Laurie Anderson – Home Of The Brave

While the majority of music forming part to the superb film version of "Home Of the Brave" is a promotional live rendition of "Mr. Heartbreak", it is utterly criminal the standard album version doesn't follow by keeping the entire lot (similar case was with Talking Heads' "Stop Making Sense", a commercial live album initially cut out a sizable part of an otherwise amazing performance filmed by Jonathan Demme - the injustice was finally undone with the late 90's special edition release, adding loads of extra performances staying more loyal to the film's contents).

While "Home of the brave" the album carries some of the exclusive studio mixes in its own right - "White Lily", "Talk Normal" and "Language Is a Virus" respectively, only a tiny bit ("Radar" and "Smoke Rings") is carried over from the original film. But knowing the latter for all the audio-visual joy it brings, the commercial soundtrack version sounds unforgivably decapitated. Those in possession of a laserdisc have no idea how happy they are.

For years, there were rumours which then turned into official announcements of a commercial DVD re-release gathering Anderson's video work ("Home Of the Brave" included) but to date no such thing was delivered.