. She knows too much! No, She is certainly THE LADY OF THE LAND! You can't get any higher than that, BECAUSE, LOOK at her!!! She's on the Earth!!!! She has a damn chicken strict rule -- "NO FEET ON THE EARTH!!!" This concert is a sure sign she's getting ' t h e m ' back. 😄 ☝
I had seen this movie in the 80s and I fell in love with it. When she went to do a show in Brazil, in 1989, my sister was a journalist and I asked her for a pass at a press conference that was going to happen at the hotel (Meridien). I was 22 years old. For some reason my sister got me a 15-30 minute interview with her. It was me and a friend of mine, daughter of an American. I'll never forget that. She [Laurie Anderson] was tremendously cordial. We sat at a table by the pool and we had 15-30 minutes with her (I don't recall how much time, but it was enough). We told that we were college students doing a research. I do not remember everything, but I remember talking about the "Radar" song and asking if she felt lonely, hence why she made the song. She responded something like this: "I'll tell you a story... When I toured in the East (Japan IIRC), I went there with a high expectation that I would experience a spiritually advanced culture, that I would learn a new culture, that I would bring a spiritual experience back home. But at the end of the day what I brought back from the trip were souvenirs [hats and stuff] that I exchanged with the people I met. In the end we are like isolated islands, and what I'm talking to you right now I cannot be sure that your understanding the way I mean, and what you talk to me about, you cannot be sure that I understand the way you want it. All we can do is to live in our own way and do not expect anything from others".
That was more or less like it. I have never forgotten the experience of interviewing her, and to this day, at the age of 50, I consider her explanation to be meaningful. She is an amazing artist and she made a mark in my youth. Props to her. I listen to her music to this day. In fact I'm listening to it right now.
cool story, thanks for sharing
Sure, my pleasure
That is an excellent story, and i find it especially resonates with me, living in Japan all these years.
Beautiful, cherish these moments!
Lucky you!
This show is so effing brilliant. Over 30 years later and I'm still in awe of her talent.
"Took the fucking words right out of my mouth" / Bradley Mitchum
Upon receiving a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2024 Laurie Anderson (Queen of the avant-garde & Lou Reed’s widow) commented: “I’m Glad to See They’re Softening on ‘Experimental Stuff’.”
It may be news to some of you but this was completely out of circulation (unavailable) for over a decade due to some copyright beef or other. It was such a joy to find it again.
I have watched Home of The Brave at least 25 times. I NEVER tire of Laurie Anderson's creativity and conceptualizations! What an amazing artist!
Thank You Laurie Anderson!
And here she is, in 2020, in Aotearoa New Zealand as an elder leader for our annual national Arts Festival.
Truly humbled.
Lovely! Lucky NZ!
Cool!
Is there any footage?
I know there are a lot of people who wouldn't consider this music, or even consider it art.
I'm SO glad I'm not one of those people.
Well then they're are idiots aren't they?
They like mumble rap or Taylor Swift
It’s art but not my thing
What pathetic snobery
Maybe a few people who don't even know you honestly care about what you think of Laurie Anderson's music, but I really doubt anybody care about what you think about people who don't appreciate her music and about the fact you are glad not being one of them. As Julesacu commented, you are a pathetic snob.
“Language is a virus from outer space.”
This concert is so fucking brilliant, I’ve loved since the first time seeing it in the theater.
The whole thing is a surrealistic dreamscape from start to finish, but my single favorite piece has to be the extraordinary Late Show, twenty minutes in. While Adrian and Dick trade dreamy solos back and forth over a delicate syncopated groove, their silhouettes pantomime various movie cliches on a giant television screen behind them; meanwhile down in front, Laurie, on her famous tape-bow violin, riffs a sample of William S. Burroughs drawling “Listen-to-my-heart-beat”. Then-as if all that wasn’t trippy enough-she goes offstage only to re-emerge, strolling in a slow dance with the ACTUAL William S. Burroughs!! They strut through the song for a bit, before Laurie returns to the tape-bow for one last vocalization of Burroughs’ dry taped request.
