United States Live

Laurie Anderson - United States Live

United States Live
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Artist: Laurie Anderson
Edition: Music CD
Format: Box set, Live
CD Release Date: 1991-01-29
Music Label: Warner Bros / Wea
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
  1. Say Hello
  2. Walk the Dog
  3. Violin Solo
  4. Closed Circuits
  5. For a Large and Changing Room
  6. Pictures of It
  7. Language of the Future
  8. Cartoon Song
  9. Small Voice
  10. Three Walking Songs
  11. Healing Horn
  12. New Jersey Turnpike
  13. So Happy Birthday
  14. English
  15. Dance of Electricity
  16. Three Songs for Paper, Film and Video
Music CD 2
  1. Sax Solo, Pt. 1 (Continued)
  2. Sax Duet, Pt. 1 (Continued)
  3. Born, Never Asked (Part One Continued)
  4. From the Air
  5. Beginning the French
  6. O Superman (For Massenet)
  7. Talkshow
  8. Frames for the Pictures
  9. Democratic Way
  10. Looking for You
  11. Walking and Falling
  12. Private Property
  13. Neon Duet
  14. Let X = X
  15. Mailman's Nightmare
  16. Difficult Listening Hour
  17. Language Is a Virus
  18. Reverb
  19. If You Can't Talk About It, Point to It
  20. Violin Walk
  21. City Song
  22. Finnish Farmers
Music CD 3
  1. Big Science
  2. Red Map
  3. Hey Ah
  4. Bagpipe Solo
  5. Steven Weed
  6. Time and a Half
  7. Voices on Tape
  8. Example #22
  9. Strike
  10. False Documents
  11. New York Social Life
  12. Curious Phenomenon
  13. Yankee See
  14. I Dreamed I Had to Take a Test...
  15. Running Dogs
  16. Four, Three, Two, One
  17. Big Top
  18. It Was up in the Mountains
  19. Odd Objects
  20. Dr. Miller
  21. Big Science
  22. Big Science Reprise
Music CD 4
  1. Cello Solo
  2. It Tango
  3. Blue Lagoon
  4. Hothead (La Langue d'Amour)
  5. Stiff Neck
  6. Telephone Song
  7. Sweaters
  8. We've Got Four Big Clocks (And They're All Ticking)
  9. Song for Two Jims
  10. Over the River
  11. Mach 20
  12. Rising Sun
  13. Visitors
  14. Stranger
  15. Classified
  16. Going Somewhere?
  17. Fireworks
  18. Dog Show
  19. 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 Weidenbaum

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