America, Ginsberg

Poem written and read by Allen Ginsberg set to the music of Tom Waits. Due to its beatness I have dedicated this to Mr. Jack Kerouac -- hero of the American night.

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[JohnnyGat88]

dude do you have an audio file of this i could download ???

[mjb198012345]

Dude, just google "Any Video Converter"

It's a free program: you can download (any) youtube vid then convert it to mp3, it's real easy to use too. M

[mjb198012345]

@ anaruxanda

Not my bad. If you wanna blame somebody, blame Mr. Waits -- he and his team did the mixing on this.

That is, of course, if you know more about mixing than he and his team do.... ;)

[mjb198012345]

Yeah, it's closing time from the Tom Waits album of the same name.

I'm TOLD that the song was done as a collaboration between Waits and Ginsberg, with Ginsberg reading live in the studio; the whole thing then being released as a single -- but I don't know for sure.

M

[LeedansParis]

I've heard this exact same reading without the music. It was on a box set entitled "Beat Generation".

In my opinion FAR, FAR better without the music.

[mjb198012345]

That's a valid opinion of course. I'd simply say that this piece isn't trying to "improve on perfection" ("perfection" for a Ginsberg fan presumably being as close to purity as possible, so voice and nothing else), but tries to go in a new direction, do something different with the piece, add new perspective and different shades of meaning through the music. Which is the same as I've done with the Kerouac photos - sharing visually what I get from the poem. Thanks for commenting. M

[palestine0anarchy]

In exile at home..

[Pennoid]

Absolutely Fantastic

[balderrising1]

This is so Beautiful ! BEAUTIFUL ! BEAUTIFIC ! Excellente' !

[citizencrack1986]

...and as it rose up to meet Earth's blue-speckled ceiling

the body lay still -- dead to the core

the end of all Feeling

the end of a Life

and then the soul waved goodbye

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[citizencrack1986]

FROM THE OTHER SHORE

a soul rose up from a body in the night

went down the stairs; slid out the door

it's face, the cold wind could not bite

nor stab it's opaque skin with it's windy knife...

[citizencrack1986]

love Ginsberg!!!



[albatrossghost]

I hate niggers



[DukeMagnem]

It's supposed to be a conversation between him and America, dude.

[realityisDEAD98]

*fangasm