V/A - Totally Corrupt

Original 1976 LP. Factory-sealed.

"American label set up in 1972 by the poet John Giorno. Mostly credited on releases as Giorno Poetry Systems records, Giorno Poetry Systems tapes and Giorno Poetry Systems video.
The earliest releases were exclusively poetry collections of the "Dial-A-Poets" (John Giorno, William S Burroughs, Brion Gysin, Allen Ginsberg, John Cage etc.): "In 1961 I was a young poet who hung out with young artists like Andy Warhol, Bob Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns, as well as with members of the Judson Dance Theatre. The use of modern mass media and technologies by these artists made me realize that poetry was 75 years behind painting and sculpture, dance and music. And I thought, if they can do it, why can't I do it for poetry. Why not try to connect with an audience using all the entertainments of ordinary life: television, the telephone, record albums, etc? It was the poet's job to invent new venues and make fresh contact with the audience. This inspiration gave rise to Giorno Poetry Systems" - Giorno Poetry Systems

Tracklist:

A1 – Charles Bukowski: Cloud Nine, I Live In A Neighborhood Of Murderers, Two Horse Collars 3:09
A2 – Ed Dorn: Excerpts From "Gunslinger, Book 4" 3:48
A3 – William S. Burroughs: When Did I Stop Wanting To Be President 7:07
A4 – Sylvia Plath: Daddy 3:43
A5 – John Giorno: Excerpts From "Shit, Piss, Blood, Pus & Brains" 8:03
A6 – Michael McClure: Jaguar Sky : There's Cruelty In Every Jewel 0:44
A7 – Michael Brownstein: Jet Set Melodrama 2:36
A8 – Jackie Curtis: You Are My Lucky Star 2:18
B1 – Ed Sanders: This Is The Age Of Investigation Poetry And Every Citizen Must Investigate 5:50
B2 – Charles Bukowski: Christ, You'll Never Know, The Closing Of The Topless And Bottomless Bars 4:45
B3 – Anne Waldman: Some Small Fires 4:06
B4 – Imamu Amiri Baraka: Hard Facts: Rockefeller's Your Vice-President And Your Mama Don't Wear No Draws, A New Reality Is Better Than A New Movie 3:37
B5 – Erica Huggins: For A Woman 0:59
B6 – Ken Kesey: A Brief Discourse 5:04
B7 – Jackson MacLow: Excerpt From "Guru, Guru, Gate" 2:05
B8 – Charles Amirkhanian: Mushrooms (For John Cage) 4:58
C1 – William Carlos Williams: The Yellow Flower (From Pictures From Brueghel And Other Poems) 3:02
C2 – Allen Ginsberg: Please Master 4:40
C3 – Imamu Amiri Baraka: Hard Facts: New York Is Everywhere Big 1:58
C4 – Frank O'Hara: To The Film Industry In Crisis 3:50
C5 – Taylor Mead: I Was In A Drugstore 3:33
C6 – Jackie Curtis: The All-American Vampire Or How The Bee Sucks 3:36
C7 – Jack Spicer: The Holy Grail: The Boof Of The Death Of Arthur 5:14
C8 – John Cage: Song, Derived From The Joiurnal Of Henry David Thoreau 6:30
D1 – Tom Weatherly: Mud Water Shango, Blues For Frank Swooton 1:42
D2 – Joanne Kyger: In All This Everyday 3:31
D3 – Charles Olson: Letter 27: Maximus To Gloucester 3:15
D4 – W. S. Merwin: Fear 5:23
D5 – Maureen Owen: When You're Down And Under 1:02
D6 – Jerome Rothenberg: The Opening Of The Horse Song, Number Eleven, A Total Translation From The Navajo 2:10
D7 – Ted Berrigan: Today In Ann Arbor 2:59
D8 – Susan Howe: There Is No Good On Earth And Sin Is But A Name 1:00
D9 – Rochelle Owens: Excerpt From "The Joe Chronicles, Part 2" 2:25
D10 – Bill Knott: Corpse And Beans 0:30
D11 – Tony Towle: New York Letters 1:25
D12 – Bernard Heidsieck: Stratimelo 2:00
D13 – Peter Orlovsky: Compost Piles 3:49