Call Me Burroughs

by William S. Burroughs

Call Me Burroughs cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1966
  • Label: The English Bookshop
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 43:27
  • Community rating: 3.63/5 from 2 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Recorded in Paris in 1965, 'Call Me Burroughs' is the first commercially released audio recording of the legendary Beat Generation author. Burroughs delivers stark, deadpan readings of excerpts from his highly controversial novels, 'Naked Lunch' and 'The Soft Machine'. The unadorned spoken-word presentation perfectly amplifies his surreal, cut-up prose and caustic social satire.

Genres

Descriptors: drugs, satirical, vulgar, political

Tracklist

  1. Bradley The Buyer (6:24)
  2. Meeting Of International Conference Of Technological Psychiatry (4:56)
  3. The Fish Poison Con (6:59)
  4. Thing Police Keep All Board Room Reports (1:25)
  5. Mr. Bradley Mr. Martin Hear Us Through The Hole In Thin Air (4:16)
  6. Where You Belong (Rewrite) (6:38)
  7. Inflexible Authority (10:45)
  8. Uranian Willy (Rewrite) (2:00)

Credits

  • William S. Burroughs - primary artist, written-by
  • Tientje Louw - cover
  • The English Bookshop - edited by

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