Lion for Real

Artist: Allen Ginsberg
Label: Polygram Records
Category: Music

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Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 731453490826
EAN: 0731453490826
ASIN: B000001EVA

Release Date: 1997-06-03

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Tracks:

Scribble
Complaint Of The Skeleton To Time
Xmas Gift
To Aunt Rose
The Lion For Real
Refrain
The Shrouded Stranger
Gregory Corso's Story
Cleveland, The Flats
The End
Stanzas: Written At Night In Radio City
Sunset
Hum Bom!
Kral Majales
Guru
Ode To Failure
C'mon Jack

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Customer Reviews:

He sounds like Stimpy but he's a genius.......2005-12-01

I don't like everything from Allen Ginsberg. The orifice poetry makes me ill, but this is the kind of CD that makes me remember why I loved him in the first place. Simply put - Ginsberg is one of the few poets out there that's not blathering on about the same boring poet topics (trees, love, flowers, etc.).

While this CD doesn't grab me in the same way that first reading Howl grabbed me, it's still a great CD of poetry. It feels like coming home to an old friend and the weird way that Allen Ginsberg sounds like Stimpy from the Ren & Stimpy show brings out the humor of his poetry that isn't as clear when you read the poems yourself.

Feel Ginsburgian Poetry Through Experimental Jazz.......2000-06-19

Listening to poetry is great, especialy when it's read by the poet themself. But being able to feel the poetry like it was almost a tangible object is another. This album does just that. Aside from "Hum Bom" and "C'mon Jack", every track is complety amazing. The jazz aspect, along with Allen's distinct voice, of the album allows the listener to hear the poems come to life and then run though their veins like a glorius drug. Every poet should have this album. It should be issued to them immeadiatly following the completion of their very first poem! "jazz killed itself/don't let poetry kill itself" --"Poem" by Jack Kerouac

Don't expect his early benchmark material.......2000-03-17

Nothing from the chapbook "Howl and Other Poems" is on this disc. Some of the tracks are forgettable, notably "C'mon Jack" and "Hum Bom," but in general it's a good way to hear the poems the way the poet wanted them heard. His few attempts at song were not very well considered. The music, in a mixed jazz format, only lends depth to the spoked word, however.

Allen in Downtown Ambient Spacejazz Territory.......2000-01-08

My Polish comrade below has his facts confused: none of the music on this album was written by Glass or McCartney. It is indeed a mystic wonderful album, however, produced by Hal Willner, the imaginative impresario who also created the jazz-savvy tributes "Weird Nightmare" and "Amarcord Nino Rota." This album lays moody, resonant readings of Allen's poetry into atmospheric and haunting jazz soundscapes played by NY's best and brightest: Arto Lindsay, Marc Ribot, Bill Frisell. The recording of "Kral Majales" in perhaps the best musical setting of Allen's poetry ever done -- all of this is passionate, intelligent music, with Allen's Jovian Blake voice the dark jewel at the center.

It is absolutely mystic album, possesing the whole soul........1999-04-23

I can not find the right words to describe my feelings, when I listen to this album. I think, that everyone who is possesed by The Beat Generation movement has to have it! The music created by Philip Glass or Paul McCartney beautifuly refer to Ginsberg's poetry. The whole album presents the long story- the road through life, full of a lot of charming events and experience. I suggest listen to Mr. Ginsberg "as he walked the Universe"- this is the howl for beauty.

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