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1986's Home of the Brave is the soundtrack to a film consisting of live pieces debuted during Laurie Anderson's first world tour, promoting 1984's Mister Heartbreak. Only one song from that album, a radically reworked version of the William S. Burroughs cameo "Sharkey's Night," appears here; the rest of the album is something of a return to the performance art basis of Anderson's earlier work like Big Science and United States I-IV. As a result, Home of the Brave has an oddly reheated quality to it, as if Anderson is merely going through the motions of what had gone before while incorporating snatches of the new, more musical direction she had begun exploring with Mister Heartbreak. (Even the title is a self-conscious echo of United States I-IV.) There are some successes here -- "Language Is a Virus" is probably the closest Anderson ever came to a real rock song, and it was a minor dancefloor and college radio hit -- but the opening "Smoke Rings" goes on too long with too little and some of the shorter pieces sound half-formed. The centerpiece track, "Talk Normal," is a hoot and has a catchy tune reminiscent of the Talking Heads' most African-influenced moments, but the ending, in which Anderson recounts an incident where she was walking down the street in her neighborhood and overheard two women dismissing her as "another one of those Laurie Anderson clones" as she passed, shows the problem with Home of the Brave: Anderson had become far too self-conscious. It wasn't surprising that Anderson took a long break after this release to reassess her place in both music and art.
© Stewart Mason /TiVo
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Janice Pendarvis, Vocals - NILE RODGERS, Guitar - Laurie Anderson, Composer, Lyricist, Keyboards, Violin, Vocals, MainArtist, CoProducer - ROMA BARAN, CoProducer - Rob Sabino, Keyboards - Leanne Ungar, Engineer - Jimmy Bralower, Drums - Dolette McDonald, Vocals - Jot Askew, Keyboards
© 1986 Talk Normal Productions. 1986 Warner Records Inc. ℗ 1986 Warner Records Inc.
Laurie Anderson, Composer, Lyricist, Violin, Vocals, Writer, MainArtist, CoProducer - ROMA BARAN, CoProducer - Rob Sabino, Keyboards - Leanne Ungar, Engineer
© 1986 Talk Normal Productions. 1986 Warner Records Inc. ℗ 1986 Warner Records Inc.
Laurie Anderson, Composer, Lyricist, Keyboards, Violin, Vocals, MainArtist, CoProducer - ROMA BARAN, CoProducer - Leanne Ungar, Engineer - Adrian Belew, Guitar - Richard Landry, Saxophone - William S. Burroughs, Additional Vocals
© 1986 Talk Normal Productions. 1986 Warner Records Inc. ℗ 1986 Warner Records Inc.
Janice Pendarvis, Vocals - Joy Askew, Moog - Laurie Anderson, Composer, Lyricist, MainArtist, CoProducer - ROMA BARAN, CoProducer - Leanne Ungar, Engineer - Adrian Belew, Guitar - Dolette McDonald, Vocals - Richard Landry, Clarinet, Saxophone - David Van Tiegham, Percussion
© 1986 Talk Normal Productions. 1986 Warner Records Inc. ℗ 1986 Warner Records Inc.
Janice Pendarvis, Vocals - NILE RODGERS, Guitar, Keyboards - Laurie Anderson, Composer, Lyricist, Vocals, MainArtist, CoProducer - ROMA BARAN, CoProducer - Tawatha Agee, Background Vocals - Frank Simms, Background Vocals - Brenda White-King, Background Vocals - Leanne Ungar, Engineer - Curtis King, Background Vocals - Jimmy Bralower, Drums - Dolette McDonald, Vocals - Diane Garisto, Background Vocals - Robert Aaron, Saxophone
© 1986 Talk Normal Productions. 1986 Warner Records Inc. ℗ 1986 Warner Records Inc.
Laurie Anderson, Composer, Lyricist, Vocals, MainArtist, CoProducer - ROMA BARAN, CoProducer - Leanne Ungar, Engineer
© 1986 Talk Normal Productions. 1986 Warner Records Inc. ℗ 1986 Warner Records Inc.
Janice Pendarvis, Vocals - Laurie Anderson, Composer, Lyricist, Vocals, Writer, MainArtist, CoProducer - ROMA BARAN, CoProducer - Rob Sabino, Keyboards - Leanne Ungar, Engineer - Adrian Belew, Guitar - Dolette McDonald, Vocals - Jot Askew, Keyboards - Richard Landry, Saxophone - Daniel Ponce, Percussion - David Van Tiegham, Drums - Isidro Bobadillo, Percussion
© 1986 Talk Normal Productions. 1986 Warner Records Inc. ℗ 1986 Warner Records Inc.
Joy Askew, Keyboards - Laurie Anderson, Composer, Lyricist, MainArtist - Leanne Ungar, Engineer - Adrian Belew, Guitar - Bill Laswell, Bass - Roma Baran & Laurie Anderson, Producer - David Van Tiegham, Percussion
© 1986 Talk Normal Productions. 1986 Warner Records Inc. ℗ 1986 Warner Records Inc.
Album review
1986's Home of the Brave is the soundtrack to a film consisting of live pieces debuted during Laurie Anderson's first world tour, promoting 1984's Mister Heartbreak. Only one song from that album, a radically reworked version of the William S. Burroughs cameo "Sharkey's Night," appears here; the rest of the album is something of a return to the performance art basis of Anderson's earlier work like Big Science and United States I-IV. As a result, Home of the Brave has an oddly reheated quality to it, as if Anderson is merely going through the motions of what had gone before while incorporating snatches of the new, more musical direction she had begun exploring with Mister Heartbreak. (Even the title is a self-conscious echo of United States I-IV.) There are some successes here -- "Language Is a Virus" is probably the closest Anderson ever came to a real rock song, and it was a minor dancefloor and college radio hit -- but the opening "Smoke Rings" goes on too long with too little and some of the shorter pieces sound half-formed. The centerpiece track, "Talk Normal," is a hoot and has a catchy tune reminiscent of the Talking Heads' most African-influenced moments, but the ending, in which Anderson recounts an incident where she was walking down the street in her neighborhood and overheard two women dismissing her as "another one of those Laurie Anderson clones" as she passed, shows the problem with Home of the Brave: Anderson had become far too self-conscious. It wasn't surprising that Anderson took a long break after this release to reassess her place in both music and art.
© Stewart Mason /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 8 track(s)
- Total length: 00:34:39
- Main artists: Laurie Anderson
- Composer: Laurie Anderson
- Label: Warner Records
- Genre: Pop/Rock Pop
© 1986 Talk Normal Productions. 1986 Warner Records Inc. ℗ 1986 Warner Records Inc.
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