It’s only four minutes long, but it’s a perfect distillation of the whole performance. Just sublime.
Her violin is made from audio tape and a playhead. She is genius. Different tape for different occasions. I used to make audio cassette's for Producers tape Service in Troy Michigan. It is a beautiful thing. Everything from 4 minute to 120 minute chrome cassettes. I loved it.
I'm just discovering this now! Mind is blown. Nobody does live shows quite like this today
Not the same style, but Oliver Tree's live shows are this involved.
@@dresdenvisage Seriously? I'll have to take a look
@@Spectoral_on_SPOTIFY I believe there's a recording of his show at Red Rocks that should be amazing. I haven't watched yet because I get to see him live in February and I don't want spoilers.
Same and same!!!!
She's a genius! I love her
10/10 first time I'm hearing this genius at work. WOW!
Thank you to Laurie Anderson for this brilliant performance.
Possibly the most profound and influential concert ever. The highest level of performance and musicianship along side of experimentation .....
Oh I don't know. IMHO "United States I-IV" was much more revelatory and interesting at the time. Also better structured.
I dunno man. Stop Making Sense ring a bell?
In fact, I believe at the time she explicitly tried to copy the look of Stop Making Sense by making as much of the tech machinery as possible not visible on the stage. Which was expensive and hard to do.
@@WardCo There's a live video concert as well from Peter Gabriel my buddy(who's never seen S.M.S) tried to wow me on. Same deal. Their template was S.M.S..Laurie is pretty interesting tho
I saw her in the "Home of the Brave" tour in 1989, I think it was. In the lobby of the theatre we got packets of Laurie-designed postcards featuring quotations from the show with amazing artwork, plus weird things like instructions on how to cook a hotdog using electrical wiring. Check out her video "Home of the Brave" to get a glimpse of what we experienced. She was the whole package: artist, writer, musician, comedian, inventor, dancer. Politically important, too. I've followed almost all of her work: it's changed my life forever.
I had a friend who wrote software for her in the 1980s. I thought that was the coolest job description I'd ever heard.
A few years ago I played her albums Big Science, Mr. Heartbreak and Strange Angels for my 14-yr-old great niece. I wasn't sure if they would have an impact or not. My great niece was so enthralled that when she went home, she immediately loaded all three albums into her Spotify playlist.
Awesome.
32 years on and it still gives me goosebumps. Amazing.
Laurie Anderson is a brilliant and unique artist. People will be in love with her performances for many years to come.
I friggin love this.
I was lucky enough to see this show! Still gives me goosebumps! LOVE HER
One word for this: Timeless.
Ladies and Gentlemen, ADRIAN BELEW!
over 30 years old, and STILL, ahead of its time........Miss Laurie. :)
April 1984, Constitution Hall D.C., will never forget. Best Concert Ever
One of the all-time best concert flicks, along with Stop Making Sense, and The Last Waltz. Add Oingo Boingo’s Farewell, and we could have an argument!
Best comment ever, having only seen 2 of those 3! So now I guess I have to watch "Farewell" LOL!
It's not a concert, it's a performance!....😉
Thank you to Laurie Anderson for this fantastic art.
This is one of the finest pieces of performance art the 80's turned out!
Indeed it is !!!!!
our world is a wonderful place if Laurie Anderson can be like she is
Laurie Anderson has the most beautiful voice.
So soothing...
37 years later. I am still in awe of this performance. "National Treasure" Laurie Anderson... White Lily
A guy I was living with in the 80s had this on constant rotation for months. It is the most amazing piece of work. I felt it was "ahead of its time" then. It still sounds ahead of its time now.
Agree - it's music of the future that stays fresh over the years.
I’m hearing it for the first time in 2021 and it still feels futuristic.
Timeless.............truly timeless. Loved it back then, and still love it now!
That's makesfeel younger every time i'am listening too my fifeteen years old music discovering.
i was one of the audience extras for this film - it was shot in a mostly empty theater in union city, nj, but movie magic makes it feel like a packed house. despite having to shoot many takes of each song, the audience were absolutely thrilled at every moment. if the crowd noise sounds TOO enthusiastic in the film, thats because were honestly were!
