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- Artist: William S. Burroughs
- Rating:
- Release Date: March 17, 1998
- Total Time: 286:09
- Type: Contains explicit content, Compilation (best of), Box set
- Genre: Spoken Word
Review
The Best of William S. Burroughs is a four-disc box set that contains several readings from Burroughs' most famous works, including excerpts from Naked Lunch. Burroughs' raspy, crackled voice was ideally suited to his surreal cut-and-paste narratives, and while it may be better to read his actual prose, this is an ideal spoken-word collection of his works. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music GuideTracks
CD 1
| Track Title | Composers | Performers | Time |
| Twilight's Last Gleamings | William S. Burroughs | William S. Burroughs | (2:52) |
| 103rd Street Boys | William S. Burroughs | William S. Burroughs | (7:33) |
| Benway | William S. Burroughs | William S. Burroughs | (:38) |
| I Can Feel the Heat Closing In | William S. Burroughs | William S. Burroughs | (6:55) |
| Meeting of International Conference of Technological Psychiatry | William S. Burroughs | William S. Burroughs | (4:59) |
| In Mexico the Gimmick Is to Find a Local Junkie With a Government ... | William S. Burroughs | William S. Burroughs | (2:25) |
| The Laboratory Has Been Locked for Three Hours Solid | William S. Burroughs | William S. Burroughs | (2:09) |
| Dr. Benway Is Operating in an Auditorium Filled With Students | William S. Burroughs | William S. Burroughs | (2:01) |
| Fats Terminal Has Organized a Purple Ass Stick for Motorcyclists | William S. Burroughs | William S. Burroughs | (2:06) |
| Hassan Is a Notorious Liquifactionist | William S. Burroughs | William S. Burroughs | (5:36) |
| Where You Belong | William S. Burroughs | William S. Burroughs | (3:13) |
| What Washington? What Orders? | William S. Burroughs | William S. Burroughs | (8:16) |
| From Here to Eternity | William S. Burroughs | William S. Burroughs | (3:48) |
| The Evening News | William S. Burroughs | William S. Burroughs | (3:08) |
| I Was Travelling With the Intolerable Kid on the Nova Lark | William S. Burroughs | William S. Burroughs | (8:35) |
| The Unworthy Vessel | William S. Burroughs | William S. Burroughs | (2:48) |
| The Do-Rights | William S. Burroughs | William S. Burroughs | (3:32) |
CD 2
| Track Title | Composers | Performers | Time |
| Ah Pook Is the Mayan God of Death | William S. Burroughs | William S. Burroughs | (12:31) |
| Introducing John Stanley Hart, He Entered the Bar With the Best ... | William S. Burroughs | William S. Burroughs | (2:15) |
| When Did I Stop Wanting to Be President | William S. Burroughs | William S. Burroughs | (7:07) |
| What the Nova Convention Is All About | William S. Burroughs | William S. Burroughs | (1:59) |
| Keynote Commentary/ Roosevelt After the Inauguration | William S. Burroughs | William S. Burroughs | (5:51) |
| The Chief Smiles | William S. Burroughs | William S. Burroughs | (6:47) |
| The Green Nun | William S. Burroughs | William S. Burroughs | (3:31) |
| Tio Mate Smiles | William S. Burroughs | William S. Burroughs | (10:26) |
| Tio Pepe | William S. Burroughs | William S. Burroughs | (4:29) |
| As Esperanza Turns to Go Inside; Tia Maria, Tio Gordo | William S. Burroughs | William S. Burroughs | (6:48) |
| A Top Level Conference Is in Progress | William S. Burroughs | William S. Burroughs | (6:05) |
| Firecracker [Excerpt] | William S. Burroughs | William S. Burroughs | (3:51) |
CD 3
CD 4
| Track Title | Composers | Performers | Time |
| Dinosaurs | William S. Burroughs | William S. Burroughs | (6:00) |
| Sexual Conditioning | William S. Burroughs | William S. Burroughs | (8:35) |
| Dead Souls | William S. Burroughs | William S. Burroughs | (4:09) |
| (The Cat Inside) Excerpts | William S. Burroughs | William S. Burroughs | (8:59) |
| Captain Clark Welcomes You Aboard | William S. Burroughs | William S. Burroughs | (:24) |
| The Saints Go Marching Through All the Popular Tunes | William S. Burroughs | William S. Burroughs | (4:11) |
| Summer Will | William S. Burroughs | William S. Burroughs | (1:58) |
| Outside the Pier Prowled Like Electric Turtles | William S. Burroughs | William S. Burroughs | (1:13) |
| The Total Taste Is Here, News Cut-Ups | William S. Burroughs | William S. Burroughs | (:38) |
| We See the Future Through the Binoculars of the People | William S. Burroughs | William S. Burroughs | (11:25) |
| Just Checking Your Summer Recordings | William S. Burroughs | William S. Burroughs | (1:43) |
| Creepy Letter, Cut-Up at the Beat Hotel in Paris | William S. Burroughs | William S. Burroughs | (1:56) |
| Inching, Is This Machine Recording? | William S. Burroughs | William S. Burroughs | (1:00) |
| Handkerchief Masks, News Cut-Up | William S. Burroughs | William S. Burroughs | (3:22) |
| Word Falling, Photo Falling | William S. Burroughs | William S. Burroughs | (1:26) |
| Throat Microphone Experiment | William S. Burroughs | William S. Burroughs | (1:01) |
| It's About Time to Identify Oven Area | William S. Burroughs | William S. Burroughs | (1:09) |
| Last Words of Hassan I Sabbah | William S. Burroughs | William S. Burroughs | (12:13) |
| I Was Fooling Around With These Tapes in Hotels Hallelujah Chorus ... | William S. Burroughs | William S. Burroughs | (3:18) |
