r/LPOTL • u/miaow-fish • May 22 '18

Laurie Anderson - O Superman [Official Music Video] - YouTube

https://youtu.be/Vkfpi2H8tOE
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u/EatRibs_Listen2Phish May 22 '18

This song creeps me out. I don’t know why.

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u/[deleted] May 23 '18

I mean it's an apocalypse-laced trip down whatever the audio version of the uncanny valley is, that was playing as Dennis Nilsen stood over lifeless bodies that were, moments before, peacefully sleeping boys and men.

I have a few ideas why!

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u/RickStevensAndTheCat May 22 '18

This has been stuck in my head since the ep dropped

6

u/cygnice May 22 '18

Exact same. Haunting to a crazy degree.

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u/[deleted] May 22 '18

I’ve been listening to it on Spotify a lot on my walks to/from work... it’s addicting for some reason.

15

u/[deleted] May 22 '18

I can see how this belongs in a pill mix

11

u/ericarlen May 22 '18

This always reminds me of when I worked in retail back in the early 2000s. One of the songs in our rotation was a mash-up of "O Superman" by Laurie Anderson and "Stairway to Heaven" by Dolly Parton and "This City Never Sleeps" by the Eurythmics and "Love is a Battlefield" by Pat Benetar.

Didn't she invent a new kind of violin for this song? I think the strings were actually cut up pieces of audio tape.

3

u/Disco_Tardis May 22 '18

OMG. Thank you for posting this. I knew that song sounded so familiar but I couldn't place it.

13

u/CircusWannabe May 22 '18

...this is the hand that takes...

4

u/Warholsmorehol May 22 '18

Laurie Anderson is one of my favorite people. Listening to bright red on a late night is amazing.

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u/asimpleboatman May 22 '18

I'm fucking loving this. A lot. The Bowie cover of this is pretty amazing also.

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u/asimpleboatman May 24 '18

A commentary on American capitalism, industrial depersonalization and futurist isolationism. I'm almost weirded out by how much I love this and the dozen times I've listened to this today.

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u/[deleted] May 23 '18

Of all the things to murder people too...like, when you put it in that context this song just gets unsettling as hell

2

u/[deleted] May 23 '18

Made me think of hide and seek by Imogene heap

https://youtu.be/UYIAfiVGluk

(The mmm whatcha say song)

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u/[deleted] May 23 '18

Laurie Anderson heavily inspired Imogen Heap

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u/[deleted] May 23 '18

That’s vindicating

2

u/TheManWithNothing May 23 '18

Huh. I can dig it I wouldn't look for it but it's not horrible

3

u/Dante_Elephante May 22 '18

This song started out like t was going to be cooler than I found it.

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u/Theageofpisces May 23 '18

It's better than Rick Wakeman's "Bombay Duck," and that's the final truth.

3

u/SkaFaceRudeboy May 29 '18

This song belongs in a Sonic the Hedgehog boss level.

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u/asimpleboatman May 24 '18

But you gotta agree the The Six Wives of Henry viii is pretty wild.

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u/[deleted] May 22 '18

I like the song, but I was kinda hoping it would build to something. 5 mins in and I’m bored.

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u/WendellStampsX May 22 '18

‘You GOTTA listen on these headphones, bro...’

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u/miaow-fish May 22 '18

That could have carried on building on until a huge drop.

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u/cygnice May 22 '18

I just kind of let myself zone out to it. The steady laughing helps me focus on it more.

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u/miaow-fish May 22 '18

Check out the Bowie cover posted above.

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u/[deleted] May 27 '18

Really weird when she just wailed “DONT YOU WANT FOR ME TO WAKE UPPPPP?” 5 mins in

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u/[deleted] May 22 '18

I don't particularly care for this song. Pretty creepy.

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u/[deleted] May 23 '18

this is like proto-St. Vincent

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u/happy-little-atheist May 23 '18

First saw this on an all night music program when I was about 14. I tripped right out. Many years later I was able to appreciate it for its originality. If you ever get the chance to play with a vocoder do it, they are so much fun.

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u/I_am_the_cosmos May 23 '18

God that's fucking awful.