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"Howl" read by Allen Ginsberg, 1975
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 พ.ค. 2015
- I've had this audio file on my laptop for a number of years and have always wondered when it was recorded.
It is the first recording (not reading) of Howl.
Thanks to this article for the info: www.openculture...
Part I - 00:00
Part II - 16:20
Part III - 20:33
Footnote - 23:16
bless you
ACHOO!! Do you have ESPN??
I read this poem when I was eighteen and it is definitely one of the greatest poems in the history of the English language and perhaps one of the best of all time.
I was 21, 1988. Same, I will always love it.
This recording is just so far and beyond every other reading. This is some of the most powerful audio that exists.
Well the poet himself is reading it. ive often wondered though, as a poet myself (super amateur) do poets expect their poetry to be read in their own voice? while I often feel that poetry and writing (as Ginsbergs fellow beat, friend, an ex-lover Burroughs said) "all writing is autobiographical". But I wonder if we write, thinking someone else will read it outloud?
@@DadsWatchingTH-cam as a VO artist and actor, I find that the secondary interpretation can be wonderful at times because a good writer isn't always a good orator. Listening to their work and then polishing and refining it often comes out as the best for my personal listening experience.
Yes I. listened each of all find in this tube. Punked it myself with electric out-tuned guitar i did'nt really knew playing, a close poetess-friend tiling the french translation on my english reading (french myself, i'v progressed a lot about accent, since ^^) ; no one understood anything, but every present knew the Howl and it's been a fine trip, over out that more and more actual Molloch that picks our brains and meat out the plate of Saturn, to the door of Allen's cottage from a seajourney through the tears of the World in the occidental night. 😶🌫 The reason for what this major txt isn't a bigger monument and inter-national "Heritage of Humanity" than Disney/McDo/Coca is the same for what Julian Assange is where he is. Allen won the trial but his memory is'nt much less buried. Sometimes showed off as advertising to sell a little bit more CDs.
I've listened 12+ times across 6 different states over a year. still can't make it through part I without getting upset.
I've seen so many of these images play out for me or for other people living in Ginsbergs origin city. What sounded like lunacy even at 18... makes sense.
It hits home - not just that, it hits my very idea of home.
when part II comes, I feel anger against this systematic Moloch and I want to do something about what I'm hearing.
But what can you do. After all, it's moloch.
I think Lana del Reys interpretation beats this one, because her voice is so lush and she relishes his every word, it's like the poem was made for her. But she only reads the first few minutes of the first part somewhere in Tropico, I wish there was a full version.
I listend to this in the car commuting to work for a whole year, every single day… I know every phrase by heart… what an overwhelmingly beautiful poem… his words and thoughts, meanings and interpretations are beyond anything I have ever read. Absolutely beautiful to listen to. Thanks for uploading this video!!!👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
yes, overwhelmingly beautiful
I’ve only ever read this poem a handful of times, probably less than 10. I’m curious what you personally get out of it, as someone who, at least for a time, has listened to it religiously?
To be listened to over & over. The anguish, disappointment & rebellion of post-WW2 American daymare.
Grant Fisher what daymare. America was triumphant and hasd no global competition. dreamtime.
right right
Michael Shier Good one---appreciate the laugh.........
Michael Shier everything looks good especially in b movies
@@crunkaholic81 B Movies is where America is a super power who's art, founding, and inventions shape the world over? Not reality? Interesting.
In 2020 I say thank you.
+1 2021.
thanks again in 2021 . we need to hear you now as much as ever before . L. F. passed today at 101 .City lights shine forever
As you should. Allen Ginsberg was a truth teller.
@@MissLydiaBro as are you
@@geotangententanglement8986 +2
Allen Ginsberg is beyond consciousness he is pure awareness
I love him but hes definitely got some sketchy downsides. And not drugs, sexuality, leftist politics, or anything like that. I mean stuff we all agree is pretty bad.
@@DadsWatchingTH-cam Agreed for sure. But somebody had to write *holy the fifth international*
@@DadsWatchingTH-campure consciousness also has some downsides. Both can be true.
