Big Science

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.

The album has been sampled in a number of hip hop songs:
* “From the Air” was sampled by Mr. Lif in the song “Home of the Brave” on his Emergency Rations EP. The song deals with political repercussions of September 11, 2001, playing off the original song’s description of a plane crash descending into New York City.
* “Raspberry Fields” by Cannibal Ox contains a sample from “Sweaters”.
* “This about the City” by cLOUDDEAD contains a sample from the song “Big Science”.
* Brief snippets of “O Superman” were used by Cut Chemist in the introduction to his song “Spat”.

From the Wikipedia article, Big Science revision 562877083