Best spoken word tracks
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Rorschach wrote:Of course!
I don't suppose Sir Henry at Rawlinson's End counts?
It should.
In the meantime, two among many from degenerate beatnik poets
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Rayge wrote:Rorschach wrote:Of course!
I don't suppose Sir Henry at Rawlinson's End counts?
It should.
It's a spoken word album rather than a track though. Depends how liberal you want to be with your classifications.
Anyway, it's been mentioned and commented on and that'll do me.
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There's a hell of a lot more of this sort of stuff than I originally thought.
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Charlie O. wrote:^ Ginger had another "protest recitation" on the Masters Of Reality album he did - about how Americans can't make a proper cup of tea.
Personally, I prefer this:
They are both splendidly robust Chas.
Peter has the perfect voice for this sort of thing
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And how could I forget this?. Patti performing her poem with backing by Richard Sohl and Tom Verlaine
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Rayge wrote:And how could I forget this?. Patti performing her poem with backing by Richard Sohl and Tom Verlaine
She did a couple of albums with Kevin Shields as well. I haven't heard them because I've never got Loveless and I don't really like Patti Smith. Don't you find her a bit sneery?
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Rorschach wrote:She did a couple of albums with Kevin Shields as well. I haven't heard them because I've never got Loveless and I don't really like Patti Smith. Don't you find her a bit sneery?
Oh, not at all. Quite the opposite in fact, athough a New Jersey accent doesn't help . I don't really see her as a singer, but as an ecstatic poet in the NYC Beat/Romantic tradition, and she adapts her voice - sometimes singing, sometimes talking, often incantation, and all three in the same track - to the material: she can croon quite sweetly, but doesn't do it often. I know there's plenty don't like her, but I don't judge her musically, but as a writer and performer of sometimes shamanic intensity.
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Rayge wrote: I don't judge her musically, but as a writer and performer of sometimes shamanic intensity.
Fair enough. I've always found her a bit up her own fundament. I really went off her when she got religion. Not because she got religion per se, but the way she was certain she's been singled out by god for a lesson.
Mind you, if I were God, I might have pushed her off the stage as well, so she may have had a point.
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Where would rock 'n' roll be without feedback?
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I'm not a huge fan but Laurie Anderson's O Superman works pretty well.
Roy Harper's The Lord's Prayer starts off as spoken word before the main song fades in and is much more my thing.
Roy Harper's The Lord's Prayer starts off as spoken word before the main song fades in and is much more my thing.
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Laurie Anderson is a good call.
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Futurist Manifesto - Be Bop Deluxe
A Dream Within A Dream - Propaganda
A Blessing - Jackie Leven
Leven set many poems to music over his albums, usually within songs rather than fully spoken.
A Dream Within A Dream - Propaganda
A Blessing - Jackie Leven
Leven set many poems to music over his albums, usually within songs rather than fully spoken.
So Long Kid, Take A Bow.
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Jimbly wrote:Leven set many poems to music over his albums, usually within songs rather than fully spoken.
That's the best way, I think.
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For Googa...
Charles Lloyd with Mike Love
Charles Lloyd with Mike Love
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Poetry or letters....this man was a grand master of both.
PS....loved the Rikishesha!
PS....loved the Rikishesha!
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Charlie O. wrote:For Googa...
Charles Lloyd with Mike Love
Thank you, Charlie O...! Never knew about that one! Hope it's on CD.
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Do as you're told....
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