The typewriter is holy the poem is holy the voice is holy the hearers are holy the ecstasy is holy! (this sums up how i felt listening to this for the first time. what an experience!)
I’m with you in Rockland
in my dreams you walk dripping from a sea-journey on the highway across America in tears to the door of my cottage in the Western night
Favorite part
I remember reading this poem to my infant daughter, after bringing her home from the hospital 1992. She graduated from Reed College in 2015.
I heard Ginsberg at Goddard in the 70's and turned him onto Boones Farm Apple Wine. Now, I live in Portland just up the street from Reed. That said, I just have to say: "How cool you are, Dada Daddy!"
To the grid an back
What a celebration of words. The images speak to me to the core!
Anyone else read their copy to follow along?? 🙋🏻♀️😂
Me
L. F . died at 101 a hero for all of us . Read along kindered soul
Yes, I did
I just did too. Beautiful
So many things I love about this damn thing firstly it's gorgeously long ass in length and a stream that flows like my own brain continues into the evening when I fall sleepy
Greatest poem ever written on earth.
That's just like, your opinion man. 😎
I find myself, like Kerouac, chanting go go go!
Go go go Kerouac go Cassidy ,go Lawrence into the San Francisco fog .GO
Such a rhythm to this thing. Incredible.
Cannot agree more... rythim and tempo carries this poem
This is where it all began, folks! Fantastic words, but can you imagine this being read by Captain Beefheart? My God!
I literally was thinking of Pena all the way through this
I would die to hear that
I have a whole new character that you may not heard.
He was a comedian that few people ever heard of. His name was Lord Buckley.
Google Search Lord Buckley Governor slug well. Not exactly Ginsberg, but I think you'll enjoy it all the same.
If you like it, give me a thumbs up.
👍👍
Ginsberg does sound a little bit like Frank zappa during the 60's
wasn't Captain Beefheart talking about Ginsburg when he said, all you ever do is blabber and smoke? haha
I didn’t know I could post a comment here. I’m no stranger to this place, By luck I found it. Ginsberg points us down the long barrel of history, he dares us to look forward and prove him wrong
where theres no more masterpieces like this nowadays? I miss great poets, musicians and writers... artists
You speak the truth. We need to fix this immediately!
The exist you just need to know were to look. Also we got the same last name!
@@neilkurowski4991 Haha, that's wild! I agree, there's some great works of art nowadays but harder to find I think. And that's really surreal that you have the same last name.
Just do what i do and live in the past in your free time, i dont live in this world i live in my own mind, which is not as dull as this world
Housing. There's no cheap housing. That's why Paris was such a spot for modernists (eg Henry Miller), you could get a cheap place to write. That's why the Beats ended up out west - it was possible to cover your rent and have time to work.
Nowadays, people are working two jobs just to make ends meet.
I've seen the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, indeed.
Amazing! His voice help us survive!
If you like pedophiles
Wow you can see where Morrisons real influence lay.
feggy fegson duuude yes so much. The spoken word part of peace frog(?) is especially ginsbergian.
“Indians scattered on God’s highway bleeding.
Ghosts shatter the young child’s fragile eggshell mind”
Absolutely beautiful language and undoubtedly inspired by Ginsberg
@@Beatlesfan151 100 % noticed that too.
Most likely!
It's a Howliday today. And this poem is as fresh as in 1955.
Wow man! My inner wolves were indeed quarreling!
This is great - thanks for posting. Actually, there's at least one earlier recording of Ginsberg performing Howl, at Six Gallery in 1955. It's reproduced on the CD rom that's included with book _"Howl" Fifty Years Later_ edited by Jason Shinder.
In other words, even the reading that WAS at Reed College from 1956 (which this is not) per Damien Buty's comment, is not the earliest recording.
@@gillianwhite7910as
In 2022, I am thinking thanks to you for all this...
Imagine if at the end he stopped and went "that concludes our lesson for day, we shall resume tomorrow."
lol
nobody will come tomorrow.
@@lahhtoota id come
First time I’ve listened to someone read it- wow- so much to unpack.
That escalated quickly.
Pornography ? Not now thanks to L.F. and City Lights
Really? I mean yes. But that first line is just amazing.
