Laurie Anderson: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert

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  • @JacksonBloomston
    @JacksonBloomston 3 ปีที่แล้ว +584

    We may not deserve Laurie, but the world sure needs her.

    • @EastmanD
      @EastmanD 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      isn't that the frickin' truth !!!

    • @frankalfar
      @frankalfar 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      I'm hoping she's working on the pandemic world as she sees it........it she sees all of the frailties....

    • @lazysingledaisybronwyn8105
      @lazysingledaisybronwyn8105 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Jackson, perfectly said.

    • @drdalewisely
      @drdalewisely 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      As much as Laurie Anderson is appreciated, Laurie Anderson is under-appreciated.

    • @lazysingledaisybronwyn8105
      @lazysingledaisybronwyn8105 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@drdalewisely always ahead of time, very primordial and perfect NOW. So, blossom ...

  • @shannondudley3757
    @shannondudley3757 3 ปีที่แล้ว +737

    Im a 56 year old man covered in battle scars from a life lived hard, . . .and i just cried for 18 minutes straight. Tears for the 16 boy that loved Laurie Anderson. Transcendent. ❤

    • @ortem000
      @ortem000 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      💖💖💖

    • @JacksonBloomston
      @JacksonBloomston 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      I’m in tears too

    • @giovannitala4452
      @giovannitala4452 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      I was there crying with you...literally

    • @charlesfaggart8179
      @charlesfaggart8179 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Half your age and I’m crying with you. Hoping I have an opportunity to earn more battle scars along the way to age 56. An unscarred body is a sign of a boring life.

    • @narq5099
      @narq5099 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      I have that same nostalgia. Not crying, but smiling widely- from my heart to my face.

  • @markburman57
    @markburman57 3 ปีที่แล้ว +331

    I randomly throw in the line "He may have been a hat check clerk at an ice rink" in conversation, and while nobody ever knows what I am talking about, it makes me happy. Saw Laurie A in Princeton NJ sometime around '84

    • @davidjordan84
      @davidjordan84 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      I do a lot of public speaking, and I constantly use that entire lyric to test the sound system. You're right: no one ever knows, and they often think it was written specifically for practicing enunciation or testing PA systems.

    • @KimBLloyd1
      @KimBLloyd1 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      o mai. i must use this .

    • @patrotten1284
      @patrotten1284 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I saw her 4 times. Twice in Buenos Aires, 1992...Madrid 2007 playing with Lou Reed, and the last time, Buenos Aires 2015...And waiting for the next time🔥❤️❤️🎇🎇🎶

    • @tarablue05
      @tarablue05 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      my go to line is "thinking about the ham and cheese sandwiches in the other room." lol

    • @duraosunda
      @duraosunda 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Try it again in a Beyonce discussion forum, you may have better chances.

  • @PassengerMX
    @PassengerMX 2 ปีที่แล้ว +43

    O Superman is the song that cracked my mind open to the beauty and power of music. My life was one before seeing this come up on MTV and another one after.

  • @bernlin2000
    @bernlin2000 2 ปีที่แล้ว +117

    This woman is just working on a different level, what else can you say? True living artwork.

  • @arthurhermann9187
    @arthurhermann9187 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +38

    I was incredibly fortunate to meet Laurie Anderson at UC Davis when I was an undergraduate there about 1978. She was brought in as a visiting guest artist. She was relatively Unknown at that point and those of us who were fortunate enough to hear her lecture and take part in an answer question session, we’re pretty blown away, just by what she said, and how she thought. Later that evening, she performed for us in a room which held about 150 people. We stumbled out of there, stunned by her amazing performance and more importantly, the concepts presented and the unique way she presented them. Probably the most exceptional artistic experience I have ever experienced, and I will forever be grateful for it.

  • @hugobosscpt
    @hugobosscpt 12 วันที่ผ่านมา +8

    Oh my goodness. I just discovered Laurie and I'm OBSESSED! Wow!