Wow this brings back memories. Belew on fretless guitar is amazing
I've actually met her - was at the premiere of her opera Moby Dick in Dallas in 2000 - and gave her a portrait of Andy Kaufman I did for her... she talks about touring with Andy and being a planted heckler in the audience when he used to wrestle women... she said something in one of her pieces like " I always expected to see Andy again..." and she did :)
After all these years this concert is still giving me goosebumps and let me cry of pure happiness. Unfortunately I've never had the chance to see Laurie live...
Happy tears! I have the laser disk, record and cassette . Best thing ever
Thank you for sharing this performance. It's so wonderful, poetical and futuristic. Superb musicians, especially Belew.
Saw this live and still love it like it's yesterday. What an amazing mind, musician, mench!
OMG!!! I found it again. I lost my VHS of it in the late 90's and have looked from time to time ever since for a copy. Would LOVE to have a DVD. Back in the day, I showed it to as many friends as I could talk into it - they made endless fun of me for liking this so much. LOL I get to see it again in now, in 2018, and I'm still bowled over by the sheer ART of her concept and performance! Thank you for posting this!
Saw this show in Los Angeles...most amazing performance I have ever seen...true genius
Is the 911 reference a coincidence? Was this performance really recorded in 1986?
I saw this performance in 1985.....I think it was released in 1986..
wow...Lucky you!!!!
Jealous!
Me too! ..Stellar Artist...A greeting from Italy
THE ABSOLUTE GENIUS OF LAURIE ANDERSON !!!
Brilliant. I saw her a couple of weeks after 9-11. I never had such chills in my life when the lights faded.
I met Sharkey once by the shore in the Florida Keys. He helped me heal my broken heart. Love can't kill me, he said, never has never will.
The best hour and a half I ever spent.
Well spent here too!
This is fantastic. I have always wanted to see this wonderful film. Laurie Anderson has brought unlimited joy to many people's lives through her art.
Laurie Anderson was simply too far ahead in time for most people to understand her music. 40 years later, I want more. Laurieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee where are youuuuuu? 10, 9. 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, come out wherever you are and give us a new video.
She has a new project premiering in Manchester uk in Nov 2024
loved her since 1980, used to have this on VHS, so grateful to have it once again, thank you mucho!
You really have to love CZcams. I saw this--on Cinemax, I think--back in, like, 1987, and have thought about it countless times. _Countless_ times. It was so cutting edge, it stands the test of time. I've seen her a couple of times since then, on different shows or whatever, and my memory always snaps back to this. What a wonderfully original artist!
I had this on VHS and I watched it so much that I wore out the tape. Love ya, Laurie. You are Awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! My favorite song is Kokoku
I saw this in the theater when it was first released, and just finished watching it again. I am always surprised that it never makes Top Ten Best Concert Films lists. A dazzling piece of work.
A fabulous video.
Feel like I could die in peace when Ive watched and listend to this masterwork every time
God I love this. I had this thoroughly memorized and all comes flooding back. 😊
One of many things I and my first wife had in common was the taste for 'different' music and musicians like Laurie Anderson.
When 'Home of the brave' movie came to a theatre in the city we lived, of course we rushed to the cinema (big queue...).
During our first trip to Europe, I found out that there was a concert of hers in Hamburg. We managed to get two of the last available tickets. :)
Laurie Anderson has always been an experimentalist musician, and I think one of her greatest moments is when she managed to make a 'machine' say: 'Listen to my heart beat'...
Brilliant, my fave ‼️
I had heard “O Superman” when I was about 8; I saw her on SNL when I was about 11; this film hooked me in totally when I was 14 (soundtrack was at the local library)...
Ms. Anderson, I thank you from the bottom of my weird heart!
Gosh, has it really been 30+ years since this was released? Hard to believe that much time has passed! I taped this off of Bravo years ago but the tape is no more. Wonderful seeing it again! Thank you so much for sharing this, and in such high quality, too! Great job!
