The name Allen Ginsberg conjures up memories of a young beat poet who, along with Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs, began a fledgling movement in the late 1940s and early '50s that to this day remains relevant to literature, music, and counterculture. The fact is Allen Ginsberg is an outspoken dissident who helped shape our consciousness in the 1960s, whose "Howl" and "Kaddish" embody both the outspoken and tender sides of the Ginsberg persona. As a pacifist and gay rights activist, he has influenced our culture for five decades.
Allen Ginsberg grew up in the meat of century. Fresh between newly rusting New Jersey heartlands caught between parents mild and crazed, starved to express love not yet defined as anything but perversion. He learned the tissues of reality from Naomi, his mother. Her paranoid hallucinations informed him with a truth he kept in check until he could transform it through the poetic processes bequeathed to him by his father, the poet Louis Ginsberg. Paranoia becomes Justice, Desire becomes Force, Perversion becomes Spirit. The poetry of Allen Ginsberg will last the ages, for it teaches us our minds, it bumps into us and stirs the muck around the brain stem. His inability to compromise with language, politics, or truth has created a giant body of work with remarkable consistency.
| Disc: 1 Moloch!   |
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| 1. Walking at Night in Key West [#] |
| 2. Mad Gleam [#] |
| 3. Green Automobile [#] |
| 4. Supermarket in California [#] |
| 5. Howl (For Carl Solomon) [#] |
| 6. Footnote to Howl [#] |
| 7. America [#] |
| 8. Sunflower Sutra [#] |
| 9. Green Valentine Blues [#] |
| 10. Death to Van Gogh's Ear |
| Disc: 2 Caw! Caw!   |
| 1. Kaddish (For Naomi Ginsberg 1894-1956) |
| 2. To Aunt Rose |
| 3. Kral Majales (King of May) |
| 4. Guru |
| Disc: 3 Ah!   |
| 1. Wales Visitation [#] |
| 2. End |
| 3. I Am a Victim of Telephone |
| 4. Echoing Green |
| 5. Lamb |
| 6. (A) Little Boy Lost (B) Little Boy Found |
| 7. Laughing Song |
| 8. Sick Rose |
| 9. Nurse's Song (Experience) |
| 10. City Midnight Junk Strains (For Frank O'Hara) |
| 11. Cradle Song [#] |
| 12. Infant Joy [#] |
| 13. Fly [#] |
| 14. Voice of the Bard [#] |
| 15. School Boy [#] |
| 16. Dream [#] |
| 17. Who Be Kind To |
| 18. First Party at Ken Kesey's With Hell's Angels |
| 19. Pacific High Studio Mantras (Om Ah Hum Vajra Guru Padma Siddhi Hum) [#] |
| 20. Wichita Vortex Sutra, Pt. 3 [#] |
| 21. Nurse's Song (Innocence) |
| 22. Pull My Daisy [#] |
| Disc: 4 Ashes & Blues   |
| 1. Capitol Air [#] - The Clash, Allen Ginsberg |
| 2. Written in My Dreams by W.C. Williams [#] |
| 3. CIA Dope Calypso |
| 4. Vomit Express [Alternate Mix][#] |
| 5. Please Master |
| 6. Little Fish Devours the Big Fish [#] |
| 7. Prayer Blues [#] |
| 8. Birdbrain |
| 9. Gospel Noble Truths |
| 10. Hum Bom! [#] |
| 11. Airplane Blues [#] |
| 12. On Neal's Ashes [#] |
| 13. September on Jessore Road [#] |
| 14. Father Death Blues |
| 15. Do the Meditation Rock [#] |
| 16. After Lalon [#] |
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6 comments:
Man you is on a roll Holy Soul!
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... i listened to the whole thing the other nite... it still makes me laugh out loud & gasp for breath... x
Contact (monastreet) (at) [gmail] {dot} com as I have a new computer which means I can burn discs and prob have a few things that you will be into...
Regards/
I discovered this page just today and I see that the CRC on the fourth cd's zip is incorrect - hence I can't extract the zip. Any other links to this cd would be appreciated!
HIYA
just checked the file/link and it was fine this end.xx
hi
thanks for this....i woke up this morning thinking of 'Howl' and read up on a review of this from 1995....and here it is....i go back to 'Howl' days when such material was not thought proper for young uns to read....i picked up on Allen's recording from his Fugs liason and from a distance have followed his life...this will reconnect me to former times forever now.....
cy from Pck
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