  • @cameron4599
    @cameron4599 3 ปีที่แล้ว +61

    The magic is still radiating from her eyes. Her facial expressions ALWAYS fascinated me. Oh, I do love this artist.

  • @BecauseSymbols
    @BecauseSymbols 3 ปีที่แล้ว +256

    Big Science was my mother’s house-cleaning album for most of my childhood.

    • @yvettedouglass4642
      @yvettedouglass4642 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      That is soooo cool!

    • @dudleybarker2273
      @dudleybarker2273 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Stan bless your mother :)

    • @JF-kv1gm
      @JF-kv1gm ปีที่แล้ว

      Would love to have lived in your house!

    • @SpecialMutt14
      @SpecialMutt14 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      i think that i would have liked your mother

    • @jojosfunkythreads
      @jojosfunkythreads 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Lucky you.

  • @jmittell
    @jmittell 3 ปีที่แล้ว +153

    This was beautiful, and it's particularly poignant to hear Laurie singing "O Superman" in a duet with her own voice from 40 years ago.

  • @anthonyhope2924
    @anthonyhope2924 2 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    To the people I loved, to the people I hurt, so many years ago, when we listened and conversed to Laurie Anderson. I am home now.

  • @tarrahassin3796
    @tarrahassin3796 3 ปีที่แล้ว +191

    Laurie Anderson was the soundtrack to living room dancing and laughing with my mom in the 80's. Smart, sardonic, irreverent-- such a seminal musical experience for a kid!

    • @meggyblue3348
      @meggyblue3348 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      Snapperoo! But swap the living room for holiday car journeys.
      Thanks for shaping our childhoods and subsequent adult openness and embrace of the weird and wonderful.
      Sending this to my mum and sister now 😊

    • @65TossTrap
      @65TossTrap 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Ya want to clear out a room? Put on a Laurie Anderson album in the eighties. Concert at Va Tech auditorium May 1981. After everyone ran out of the hall with their hands on their ears she let me read a weather report into her echo machine.

    • @AnimeCatLady69
      @AnimeCatLady69 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Thank you so much for sharing this story I hope to share Laurie with my kids when I’m a mother :))

    • @tarrahassin3796
      @tarrahassin3796 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@65TossTrap That's funny.

    • @helenkusek2297
      @helenkusek2297 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Raised my kids on Laurie!

  • @JF-kv1gm
    @JF-kv1gm 3 ปีที่แล้ว +92

    One of my regrets is not "getting" Laurie Anderson all those years ago. Still, better late than not at all. She was aeons ahead of the rest of the pack. Love this woman. 😍🙏🤗

    • @dudleybarker2273
      @dudleybarker2273 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      you don't get Laurie... she gets you :)

  • @user-tx2ri3vv5t
    @user-tx2ri3vv5t 2 ปีที่แล้ว +56

    In 1981, my high school classmate Ted handed me an LP and said, "I think you'll like this."
    What an understatement. I put it on the turntable and was mesmerized as I listed to it four times straight. Laurie Anderson opened my eyes to storytelling, melody and harmony in ways I hadn't previously considered. I made a point of seeing her in concert every 5 years or so for decades.
    It's an absolute pleasure to see Roma Baran and Rubin Kodheli perform.
    Thank you for many years of beauty and joy.

  • @Del-Lebo
    @Del-Lebo 2 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    Happy Tears from a 55 year old who was formed and inspired by Laurie. Such happy tears and strength!

  • @MrDisasterboy
    @MrDisasterboy 3 ปีที่แล้ว +134

    This is gratifying in every way except instantly. Hilarious, trivial and playful yet profound, insightful and revelatory. Abstract but emotional, nonsensical but considered.
    She said it to no-one, but everyone listened.

    • @af7748
      @af7748 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Excellent liner note 💕 MrDisasterboy

    • @BailelaVida
      @BailelaVida 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@af7748 Fully agree with ashly!

