Gregory Corso - Die on Me the Final Recordings
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Artist: Gregory CorsoEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2002-08-13
Music Label: Koch Records
Soundtracks:
- For Homer
- Ode To Coit Tower
- Inner/Outer Rhyme
- Getting To The Poem
- Ode To The West Wind
- A Bed's Lament
- Hair
- Mythology
- Bomb
- The Truth
- Don't Shoot The Warthog
- Prophecy
- No Arrangement Was Made
- As Rome Burned
- Last Night I Drove A Car
Music reviews of Die on Me the Final Recordings
Music Review: The best record I ignored in 2002
Rating: 5 Stars
(This review was written by Matt Cibula and posted by Michael Minzer. Thank you, Matt, for your kind review of Die On Me.) So what the hell was my problem, not putting this record on my top ten list of 2002? It's everything a record is supposed to be:
beautiful, brave, strange, adventurous, lyrically untouchable...
But I was afraid, I guess, afraid of pushing something this hard and this out on you, random member of the poor unsuspecting public. Trust me though, if I was making my list today it'd be on there, probably at #6 or so. Or higher. Damn it's good. See what fear can do? But I'm not afraid anymore.
Here's the deal: Gregory Corso was, right there with Allen Ginsberg, one of the great Beat Generation poets. His stuff is always bizarre and hilarious and deep--I consider "Marriage" and "Poets Hitchhiking On The Highway" and "Dream Of A Baseball Star" ( none of which are on this disk ) and "Bomb" and "Hair" and "Last Night I Drove A Car" ( all of which are ) to be some of the most important poems written by any American in the last 50 years.
Hal Willner is this dude who takes the work of poets ( Ginsberg, Kathy Acker, E.A.Poe ) and sets them to music, and this is the last one in the series; mostly this seems to be because he and partner Michael Minzer put so much into this disk, especially because Corso died shorly after the sessions in Minnesota. Die On Me is a record of amazing Beat poetry set to orchestral and jazz and electronic music, so if you are a dyed-in-the-wool poppist, stay far away from this stuff. But if you're a good, smart person with a heart and soul, give it a shot.
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