Spare Ass Annie and Other Tales

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Posted: Jun-27-2008

Long live Dr. Benway

When I first seen the cover of this cd I thought it was going to be some Timothy Leary type of project. Upon listening to I was releived to see that Burroughs hasn't changed his style he just added a background score.Personally I thought the music for the most part enhanced the readings and that...

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Posted: Jan-08-2004

Disposable Heroes are exacly that... let Burroughs SPEAK!!

The Disposable Heroes have ruined these readings. This CD would have been great if not for the ridiculously cheesy white boy elevator "jazz" muzak and the "so urban it hurts" cliched drum machine samples and Jamaican guy pretensiously farting a few of W.S.B.'s words in his "oh so cool"...

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Posted: Jun-16-2003

a dirty flawed crusty GEM

William S. Burroughs is a confessed junkie, and one of the wild boys. His beat poet-prose just was born to go over some great sampling. It is hard to take burroughs to seriously so this is just cryptic verbal fun.Burrows has a great reading voice and you just got to love the stuff that comes...

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Posted: Mar-07-2003

listen to my last words anywhere

serendipity. very cool mixture of Hiphopricy's jazz/funk/hiphop grooves and Burrough's always ahead-of-his-time future rants, stream-o-conciousness, and political concerns. whoever thought of this idea was an absolute genius. the production is top notch, and often collides with what Burroughs is...

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Posted: Jan-24-2002

Hilarious

Sometimes when I am just reading Burroughs, I manage to forget how damn funny the guy is. I get put off by his vividly grotesque descriptions of lobotomies and flying fecal matter and neglect to notice the scathing humor behind it all.This album really highlights Burroughs the satirist. Hearing...

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Posted: Dec-07-2001

Disposable Heroes enhance the Burroughs' words

I had become a fan of the sardonic humor, baroque visions and gross-out charm of William S. Burroughs by way of such stunning books as Interzone, Junky and Naked Lunch. When I bought Spare Ass Annie and Other Tales, I knew nothing of his collaborators on this spoken word album, the Disposable...

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Posted: Nov-12-2001

The funniest man in the world

WSB's humor is terribly underrated. He was deadpan,with a cynical but wildly hilarious take on the world. He always told it the way he saw it, regardless of the consequences.A nice back up by the Heroes, I liked the combination.

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Posted: Feb-08-2001

The most accessible of Burroughs' recordings

I had heard and like the Disposable Heroes and had a notion of Burroughs as "some writer" when I bought this album. Boy, was I in for an education! This recording is different from all the other Burroughs recordings I have encountered. It makes an effort to really enhance and in some cases...

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Posted: Aug-05-1998

Burroughs put to hip-hop just doesn't work well

Veteren Burroughs readers will be familiar with these mostly old readings (Spare Ass Annie, The man who taught his asshole to talk, the junky's christmas, etc). They've been recorded better, and the music of heroes of hiphoprasy adds little to the readings, being an annoying distraction. All the...

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Posted: Jun-26-1998

My favorite Burroughs CD

Fabulous. Though it's very close, I think I prefer this one to the excellent Dead City Radio. The background music, provided by the Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy, makes this one a bit more cohesive. The track "A Junkie's Christmas" is a FAR superior version of the only track from the...

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