    • @improziv
      @improziv 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Great comment

    • @fishbear999
      @fishbear999 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Wonderful

    • @nternetrat
      @nternetrat ปีที่แล้ว

      mm

  • @weareallstardust1859
    @weareallstardust1859 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    Laurie has a singular voice that is the personification of art in America. She is the epidome of innovation & authenticity, the true embodiment of love & compassion, while managing to remain totally unassuming. By my estimation, she sits at the apex of genuine humanness. I'm incredibly grateful that she exists, because she reminds me that the negativity & hate of our current paradigm is not our ultimate fate, but a bump in the road. Laurie Anderson is my North star, and I will follow her path to find my way home.

  • @johnquattrociocchi2639
    @johnquattrociocchi2639 3 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    I’ve been on this earth for 40+ years. How am I now just discovering the musical genius which is Laurie Anderson?

  • @robertsnyder995
    @robertsnyder995 2 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    I almost never comment on anything TH-cam, but I cannot help but express my love and appreciation for Ms. Anderson, as a fellow musician, artist, and visionary. She is unique, truly one of a kind. By the way, I was not hinting that I am a visionary.

  • @imlxh7126
    @imlxh7126 3 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    i. can NOT get over how happy i am that laurie's still making music. if there is any force in the universe to bless anyone, may it bless her.

  • @PentameronSV
    @PentameronSV 3 ปีที่แล้ว +115

    0:00 - *Let x=x* (6:20)
    7:32 - *Violin Cello Improv*
    [8:41] - *O Superman* (17:40)
    [17:55 - Tiny Desk team]

    • @yumenodaidokoro
      @yumenodaidokoro 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      0:15 me 🥰

    • @sloanlance
      @sloanlance ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Thanks! This needs to be added to the video description or NPR should pin it to the top of the comments.

    • @chinesecrested9528
      @chinesecrested9528 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Thank you

  • @popetones7400
    @popetones7400 3 ปีที่แล้ว +33

    What an incredible suprise...unbelievably welcome

  • @nope-z5y
    @nope-z5y 3 ปีที่แล้ว +62

    Well, that was an unexpected treat.

  • @garyrichardson475
    @garyrichardson475 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    Two years after the fact, I just stumbled upon this. This trio is great and Laurie Anderson still has the same punch to her music as she had 45 years ago.

    • @AustinTXSlasher
      @AustinTXSlasher ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Yep, I just stumbled upon this Tiny Desk performance myself, and I really loved it.

  • @martinmaccauley
    @martinmaccauley 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I'm 62 and was gob smacked when I first saw Home Of The Brave back in the late 80's. I'd loved O Superman and still have my single but I'd not followed Laurie at all until giving in and watching this Tiny Desk Home Concert. As I watched I was taken at how Laurie still carries her youthfulness. I closed my eyes during O Superman and revelled in the wondrous aural soundscape. Thank you Laurie for opening up my mind.

  • @susie8799
    @susie8799 8 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    Laurie Anderson is one of the most brilliant minds ever. Truly a once in a lifetime artist.

  • @elysionfields121
    @elysionfields121 3 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    Her music and art knows no time...no dimension....thank you Laurie.

  • @108grog
    @108grog 3 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    Her delivery (timing) is impeccable. And the word rhythm, .... all of a piece, ... the aesthetic, the style, ... the pièce de résistance .
    Epic, iconic, laurie is a cosmic gift.

  • @jimnotman6902
    @jimnotman6902 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Laurie Anderson has always been an enigmatic warm blanket for me. I have to listen with my peripheral vision, if I look at her art straight on it usually doesn’t make sense. But later on, after it seeps into my subconscious - I get it (clarity) as I pet the dog or taking out the trash…

    • @umdesch4
      @umdesch4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      This makes a strange kind of sense. I've been listening to her works again recently. Somehow, across the 5 albums I have, like muscle memory, I know every word of every line, right before she says it. It just seeps into your brain, even though you can't pin down exactly what any of it means.

  • @1saregare1
    @1saregare1 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I just saw her tonight, we had a 10 second audience scream session and the one encore song had everyone doing tai chi moves. Unforgettable concert for sure.

