Reddit mentions: The best poetry recordings

Thanks for sharing this with those of us who've never seen this. Holy crap, there is so much in this one interview! I probably missed half of the stuff he was talking about but here's some of the things I noticed:

"Did you record others that didn’t make it on the record?
Yeah, I did about 25 all together. There’s a religious song that didn’t get on the album. It’s called “Bethlehem, Pa.” it’s about a guy named Bob Christ. There were a couple of others.

What happens to those?
They’re orphans. They’re on their own."

And we all know what happened to the orphans!

Then there's this:

"A couple of years ago on my wife’s birthday we heard a song called “Jesus’ Blood Never Fails,” and it stayed in my head for so long."

Which he recorded with Gavin Byars

I picked up on this reference:

"How do you audition a road manager?
Well, you take a couple of candidates out toe the Mojave Desert and you leave the car by the side of the road and you walk for a couple of days, and when you get to a stream, the guys that want to drink from a cup, those are the guys you don’t want. It’s the guys that throw themselves headlong into the stream and just drink, those are the best soldiers."

Which is a reference/subversion of Judges 7:4

Then there's this:

"Then I’m doing a film with Robert Frank, who took the picture on the cover of this record. It’s called There Ain’t No Candy Mountain. It’s going to be written by Rudi Wurlitzer and directed by Robert Frank. We’re going to do it in the spring. It’s about a guy like Les Paul who becomes really famous as a guitar designer and manufacturer. Then he completely abandons everything and disappears. And this young guy goes looking for him."

Which became Candy Mountain and is welll-worth a watch for Tom alone. Crappy youtube upload. Tom shows up around 18:30. It's also got Buster Poindexter, Dr. John and other folks.

Really great 80's independent film for anyone who like instruments, songwriting or musicians.

And then this:

"Maybe I should say something about the title of the album, Rain Dogs. You know dogs in the rain lose their way back home. They even seem to look up at you and ask if you can help them get back home. ‘Cause after it rains every place they peed on has been washed out."

Sharon Olds, Louise Gluck, and Marie Howe are some of my favorite female poets! Also, if you like listening to poetry, I found some of my favorite poets through a box set I got for Christmas: http://www.amazon.com/Poetry-On-Record-Poets-1888-2006/dp/B000EU1PGO

It's an AMAZING collection, especially if you're just getting into poetry :)

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|about|Tom Waits (born Thomas Alan Waits, in Pomona, California, on December 7, 1949) is a prolific American singer, songwriter, composer, and actor. He started his career in the early 1970s as a singer in spit 'n' sawdust bars. Initially, he was deeply influenced by the beat generation, novelists like Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs, and poets like Allen Ginsberg and Charles Bukowski. Waits is often compared to Charles Bukowski, being similar both in content and lifestyle, although Waits's views are more...|
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Jack Kerouac. He did this alot, recording his poems/prose on top of jazz pianos and saxes. amazon link. Maybe you can find a recording of him reading without any instruments so you can play on top of it.

Saul Williams - Amethyst Rock Star

For me, it was a toss up between this one and the self titled album. Lyrically, I think that ARS surpasses the self titled album (it should be noted that I believe Saul Williams to be the more enjoyable album).

Example of this album's genius:

>And here i stand

>Court jestering infinity

>Fetal fisted for revolution

>But open hands birth humility

>Now what you the density of an egoless planet?

>Must my spine be aligned to sprout wings?

>I'm slouched into sling steps and kangoled with gang reps

>But my orbit rainbows saturn rings

>Mystical eliptical

>Presto polaris

>Karmic flamed future when saturns and aries

>And now i'm a fish called father

>With gills type dizzy

>Blowing liquid lullabies through the spine of time

>I'm certain of saturns rivers and all else is fact

>So baptise me in the stars

>And wrap me in nighttime

http://www.amazon.com/Spare-Ass-Annie-Other-Tales/dp/B000005HTW

i just got the mp3 album, the bass seems way high, but otherwise just as i remember it. easy listening. spare ass annie and the "this is insane" interlude are also quite good

Yet another cretin who has not read anywhere near enough Chomsky to know a thing about him. Chomsky is one of the most hopeful activists one can image. This "author" strawmans like his life depends upon it.



Listen to the last track on this (steal it of course) to get a better idea of what Chomsky actually thinks....or you know just email him. Hes about as far from doom and gloom as you can get: http://www.amazon.com/Class-War-Attack-Working-People/dp/B00000DFW0

Little known fact: Ali once put out a comedy album the same year the Bill Cosby released his first

This recording is included in the incredibly wonderful Kerouac collection by Rhino, which, if you're a Kerouac fan, you owe it to yourself to get. After hearing his voice read the text, it forever changed the way I "heard" the writing in my head as I read Kerouac. And now, (one of) my favorite Kerouac quotes from my sullen teen years:
>"no more
dissipation, it's time for me to quietly watch the world and even enjoy it,
first in woods like these, then just calmly walk and talk among people of
the world, no booze, no drugs, no binges, no bouts with beatniks and drunks
and junkies and everybody, no more I ask myself the question O why is God
torturing me, that's it, be a loner, travel, talk to waiters only, in fact,
in Milan, Paris, just talk to waiters, walk around, no more self-imposed
agony... it's time to think and watch and keep concentrated on the fact that
after all this whole surface of the world as we know it now will be covered
with the silt of a billion years in time.. . Yay, for this, more aloneness"

You can also buy it for less than 10.

Not my favorite. The idea reminds of the Star Spangled noised by Jimi Hendrix, so not that experimental, IMO.

I'd like to hear the 40 minutes, tho!

Jokes on you, https://www.amazon.com/Where-Sidewalk-Ends-Shel-Silverstein/dp/B000002602

CHECK OUT KEN NORDINE: COLORS!

http://www.amazon.com/Colors-Ken-Nordine/dp/B000001PAI

part of this collection that i've purchased and lost twice.

Favorite author, favorite band. I so wanted to meet him, but never had the chance.

P.S. Is everyone hip to Spare Ass Annie? Not metal, oh so metal.