Big Science

Label: Nonesuch
Release date: 27 Jul 2007
Running length: 10 tracks
Running time: 44:38

Tracklist

	Track	Duration	Listeners
1	From the Air	4:33	19,150
2	Big Science	6:22	17,556
3	Sweaters	2:23	14,970
4	Walking and Falling	2:13	2,394
5	Born, Never Asked	4:56	16,956
6	O Superman	8:25	22,066
7	Example #22	2:59	13,560
8	Let X=X	3:54	12,962
9	It Tango	3:02	14,696
10	Walk the Dog	5:51	3,323

About this album

Big Science is the 1982 debut album by avant-garde artist Laurie Anderson and the first of a 7-album deal she signed with Warner Bros. Records. It is best known for the 8-minute epic “O Superman”, which reached #2 in the UK. The album is minimalist and monochrome in sound, and like a great deal of Anderson’s work is based largely on spoken word. It is a selection of highlights from her eight-hour production, United States Live, which was itself released as a 4-LP box set and book in 1984. United States Live was originally a performance piece, in which music was only one element.