I heard the album back then but not the movie. BRILLIANT.
The gentleman who plays woodwinds and saxophone in this concert (featured prominently after "Smoke Rings") is Mr. Dicky Landry. Highly recommend his album "Fifteen Saxophones." Recorded at The Kitchen, it's remarkable proto-drone music.
Laurie refers to " Smoke Rings " in one of her videos here too. There were so many remarkable collaborations with Greats that it's hard to discern where one begins or ends with another.
My greatest Concert see ever, have see the Show in Frankfurt, so great👍👏
A great artist, at the peak of her powers! One of the biggest mysteries to me is that it's still not on dvd. I imagine how great the BluRay would look and sound. Does ANYONE know why she's never released the dvd of this show? ☮
Magnificent. Timeless. ART.
Este show de Laurie Anderson, Stop making sense de Talking Heads y "los sonetos de shakespeare" de Phillip Glass, Lucinda Childs y Bob Wilson....lo mejor que he visto. Gracias por compartir!
Wow 🤩
I've been looking for this since 1986
Many thanks 👍👍👍
Love this. Absolutely brilliant. Blew me away when I first saw it years ago and it still blows me away.
I so wish they'd release this on DVD. This is one of the reasons I've kept my LaserDisc player...
I remember seeing this on Bravo in the early 90's. Glad to finally be able to watch it again after all of these years. Love her work.
She invented all of her instruments (except the obvious ones). She is very creative. I love her style. Anyone can sing and play and instrument. She does HELLA more! Rock on Laurie. I have been a fan of your music since 1988. MUCH LOVE!
This is excellent, especially the ensemble choreography. Watching this makes me think that this level of creativity cannot be found in a lot of recent music. Love the way Adrian Belew comes into focus at 6:28. Just an indication that a genius like Laurie attracts artists of a certain caliber to work with her.
Relationship... Check it out online. There may be more information on theirs.
Agree. Laurie attract stellar musicians and Adrian Belew is a good example.
Man, I wish I could've been there. Thanks for preserving this for the future! :D
Wow I can remember playing the soundtrack to this in my first apartment in 1986 but I have never seen this .
I’ve seen her in Barcelona in the early 90s...and I still remember the night!
Saw this brilliant artist last week and she still slays. ❤️
SUCH brilliance! As others here have said, this was one of the peak artistic experiences of my life. I saw this live in Boston, a few years back... And got literally hypnotized by the repetitive video of the flying birds coupled with the repeating chorus. Took me hours to come down. Thank you so much for promoting it here -- and in a reasonable bitrate, too. Ya done good.
Thank for posting this performance. I was entranced as a teenager watching this on MTV! I have loved her ever since! Performance Art at its finest!
Pure brilliance
This is the reason why I am alive! So humbeling to se creativity like this! My heart beats faster now!
Saw this show at the DAR Constitution Hall, Washington DC, 1984...thanks for uploading this great performance!
There is no word to explain how amazing this is. But portuguese subtitles would be just fine so I could show i to my beloved ones here in Brazil 🥺
Long ago a dear friend brought Laurie's song to me, and I hung on for dear life...
In the 80s, we would listen to Laurie while tripping on LSD. We love and loved her.
Thank you, thank you, thank you.
one of the best....I had forgotten how far out there this is....Burroughs has the most interesting voice.....a whole trip
PERFECT!!!
Great backing vocals.....
Needs to be remastered so can be watched on high def!!!
Needs to be preserved as is as a document of the times, the technology and the cultural acceptance of a lot of things that now are considered taboo. Not Everything Needs to be improved for convenient viewing
@@RIXRADvidz RixRad... I'll get slammed but that's how I feel about this current obsession with removing historic statues. Reminds me of Nazi Germany calling/destroying things deemed deviant art and burning books. As we evolve we need not be in denial of our past. We can look it in the eye and not be it. Maybe it could help us learn from our mistakes? Not romantacise or reminisce the past but LEARN ?
Avrei voluto essere li!!
