TS - Laurie Anderson vs. Gil Scott-Heron

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or, The Big Science Will Not Be Televised

― paul cox (paul cox), Sunday, 2 March 2003 07:50 (twenty-two years ago)

They had a baby didn't they?

Kara Walker.

― maria b (maria b), Sunday, 2 March 2003 15:33 (twenty-two years ago)

I think there's actually a lot more music by Gil Scott-Heron that I'd be interested in listening to than there is by Laurie Anderson. It's not entirely a fair comparison, though, since Anderson's work is so multi-media. I remember seeing an exhibition of her works, some involving sound, at Philadelphia's ICA a long time ago and being favorably impressde overall, but I haven't liked any recordings I've heard by her for many years.

(Maybe Charlie Morrow was right: she should have done more with the tape-bow violin and not gone for such an epic scale. Or maybe he was just envious of her bank account.)

― A Music Consumer, Sunday, 2 March 2003 16:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Wow --- great thread. As much as I love Mz. Anderson, GSH simply has more tunes. Pieces of a Man trumps Big Science by a country mile, tho' Anderson is refreshingly free of righteous indignation....which gets a bit tiring in GSH's work.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 2 March 2003 16:49 (twenty-two years ago)

"O Superman," "Strange Angels," and every story off of The Ugly One With the Jewels? Gotta go with Laurie.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Sunday, 2 March 2003 21:55 (twenty-two years ago)

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