United States Live

Album by Laurie Anderson

United States Live is a live album by American performance artist Laurie Anderson, released in 1984. The album documents her expansive multimedia performance piece, combining spoken-word, theatrical narration and experimental electronic instrumentation with tape manipulation and synthesised textures, and exemplifies her early-1980s exploration of art, technology and performance.

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Disc 1

  1. 1.
    Say Hello
    5:01
  2. 2.
    Walk the Dog
    6:45
  3. 3.
    Violin Solo
    2:13
  4. 4.
    Closed Circuits (for Voice and Amplified Mic Stand)
    6:03
  5. 5.
    For a Large and Changing Room
    2:50
  6. 6.
    Pictures of It (for Acoustic Tape Bow)
    1:31
  7. 7.
    The Language of the Future
    8:02
  8. 8.
    Cartoon Song
    1:12
  9. 9.
    Small Voice (for Speaker-in-Mouth)
    2:03
  10. 10.
    Three Walking Songs (for Tape Bow Violin)
    4:19
  11. 11.
    The Healing Horn
    3:01
  12. 12.
    New Jersey Turnpike
    11:19
  13. 13.
    So Happy Birthday
    6:23
  14. 14.
    EngliSH
    2:08
  15. 15.
    Dance of Electricity
    3:02
  16. 16.
    Three Songs for Paper, Film, and Video
    6:02

Disc 2

  1. 2.
    Sax Solo (for Tape Bow Violin)
    0:55
  2. 3.
    Sax Duet
    0:38
  3. 4.
    Born, Never Asked
    5:16
  4. 5.
    From the Air
    2:46
  5. 6.
    Beginning French
    2:16
  6. 7.
    O Superman
    11:05
  7. 8.
    Talkshow
    6:57
  8. 9.
    Frames for the Pictures
    1:08
  9. 10.
    Democratic Way
    1:41
  10. 11.
    Looking for You
    1:19
  11. 12.
    Walking and Falling
    1:21
  12. 13.
    Private Property
    3:04
  13. 14.
    Neon Duet (for Violin and Neon Bow)
    3:52
  14. 15.
    Let X = X
    6:17
  15. 16.
    The Mailman's Nightmare
    0:46
  16. 17.
    Difficult Listening Hour
    3:10
  17. 18.
    Language Is a Virus From Outer Space
    7:55
  18. 19.
    Reverb
    0:26
  19. 20.
    If You Can't Talk About It, Point to It
    0:33
  20. 21.
    Violin Walk
    2:44
  21. 22.
    City Song
    3:34
  22. 23.
    Finnish Farmers
    5:13

Disc 3

  1. 3.
    Red Map
    1:57
  2. 4.
    Hey Ah
    3:50
  3. 5.
    Bagpipe Solo
    3:17
  4. 6.
    Steven Weed
    1:05
  5. 7.
    Time and a Half
    2:14
  6. 8.
    Voices on Tape
    1:28
  7. 9.
    Example #22
    2:33
  8. 10.
    Strike
    2:11
  9. 11.
    False Documents
    1:59
  10. 12.
    New York Social Life
    3:32
  11. 13.
    A Curious Phenomenon
    1:06
  12. 14.
    Yankee See
    7:58
  13. 15.
    I Dreamed I Had to Take a Test...
    1:19
  14. 16.
    Running Dogs
    0:38
  15. 17.
    Four, Three, Two, One
    1:15
  16. 18.
    The Big Top
    2:52
  17. 19.
    It Was up in the Mountains
    2:14
  18. 20.
    Odd Objects
    4:03
  19. 21.
    Dr. Miller
    5:18
  20. 22.
    Big Science
    7:20
  21. 23.
    Big Science Reprise
    1:47

Disc 4

  1. 4.
    Cello Solo
    2:44
  2. 5.
    It Tango
    1:51
  3. 6.
    Blue Lagoon
    9:38
  4. 7.
    Hothead (La Langue d'amour)
    4:47
  5. 8.
    Stiff Neck
    1:33
  6. 9.
    Telephone Song
    1:34
  7. 10.
    Sweaters
    3:58
  8. 11.
    We've Got Four Big Clocks (and They're All Ticking)
    2:24
  9. 12.
    Song for Two Jims
    2:56
  10. 13.
    Over the River
    3:30
  11. 14.
    Mach 20
    2:47
  12. 15.
    Rising Sun
    3:25
  13. 16.
    The Visitors
    3:01
  14. 17.
    The Stranger
    1:57
  15. 18.
    Classified
    5:25
  16. 19.
    Going Somewhere?
    0:55
  17. 20.
    Fireworks
    2:46
  18. 21.
    Dog Show
    0:48
  19. 22.
    Lighting Out for the Territories
    3:13

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