  • @robertochiang8057
    @robertochiang8057 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    I've lived the last 40 years loving Laurie. (I have bought all her albums, but have seen her live just ONE time). She, Roma (and me) have white hair now, but that doesn't matter, the music (and the feeling) is always strong. Thanks for allowing me to see her today!!!

  • @louisew6395
    @louisew6395 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Used to rock my son to sleep to X=X 34 years ago. He is expecting his own baby now and alerted me to this concert. Laurie's magic is vast and generational and divine and she makes me cry at her sheer genius. Thank you.

  • @TaliaSheaLevin
    @TaliaSheaLevin 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    O Superman was my top played song of 2020. Thank you, Laurie.

  • @dm1787
    @dm1787 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    I remember hearing O Superman on my turntable for the first time sitting in my darkened room in mid 80s from my grad student days. It was other worldly. Even though I don't get to listen to her much these days it is one of those hauntingly beautiful precious experiences that surfaces in my memory time to time and takes me back trying to relive that first time feeling. Had a chance to see her live couple of times many years ago. Remember listening to Strange Angels, Girl in a Red Dress for so many times. Now I am seeing her for the first time in a very long time. Everybody I liked and knew has grown older. Very glad to see she is still performing.

  • @magicjoeblack5761
    @magicjoeblack5761 3 ปีที่แล้ว +36

    I've been listening in rapt awe to this amazing woman for almost four decades and she has just reminded why and left my jaw hanging. Again. Total love and respect to Ms Anderson and the mighty NPR, the life-affirming soundtrack to my lockdown.

  • @makeperceive
    @makeperceive ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I think in decades to come the world will look back on Laurie Anderson with more appreciation than now. I know she's an icon, but I think she's underrated. She was way ahead of her time and I'm sure she fought against sexism and patriarchy her whole career. What a powerful woman. Superman

  • @annabrac
    @annabrac 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Oh, Ms. Anderson ❤ When I was a kid (16 or some, now 52), I was lucky to meet "Big Science" for the first time. And it opened some beautiful doors...

  • @c.t5136
    @c.t5136 4 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    I found Laurie on TH-cam quite by accident and her music and words are life-effecting. Thank you Ms Anderson. Thank you, Tiny Desk.

  • @Harborseal
    @Harborseal 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Laurie is a genius so far ahead of her time back then. I was pretty sure she was a visitor from the future. Her music was the rare thing I listened to over and over.

  • @JedKelestron
    @JedKelestron 3 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    i’ve seen laurie countless times
    across the decades but haven’t
    heard live performances of those
    2 songs since their creation
    so fun to hear them live again

  • @jcuk000
    @jcuk000 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Just astoundingly beautiful. O Superman is, if anything, more relevant today than when it was written over 40 years ago. A true visionary.

  • @islapanorama
    @islapanorama 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I can't believe the Tiny Desk story! So amazing Laurie is finally featured here, the most important artist of the last 100 years to me.

  • @ralphmunn6689
    @ralphmunn6689 14 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    How can something so unlike anything else in the universe have me in tears by the one minute mark? THANK YOU, Ms. Anderson, for existing. 🙏

  • @ortem000
    @ortem000 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    There will always be room on my list of badass women for Laurie Anderson. I was captivated as a kid watching her and joyful today. Keep on keeping on Laurie...

  • @sharonrussell7799
    @sharonrussell7799 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    so full right now.... beauty- full... I have no words ... except thank you, Laurie Anderson and collaborators, oh, thank you.

  • @olegbulyga303
    @olegbulyga303 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    The magic of Laurie Anderson music is so gravitating and mysterious so i can't able to come away from live Laurier's performance.

  • @jbgreer
    @jbgreer 3 ปีที่แล้ว +38

    Hearing Laurie Anderson still brings that same moment of frisson that it did so many years ago. Thank you for the concert. What a wonderful way to start a day.

  • @kcgilford518
    @kcgilford518 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Laurie you are an international treasure. I just want to say thanks. So, thanks.

