Word: mister
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Nick and Nora Charles, the models for dozens of witty Hollywood sleuths to follow. Powell aged gracefully onscreen, playing the irascible patriarch in the 1947 film Life With Father (for which he received one of his three Oscar nominations) and the ship's doctor in his final film, Mister Roberts...
...FIRST GLANCE. Laune Anderson's second album, Mister Heartbreak, seems like a copout. After all, what does an sustere musician like Anderson, who relies on the simple, minimalistic beauty of her melodies, need with such dense trendy musicians like Adrian Belew (who has worked with the Talking Heads ) and Nile Rodgers (who has worked with David Bowie)? And way is an overblown, self-conscious "artist" like Peter Gabriel collaborating and singing backup vocals on some of the songs...
...Mister Heartbreak is much more commercially accessible than Anderson's previous album. Big Science. Her collaboration with Peter Gabriel. "Excellent Birds" will probably and unfortunately become a hit single. And much of the album utilizes the African polyrhythm and synthesizer effects that made Talking Heads' Remain in Light such an influential album. Nevertheless, this album is not a sellout; nor is it a rehash of the African-funk sound which Brian Eno and David Byrne pioneered in the early...
...classical/ambsent and rock influences together. There has always been a kind of dichotomy in approaches to this "Fourth World" music; the Talking Heads' Remain in Light despite its intricate synthesiser treatments, was essentially a rock album, while Hassell/Eno's "Fourth World" albums were basically ambient music. Laurie Anderson's Mister heartbreak (like her Big Science) confounds these categories. Although the music is very avantgarde, it refuses to fade away into the background...
...Science, Anderson altered the usual visions of technology into a mysterious, and chillingly beautiful vision of "Golden cities. Golden towns. And long cars in long lines and great big signs", Mister Heartbreak takes this eerie vision of the modern scientific world further by contrasting and mixing it with the exotic, tropical settings. Look for instance at the contract between Third and First Worlds in Blue Lagoon: "Days, I remember cities, Nights, I dream of a perfect place. Days, I dive by the wrock, Nights, I swim in the blue lagoon." Or the mixture of the two worlds in "Langue...