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Regardless of when this tune turns up in my timeline I will always listen to it completely. #LaurieAnderson #OSuperman It’s absolute genius. I wish I had discovered it earlier in my life. It totally fits with my history of music.

For no reason I can think of this has been playing in my head.

Maybe it's just a reminder of me getting old (it's over 40 years since it was released).

Maybe it's the lines
Cause when love is gone, there's always justice,
And when justice is gone, there's always force
And when force is gone, there's always Mom

Or the American planes

Or the long petrochemical, military, electronic arms.

#LaurieAnderson #OSuperman #USPol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OTk8mUSc-A.

LAURIE ANDERSON
O Superman
1981 U.S. 7” single @ 33rpm

One of the most inventive, unlikely, baffling, and MOVING “hit” singles of all time.

Just two alternating chords using an Eventide Harmonizer and a Roland VP-330 vocoder, the song was broken and championed by the great John Peel on BBC RADIO 1.

Lyrically, it’s mind bending, and many people, including Anderson herself, has said it’s about many things.

I’m not particularly interested in any of that. Just that when I hear it (still to this day), it strikes such an inexplicable emotional nerve in me that I can’t explain.
It’s a remarkable piece of art.

Perhaps Anderson summed it up best.
“Technology cannot save you.”

#vinyl #vinylrecords #vinylcommunity #vinylcollection #retro #vintage #art #music #artrock #1980s #80s #80sMusic #synth #electronic #poetry #laurieanderson #osuperman

O Superman - Laurie Anderson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S39NaDPNDtk

#LaurieAnderson #BigScience #OSuperman #PouetRadio

A tune using some samples from Laurie Anderson's song "O Superman" on SoundCloud

https://soundcloud.com/german-mix/you-dont-know-me-but-i-know-you

#laurieanderson #soundcloud #superman #osuperman #remix #fanart

42 years old and still one of my favourite ever pop songs.

My generation got it to number two in the charts.

https://youtu.be/Vkfpi2H8tOE?si=cwxCaSZHU1FUaB4m

#LaurieAnderson #OSuperman #PopMusic #AlternativeMusic

Listening to @BBC6MusicBot and loving Bex Burch's interpretation of Laurie Anderson's "O Superman". It can be heard on the live session here https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001qcyp

#music #BexBurch #OSuperman #covers #MusicCovers #BBC6Music #musician #radio

Sometimes I think Laurie Anderson is the only person who understands the world.

“ ‘Cause when love is gone
There's always justice
And when justice is gone
There's always force
And when force is gone
There's always Mom, hi Mom
(Ah, ah)
(Ah, ah, ah-ah) ”

#osuperman #laurieanderson #artpop

‘It has never been more pertinent’ – Margaret Atwood on the chilling genius of Laurie Anderson’s Big Science

#LaurieAnderson #MargaretAtwood #Music #OSuperman

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/apr/08/margaret-atwood-laurie-anderson-big-science-o-superman-prophetic-80s-america-pertinent?fbclid=IwAR3cRm_2K0rsmQWslouuTif9zEGdAO87QAnsXfdhy67TjH003klOJ29KLqE

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha…

Ik schreef een blog over #OSuperman van #LaurieAnderson:
https://ondergewaardeerdeliedjes.nl/2022/12/22/laurie-anderson-o-superman-for-massenet/

Laurie Anderson - O Superman
From the album "Big Science" released in 1982. She tells in this song that she has a message on her answering machine: "You don't know me, but I know you". This tune is the most reduced to basics, just her voice and a vocoder, later a few synths (or Fairlights) join in.
(Edited because I entered a wrong year of release)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vkfpi2H8tOE

#musicfromthe90ies #superman #laurieanderson #osuperman #laurie