Dead City Radio William S. Burroughs

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  • Release Date: 08/31/1990
  • Sales Rank: 51,888
  • Label: FONTANA ISLAND
  • UPC: 042284626422

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Dead City Radio

1LISTENWilliam's Welcome: What Are You Here For? 2:03
2LISTENA Thanksgiving Prayer 2:22
3LISTENNaked Lunch Excerpts: You Got Any Eggs for Fats?/Dinner ... 7:16
4LISTENAh Pook the Destroyer/Brion Gysin's All-Purpose Bedtime Story 2:46
5LISTENAfter-Dinner Conversation: An Atrocious Conceit/Where He Was Going 11:40
6LISTENKill the Badger! 2:42
7LISTENA New Standard by Which to Measure Infamy 1:47
8LISTENThe Sermon on the Mount 1 (W.S.B. Reads the Good Book) 1:30
9LISTENNo More Stalins, No More Hitlers 1:00
10LISTENThe Sermon on the Mount 2 1:22
11LISTENScandal at the Jungle Hiltons 1:41
12LISTENThe Sermon on the Mount 3 1:23
13LISTENLove Your Enemies 1:13
14LISTENDr. Benway's House 0:40
15LISTENApocalypse 9:05
16LISTENThe Lord's Prayer 0:45
17LISTENIch Bin Von Kopf Bis Fuss Auf Liebe Eingestellt (Falling in Love Again) 2:30

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One of the best Burroughs recordings, Dead City Radio features the writer reading five previously unreleased pieces, along with selections from several of his books. The acerbic Burroughs wit is at its finest on many of these selections, and he even takes a shot at singing on one track. Musical contributors to this project include Sonic Youth, Donald Fagen, Lenny Pickett, Cheryl Hardwick, Chris Stein, and John Cale. William I. Lengeman III, All Music Guide

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The most brilliant, and bent, of the Beatsby JohnQ

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June 29, 2009: Nothing William Burroughs recorded (or wrote) could be called family friendly, they are very adult stories, but this is the recording I would recommend to anyone curious about his works. Bill Burroughs had the most amazing voice I have ever heard, sounding like God after throat surgery. He was however (how do I put this) not thinking in a normal or socially acceptable way when he wrote his pieces. His imagery is always disturbing, always provocative, and always entertaining. He was certainly the most brilliant of the Beat Generation writers, and just as certainly the most bizarre (I'm still not sure how he got away with shooting his wife). Dead City Radio contains his brilliant "A Thanksgiving Prayer" (expressing bitterness towards our hypocritical national myths), excerpts from "Naked Lunch", and he even takes a shot at Jesus' Sermon on the Mount. It is a very entertaining CD for the not easily offended artistic literary type.

I Also Recommend: Spare Ass Annie and Other Tales, Howl and Other Poems, The Jack Kerouac Collection.