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LAURIE ANDERSON United States Live 5 LP germany press

Laurie Anderson - United States Live

Warner Bros. Records 925 192-1
1984 Europe Issue pressed in Germany

Condiion: Outer box: EX with minor corner wear and a small almost tear top center. Vinyls: Like New

5 LP Set, the CD version omits some of the material.


UNITED STATES is Laurie Anderson's masterwork, a  testimonial to her experimental genius. Most of the material 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.



Here is more info than you probably need:

United States Live
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

United States Live
Live album by Laurie Anderson
Released 1984
Recorded Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York, February 7-February 10, 1983
Genre     Avant-garde
Experimental music
Pop music
Length     261:57
Label     Warner Bros. 25192
Producer Laurie Anderson / Roma Baran

Track listing

All tracks written by Laurie Anderson except as indicated.
      Part One
A1 Say Hello     5:00    
A2 Walk The Dog     6:37    
A3 Violin Solo     2:11    
A4 Closed Circuits     6:00    
A5 For A Large And Changing Room     2:50    
A6 Pictures Of It     2:29    
A7 Language Of The Future     7:58    
B1 Cartoon Song     1:11    
B2 Small Voice     2:03    
B3 Three Walking Songs     4:19    
B4 The Healing Horn     2:56    
B5 New Jersey Turnpike     11:20    
C1 So Happy Birthday     6:23    
C2 EngliSH     2:07    
C3 Dance Of Electricity     3:02    
C4 Three Songs For Paper, Film And Video     6:24    
C5 Sax Solo     0:51    
C6 Sax Duet     0:38    
C7 Born, Never Asked     4:54    
      Part Two
D1 From The Air     2:44    
D2 Beginning French     2:15    
D3 O Superman     10:57    
D4 Talkshow     6:52    
E1 Frames For The Pictures     1:07    
E2 Democratic Way     1:41    
E3 Looking For You     1:18    
E4 Walking And Falling     1:21    
E5 Private Property     3:03    
E6 Neon Duet     4:11    
E7 Let X=X     6:14    
E8 The Mailman's Nightmare     0:45    
E9 Difficult Listening Hour     3:07    
F1 "Language Is A Virus From Outer Space" - William S. Burroughs     7:52    
F2 Reverb     0:27    
F3 If You Can't Talk About It, Point To It (For Ludwig Wittgenstein And Reverend Ike)     0:36    
F4 Violin Walk     2:41    
F5 City Song     3:14    
F6 Finnish Farmers     4:35    
      Part Three
G1 Red Map     1:54    
G2 Hey Ah     3:50    
G3 Bagpipe Solo     3:15    
G4 Steven Weed     1:05    
G5 Time And A Half     2:14    
G6 Voices On Tape     1:28    
G7 Example #22     2:33    
G8 Strike     2:10    
G9 False Documents     1:58    
G10 New York Social Life     3:20    
G11 A Curious Phenomenon     1:02    
G12 Yankee See     7:59    
H1 I Dreamed I Had To Take A Test...     1:20    
H2 Running Dogs     0:24    
H3 Four, Three, Two, One     1:30    
H4 The Big Top     2:52    
H5 It Was Up In The Mountains     2:13    
H6 Odd Objects     4:02    
H7 Dr. Miller     5:19    
        Written-by [Written With] - Perry Hoberman
H8 Big Science     7:14    
H9 Big Science Reprise     1:48    
      Part Four
I1 Cello Solo     2:40    
I2 It Tango     1:49    
I3 Blue Lagoon     9:30    
I4 Hothead (La Langue D'Amour)     4:47    
I5 Stiff Neck     1:33    
I6 Telephone Song     1:24    
I7 Sweathers     3:48    
I8 We've Got Four Big Clocks (And They're All Ticking)     2:21    
J1 Song For Two Jims     2:57    
J2 Over The River     3:29    
J3 Mach 20     2:46    
J4 Rising Sun     3:24    
J5 The Visitors     2:48    
J6 The Stranger     2:01    
J7 Classified     5:18    
J8 Going Somewhere?     1:00    
J9 Fireworks     2:40    
J10 Dog Show     0:51    
J11 Lightning Out For The Territories     3:08

Personnel

    * Laurie Anderson– mic stand, violin bows, Tape-bow violin, electric violin, Harmonizer, pillow speaker, toy saxophone, voice, Vocoder, neon violin, glasses, Oberheim OB-Xa, Synclavier, tamboura, telephone, jew's harp
    * Peter Gordon – Prophet synthesizer, voice
    * Geraldine Pontius – voice
    * Joseph Kos – voice
    * Chuck Fisher – clarinet, sax
    * Bill Obrecht – flute, sax
    * Anne DeMarinis – Oberheim OB-Xa, Synclavier
    * David Van Tieghem – drums, percussion
    * Roma Baran – accordion
    * Rufus Harley – bagpipes
    * Shelley Karson – soprano



United States Live was the third album release by avant-garde singer-songwriter Laurie Anderson. Released as a 5-record boxed set (later reissued, slightly truncated, 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 (which was originally titled America on the Move) 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 would later perform 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.

Shipping Weight 2lb. 12 oz.

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