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Various Artists
Beat Generation
Genres: Blues, International Music, Jazz, Special Interest, Pop, Rock, Classical, Broadway & Vocalists

Track Listings (15) - Disc #1
1. Hip Gahn - Lord Buckley
2. Twisted - Gray, Wardell
3. Yip Roc Heresy - Gaillard, Slim
4. Ha! - Mussulli, Boots
5. Pull My Daisy - Amram, David
6. October in the Railroad Earth - Allen, Steve [1]
7. The Cool Rebellion
8. Cosmic Rays - Parker, Charlie [Sa
9. Kookie's Mad Pad - Patrick, Deeda
10. Bebopper - Feather, Leonard
11. Hunger Is From - Katz
12. No Pictures Please - McKuen, Rod
13. Like Young - Previn, Andre
14. Married Blues - Rexroth, Kenneth
15. Psychopathia Sezualis - Bruce, Lenny
Track Listings (16) - Disc #2
1. Jack and Neal / California, Here I Come - DeSylva
2. Readings from "On the Road" and "Visions of Cody" - Allen, Steve [1]
3. Interview With Jack Kerouac
4. Kerouazy - Lindsey
5. Cool - Brent, John
6. But I Was Cool - Brown, Oscar Jr. [1
7. Uncool - Brent, John
8. High School Drag - Glasser
9. Oop-Bop SH-Bam - Fuller
10. Professor Bop - Gonzales, Babs
11. Beatnik's Wish - Ackerman
12. Like Having Fun - Bernstein, Elmer
13. On Beatniks
14. Swinghouse - Mulligan, Gerry
15. The Greenwich Village Poets
16. America - Ginsberg, Allen

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CD Details

All Artists: Various Artists
Title: Beat Generation
Members Wishing: 7
Total Copies: 0
Label: Rhino / Wea
Original Release Date: 11/24/1992
Re-Release Date: 11/17/1992
Album Type: Box set
Genres: Blues, International Music, Jazz, Special Interest, Pop, Rock, Classical, Broadway & Vocalists
Styles: Jump Blues, Cool Jazz, Latin Jazz, Modern Postbebop, Swing Jazz, Vocal Jazz, Bebop, Jive Jazz, Poetry, Spoken Word & Interviews, Easy Listening, Oldies, By Decade, 1960s, Chamber Music, Traditional Vocal Pop
Number of Discs: 3
SwapaCD Credits: 3
UPC: 081227028121

Synopsis

Amazon.com

This three-disc set is a gold mine for anyone with even a passing interest in the music, the poetry, and the people of the beat era. The stars--Kerouac, Ginsberg, and Burroughs--are here, of course. But so are the players (Charles Mingus, Gerry Mulligan), the architects (Kenneth Patchen, Kenneth Rexroth), the cutups (Lenny Bruce, Lord Buckley), the pretenders (Rod McKuen, Edd Byrnes), the critics (Carl Sandburg, Howard K. Smith), and the heirs (Tom Waits). What a great selection of vibrant poetry, hip music, and sonic ephemera. The well-annotated booklet offers classic photos, historical context, cool quotes, and, perhaps most important, an extensive "Beat Bookshelf" that will lead to further exploration. Dig this crazy box, man! --Michael Ruby

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CD Reviews

The end all

mason williams | bloomington, in USA | 02/07/1999

(5 out of 5 stars)

"hands down , without a doubt , the most entertaining box set i have ever heard (i own 3,000 + cds) red hot jazz , blues , and lounge with bits of news reports , poetry readings , and general zanniness . i have never laughed so hard while having my mind blown . this collection is so good it almost made me stop buying cds . it can't get any better . now i have to save up for the kerouac box ."

Root, Vout and Dig It ! ! !

