This is the Picture, Laurie Anderson und Peter Gabriel, 1984

[petitemasochist]

2:27 Haha Is he having a seizure?

[littlecave]

I had no idea there was a video for this, and, although it's very 80's it's cool to see them both together

[warwickharris]

i prefer the original, but this is still brilliant!

[chrisnoaro1]

don't like gabriel's mix, laurie's music is better

[jmillzz2]

interesting that this isn't on the "Play" DVD

[susisonnen]

Nice vid, but sound is way too low !!

[Cimbarius]

Peter`s version on "So" in 1986 also features the Master of Funk-music Nile Rodgers on the "bridge-guitar". I like the version on Laurie`s album. There is another track with Gabriel on this album called "Gravity`s Angel" - FINE TRACK !

[mnaran]

@Cimbarius Laurie Anderson's version features Adrian Belew's guitar crunching.

[Cimbarius]

@mnaran thanks for the info.

[Dreamcosplay]

1:44 Nice ass, but not the one one's might think ! XD

[GoodNewsFromStars]

1984 ?.

This song seemes to be extracted from Pete's So album - 1986.

I luved so much Pete's sensitivity and creativity in mid 80's.

[rmyers79]

My memory is fading, but I recall first hearing this song on a television show between to bring in the 1984 New Year. Here is a reference to it on Wikipedia:

"She also appeared in a television special produced by Nam June Paik broadcast on New Years Day 1984, entitled Good Morning Mr. Orwell (the title being inspired by Orwell's novel 1984)."

[xnonsuchx]

Laurie Anderson's version came out in 1984 on her MISTER HEARTBREAK album. Peter did his version on SO in 1986. Same vocal tracks, but different instrumentation.

[himself801]

Laurie's version is titled "Excellent Birds".

[DoctorZ400]

Can you say LSD!!!

[TheLittleDevil]

I taped this off tv along time ago. The big deal about this vid at the time was the shadows were computer generated. There are two other versions of this song . One on a Laurie Andersons album and the other on Peter Gabrials. But this version is the best. Wish I had an audio version of this.

[GoodNewsFromStars]

Hi

In section 2:02, we can suppose watching moving bodies that Pete's and Laurie's morph. had been synthesized on computer and reprocudes with 3D "meshing".

Maybe i'm wrong cause i don't know exactly what could be done with image synthesis in mid 80's.

do u think so ?.

[GoodNewsFromStars]

well i thing i guessed watching a herbie hancok's video.

it's surely a dressed mechanical skeleton wich movement was integrated in synthesized backround.

[synkyb]

@TheLittleDevil There is also a live version on Laurie Anderson's live album "Home of the brave", and there is a video from this show on Youtube. It's essentially her "Mr. Heartbreak"-Version, just without Peter Gabriel's voice, but backing singers instead, so one might not count it as an extra version.

Anyhow, I like Lauries rhythm track better than this one, though this version is still very good, too.