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Track List
01) Say Hello
02) Walk the Dog
03) Violin Solo
04) Closed Circuits (for voice and amplified mic
05) For a Large and Changing Room
06) Pictures of It (for acoustic Tape Bow)
07) The Language of the Future
08) Cartoon Song
09) Small Voice (for speaker‐in‐mouth)
10) Three Walking Songs (for Tape Bow Violin)
11) The Healing Horn
12) New Jersey Turnpike
13) So Happy Birthday
14) EngliSH
15) Dance of Electricity
16) Three Songs for Paper, Film, and Video
Cd 2
01) Sax Solo (for Tape Bow Violin)
02) Sax Duet
03) Born, Never Asked
04) From the Air
05) Beginning French
06) O Superman
07) Talkshow
08) Frames for the Pictures
09) Democratic Way
10) Looking for You
11) Walking and Falling
12) Private Property
13) Neon Duet (for violin and neon bow)
14) Let X=X
15) The Mailman's Nightmare
16) Difficult Listening Hour
17) Language is a virus from outer space ― William S
18) Reverb
19) If You Can't Talk About It, Point to It (for Ludwi
20) Violin Walk
21) City Song
22) Finnish Farmers
Cd 3
01) Red Map
02) Hey Ah
03) Bagpipe Solo
04) Steven Weed
05) Time and a Half
06) Voices on Tape
07) Example #22
08) Strike
09) False Documents
10) New York Social Life
11) A Curious Phenomenon
12) Yankee See
13) I Dreamed I Had to Take a Test…
14) Running Dogs
15) Four, Three, Two, One
16) The Big Top
17) It Was up in the Mountains
18) Odd Objects (for light‐in‐mouth)
19) Dr. Miller
20) Big Science
21) Big Science Reprise
Cd 4
01) Cello Solo
02) It Tango
03) Blue Lagoon
04) Hothead (La Langue d'Amour)
05) Stiff Neck
06) Telephone Song
07) Sweaters
08) We've Got Four Big Clocks (and they're all ticking
09) Song for Two Jims
10) Over the River
11) Mach 20
12) Rising Sun
13) The Visitors
14) The Stranger
15) Classified
16) Going Somewhere?
17) Fireworks
18) Dog Show
19) Lighting Out for the Territories
01) Say Hello
02) Walk the Dog
03) Violin Solo
04) Closed Circuits (for voice and amplified mic
05) For a Large and Changing Room
06) Pictures of It (for acoustic Tape Bow)
07) The Language of the Future
08) Cartoon Song
09) Small Voice (for speaker‐in‐mouth)
10) Three Walking Songs (for Tape Bow Violin)
11) The Healing Horn
12) New Jersey Turnpike
13) So Happy Birthday
14) EngliSH
15) Dance of Electricity
16) Three Songs for Paper, Film, and Video
Cd 2
01) Sax Solo (for Tape Bow Violin)
02) Sax Duet
03) Born, Never Asked
04) From the Air
05) Beginning French
06) O Superman
07) Talkshow
08) Frames for the Pictures
09) Democratic Way
10) Looking for You
11) Walking and Falling
12) Private Property
13) Neon Duet (for violin and neon bow)
14) Let X=X
15) The Mailman's Nightmare
16) Difficult Listening Hour
17) Language is a virus from outer space ― William S
18) Reverb
19) If You Can't Talk About It, Point to It (for Ludwi
20) Violin Walk
21) City Song
22) Finnish Farmers
Cd 3
01) Red Map
02) Hey Ah
03) Bagpipe Solo
04) Steven Weed
05) Time and a Half
06) Voices on Tape
07) Example #22
08) Strike
09) False Documents
10) New York Social Life
11) A Curious Phenomenon
12) Yankee See
13) I Dreamed I Had to Take a Test…
14) Running Dogs
15) Four, Three, Two, One
16) The Big Top
17) It Was up in the Mountains
18) Odd Objects (for light‐in‐mouth)
19) Dr. Miller
20) Big Science
21) Big Science Reprise
Cd 4
01) Cello Solo
02) It Tango
03) Blue Lagoon
04) Hothead (La Langue d'Amour)
05) Stiff Neck
06) Telephone Song
07) Sweaters
08) We've Got Four Big Clocks (and they're all ticking
09) Song for Two Jims
10) Over the River
11) Mach 20
12) Rising Sun
13) The Visitors
14) The Stranger
15) Classified
16) Going Somewhere?
17) Fireworks
18) Dog Show
19) Lighting Out for the Territories
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First Released
1984
Avant-Garde
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United States Live is the third album release by avant-garde singer-songwriter Laurie Anderson. Released as a 5-record boxed set (later reissued on four CDs), the album was recorded at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York City in February 1983.
United States was Anderson's magnum opus performance-art piece featuring musical numbers, spoken word pieces, and animated vignettes about life in the United States. Segments ranged from humorous, such as "Yankee See," which gently chided Anderson's record label, Warner Bros. Records, for signing her in the first place, to the apocalyptic anthem "O Superman," which had been an unexpected Top 10 hit for Anderson on the UK music charts in 1981.
Originally, United States was presented over the course of two nights, running some eight hours. The United States Live box set is a truncated rendering of the performance, omitting many segments that were solely of a visual nature.
Among the songs performed on the album was "Language is a Virus (from Outer Space)," a pop-like song based upon a phrase attributed to William S. Burroughs. Anderson later performed a modified arrangement of the song in her 1986 concert film Home of the Brave.
Although Anderson has since created numerous other major performance pieces (i.e. Moby-Dick, Stories from the Nerve Bible, Happiness, The End of the Moon), United States Live remains, to date, the only serious attempt at producing anything approaching a full-length recording of any of these performances, although her previous album Big Science and her segment of the compilation You're the Guy I Want to Share My Money With consisted of studio-recorded excerpts from United States.
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United States Live is the third album release by avant-garde singer-songwriter Laurie Anderson. Released as a 5-record boxed set (later reissued on four CDs), the album was recorded at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York City in February 1983.
United States was Anderson's magnum opus performance-art piece featuring musical numbers, spoken word pieces, and animated vignettes about life in the United States. Segments ranged from humorous, such as "Yankee See," which gently chided Anderson's record label, Warner Bros. Records, for signing her in the first place, to the apocalyptic anthem "O Superman," which had been an unexpected Top 10 hit for Anderson on the UK music charts in 1981.
Originally, United States was presented over the course of two nights, running some eight hours. The United States Live box set is a truncated rendering of the performance, omitting many segments that were solely of a visual nature.
Among the songs performed on the album was "Language is a Virus (from Outer Space)," a pop-like song based upon a phrase attributed to William S. Burroughs. Anderson later performed a modified arrangement of the song in her 1986 concert film Home of the Brave.
Although Anderson has since created numerous other major performance pieces (i.e. Moby-Dick, Stories from the Nerve Bible, Happiness, The End of the Moon), United States Live remains, to date, the only serious attempt at producing anything approaching a full-length recording of any of these performances, although her previous album Big Science and her segment of the compilation You're the Guy I Want to Share My Money With consisted of studio-recorded excerpts from United States.
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