Laurie Anderson - United States Live
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Artist: Laurie AndersonEdition: Music CD
Format: Box set, Live
CD Release Date: 1991-01-29
Music Label: Warner Bros / Wea
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- Say Hello
- Walk the Dog
- Violin Solo
- Closed Circuits
- For a Large and Changing Room
- Pictures of It
- Language of the Future
- Cartoon Song
- Small Voice
- Three Walking Songs
- Healing Horn
- New Jersey Turnpike
- So Happy Birthday
- English
- Dance of Electricity
- Three Songs for Paper, Film and Video
- Sax Solo, Pt. 1 (Continued)
- Sax Duet, Pt. 1 (Continued)
- Born, Never Asked (Part One Continued)
- From the Air
- Beginning the French
- O Superman (For Massenet)
- Talkshow
- Frames for the Pictures
- Democratic Way
- Looking for You
- Walking and Falling
- Private Property
- Neon Duet
- Let X = X
- Mailman's Nightmare
- Difficult Listening Hour
- Language Is a Virus
- Reverb
- If You Can't Talk About It, Point to It
- Violin Walk
- City Song
- Finnish Farmers
- Big Science
- Red Map
- Hey Ah
- Bagpipe Solo
- Steven Weed
- Time and a Half
- Voices on Tape
- Example #22
- Strike
- False Documents
- New York Social Life
- Curious Phenomenon
- Yankee See
- I Dreamed I Had to Take a Test...
- Running Dogs
- Four, Three, Two, One
- Big Top
- It Was up in the Mountains
- Odd Objects
- Dr. Miller
- Big Science
- Big Science Reprise
- Cello Solo
- It Tango
- Blue Lagoon
- Hothead (La Langue d'Amour)
- Stiff Neck
- Telephone Song
- Sweaters
- We've Got Four Big Clocks (And They're All Ticking)
- Song for Two Jims
- Over the River
- Mach 20
- Rising Sun
- Visitors
- Stranger
- Classified
- Going Somewhere?
- Fireworks
- Dog Show
- Lighting Out for the Territories
Music reviews of United States Live
Music Review: Laurie's Magnum Opus
Rating: 5 Stars
A vast and sweeping recording, more cohesive than her other albums. The music is challenging and beautifully done and the stories are poinient and at times hilarious. My favorites include "Language Is A Virus" and "Mach 20". Contains versions of her big hits, "O Superman" and "Big Science". Strongly recommended for fans of alternative music.
Description of United States Live
For most musicians and groups, the live box set marks the culmination of a lengthy recording and concert career. Not so for Laurie Anderson, whose United States Live appeared in 1984, following her tenure in academic and bohemian circles and a small handful of releases on Warner Bros. and smaller labels. The release was an unusual event, though perhaps less so for a musician who seeks to upend musical traditions, most notably the distinctions between pop and classical, spoken and sung, live and Memorex. The lengthy set is a recording of a live performance composed of dozens of carefully defined experiments in form and technique, most of them fitting into one or two of these three categories: show pieces for items from her technological music arsenal (like her emblematic electric violin), witty narrative snippets (back when "spoken word" was called "performance art," prior to the rise of the poetry slam), and full-band performances, featuring, among others, Peter Gordon and David Van Tieghem. "O Superman" and "Big Science" are the familiar titles that appear amid the nearly 80 tracks. "Just a slow accumulation of details," her computer-enhanced voice intones moments before the intro to "Blue Lagoon" (later heard in a studio version on Mister Heartbreak). That makes a nice epigram for the collection as a whole, which is essential to understanding art music of the '80s in general and the New York scene in particular. --Marc WeidenbaumAlternative CDs
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