Magnifique lecture!
Genius. Pure genius.
Coltrane's "Giant Steps" and boxcars boxcars boxcars and the lava and ash of poetry...
The tempo of the verse alone
... is amazing
"Upon the poem's release, Ferlinghetti and the bookstore's manager, Shigeyoshi Murao, were charged with disseminating obscene literature, and both were arrested. On October 3, 1957, Judge Clayton W. Horn ruled that the poem was not obscene"
The country was a better place when there were obscenity laws.
@@SeraphimGoose
Rose Tinted Glasses Fallacy ?
Brilliant imagery. Where are the visionaries of the 21st century? No contemporary artist in any media comes close to this genius.
Right? Don't get me started.
"Poets" like Ginsberg are the reason there are no serious poets today. It's been in decline for a long time. He's no Keats or Milton. Be honest.
I love you Allen, thank you forever
for non-native speakers, open subtitles, the YT is accurate for this classic piece since it obviously can get aid from library of existing text.
Have been searching for this for a while. It was posted once and never resurfaced.
Why does it say first recording of Howl when this clearly is a much later recording. The 1956 recording also on youtube is impressive. Such a young voice he has.
Fantastic. Thank you for sharing.
When I saw Ginsberg at the Royal Albert Hall in 1984, Gregory Corso was there too, I'd hoped he'd read from Howl, but no. It was still pretty amazing though.....
Glorious.
This is depressing.
I never resonated with this poem reading it, but listening to it I can really sense the mood so much more clearly. It’s dark and painful. Not inherently a bad thing but wow is it oppressive.
I will for ever love this poem
Brilliant poem for an America that was and is doomed.
@Thomas Ollister America is doomed. Go back to Sean Hannity so he can fill your cliche-ridden psyche with more neocon slogans and Leave It To Beaver stereotypes of an America that's been dead for more than half a century.
@Thomas Ollister I don't support his pedophilia which he espoused in the 1960s. His poem was written in the 1950s. He was also a Buddhist. But if you think America isn't doomed, then you're living in a cocoon. I remember what it was like to some extent in the late 1950s and how things began to change after JFK's murder. Almost everyone believed what they saw and heard on the TV news. They believed what the government told them and lived with their middle-class values which, in the end, didn't help the middle class in the long run. The middle class has been slowly and systematically dissolved. I remember what the cost of things were at stores in the early 1960s. I remember when it didn't take two paychecks per week for parents to support their households.
@@horatiodreamtthe tongue and cock and asshole is holy.
As much as I don't want to believe it, nost assuredly doomed.
16:57 MOLLOCH was the leader of the supervillains in my PHAT WARS comics (1997).
"In his travels overseas, Solomon was exposed to Surrealism and Dada, which inspired him throughout his life. In Paris, he witnessed Antonin Artaud give a screaming poetry reading. This so impressed him that he remained a disciple of Artaud for much of his life."
Still here.
He came back to Reed in, I think, 1984, and read several of his poems, and jammed with a student band named Gregor Samsa (probably not the one officially formed in 2000? I dunno). He wore a tweed suit, white button-down shirt, and a gold lame tie.
Something in me longs to hear Bernie Sanders reading this (or someone in Bernie's voice)....
yah...Bernie was there
or Barbra Streisand...whichever...
Trump could do it better.
What an amazing idea!!!!
Rory Kiser Haha if Howl is released as a dumbed down Little Golden Book, he may be able to stammer his way through it.
As Patty Smyth covers smells like teen spirit reciting 03:30 in the mid song mystery. What is she saying. So powerful.
box car box car box car
I realize you posted this 7 years ago, but solidarity for this being my favorite part. The first time I read it, I shouted in joy at his capture of the sound through its own name.
I love it: it's so wonderful, and truthful= a real American artistic expression. Honoring the freedom, and liberty that the very nation itself was founded on.
Or mourning the incremental destruction of the same.
Oh really, the nation was founded on the extermination of the Native American which everyone knows now.Trip jokingly unique probably tells me that you are being sarcastic here.I hope so.If not you are an idiot sir or madam.Either was peace from Ireland.