  • @MikeKobb
    @MikeKobb 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    I'm so grateful to have had the chance to see Laurie perform at least a half-dozen times live. Her work is always musically enjoyable, but also the ideas in her lyrics are so intellectually interesting, and delivered with a beautiful subtle sense of humor.
    Now that the pandemic restrictions are beginning to wane, I hope to be able to see her perform live again.

  • @jollygrim07
    @jollygrim07 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    The picture behind them is how this made me feel. The part about when force is gone there's mom had me tearing up. I've missed so much. What all else might have passed me by. 😔

  • @stephaneamar3669
    @stephaneamar3669 3 ปีที่แล้ว +31

    Watching and smiling with lou

  • @shirleysun7456
    @shirleysun7456 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Laurie Anderson is one of the my fav American singers. Can't believe that her first studio album BIG SCIENCE has been released for near four decades! So much wonderful memories for the first time when I heard her works, especially BIG SCIENCE at UW-Madison when I studied as a graduate student there. As a Taiwanese, I am so happy about her collaboration with a Taiwanese VR artist in recent years.

  • @jameslawson9315
    @jameslawson9315 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    2 of my Favorite Songs by Laurie Anderson!

  • @allialias
    @allialias 3 ปีที่แล้ว +42

    What does one say to their Heart's Musician? Your understanding of music structure added to life in ways tongue cannot tell. Thank You. 💛

  • @jojosfunkythreads
    @jojosfunkythreads 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    Oh. My. Heaven. Thanks for this. This song led me thru so much life. Let x = x.

  • @davidhollyfield5148
    @davidhollyfield5148 3 ปีที่แล้ว +32

    Can you believe this was a pop hit on juke boxes everywhere in its day? A moment when it looked like culture was moving forward. What happened?

    • @duraosunda
      @duraosunda 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Greed. Amounts of money beyond any language´s capacity of explanation. As usual.

    • @5StringTheory
      @5StringTheory 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Exactly my thought when I've heard it for the first time - this was in radio??? Yeah, we strained away from art and went into a pop culture, sadly..

  • @deeliciousplum
    @deeliciousplum 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Laurie Anderson?! Wonderful! About a week ago, I had listened to O Superman. Throughout the composition, I was covered in goosebumps. Timeless artists are timeless. 🌸

  • @KatesFree
    @KatesFree 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    Her picking up the violin reminds me of when she had that "fiddle" that was fixed up with an audio tape player head, and a bow that had a tape in it instead of hairs, and she would run it across the tape head and sounds would come out.

  • @Dieter_Smits
    @Dieter_Smits 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Once in a while I need to come back here and enjoy this incredible performance. ''I feel like I am in a burning building and I gotta go....". Thank you, Laurie, Roma and Rubin.

    • @cellistry
      @cellistry 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Do you think she had a foreboding of 9/11/2001? A bunch of the lyrics seem to point to it.

  • @Diecastclassicist
    @Diecastclassicist 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    He said, Aw, isn’t it…. I saw Lou through Laurie’s eyes and heard him through her voice for an instant. Thank you, Laurie, this was wonderful.

  • @MRBCA500
    @MRBCA500 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I only just now discovered Laurie via the 60 minutes piece from Anderson Cooper. Her work blows me away. Before you can even reach a conclusion of whether you like it or not her sound captures you and you almost have no choice but to simply listen to the whole thing. That's pretty amazing.

  • @alliehill-sutherland5121
    @alliehill-sutherland5121 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Gawd it's been over thirty years when I first listened to this album, and it made an impression. It makes my heart very heavy and light and free at the same time.

  • @NatetheAceOfficial
    @NatetheAceOfficial 3 ปีที่แล้ว +28

    I appreciate Tiny Desk bringing these interesting artists right to my morning coffee. I may not know anything about these last few artists, but I have enjoyed every one of them in their own way. Thanks.

  • @jazzturtle2508
    @jazzturtle2508 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Laure has been one of my greatest inspirations in art, life, work.

