William S. Burroughs Dead City Radio (Island, 1990)

produced by Hal Willner & Nelson Lyon



Tracklisting:
01 William's Welcome ("What Are You Here For ?") (2:03)
Featuring - Lenny Pickett , Sonic Youth
02 A Thanksgiving Prayer (2:22)
Featuring - NBC Symphony Orchestra
03 Naked Lunch Excerpts ("You Got Any Eggs For Fats ?") / Dinner Conversation ("The Snakes") (7:16)
Featuring - NBC Symphony Orchestra
04 Ah Pook The Destroyer / Brion Gysin's All-Purpose Bedtime Story (2:46)
Featuring - John Cale
05 After-Dinner Conversation ("An Atrocious Conceit") / Where He Was Going (11:40)
Featuring - NBC Symphony Orchestra
Organ - Cheryl Hardwick
06 Kill The Badger ! (2:42)
Featuring - NBC Symphony Orchestra
07 A New Standard By Which To Measure Infamy (1:47)
Featuring - Donald Fagen
08 The Sermon On The Mount 1 ("WSB Reads The Good Book") (1:30)
Featuring - Lenny Pickett
09 No More Stalins, No More Hitlers (1:00)
Featuring - John Cale
10 The Sermon On The Mount 2 (1:22)
Featuring - Lenny Pickett
11 Scandal At The Jungle Hiltons (1:41)
Featuring - Allen Ginsberg
12 The Sermon On The Mount 3 (1:23)
Featuring - Lenny Pickett
13 Love Your Enemies (1:13)
Featuring - John Cale
14 Dr. Benways House (0:40)
Featuring - Sonic Youth
15 Apocalypse (9:05)
Featuring - NBC Symphony Orchestra
16 The Lord's Prayer (0:45)
Featuring - Chris Stein , Sonic Youth
17 Ich Bin Von Kopf Bis Fuss Auf Liebe Eingestellt ("Falling In Love Again")
Clarinet - Lenny Pickett
Piano - Cheryl Hardwick

Sweet, thanks man.

What? No G.E. Smith???

No T-Bone Wolk, either, but still awesome anyway.

When I was downloading those tracks I saw all kinds of Burroughs stuff I've never heard. Cool. Will have to get more stuff.

Cheers frosted (is it Phil?).

Look forward to hearing this when it downloads.

Any idea if any of his audio books has himself reading? Love to hear his deadpan.

I bought Dead City Radio exclusively for "A Thanksgiving Prayer", which I consider one of the greatest spoken word pieces ever recorded. The rest of the album is interesting enough - how far wrong can you go with that voice? - but nothing hits quite as hard as "Prayer".

I love his cameo in Drugstore Cowboy, too.

Yeah, even when his spoken word pieces are just unfocused diatribes, the voice is what sells.