It must be read with a passion. Or not at all.
Celebrating the “ping pong of the abyss” though it’s not clear why. Out of the entire poem it’s a wonder the focus is heavily related to ping pong, abyss, and Carl.
Ping pong=a back and forth
Abyss=void
Carl was his lover I believe
precious!
The greatest poem ever written in the English language!
lol
@@Archetype77 Your pick? Excluding epics.
@@jackreid5970 Eliot's _Prufrock,_ maybe?
The End by Jim Morrison.
No wonder King Crimson produced such a confusing and chaotic song after reading this
Still one of the greatest American reality poem even tho he was a member of nambla.
Now I’m curious to know if James Franco did it in voice off or with an extraordinary acting execution
No this is the only raw version.
James Franco sucked as ginsberg. It sounds so cringey when he read howl out loud.
Ginsberg sounds more natural and wise.
Most important piece of literature in the twentieth century
Nuclear poetry.
listen to Moanin- Charles Mingus with this, you'll thank me....
Yes, I thank you.
Whoa, what an odd pairing, but it works
Yeah dude I digs as fuck. Thanks for the recommendinio
Actually, try bitches brew with this
I'm listening to Ascension by John Coltranewith this, pretty good
Why are we here, y'know?
God I love Ginsberg
He is really high!
1:36 my favorite part
Moloch who entered my soul early!
Me gusta poder comprender mas esta gran obra.
He must have learned to be mad
Ja też widziałam i wciąż widzę takie umysły, ale nigdy nie stawiałam się ponad nimi.
nie oszukujmy się
to nie wiatr przetrącił kark niewinności
wciąż idą po trupach
bo nikt z podeptanych nie zapłakał na głos
holy shit
perrfect. thank you
This poem is utterly incomprehensible. That's the most honest, genuine, real way I can put it my feelings of it. I read while listening to a reading of them poem and that didn't help one bit. For the life of me I cannot find any meaning in it whatsoever. In the first part of the poem he goes on about "those who" without giving us a clear idea of who it is he's talking about and if he ever did it must have been drowned out by a combination of the absurdly bland work choice and the gross length of the poem. In the second part he repeatedly uses the word "Moloch" and doesn't really give us a clear idea of what that word means (I had to google it's meaning in general and it's meaning specifically in the context of the poem). And then for the last part of the poem he drones on and on about someplace called "Rockland" and again, doesn't give us a clear idea of where or what that place is.
My problem with the poem isn't even the subjects it's discussing, it's the strange and completely baffling way it goes about doing it. Suffice to say I did not enjoy this poem or understand it one bit.
@Edita Ševčíková Why should i have to read so many different people to understand a poem i needed to read for class.
@@kale3144 i didn't even needed additional reading to understand it, and i mostly speak spanish. you are just dumb.
Maybe you just don't get the culture. If it's for a class, I'd take the opportunity to understand it. @@kale3144
Wow. Still genius.
I would love to hear Gilbert Gottfried read this
No ....
Morgan Freedman is who I'd like to hear record this
I am an angel-headed hipster
I am the King of May!
genius...
this goes hard
The place that cool come from 🖤
Ah Allen
1:28 my favorite part.
Howl for Lawrence Ferlingeeti who died today but will allways be my poet laureate . Such beauty is not pornographry . Iwill howl
haha old man go oooooh
They're trying to ban it again
seriously?
Amen
Thank you for posting. I am your 999th subscriber! The last of the 3-digit subs!!!!!!!!!
Yes yes Ginsberg!!
Its a peice of medicine
Wow
I thought it was dedicated to Lucien Carr
Interesting to hear this after the earlier recording. More measured, less musical
Yes i did see that...will elaborate when i can do my thoughts justice...getting fixed
So full of trigger warnings! Love it! Always have. I'm on my 80th trip around the Sun.
Hold my beer
Where can I buy this?
Fuck
Was I born way too late? Is that what’s wrong with me?
It sounds so different than the other recording... is it really him???
So badass
I'm here
🌹
HOWL!
Drugs are bad mkay
Yes driver bump this shit