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Why they have NEVER released this on DVD or Blu-ray? Just Laserdisc and a few copies on VHS ? This is superb, a masterpiece.
Thanks Keith for introducing me to Laurie Anderson way back in 1985.
One of my favorite movies of all time. Thank you for the upload!
She was my favorite in the 80s. I've listened to her more than any other artist ever. She is the most amazing talent I've ever enjoyed. There is and will never be another her. Ild school ear phones a candle and a trip like no other. I love you and will forever remember you.
laurie is the best.....and where ever there is "best" there is adrian belew
Beyond brilliant! Steven. H. Is a mere child.
This is what I imagine an Enya concert would be like ... on 10 hits of ACID ! This is absolutely brilliant!
I can neither confirm nor deny that this vcr tape in The 80s did provide a wonderful acid test 3 or 4 times lol.
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I Love this show. I did not have the chance to get it VHS. But I hope I'll get it on dvd!
This concert film came out just over two years after the Talking Heads film Stop Making Sense. Having the two female singers is the obvious similarity, but outside of that, this film is a document of Anderson's unique music and performance.
The Laurie Anderson world wide Family. She speaks to us all, so eloquently . Welcome Brothers and Sisters.
What an amazing experience.
I saw this show when it toured many years ago. Wonderful show but, in a surreal ironic touch, I saw it in the closest theater to Chicago, where I lived at the time. This theater happened to be in Indiana (the state immediately east of Illinois for the geographically impaired). The theater was a part of a Holiday Inn hotel chain and was either close to or connected with a casino. It was (and May still be) the kind of place where you could book an extended weekend with wife and/or family and get a nice hotel room, room service or an on-site restaurant, swimming pool, proximity to casino and other local attractions. It also promised a top rate Vegas like show. But a glance at the program revealed that this a program designed for people who like “Both kinds of music, country AND western”, a quote familiar with the cult movie “The Blues Brothers”. Long story short, the names on the program included names like Conway Twitty, Tammy Wynette, etc. Now, the name “Laurie Anderson” sounds much like the two syllable easily pronounced that one encounters in the mid to southern Midwest of America. After finding our seats in the nicely designed theater I took an anecdotal survey of my fellow theater goers. Men and women, about 18 to perhaps 60 years old. Most were very nicely dressed but, to my eye, it looked like a “Gone With the Wind” costume party. Everyone was well behaved (the two teen girls just in front of our second row balcony seats, when asked, kindly took off their hats whose circumferences were about 2 feet across) so we could see the show. While everyone listened politely, I haven’t seen such lost, “what the hell is this..?” Faces since I saw Krzystof Penderecki at Orchestra Hall with his Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra. A look at that audience suggested that they, dressed as if to attend a Polish National Alliance function, were expecting Polish Folk Song Melodie’s, not the high modernism of this truly world class conductor and composer, whose music effectively scared the hell out of people when it was used in “The Shining”. I was entertained by the audience’s reactions in both cases. Laurie Anderson wasn’t even remotely country and, in the Penderecki concert the audience would have felt more at home with a polka band or folk ensemble sound.
I don't know why you didn't just see it at the Auditorium Theater in Chicago. I saw it there two straight nights, and then again in Milwaukee. Hey der!
Thank you for posting this wonderful performance..Amazing sound quality too....been a ‘fan’ since ‘o Superman’ but sadly never got to see her live....Adrian Belew too!!!
Adrian was everywhere between 1978 and 1984 - Zappa, Bowie, the Talking Heads (he totally changed their sound!), King Crimson and Laurie Anderson! He's a genius in his own right.
@@randyeisensmith1483 I agree Belew is a genius but I think the man who played the biggest part in changing their sound was Brian Eno
@@glynnwadeson5605 Brian Eno "played" bands like Jimi Hendrix played the guitar. Why that guy isn't in the R&R Hall of Fame is a complete travesty. You're correct. He turned the Talking Heads and U2 into superstars, to name a few. And let's not forget Bowie's Berlin trilogy. Christ!
Yes, Eno had a huge (and unrecognised) influence in U.K. and with some Key US artists.