Priest They Called Him

William S. Burroughs, Kurt Cobain | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (December 20, 1993)
• Original Release Date: October 12, 1993
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Tim Kerr Records
• ASIN: B000000IZ4
• Also Available in: Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (18 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #119,756 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #64 in Music > Indie Music > Miscellaneous > Comedy & Spoken Word
  • #76 in Music > Miscellaneous > Poetry, Spoken Word & Interviews > Poetry

Track Listings

1. The 'Priest' They Called Him

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

15 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The Priest They Called Him - Review by Tom Roach, NJ, January 11, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Priest They Called Him (Audio CD)

"The Priest They Called Him" featuring Kurt Cobain on a noise gutiar and William S. Burroughs doing a spoken word story. This is a story that is fairly hard to follow, in my opinion, but between Burroughs' voice and words, along with Kurt Cobain's straining and mood-defying harmonic noise guitar-playing, this album is one you shouldn't pass up!! I bought it back in the Winter of 1994, and used to listen to it every once in a while. It is only 9 minutes long, but just to hear Kurt Cobain playing the "Silent Night" in the background of an erie Christmastime story by William S. Burroughs. I bought this when I was a huge fan of Nirvana, but still years later I found the vinyl, which is a limited edition picture disc of 50,000 numbered copies. It is still sealed of course : ) I strongly recommend it since it'll be out of print one day and it's cool to see things like Kris Novoselic on the cover in a priest's outfit!! : ) Later!!

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Interesting, but rather short, so weigh your options., July 15, 2001

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Hiroo Yamagata (Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo Japan) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Priest They Called Him (Audio CD)

The story is the one that is included in WSB "Exterminator!" If you are a WSB reader, you'd say this is the original, and the "Junkie's Christmas" is the variation... but that's not an important distinction. A nice sarchastic (but warm) story, while Kurt Cobain starts from "Silent night, Holey night"and then wanders off into his trademark random distorted noisy tunes.

The feel of the thing is well represented in the sample recording provided on the page, so give it a shot if you're in doubt. The 2 never met actually, they recorded their part individually and then someone mixed it down.

The whole thing lasts 9minutes and 44 seconds.

I like it, and the cimbination is interesting, but it's short, so if you're not a big fan, well, you might want to weigh your options there. If you ARE a big fan... then, you're going to buy this anyway, right?

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars If you like this..., November 29, 2001

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Melkor "dark lord" (San Diego, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Priest They Called Him (Audio CD)

If you like this, you should really get Burroughs and Ministry on their "Just on Fix" CD single. There's a track called "quick fix" which is as good as the priest (the only drawback is that it's even shorter than this 9 minute masterpiece).