  • @seanmontgomery836
    @seanmontgomery836 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    [great cry] thanks miss anderson. I heerd u on cassettee dubbed round 35 year ago n memorized nearly all of yer album.
    Really cried joyously when i discovered bowie’s cover.
    People tell me that i dont realize how big an affect i have on others.
    You cant realize how much you have soothed and comforted me. Thank you.

  • @1laurelei1
    @1laurelei1 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    So grateful to NPR Tiny Desk for continuing to bring us amazing music, right through the lost years. 🤟 Love y'all!!

  • @MarcialGalaxio
    @MarcialGalaxio 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Each era has its spirit. The '80s were an era unto themselves, and Laurie Anderson was the artist who captured its spirit like no one else. This statement can only be corroborated or denied by those people who in the 80s lived through the wave of creativity that flooded the world, in some way similar to the 70s, but also with a unique perfume. Others reached out, but Laurie brought her essence to us and continues to do so, every time she performs her magic until now.

  • @ablakadabla3902
    @ablakadabla3902 3 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    50 years later...: still love what u are doing.. big thanks

  • @Nilzebub
    @Nilzebub 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    One of the most beloved artists of my life in two centuries and sure to delight and provoke contemplation in many more. Hey, she’s probably already popular intergalactically. If I were an interstellar cosmonaut, I’d be listening to her. Wouldn’t you?

  • @Del-Lebo
    @Del-Lebo 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    What an amazing Human! First record i got from the library when I was 8. born in 1966! Still love your hair and science/music

  • @qwertyu30
    @qwertyu30 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I discovered Laurie in the 80s. So inspiring. I played the violin and later the experimental violin. But nothing like she did or is doing. She is a pioneer and and a genius.

  • @nibyafternight1983
    @nibyafternight1983 3 ปีที่แล้ว +42

    Laurie was so ahead of the time. She is so underrated

  • @kens9531
    @kens9531 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    i have my degree in art history, and recently discovered laurie through o superman, and i never thought i'd get to see her perform. this is a blessing

  • @Carinas
    @Carinas 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    What an excellent surprise! It has just cheered up my morning. Thanks!

  • @WoRN808
    @WoRN808 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Heartbreaking and wonderful. Loved Laurie Anderson's music from when I was a kid and this was all new. Helped me in so many ways. Influenced my whole life. Glad for this performance. Thank you Laurie Anderson and the crew. And Tiny Desk for making this space for wonderful music to take place and be out there.

  • @macielfelipemarcos
    @macielfelipemarcos 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    What a gift on a Friday! Thank you Tiny Desk and thank you Mrs. Laurie Anderson!

  • @lazysingledaisybronwyn8105
    @lazysingledaisybronwyn8105 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I always thought Laurie was ahead of Her time, but now Science Is. Yet, She is still ahead of Time Itself. I consider Her as a Host in the name LORD of Hosts or as one of the seven Spirits of God ... or as a spiritual Mother, the One this Earth needs. She is ever so necessary. It moves me emotionally with gratitude. Thank you for living. Thank you that you have BEEN.

  • @johnrigby1861
    @johnrigby1861 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Is it 40 years ago since I first heard Laurie Anderson's Superman .... amazing back then and amazing today. This 18 minute concert is amazing, pure joy and an absolute pleasure.

  • @backseatsamurai
    @backseatsamurai 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    She has the look of powerful awareness. I feel it when she looks at me thru the lens. Amazing.

  • @markmower6507
    @markmower6507 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Thank You, Laurie Anderson.

  • @tangowiwi
    @tangowiwi 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    We really don't realize how lucky we are to see this...

  • @ofwonderandwander
    @ofwonderandwander 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Laurie is such a master.of dynamics. Legend. ❤️❤️

  • @peterhooper3391
    @peterhooper3391 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    As a very young man, I carried United States Parts One Through Four from Fairbanks, Alaska to Santo Tomas, Guatemala in the middle-late 1980s. Laurie Anderson has been one of my Main Women ever since. (And, when the Matrix came out -- including the latest, Resurrections, I've greatly enjoyed saying Ms. Anderson in my best Smith voice.)
    Her work is perhaps the best soundtrack for the end of things that we know, as the unraveling continues.

