Laurie Anderson - United States Live (1984) (4CD Box Set)

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Once her popularity seemed assured, Warner Bros. felt safe releasing this five-record set (since reissued on four CDs) comprising United States' entire four-and-a-half hours. It's not the first place I'd recommend going to hear Anderson's work, but for those so inclined it's well worth the effort. Although live performances of United States included film segments that ran during some of her monologues, United States is about communication and how we interpret and use language. It's a bit pretentious, a tad long-winded, and its size makes it unwieldy to listen to in one sitting, but this is an important work loaded with enough insight, wit, and humanity to make relistening and re-evaluating worthwhile.
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA presents a complete performance piece that includes songs featured on Anderson's other albums. It was presented in four parts (Transportation, Politics, Money, Love) which were presented in sections of two per evening. Each CD or cassette presents a single part.
UNITED STATES is Laurie Anderson's masterwork, a 78-track testimonial to her experimental genius. Most of the material on these four discs was recorded live at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in early 1983. Reprising nearly all of the tracks her 1982 debut album, BIG SCIENCE--sometimes in radically altered form--and previewing "Blue Lagoon" and "Hothead (La Langue D'Amour)" (both of which would turn up on 1984s MR. HEARTBREAK), this is a comprehensive collection.
UNITED STATES showcases all things Anderson, from her unique self-built instruments (both "Pictures Of It" and "Three Walking Songs" highlight her tape-bow violin) to the skewed sense of logic that informs her lyrics. Anderson often assumes the stance of an unusually incisive and witty stand-up comedienne. She introduces many of her compositions with lengthy stories. These usually conclude with bizarre punch lines, often at right angles to the rest of the tale. When taken individually, the pieces on UNITED STATES don't appear to be directly interrelated. As a whole, however, the album conveys Anderson's dryly comic statement about American--and, by extension, Western--culture.
Recorded at The Brooklyn Academy Of Music, Brooklyn, New York, February 7-10, 1983.
Personnel: Laurie Anderson (vocals, tamboura, violin, electric violin, synthesizer, Oberheim synthesizer, Synclavier, Jew's harp, tambourine); Peter Laurence Gordon (vocals, synthesizer); Joe Kos, Geraldine Pontius (vocals); Shelley Karson (soprano, soprano saxophone); Bill Obrecht (flute, saxophone); Rufus Harley (bagpipe); Roma Baran (accordion, drums, percussion); Chick Fisher, Chuck Fisher (clarinet, saxophone); Anne DeMarinis (synthesizer, Oberheim synthesizer, Synclavier); David Van Tieghem (drums, percussion).
Track List:
DISC 1:
01. Say Hello
02. Walk the Dog
03. Violin Solo
04. Closed Circuits - (for voice and amplified mic stand)
05. For a Large and Changing Room
06. Pictures of It - (for acoustic tape bow)
07. Language of the Future, The
08. Cartoon Song
09. Small Voice - (for speaker-in-mouth)
10. Three Walking Songs - (for tape bow violin)
11. Healing Horn, The
12. New Jersey Turnpike
13. So Happy Birthday
14. English
15. Dance of Electricity
16. Three Songs For Paper, Film, And Video
DISC 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. Mailman's Nightmare, The
16. Difficult Listening Hour
17. Language Is a Virus From Outer Space
18. Reverb
19. If You Can't Talk About It, Point to It
20. Violin Walk
21. City Song
22. Finnish Farmers
DISC 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. Curious Phenomenon, A
12. Yankee See
13. I Dreamed I Had to Take a Test
14. Running Dogs
15. Four, Three, Two, One
16. Big Top, The
17. It Was up in the Mountains
18. Odd Objects - (for light-in-mouth)
19. Dr. Miller
20. Big Science
21. Big Science Reprise
DISC 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. Visitors, The
14. Stranger, The
15. Classified
16. Going Somewhere?
17. Fireworks
18. Dog Show
19. Lighting Out For the Territories
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