Eddie Landsberg | Tokyo, Japan | 01/08/2001

(5 out of 5 stars)

"What I love about the Beat Generation Box Set is that in addition to serving as a great social portrait of the era, as well as hipster culture, throughout it maintains a sense of humor and focuses on its strange relationship and rivalry with American pop culture. Beyond mere literary readings, a colorful cast of charactors make the scene... from beboppers to hipsters, bongo beating philosophers to comedians and pop icons arise. One track might be Annie Ross's bebopistic tribute to Schizophrenia "Twisted", the next a recitation by Lord Buckley or Ken Nordine - in other tracks, square singers try to cash in on bebop and hipster culture... reporters go out on the streets of Greenwich village in search of America's lost youth, while others show beat generation icons in action from Dizzy Gillespie to Slim Galliard and Ray Brown Jr. - - Cuts from the rare, "How to Speak Hip" and even Lenny Bruce's Psychopathia Sexualis (I'm in Love With a Horse That Comes from Dallas) appear.While by no means comprehensive, the three CDs along with the illustrated booklet are not only educational but incredibly entertaining. If you enjoy this album, be sure to check out a reissue of Ken Nordine's Colors, as well as stuff by Harry The Hipster Gibson, Slim Galliard and Leon Watson, as well as the movie, "Sweet Love Bitter" (based on the life of Charlie Parker.)"

The apocolyptic soul of the beats!!!

M. Hori | 06/26/1999

(5 out of 5 stars)

"The breath and life of the beat generation is expressed in total array in this box set. The Bird is god and Kerouac is an angel to deliver the soul of truth onto a new generation of tripped out, wild, outcasts which have been labeled "misfits" by the societal concept. Live on true beats."

It's 1957 Forever!

M. Hori | Urayasu, Chiba Japan | 01/16/2005

(5 out of 5 stars)

"It's January, 2005 and sleeting outside in Shin-Urayasu, Japan, but I'm here wailing with Jack Kerouac. Steve Allen is tinkling away on the piano, and Ben Hecht is waiting to ask Jack some smart-aleck questions, which Jack will answer in an innocent, pure-heart, eternal good-guy way before heading back out on the road. This three-CD set is incredible. Not only do we get a sense of what the big names of beat-dom were up to, but we are treated to little-heard beat-fare, like a hyper-beat effusion on falling in love with a horse from Lenny Bruce, and zany reflections of beat-dom from such square media dogs like Perry Como crooning about his young beat honey, and Howard K. Smith, who gives us the low-down on THE COOL REBELLION. Kenneth Patchen's "The Murder Of Two Men By A Young Kid Wearing Lemon Colored Gloves" is a gem, and Kenneth Rexroth's hang-dog rendition of "Married Blues" is yet another great cut I would never have heard otherwise. Langston Hughes fronting his own jazz band is a treat too, but there's lots more. After listening to all 3 CDs one can get a pretty good idea of the scene, both from the inside, hipster's angle, and from the square's point of view, too. Generous cuts from Gerry Mulligan's Quartet have me snapping my fingers and reaching for my sunglasses. Forget the sushi and pass the nutmeg!"

Get this back in print - now! One of the best albums you can

TimothyFarrell22 | Massachusetts | 08/07/2005

(5 out of 5 stars)

"This is, outside of the first "Nuggets" box set, the most played multi-artist compilation in my collection. The greatest thing about this collection is the wide variety of peices included. There are readings by the major players of the generation (Kerouac, Ginsberg, Burroughs), beat Jazz (Don Morrow, Lee Konitz), various parodies or outsider views of the movement (the "Basic Hip" recordings, the clips from the cult film "High School Confedential", Bob McFadden), the comedians (Lord Buckley, Lenny Bruce), and the sucessors (Tom Waits). In other words, this is an absolute must-buy for anyone with a passing interest in America's first counterculture movement. This was one of the most fascinating and unique eras in American history, and the Beat Generation was a blow against the conservative American ideals and dreams. The highlights of the collection are obviously the readings. Hearing the geniuses of the time read their own work is just as fun, if not more so, as reading the books themselves. Each one of the top three (Ginsberg, Burroughs, Kerouac) has an unique style of writing and an unique style of delivery so that you can tell each one apart from the other. Outside of the readings, some of the selections are odd but none don't fit in with the overall concept of portraying the movement. This is almost as much an essential as the writings of the Beats, and is a fascinating portrait of America's original counterculture movement. Why did Rhino let this go out of print?"