Album · 1998
The Best of William Burroughs
Tracklist
Disc 1
1
Twilight's Last Gleamings
The Best of William Burroughs
2:52
2
Junkie: 103rd Street Boys
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7:34
3
Naked Lunch: Benway
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0:39
4
Naked Lunch: I Can Feel The Heat Closing In
The Best of William Burroughs
6:56
5
Naked Lunch: Meeting of International Conference of Technological Psychiatry
The Best of William Burroughs
4:59
6
Naked Lunch: In Mexico the Gimmick Is to Find a Local Junkie With a Government Script
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2:25
7
Naked Lunch: The Laboratory Has Been Locked For Three Hours Solid
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2:10
8
Naked Lunch: Dr. Benway Is Operating in an Auditorium Filled With Students
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2:01
9
Naked Lunch: Fats Terminal Had Organized a Purple Ass Stick for Motorcyclists
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2:06
10
Naked Lunch: Hassan Is a Notorious Liquifactionist
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5:36
11
The Soft Machine: Where you Belong
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3:14
12
Exterminator: What Washington? What Orders?
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8:16
13
Exterminator: From Here to Eternity
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3:48
14
Exterminator: The Evening News
The Best of William Burroughs
3:09
15
Nova Express: I Was Travelling With the Intolerable Kid on the Nova Lark
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8:36
16
Nova Express: The Unworthy Vessel
The Best of William Burroughs
2:48
17
Nova Express: the Do-Rights
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3:32
Disc 2
1
Ah Pook Is Here: Ah Pook Is The Mayan God Of Death
The Best of William Burroughs
12:31
2
Ah Pook Is Here: Introducing John Stanley Hart. He Entered The Bar With The Best Intentions
The Best of William Burroughs
2:15
3
When Did I Stop Wanting To Be President
The Best of William Burroughs
7:07
4
What The Nova Convention Is All About
The Best of William Burroughs
1:59
5
Keynote Commentary, Roosevelt After The Inauguration
The Best of William Burroughs
5:52
6
The Wild Boys: The Chief Smiles
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6:47
7
The Wild Boys: The Green Nun
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3:31
8
The Wild Boys: Tio Mate Smiles
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10:26
9
The Wild Boys: Tio Pepe
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4:29
10
The Wild Boys: As Esperanza Turns To Go Inside; Tia Maria, Tio Gordo
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6:49
11
The Wild Boys: A Top Level Conference Is In Progress
The Best of William Burroughs
6:06
12
Port Of Saints: Firecracker (excerpt)
The Best of William Burroughs
3:51
Disc 3
1
Cities of the Red Night: Virus B-23
The Best of William Burroughs
1:21
2
Cities of the Red Night: Doctor Pierson
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8:43
3
Cities of the Red Night: The Name Is Clem Snide. Mr. Hart Couldn't Hear the Word Death
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5:04
4
Place of Dead Roads: This Is Kim Carson
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2:02
5
Place of Dead Roads: Just Like the Collapse of Any Currency
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1:57
6
Place of Dead Roads: The Purple Better One
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4:14
7
Place of Dead Roads: M.O.B.
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4:32
8
Place of Dead Roads: The Whole Tamale
The Best of William Burroughs
4:24
9
Place of Dead Roads: My Protagonist Kim Carson
The Best of William Burroughs
4:57
10
Place of Dead Roads: Salt Chunk Mary
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1:18
11
Place of Dead Roads: Like Mr. Hart, Kim Has a Dark Side to His Character
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2:50
12
Place of Dead Roads: Progressive Education
The Best of William Burroughs
7:13
13
Place of Dead Roads: The Wild Fruits
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2:26
14
Place of Dead Roads: Old Man Bickford
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2:10
15
The Western Lands: The Mummy Piece
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4:07
16
The Western Lands: The President
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1:56
17
The Western Lands: Colonel Bradfield
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2:36
18
The Western Lands: Every Man a God
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1:17
19
The Western Lands: Kim Like the Great Gatsby
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1:26
20
Just Say No to Drug Hysteria (excerpt)
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4:08
21
Words of Advice
The Best of William Burroughs
3:28
Disc 4
1
Dinosaurs
The Best of William Burroughs
6:00
2
Sexual Conditioning
The Best of William Burroughs
8:36
3
Dead Souls
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4:10
4
The Cat Inside: Excerpts
The Best of William Burroughs
9:00
5
Nothing Here Now But The Recordings: Captain Clark Welcomes You Aboard
The Best of William Burroughs
0:24
6
Nothing Here Now But The Recordings: The Saints Go Marching Through All The Popular Tunes
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4:12
7
Nothing Here Now But The Recordings: Summer Will
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1:59
8
Nothing Here Now but the Recordings: Outside the Pier Prowled Like Electric Turtles
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1:14
9
Nothing Here Now But The Recordings: The Total Taste Is Here, New Cut-Ups
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0:39
10
Nothing Here Now but the Recordings: We See the Future Through the Binoculars of the People
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11:26
11
Nothing Here Now But The Recordings: Just Checking Your Summer Recordings
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1:44
12
Nothing Here Now but the Recordings: Creepy Letter, Cut-Up at the Beat Hotel in Paris
The Best of William Burroughs
1:57
13
Nothing Here Now But The Recordings: Inching, Is This Machine Recording?
The Best of William Burroughs
1:00
14
Nothing Here Now But The Recordings: Handkerchief Masks, News Cut-Ups
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3:23
15
Nothing Here Now But The Recordings: Word Falling, Photo Falling
The Best of William Burroughs
1:26
16
Nothing Here Now But The Recordings: Throat Microphone Experiment
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1:01
17
Nothing Here Now But The Recordings: It's About Time To Identify Oven Area
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1:10
18
Nothing Here Now But The Recordings: Last Words Of Hassan Sabbah
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12:13
19
Nothing Here Now But The Recordings: I Was Fooling Around With These Tapes In Hotels
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3:18
In print
First pressed 1998 — 4 pressings.