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atari 2600 · 04.25.2008, 05:34 PM

You're the Guy I Want to Share My Money With (the split release with Burroughs and Giorno) contains some United States Live. Ubuweb has the whole, raw thing for download or streaming.
http://www.ubu.com/sound/guy.html

As essential as Big Science is, and I do recommend it as perhaps her best overall, United States Live I-IV, the four-disc compression of the six-hour BAM performance piece, is a must as well. Big Science, in many ways, is a further compression of this piece worked up as a single-disc studio album.

Mister Heartbreak (a fan favorite for many) and the live (they share some material) Home of the Brave soundtrack are more musical. It's tough to say which you may like best.

I'd recommend viewing Home of the Brave. There's also a Collected Videos release on VHS. Both are, at long last, getting the dvd treatment soon with extras. Also forthcoming is a boxed set of videos and rarities.

One that I think people would like is the spared-down, anecdote and tale-based The Ugly One With the Jewels And Other Stories. It's a charmer from a live concert. Whereas Live at Town Hall is probably more indicated ifyou're already a fan.

And, as mentioned previously in the thread, Bright Red has some interesting textures, but there's more than a fair amount of misses in there too; "The Puppet Motel" from that one has some monster bass. Similarly, her first foray into real singing on Strange Angels (her most in times and at parts conventionally musical album as well) is not all fully conceived, but on "The Day The Devil," the track more suited to her range, the result is particularly sweet. Some of the other ones are hauntingly beautiful though, even if she isn't technically much of a good singer. Somehow, I think that Strange Angels, which came out in '89, may be the album that some of you first heard, and yeah, I can understand dismissal in that case. I was a fan, and I felt let down by it myself back then.

Accompanied by a group of performers that handle much of the vocal duties and originally planned as a release, her Songs And Stories From Moby Dick only exists as a two-disc FM from an '00 Barbican Theater performance, but it's well worth seeking.

The new one, Homeland, appears this summer.

So, that's that...for what it's worth. Although, someone that labels Laurie as "tripe" obviously is hearing her on a very surface level complete with biases and preconceived notions anyways and not really absorbing the "difficult music" on much of a meaningful level. As listeners know, she often artfully employs humor, lest her themes become too preachy (the newest one, "Only An Expert," is much more directly preachy than usual). And as flippant as Laurie may seem at times, she is an artist with a genuine vision and, as an inspirational exception to the rule, she is truly sincere and vigilant which is something that cannot be stated about too many others so conclusively.

04.25.2008, 05:34 PM	#80
atari 2600 invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 8,213	You're the Guy I Want to Share My Money With (the split release with Burroughs and Giorno) contains some United States Live. Ubuweb has the whole, raw thing for download or streaming. http://www.ubu.com/sound/guy.html As essential as Big Science is, and I do recommend it as perhaps her best overall, United States Live I-IV, the four-disc compression of the six-hour BAM performance piece, is a must as well. Big Science, in many ways, is a further compression of this piece worked up as a single-disc studio album. Mister Heartbreak (a fan favorite for many) and the live (they share some material) Home of the Brave soundtrack are more musical. It's tough to say which you may like best. I'd recommend viewing Home of the Brave. There's also a Collected Videos release on VHS. Both are, at long last, getting the dvd treatment soon with extras. Also forthcoming is a boxed set of videos and rarities. One that I think people would like is the spared-down, anecdote and tale-based The Ugly One With the Jewels And Other Stories. It's a charmer from a live concert. Whereas Live at Town Hall is probably more indicated ifyou're already a fan. And, as mentioned previously in the thread, Bright Red has some interesting textures, but there's more than a fair amount of misses in there too; "The Puppet Motel" from that one has some monster bass. Similarly, her first foray into real singing on Strange Angels (her most in times and at parts conventionally musical album as well) is not all fully conceived, but on "The Day The Devil," the track more suited to her range, the result is particularly sweet. Some of the other ones are hauntingly beautiful though, even if she isn't technically much of a good singer. Somehow, I think that Strange Angels, which came out in '89, may be the album that some of you first heard, and yeah, I can understand dismissal in that case. I was a fan, and I felt let down by it myself back then. Accompanied by a group of performers that handle much of the vocal duties and originally planned as a release, her Songs And Stories From Moby Dick only exists as a two-disc FM from an '00 Barbican Theater performance, but it's well worth seeking. The new one, Homeland, appears this summer. So, that's that...for what it's worth. Although, someone that labels Laurie as "tripe" obviously is hearing her on a very surface level complete with biases and preconceived notions anyways and not really absorbing the "difficult music" on much of a meaningful level. As listeners know, she often artfully employs humor, lest her themes become too preachy (the newest one, "Only An Expert," is much more directly preachy than usual). And as flippant as Laurie may seem at times, she is an artist with a genuine vision and, as an inspirational exception to the rule, she is truly sincere and vigilant which is something that cannot be stated about too many others so conclusively.
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