Mister Heartbreak

Mister Heartbreak
Mister Heartbreak
Studio album by Laurie Anderson
Released February 14, 1984
Recorded July 1983 – December 1983, The Lobby, RCA, A & R, 39th Street Music, New York
Genre Avant-garde
Experimental music
Pop music
Length 40:16
Label Warner Bros.
25077
Producer Laurie Anderson
Bill Laswell
Roma Baran
Peter Gabriel
Laurie Anderson chronology
Big Science
(1982)
Mister Heartbreak
(1984)
United States Live
(1984)
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic 4/5 stars[1]
Robert Christgau (A−)[2]
Rolling Stone 4/5 stars[3]
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Mister Heartbreak is the second album by avant-garde artist, singer and composer Laurie Anderson, released in 1984.

Considered more mainstream than its predecessor, Big Science, the album's lead track, "Sharkey's Day" formed the basis of a popular music video. Author William S. Burroughs read the lyrics of the closing track, "Sharkey's Night", while Peter Gabriel provided backing vocals on "Excellent Birds", an alternate version of which, titled "This is the Picture (Excellent Birds)", also appeared on his album So. A third version of the song can be heard in the music-video version, directed by Dean Winkler. The song "Gravity's Angel" borrows imagery from Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow.

Most of the songs on this album were later performed in Anderson's 1986 concert film Home of the Brave. Burroughs appears in that film and appears in two brief segments reciting lines from "Sharkey's Night", although it is Anderson herself who performs a complete version of the song at the film's conclusion. "Sharkey's Night" featured in the Australian short Documentary film 'Ladies Please!' (1995).

Contents

Track listing

All songs written by Laurie Anderson except as indicated.

Side one

  1. "Sharkey's Day" – 7:41
  2. "Langue d'Amour" – 6:12
  3. "Gravity's Angel" – 6:02

Side two

  1. "Kokoku" – 7:03
  2. "Excellent Birds" (Anderson, Peter Gabriel) – 3:12
  3. "Blue Lagoon" – 7:03
  4. "Sharkey's Night" – 2:29

Personnel

Additional personnel

  • November (Michelle Cobbs, Dollette McDonald, Brenda Nelson) – backing vocals on 1
  • Daniel Ponce – iya on 1, ikonkolo on 1, shekere on 1, double bell on 1
  • Peter Gabriel – backing vocals on 2 3, vocals on 5, synclavier on 5, Linn drum on 5
  • David Van Tieghem – plywood bowls on 3, drums on 3, steel drum on 6, gato on 6, bamboo on 6
  • Sang-Won Park – kayagum on 4
  • Connie Harvey – Japanese chorus on 4
  • Phoebe Snow – backing vocals on 4
  • Atsuko Yuma – backing vocals on 4
  • Janet Wright – Japanese chorus on 4
  • Nile Rodgers – guitar on 5
  • Bill Blaber – soprano on 6
  • William S. Burroughs – vocals on 7

Charts

Album

Year Chart Position
1984 The Billboard 200 60[4]

References

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