is fucking funny.

"I was Dora Suarez" - i think it is getting a re-release in August or something

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“Everything about I Was Dora Suarez shrieks of the joy & pain of going too far.” New York Times
Derek Raymond’s groundbreaking illustrated-word recording with James Johnston and Terry Edwards of Gallon Drunk receives a welcome reissue, 15 years after it was first released by West London independent label Clawfist. Abridged by Nurse With Wound & Current 93 collaborator Geoff Cox this deluxe edition reunites the six tracks on the original release with the out-take Roatta which was previously only available on a §artorial compilation. Haunting melodies, sound effects and menacing soundscapes underpin Raymond’s unlikely Etonian accent. In fact the author likened his own voice to that of ‘an iron parrot’! The musical content lays the foundations of the work Edwards was to create with Lydia Lunch some years later, and in which she now incorporates Johnston when he is not on the road with the likes of Faust and Nick Cave. Suarez is the fourth of Raymond’s ‘Factory’ series of books narrated by a nameless avenging dark ‘angel’ of a detective. Brutal murders are described in gut-wrenching detail (Raymond’s editor actually threw up when reading the finished draft) and the rage of the detective who had, presumably seen it all before, is palpable - the deranged soundtrack screaming in unison with him in equal measure. Released to coincide with the reprint of the novel by Serpent’s Tail, this album will take the listener to places where s/he hoped never to be...

arab strab
barr
saul williams
rakim
casiotone for the painfully alone

are all worth checking out

It's excellent (if you filter out/ban all the lame skits from hiphop records).

Professor Louie
Aidan John Moffat
Niall Spooner-Harvey
Looper

www.myspace.com/mattrandallspeaks

srsly.

One of the best 'emo' bands ever.

Get Sultans of Sentiment.

i'll go through the list.

thanks very much!

But my band recorded a song with a spoken word extract from a novel a few weeks ago. We got the engineer from the studio to do it for us, the lovely man that he is!

It's the first song on our myspace player at www.myspace.com/therewillbefireworks

Also, speaking of Sonic Youth and spoek word...Lee Ranaldo does a spoken word part on the last Cribs album.

Crispin Glover - The Big Problem Does Not = Equal The Solution, The Solution = Let It Be

Jim Carroll "Praying Mantis"

Jim Carroll "Pools Of Mercury"

William Burroughs "Dead City Radio"

Noam Chomsky (anything you can get)

Richard Feynman "Six Easy Pieces" (lectures on physics by one of the most amazing minds in history)

My band does this in a somewhat humorous vein. Feel free to check out the remix of 'If you were a pub' on our myspace: www.myspace.com/juniorministers