Complete 20 tracks and liner notes booklet with poems.
Includes unlimited streaming of Allen Ginsberg’s The Fall of America: A 50th Anniversary Musical Tribute
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The track listing for the vinyl is as follows:
Side A
1) Scanner - Elegy for Neal Cassady
2) Shintaro Sakamoto - Manhattan Thirties Flash
3) Thurston Moore & Lee Ranaldo - Hum Bom
4) Ed Sanders (The Fugs) - Memory Gardens
5) Mickey Hart - First Party at Ken Kesey's With Hell's Angels (Drones Du Jour)
6) Howie B with Gavin Friday - Death On All Fronts (America is Falling)
7) Disco Pusher - A Prophecy
Side B
1) Angélique Kidjo - Uluru Song
2) Bill Frisell - Over Laramie
3) Andrew Bird - Easter Sunday
4) Devendra Banhart - Milarepa Taste
5) Yo La Tengo - Bayonne Entering N.Y.C.
6) Lang Lee - Pain on All Fronts
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Hum Bom notes:
Long admirers of Allen’s work, we were lucky to spend time in his company over the years. Re-reading The Fall of America during this past Covid-19, POTUS-45 summer of 2020, similarities to our current situation were pronounced. Allen, himself isolated in VW bus across multiple Amerika roadtrips, absorbing radio news, dj blather, three minute pop symphonies, highway visions and mania of Nixon/Watergate, orating into reel tape machine, most modern of poetic tools. Hum Bom most rhythmic anthemic rhyme-song pome of the collection, summoning gods, monsters, anger, indignation and bafflement at Military Industrial menace.
We were lucky, charmed, to have Allen intersect with our Sonic lives in downtown NYC, our band name gracing his 1995 poem “Newt Gingrich Declares War on “McGovernik Counterculture”, his ringing our phone to talk of recording together. “It may be interesting to improvise” we said. “That’s what Dylan wanted” he countered. Allen visiting us when playing outdoors in 95 on Randalls Island with Patti returning to the stage sharing our tiny dressing room trailer. In ‘97 Allen would move on to other planets, a year hence we’d sing out to him “Hits Of Sunshine” - sonic meditation in resistance to Nova Police - hum bom hum bom hum bom.....
Lee Ranaldo
Thurston Moore
Jan 2021
lyrics
Hum Bom!
I
Whom bomb?
We bomb'd them!
Whom Bomb?
We bomb'd them!
Whom Bomb?
We bomb'd them!
Whom bomb?
We bomb'd them!
Whom bomb?
We bomb you!
Whom bomb?
We bomb you!
Whom bomb?
You bomb you!
Whom bomb?
You bomb you!
What do we do?
Who do we bomb?
What do we do?
Who do we bomb?
What do we do?
Who do we bomb?
What do we do!
Who do we bomb?
What do we do?
You bomb! You bomb them!
What do we do?
You bomb! You bomb them!
What do we do?
We bomb! We bomb you!
What do we do?
You bomb! You bomb you!
May 1971
II
For Don Cherry
Whydja bomb?
We didn't wanna bomb!
Whydja bomb?
We didn't wanna bomb!
Whydja bomb?
You didn't wanna bomb!
Whydja bomb?
You didn't wanna bomb!
Who said bomb?
Who said we hadda bomb?
Who said bomb?
Who said we hadda bomb?
Who said bomb?
Who said we hadda bomb?
Who said bomb?
Who said we hadda bomb?
Who wantsa bomb?
We don't wanna bomb!
Who wantsa bomb?
We don't wanna bomb!
Who wantsa bomb?
We don't wanna bomb!
We don't wanna
we don't wanna
we don't wanna bomb!
Who wanteda bomb?
Somebody musta wanteda bomb!
Who wanteda bomb?
Somebody musta wanteda bomb!
Who wanteda bomb?
Somebody musta wanteda bomb!
Who wanteda bomb?
Somebody musta wanteda bomb!
They wanteda bomb!
They neededa bomb!
They wanteda bomb!
They neededa bomb!
They wanteda bomb!
They neededa bomb!
They thought they hadda bomb!
They thought they hadda bomb!
They thought they hadda bomb!
They thought they hadda bomb!
Saddam said he hadda bomb!
Bush said he better bomb!
Saddam said he hadda bomb!
Bush said he better bomb!
Saddam said he hadda bomb!
Bush said he better bomb!
Saddam said he hadda bomb!
Bush said he better bomb!
Whatdid he say he better bomb for?
Whatdid he say he better bomb for?
Whatdid he say he better bomb for?
Whatdid he say he better bomb for?
from Allen Ginsberg’s The Fall of America: A 50th Anniversary Musical Tribute,
released February 5, 2021
Allen Ginsberg reading: Poetry Project, NYC May 12, 1993 (recorded by John Fisk)
Thurston Moore: Guitars
Lee Ranaldo: Seattle owl audio (recorded by Jeff Cantor)
edited & mixed by Lee Ranaldo, NYC January 2021
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