United States Live

Tracklist

• Digital Media 1: Part One
• 1
  Say Hello
  5:01
• 2
  Walk the Dog
  6:45
• 3
  Violin Solo
  2:13
• 4
  Closed Circuits (for voice and amplified mic stand)
  6:03
• 5
  For a Large and Changing Room
  2:50
• 6
  Pictures of It (for acoustic Tape Bow)
  1:31
• 7
  The Language of the Future
  8:02
• 8
  Cartoon Song
  1:12
• 9
  Small Voice (for speaker‐in‐mouth)
  2:03
• 10
  Three Walking Songs (for Tape Bow Violin)
  4:19
• 11
  The Healing Horn
  3:01
• 12
  New Jersey Turnpike
  11:19
• 13
  So Happy Birthday
  6:23
• 14
  EngliSH
  2:08
• 15
  Dance of Electricity
  3:02
• 16
  Three Songs for Paper, Film, and Video
  6:02
• 17
  Sax Solo (for Tape Bow Violin)
  0:56
• 18
  Sax Duet
  0:38
• 19
  Born, Never Asked
  5:17
• Digital Media 2: Part Two
• 1
  From the Air
  2:46
• 2
  Beginning French
  2:16
• 3
  O Superman
  11:05
• 4
  Talkshow
  6:57
• 5
  Frames for the Pictures
  1:08
• 6
  Democratic Way
  1:41
• 7
  Looking for You
  1:19
• 8
  Walking and Falling
  1:21
• 9
  Private Property
  3:04
• 10
  Neon Duet (for violin and neon bow)
  3:52
• 11
  Let X=X
  6:17
• 12
  The Mailman’s Nightmare
  0:46
• 13
  Difficult Listening Hour
  3:10
• 14
  Language is a virus from outer space ― William S. Burroughs
  7:55
• 15
  Reverb
  0:26
• 16
  If You Can’t Talk About It, Point to It (for Ludwig Wittgenstein and Reverend Ike)
  0:33
• 17
  Violin Walk
  2:44
• 18
  City Song
  3:34
• 19
  Finnish Farmers
  5:13
• Digital Media 3: Part Three
• 1
  Red Map
  1:57
• 2
  Hey Ah
  3:50
• 3
  Bagpipe Solo
  3:17
• 4
  Steven Weed
  1:05
• 5
  Time and a Half
  2:14
• 6
  Voices on Tape
  1:28
• 7
  Example #22
  2:33
• 8
  Strike
  2:11
• 9
  False Documents
  1:59
• 10
  New York Social Life
  3:32
• 11
  A Curious Phenomenon
  1:06
• 12
  Yankee See
  7:58
• 13
  I Dreamed I Had to Take a Test…
  1:19
• 14
  Running Dogs
  0:38
• 15
  Four, Three, Two, One
  1:15
• 16
  The Big Top
  2:52
• 17
  It Was up in the Mountains
  2:14
• 18
  Odd Objects (for light‐in‐mouth)
  4:03
• 19
  Dr. Miller
  5:18
• 20
  Big Science
  7:20
• 21
  Big Science Reprise
  1:47
• Digital Media 4: Part Four
• 1
  Cello Solo
  2:44
• 2
  It Tango
  1:51
• 3
  Blue Lagoon
  9:38
• 4
  Hothead (La Langue d’Amour)
  4:47
• 5
  Stiff Neck
  1:33
• 6
  Telephone Song
  1:34
• 7
  Sweaters
  3:58
• 8
  We've Got Four Big Clocks (and they’re all ticking)
  2:24
• 9
  Song for Two Jims
  2:56
• 10
  Over the River
  3:30
• 11
  Mach 20
  2:47
• 12
  Rising Sun
  3:25
• 13
  The Visitors
  3:01
• 14
  The Stranger
  1:57
• 15
  Classified
  5:25
• 16
  Going Somewhere?
  0:55
• 17
  Fireworks
  2:46
• 18
  Dog Show
  0:48
• 19
  Lighting Out for the Territories
  3:13

More by Laurie Anderson

Landfall

Landfall 2018

Homeland

Homeland 2010

Life on a String

Life on a String 2001

The Ugly One With the Jewels and Other Stories

The Ugly One With the Jewels and Other Stories 1995

Bright Red

Bright Red 1994

Strange Angels

Strange Angels 1989

Release credits

• Anne DeMarinis
  analog synthesizer [3.16, 3.19, 2.18, 4.19], synclavier [2.18, 3.16, 3.19, 4.19]
• Bill Obrecht
  flute [18], saxophone [1.8, 2.18, 3.19]
• Chuck Fisher
  clarinet [2.18, 3.19], saxophone [2.18, 1.8, 3.19]
• David Van Tieghem
  drums (drum set) [2.18, 3.19], percussion [2.18, 3.16, 3.19]
• Geraldine Pontius
  vocal [13]
• Joe Kos
  vocal [13]
• Laurie Anderson
  analog synthesizer [3.16, 3.19, 4.19, 2.18], effects [1.2, 1.8, 1.13, 2.18], electric violin [2.18, 1.2], other instruments [8], producer [4.19, 1.2, 1.8, 1.13, 3.16, 3.19, 2.18], saxophone [8], synclavier [4.19, 3.16, 3.19], vocal [3.16, 3.19, 1.2, 1.8, 1.13, 4.19, 2.18], vocoder [18]
• Peter Gordon
  analog synthesizer [8, 13], vocal [13]
• Roma Baran
  producer [4.19, 1.2, 1.8, 1.13, 2.18, 3.16, 3.19]

Issues

• U
  United States Live

  4x Cassette
  1984
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  United States Live

  5x 12" Vinyl
  1984
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  U
  United States Live

  4x CD
  29 January 1991
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  U
  United States Live

  4x Digital Media
  4 August 2008