The Best of William Burroughs

Tracklist

• CD 1
• 1
  Twilight's Last Gleamings
  2:52
• 2
  Junkie: 103rd Street Boys
  7:33
• 3
  Naked Lunch: Benway
  0:38
• 4
  Naked Lunch: I Can Feel The Heat Closing In
  6:55
• 5
  Naked Lunch: Meeting of International Conference of Technological Psychiatry
  4:59
• 6
  Naked Lunch: In Mexico the Gimmick Is to Find a Local Junkie With a Government Script
  2:25
• 7
  Naked Lunch: The Laboratory Has Been Locked For Three Hours Solid
  2:09
• 8
  Naked Lunch: Dr. Benway Is Operating in an Auditorium Filled With Students
  2:01
• 9
  Naked Lunch: Fats Terminal Had Organized a Purple Ass Stick for Motorcyclists
  2:06
• 10
  Naked Lunch: Hassan Is a Notorious Liquifactionist
  5:36
• 11
  The Soft Machine: Where you Belong
  3:13
• 12
  Exterminator: What Washington? What Orders?
  8:16
• 13
  Exterminator: From Here to Eternity
  3:48
• 14
  Exterminator: The Evening News
  3:08
• 15
  Nova Express: I Was Travelling With the Intolerable Kid on the Nova Lark
  8:35
• 16
  Nova Express: The Unworthy Vessel
  2:48
• 17
  Nova Express: the Do-Rights
  3:32
• CD 2
• 1
  Ah Pook Is Here: Ah Pook Is The Mayan God Of Death
  12:31
• 2
  Ah Pook Is Here: Introducing John Stanley Hart. He Entered The Bar With The Best Intentions
  2:15
• 3
  When Did I Stop Wanting To Be President
  7:07
• 4
  What The Nova Convention Is All About
  1:59
• 5
  Keynote Commentary, Roosevelt After The Inauguration
  5:51
• 6
  The Wild Boys: The Chief Smiles
  6:47
• 7
  The Wild Boys: The Green Nun
  3:31
• 8
  The Wild Boys: Tio Mate Smiles
  10:26
• 9
  The Wild Boys: Tio Pepe
  4:29
• 10
  The Wild Boys: As Esperanza Turns To Go Inside; Tia Maria, Tio Gordo
  6:48
• 11
  The Wild Boys: A Top Level Conference Is In Progress
  6:05
• 12
  Port Of Saints: Firecracker (excerpt)
  3:51
• CD 3
• 1
  Cities of the Red Night: Virus B-23
  1:20
• 2
  Cities of the Red Night: Doctor Pierson
  8:42
• 3
  Cities of the Red Night: The Name Is Clem Snide. Mr. Hart Couldn't Hear the Word Death
  5:03
• 4
  Place of Dead Roads: This Is Kim Carson
  2:02
• 5
  Place of Dead Roads: Just Like the Collapse of Any Currency
  1:56
• 6
  Place of Dead Roads: The Purple Better One
  4:14
• 7
  Place of Dead Roads: M.O.B.
  4:32
• 8
  Place of Dead Roads: The Whole Tamale
  4:23
• 9
  Place of Dead Roads: My Protagonist Kim Carson
  4:57
• 10
  Place of Dead Roads: Salt Chunk Mary
  1:18
• 11
  Place of Dead Roads: Like Mr. Hart, Kim Has a Dark Side to His Character
  2:50
• 12
  Place of Dead Roads: Progressive Education
  7:13
• 13
  Place of Dead Roads: The Wild Fruits
  2:26
• 14
  Place of Dead Roads: Old Man Bickford
  2:10
• 15
  The Western Lands: The Mummy Piece
  4:07
• 16
  The Western Lands: The President
  1:56
• 17
  The Western Lands: Colonel Bradfield
  2:35
• 18
  The Western Lands: Every Man a God
  1:16
• 19
  The Western Lands: Kim Like the Great Gatsby
  1:26
• 20
  Just Say No to Drug Hysteria (excerpt)
  4:08
• 21
  Words of Advice
  3:27
• CD 4
• 1
  Dinosaurs
  6:00
• 2
  Sexual Conditioning
  8:35
• 3
  Dead Souls
  4:09
• 4
  The Cat Inside: Excerpts
  8:59
• 5
  Nothing Here Now But The Recordings: Captain Clark Welcomes You Aboard
  0:24
• 6
  Nothing Here Now But The Recordings: The Saints Go Marching Through All The Popular Tunes
  4:11
• 7
  Nothing Here Now But The Recordings: Summer Will
  1:58
• 8
  Nothing Here Now but the Recordings: Outside the Pier Prowled Like Electric Turtles
  1:13
• 9
  Nothing Here Now But The Recordings: The Total Taste Is Here, New Cut-Ups
  0:38
• 10
  Nothing Here Now but the Recordings: We See the Future Through the Binoculars of the People
  11:25
• 11
  Nothing Here Now But The Recordings: Just Checking Your Summer Recordings
  1:43
• 12
  Nothing Here Now but the Recordings: Creepy Letter, Cut-Up at the Beat Hotel in Paris
  1:56
• 13
  Nothing Here Now But The Recordings: Inching, Is This Machine Recording?
  1:00
• 14
  Nothing Here Now But The Recordings: Handkerchief Masks, News Cut-Ups
  3:22
• 15
  Nothing Here Now But The Recordings: Word Falling, Photo Falling
  1:26
• 16
  Nothing Here Now But The Recordings: Throat Microphone Experiment
  1:01
• 17
  Nothing Here Now But The Recordings: It's About Time To Identify Oven Area
  1:09
• 18
  Nothing Here Now But The Recordings: Last Words Of Hassan Sabbah
  12:13
• 19
  Nothing Here Now But The Recordings: I Was Fooling Around With These Tapes In Hotels
  3:17

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Release credits

• James Grauerholz
  producer [1]
• William S. Burroughs
  spoken vocals [1]

Issues

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  The Best of William Burroughs

  4x CD
  1998