United States Live

by Laurie Anderson

United States Live cover art

A monolithic, four-part box set compiling audio from her sprawling 1983 multimedia performance art epic at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Layering heavily processed vocals over tape loops and minimalist electronics, Anderson crafts a deeply surreal, technologically anxious, and poetic critique of modern American life.

Genres

  • Spoken Word
  • Experimental

Tracklist

  1. Say Hello - Live
  2. Walk the Dog - Live
  3. Violin Solo - Live
  4. Closed Circuits - Live
  5. For a Large and Changing Room - Live
  6. Pictures of It - Live
  7. Language of the Future - Live
  8. Cartoon Song - Live
  9. Small Voice - Live
  10. Three Walking Songs - Live
  11. The Healing Horn - Live
  12. New Jersey Turnpike - Live
  13. So Happy Birthday - Live
  14. English - Live
  15. Dance of Electricity - Live
  16. Three Songs for Paper, Film and Video - Live
  17. Sax Solo - Live
  18. Sax Duet - Live
  19. Born, Never Asked - Live
  20. From the Air - Live
  21. Beginning French - Live
  22. O Superman - Live
  23. Talkshow - Live
  24. Frames for the Pictures - Live
  25. Democratic Way - Live
  26. Looking for You - Live
  27. Walking and Falling - Live
  28. Private Property - Live
  29. Neon Duet - Live
  30. Let X=X - Live
  31. The Mailman's Nightmare - Live
  32. Difficult Listening Hour - Live
  33. Language Is a Virus from Outer Space - Live
  34. Reverb - Live
  35. If You Can't Talk About It, Point to It - Live
  36. Violin Walk - Live
  37. City Song - Live
  38. Finnish Farmers - Live
  39. Red Map - Live
  40. Hey Ah - Live
  41. Bagpipe Solo - Live
  42. Steven Weed - Live
  43. Time and a Half - Live
  44. Voices on Tape - Live
  45. Example #22 - Live
  46. Strike - Live
  47. False Documents - Live
  48. New York Social Life - Live
  49. A Curious Phenomenon - Live
  50. Yankee See - Live
  51. I Dreamed I Had to Take a Test..... - Live
  52. Running Dogs - Live
  53. Four, Three, Two, One - Live
  54. The Big Top - Live
  55. It Was up in the Mountains - Live
  56. Odd Objects - Live
  57. Dr. Miller - Live
  58. Big Science - Live
  59. Big Science (Reprise) - Live
  60. Cello Solo - Live
  61. It Tango - Live
  62. Blue Lagoon - Live
  63. Hothead (La Langue D'amour) - Live
  64. Stiff Neck - Live
  65. Telephone Song - Live
  66. Sweaters - Live
  67. We've Got Four Big Clocks - Live
  68. Song for Two Jims - Live
  69. Over the River - Live
  70. Mach 20 - Live
  71. Rising Sun - Live
  72. The Visitors - Live
  73. The Stranger - Live
  74. Classified - Live
  75. Going Somewhere? - Live
  76. Fireworks - Live
  77. Dog Show - Live
  78. Lighting out for the Territories - Live