Here's a list of known recordings of William S. Burroughs that have been mentioned on the net before. Some of these are recordings that just use snippets of Burroughs voice from other sources. Burroughs releases: "Ali's Smile" 10" + book. - need more info on this. "Nothing Here Now But the Recordings" - an old LP which is long, long out of print on industrial records. "Break Through in Grey Room" - an excellent CD of cut-ups, Joujouka recordings, etc "Uncommon Quotes" - another excellent one, all spoken word from an appearance he did in 1987? "Zero Time to the Sick Tracks" - a reasonably good spoken word cassette Dead City Radio (Island 422-846 264-2, 1990) - great spoken word LP dubbed over music, some written for the album, some pulled out of the archives of the NBC orchestra, ca. 1955. Call Me Burroughs (ESP-disk, 1965) - unaccompanied spoken word LP. unidentified excerpts from Naked Lunch and Nova Express. Source material for "Millions of Images" by Gus Van Sant, and probably also the samples used by Nick Haeffner in his version of "Song From the Bottom of a Well". ANDERSON, LAURIE / GIORNO, JOHN / BURROUGHS, WILLIAM YOU'RE THE GUY I WANT TO SHARE MY MONEY WITH (2) 1981 US GIORNO POETRY SYSTEMS GPS 020-021 BURROUGHS, WILLIAM S. THE DOCTOR IS ON THE MARKET 1986 UK (?) LES TEMPS MODERNES LTM V:XX BURROUGHS, WILLIAM S. (CASSETTE-ONLY) ZERO TIME TO THE SICK TRACKS 198? US (?) WSB 001 LIKE A GIRL, I WANT YOU TO KEEP COMING (COMPILATION WITH NEW ORDER, W.S. BURROUGHS, D. BYRNE, J. GIORNO, ETC.) 1989 US GIORNO POETRY SYSTEMS GPS 040 MINUTES TO GO! (COMPILATION WITH WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS, WINSTON TONG, ANTI-GROUP, CV...) ETC.) 1987 BEL INTERIOR MUSIC IM 001 MYTHS: INSTRUCTIONS 1. (COMPILATION WITH WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS, CAMBERWELL NOW, ETC.) 1984 BEL SUB ROSA 33001-1 NOVA CONVENTION (CASSETTE-ONLY) (COMPILATION WITH W.S. BURROUGHS, J. GIORNO, GLASS...) 1979 US GIORNO POETRY SYSTEMS GPS 016 & 017 A Diamond Hidden in the Mouth of a Corpse gps 035, 1985 wsb on track 4, side 1 "the president/colonel bradford/every man a god" from _the western land_ lp also has tracks by husker du, sonic youth, coil, diamanda galas, cabaret voltaire, john giorno band, michael gira, etc. Smack My Crack gps 038, 1987 wsb on track 4, side 1 "words of advice/kim like the great gatsby" from _the western land_ lp also has tracks by the butthole surfers, einsturzende neubauten, diamanda galas, nick cave, john giorno band, swans, etc. "What is Industrial Music?" compilation of Industrial Records singles track called "Nothing Here Now" by William S. Burroughs. VARIOUS ARTISTS - "The Myths Collection Part One" cd track 3 - The Five Steps (with Martin Olson, percussion/electronics) also has tracks by Genesis P-Orridge & SPK Sub Rosa, subcd003-15, Belgium Stuff using Burroughs: "The Elvis of Letters." 12" with music by Gus Van Sant (1985?) - includes Burroughs Break, Word is Virus, Millions of Images, and The Hipster Be-Bop Junkie. On T.K. Records, of Portland. "Millions of Images"/"Hipster Be-Bop Junkie" - a 7" with Gus Van Sant, same material as above. WSB & Gus van Sant - "The Elvis of Letters" cd 4 tracks - 1) Burroughs Break 2) Word is Virus 3) Millions of Images 4) The Hipster Be-bop Junkie TK Records, 91cd001 ANDERSON, LAURIE MISTER HEARTBREAK 1984 US WARNER BROTHERS 9-25077-1 ANDERSON, LAURIE 12" - SHARKEY'S DAY (EDIT) / SHARKEY'S NIGHT (EXTENDED) / EXCELLENT BIRD 1984 US WARNER BROTHERS PRO-A-2123 HEDAYAT, DASHIELL OBSOLETE 1971 FR SHANDAR SR 83-512 Material - Seven Souls (1989) Soft Machine - single from 1966? The song also appears on Soft Machine's Triple Echo compilation (1977). A video of Burroughs's Thanksgiving piece (from Dead City Radio) appeared in U2's Zoo TV special, aired yesterday on MTV. Ministry - Just One Fix mini cd Burroughs also appears (speaking and image) on the Ministry video, "Just One Fix", the Cold Turkey of the 90s. Not sure about these references: track 3 - "Quinx" spoken words by WSB and music by MINISTRY (is this the same track as above, or a different one?) Luxa Pan ? ----- There's a video called BURROUGHS that includes an appearance of Burroughs on Saturday Night Live and some interviews and footage from some films of his. If you care to, you can try to reach him at: William Burroughs Communications 729-1/2 Massachusetts Lawrence, KS 66044 Possible soure of some of the releases above: gps = giorno poetry systems institute inc. 222 bowery new york, ny 10012 WSB & Gus van Sant - "The Elvis of Letters" cd may be sourced from: Dutch East India Trading PO Box 800 Rockville Centre, NY 11571-0800 (516) 764-6200 (516) 764-6315 fax I've seen some of these at Reno, Like a wymen ("still has men in it!) I want to keep you coming, por exemplo. Anyway...smack my crack.