The Best of William Burroughs
Compilation by William S. Burroughs
Released 1998
Tracklist
- CD 1
- 1Twilight's Last Gleamings2:52
- 2Junkie: 103rd Street Boys7:33
- 3Naked Lunch: Benway0:38
- 4Naked Lunch: I Can Feel The Heat Closing In6:55
- 5Naked Lunch: Meeting of International Conference of Technological Psychiatry4:59
- 6Naked Lunch: In Mexico the Gimmick Is to Find a Local Junkie With a Government Script2:25
- 7Naked Lunch: The Laboratory Has Been Locked For Three Hours Solid2:09
- 8Naked Lunch: Dr. Benway Is Operating in an Auditorium Filled With Students2:01
- 9Naked Lunch: Fats Terminal Had Organized a Purple Ass Stick for Motorcyclists2:06
- 10Naked Lunch: Hassan Is a Notorious Liquifactionist5:36
- 11The Soft Machine: Where you Belong3:13
- 12Exterminator: What Washington? What Orders?8:16
- 13Exterminator: From Here to Eternity3:48
- 14Exterminator: The Evening News3:08
- 15Nova Express: I Was Travelling With the Intolerable Kid on the Nova Lark8:35
- 16Nova Express: The Unworthy Vessel2:48
- 17Nova Express: the Do-Rights3:32
- CD 2
- 1Ah Pook Is Here: Ah Pook Is The Mayan God Of Death12:31
- 2Ah Pook Is Here: Introducing John Stanley Hart. He Entered The Bar With The Best Intentions2:15
- 3When Did I Stop Wanting To Be President7:07
- 4What The Nova Convention Is All About1:59
- 5Keynote Commentary, Roosevelt After The Inauguration5:51
- 6The Wild Boys: The Chief Smiles6:47
- 7The Wild Boys: The Green Nun3:31
- 8The Wild Boys: Tio Mate Smiles10:26
- 9The Wild Boys: Tio Pepe4:29
- 10The Wild Boys: As Esperanza Turns To Go Inside; Tia Maria, Tio Gordo6:48
- 11The Wild Boys: A Top Level Conference Is In Progress6:05
- 12Port Of Saints: Firecracker (excerpt)3:51
- CD 3
- 1Cities of the Red Night: Virus B-231:20
- 2Cities of the Red Night: Doctor Pierson8:42
- 3Cities of the Red Night: The Name Is Clem Snide. Mr. Hart Couldn't Hear the Word Death5:03
- 4Place of Dead Roads: This Is Kim Carson2:02
- 5Place of Dead Roads: Just Like the Collapse of Any Currency1:56
- 6Place of Dead Roads: The Purple Better One4:14
- 7Place of Dead Roads: M.O.B.4:32
- 8Place of Dead Roads: The Whole Tamale4:23
- 9Place of Dead Roads: My Protagonist Kim Carson4:57
- 10Place of Dead Roads: Salt Chunk Mary1:18
- 11Place of Dead Roads: Like Mr. Hart, Kim Has a Dark Side to His Character2:50
- 12Place of Dead Roads: Progressive Education7:13
- 13Place of Dead Roads: The Wild Fruits2:26
- 14Place of Dead Roads: Old Man Bickford2:10
- 15The Western Lands: The Mummy Piece4:07
- 16The Western Lands: The President1:56
- 17The Western Lands: Colonel Bradfield2:35
- 18The Western Lands: Every Man a God1:16
- 19The Western Lands: Kim Like the Great Gatsby1:26
- 20Just Say No to Drug Hysteria (excerpt)4:08
- 21Words of Advice3:27
- CD 4
- 1Dinosaurs6:00
- 2Sexual Conditioning8:35
- 3Dead Souls4:09
- 4The Cat Inside: Excerpts8:59
- 5Nothing Here Now But The Recordings: Captain Clark Welcomes You Aboard0:24
- 6Nothing Here Now But The Recordings: The Saints Go Marching Through All The Popular Tunes4:11
- 7Nothing Here Now But The Recordings: Summer Will1:58
- 8Nothing Here Now but the Recordings: Outside the Pier Prowled Like Electric Turtles1:13
- 9Nothing Here Now But The Recordings: The Total Taste Is Here, New Cut-Ups0:38
- 10Nothing Here Now but the Recordings: We See the Future Through the Binoculars of the People11:25
- 11Nothing Here Now But The Recordings: Just Checking Your Summer Recordings1:43
- 12Nothing Here Now but the Recordings: Creepy Letter, Cut-Up at the Beat Hotel in Paris1:56
- 13Nothing Here Now But The Recordings: Inching, Is This Machine Recording?1:00
- 14Nothing Here Now But The Recordings: Handkerchief Masks, News Cut-Ups3:22
- 15Nothing Here Now But The Recordings: Word Falling, Photo Falling1:26
- 16Nothing Here Now But The Recordings: Throat Microphone Experiment1:01
- 17Nothing Here Now But The Recordings: It's About Time To Identify Oven Area1:09
- 18Nothing Here Now But The Recordings: Last Words Of Hassan Sabbah12:13
- 19Nothing Here Now But The Recordings: I Was Fooling Around With These Tapes In Hotels3:17
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Release credits
- producer [1]
- spoken vocals [1]
Issues
- T1998