  • @ejt321
    @ejt321 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I had to laugh at myself because when she started to play a Superman I got all wide eyed because I love that song so much. I love her freedom and innovation. I would so love to meet her someday.

  • @ltdada
    @ltdada 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I first saw Laurie in the 80s... I was astounded then by the subtlety and vision of her work, even when it was monumental in scale. It was as prescient then as it remains now.

  • @yuichituba
    @yuichituba 3 ปีที่แล้ว +31

    Oh wow! I didn't expect to see her on a Tiny Desk. I haven't heard of her since grad school.

  • @laburgy
    @laburgy 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Thank you Laurie for being so brilliant, it is an honour to be alive in your time and to be inspired by you. Thank you

  • @lewt525
    @lewt525 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Thank you David Lynch, NPR, you, Laurie and collaborators.!

  • @ryanhawley9181
    @ryanhawley9181 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I’m so thankful for Laurie Anderson being placed into my life. Truly a revolutionary.

  • @robertcox14
    @robertcox14 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Thank you, Laurie! STILL great songs that I move to.

  • @graphikeye
    @graphikeye 3 ปีที่แล้ว +172

    Space Aliens brought us Laurie as a generous offering but this world isn't worthy of her yet

    • @angelinavilla7610
      @angelinavilla7610 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      This comment made me smile and laugh out loud. Good day to you

    • @narq5099
      @narq5099 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      I just hope they let us keep her.

    • @claricegoulart2549
      @claricegoulart2549 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Yes, because there is bolzonaro in it

    • @nikitrki
      @nikitrki 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Hai Ragione!

    • @uranopolisCandiani
      @uranopolisCandiani 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      She is a Light thank you for that

  • @christopherbrookfield4785
    @christopherbrookfield4785 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Wow! This was really great! She looks so pure. Like, she has not aged, or changed, one iota. Isn't that weird? I absolutely loved Big Science, when it came out. I drove my sister mad with it. She thoroughly detested it. All avant garde/experimental music. It sounds just as fresh/innovative, now. Even more so. How is that possible? 🤔😘✌️

  • @user-hj1mk7zy6t
    @user-hj1mk7zy6t 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Laurie Anderson is a gift from the Universe - thank you Universe

  • @narq5099
    @narq5099 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    I feel like one of the luckiest people on earth- I saw Laurie live in Houston, back in 86, for the Home of the Brave tour. It was, by far, the greatest concert/live experience I have ever witnessed. She and her unbelievably talented band were beyond amazing. The best show ever. And this is coming from a guy who saw the Jean-Michel Jarre concert on the side of the Houston skyscrapers!

    • @EastmanD
      @EastmanD 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      extremely envious...Home of the Brave with the incomparable Adrian Belew is one of my favorite recordings ! You lucky human !

  • @POET444
    @POET444 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    this free space for art to still exist is everything to me...... OMG this is the most important piece of lockdown work on TH-cam ...after all these years the vision of 'big science' has been realised through an uncomfortable platform with such dignity and strength... more important now then ever ..through 9/11 or Covid or Lou this survives us....thank you very much tiny desk for putting it out. I just wanna say thanks for........

  • @TheTiki1111
    @TheTiki1111 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    The Cello guy REALLY CARRIES this performance 😳

  • @kelvinwilson9217
    @kelvinwilson9217 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Laurie took O Superman to a whole new level, and she is as good today as she was from the start.

  • @MaMa-cl1gy
    @MaMa-cl1gy 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Wonderful! I find you after the 1986 concert in Milan and you are always the best and the most beautiful !! Congratulations also to the other musicians of the trio!

  • @TheTransitmtl
    @TheTransitmtl 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    I remember the first time I heard O Superman. I was 17. Back then in 96 I was a raver and my friends and I came back from a hardcore rave in a military base. We all went to one of my friends who was starting to get into DJing and he put the track on his brand new 12's. I was mesmerized.