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WILLIAM BURROUGHS - Call Me Burroughs (ESP-Disk):: Betcha didn't know this existed. Well it's still cataloged and it's a true skullblitzer. Willie B. overcomes the dullard shortcomings of most spoken word albums by the sheer molasses-thick force of his totally unique and charismatic vibe as manifested in a voice that alternately buzzes like berserk Cairo auction, squawks like broken crystal set 1923, wheedles like an old junky with runny nosey smirks like backstage queen in the withered duckings of age, transmits metallic robotski insect blips from outer space: "Uranian Willy the Heavy Metal Kid. He wised up the marks...

February 1, 1974

ROCK A RAMA

WILLIAM BURROUGHS - Call Me Burroughs (ESP-Disk):: Betcha didn't know this existed. Well it's still cataloged and it's a true skullblitzer. Willie B. overcomes the dullard shortcomings of most spoken word albums by the sheer molasses-thick force of his totally unique and charismatic vibe as manifested in a voice that alternately buzzes like berserk Cairo auction, squawks like broken crystal set 1923, wheedles like an old junky with runny nosey smirks like backstage queen in the withered duckings of age, transmits metallic robotski insect blips from outer space: "Uranian Willy the Heavy Metal Kid. He wised up the marks.., Word falling. Photo falling. Breakthru in grey room. TOWERS OPEN FIRE!"" Where so much of it came from, with a sound like John Coltrane locked in a foghorn on Saturn.

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