Where you are right now, only much better

I'm having a strange attraction to Laurie Anderson's pop-aspirational music. Strong enough that I can get beyond the scent of terrible high school poetry on this particular title. I actually really like the '80ness of songs like this. It lives in the same orbit as the Talking Heads at their commercial high water mark—an alternate version of that time, but without forsaking the pumped-up sound. And of course, she's a national treasure for consistently rescuing the art of spoken word from its most cringe-worthy practitioners.

Laurie Anderson - Language Is A Virus