Star me Kitten -- William Burroughs + R.E.M.

[@GrogMindwhip]

I get this strange craving for eating lunch without my clothes on.

[@Really377]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@denisryan7536]

Hypnotic & Beautiful, this song kept me up for two nights after the first listen...Burroughs version is like a dream written by Lewis Carroll or Edgar Allen Poe. Love it.

[@allisonmccord3492]

I'm so in love with this version!

[@ricknilson1]

wonderful song. love this guy. always have. thanks.

[@henryboyle4295]

Truth to original lyrics spoken for the first time..! I had made up my own for so long... through his voice so refreshing!

[@dr3dg352]

Was so surprised when I heard this guy at the beginning of the sixth season of The Sopranos. If nothing else, this voice is one that's hard to forget.

[@1060michaelg]

@Alex Clingan Yeah, I was knocked out by Uncle Bill's unmistakable voice doing the "Ah Pook" thing on "The Sopranos"...it was very apt but unexpected.

[@jarad2485]

Fantastic album and cover. I get soul, some people don't. A pity really...

[@timbell29]

Originality and pure expression of soul is naked lunch.

[@Krano229]

William S. Burroughs. RIP

[@kaushen12]

Listen to this and the REM version synced together. It is sublime.

[@RobertJW]

I don't think you need Stipe singing, the guitar's singing just fine here.

[@traceyblanchard1756]

I've always found this version hilarious!

[@emason111]

Love this song; brings back memories

[@notsure1969]

This shit makes me feel like I'm two days into an epic drug binge.

[@caeg8925]

This song comes in songs of the key of x

[@1060michaelg]

@caeg8925 Songs in the key of Rx certainly...

[@notsure1969]

Yes

[@julieteaston5829]

That was my whole childhood. I had lyrics from the sheryl Crow song written in a diary which pissed of my fucking nosey mother. This and red right hand always bring back so many memories.

[@50percentGrey]

Which episode of the X-Files was this song even used in?

[@absolving]

This is brilliant. Love it.

[@space1313g]

The heavy metal kid Salutes Mr Lee!

[@stuartdownes5817]

Something weirdly good about this song. I rate it over the original version

[@wolflower]

The R.E.M. version on Automatic for the People (1992) came first (the lyrics are all Stipe's). This was a special version the band and Burroughs recorded for an X-Files soundtrack album around 1996.

[@kristianmurray8751]

Thank You! Did he really do this WITH the REM boys?

[@kristianmurray8751]

8 yrs mate.

[@buch1018]

@@kristianmurray8751 Ha!

[@Scott-J]

Songs in the Key of X.

[@eboethrasher]

I mean it's just the instrumental backing track with Burroughs over top of it. the instrumental is the same, so they didn't really do anything new to it.

[@pyrothiakit]

thank you so much for posting this!!!

[@TheGlobalfrog12]

Holy shit ....Iı love this song this version though makes me laugh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@coolkittyjn909]

william S….. may LOVE be your elixer …..

[@1060michaelg]

@Jennifer Niccoll Uncle Bill's last entry in "Last Words" (the diary he kept the last 10 months of his life) read: "Love---best painkiller what there is." Indeed. William S. Burroughs has given me so much pleasure, laughter, knowledge (as I stumbled down the junk sick trail and fell into all those delirium Rabbit Holes) that it gratifies me to know that he found a measure of tranquility in the end. Too, WSB NEVER stopped his assault on the psychotic War on Drugs criminals. Take care.

[@elizabethhann4028]

Jennifer Niccoll: That line - "may LOVE be your elixer" - is so beautiful and wise. May I have your permission to quote you? You sound like you're a great writer, and I'm always looking for great writers. Are you very fond of Burroughs?

[@tonyjames327]

Absolute mastery of story telling in a song!

[@MrNikkiNoo]

Best version!

[@bonniebardowski]

fantastic

[@CSLang-cc5he]

oh Uncle Bill...

[@xpti24]

A pearl

[@JarrodStines]

❤

[@CarlosLopez-ew9lo]

Drugstore Cowboy!

[@robertcreighton4635]

This is so much better than that track Burroughs did with kurt cobain back in the day

[@GreatDarkSpot]

Will this never end?

[@09nob]

ha wonderful madness

[@ealing456]

If i hadn't read about this beforehand, I'd have thought this was someone's AI track. It's just that bizarre

[@wjmcd703]

I actually like this version better than the original. I've listened to the other one, and I don't like it

[@IgnacioAraiz]

Honestly, not the first time watching…

[@JoeCorneli]

OMG

[@laurabeane8862]

...hankswifegomakedinner...

[@rexterrocks]

Dead fingers don't talk

[@elizabethhann4028]

"I'm about to do my famous *KITTEN-FUCKING routine!* " (Erm...maybe you'd better see here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/aZPVYad6prxmqJo).

[@orpheus1340]

Just an awful and useless version of this song. I own the CD and it's the one song I always skip.

[@creativeguy1138]

I don't even get why it's on the album. It's completely terrible.

[@Aerozeppelin138]

CreativeGuy I understand that it doesn’t appeal to a lot of people but there is meaning to the song..... just watch “naked lunch”

[@notsure1969]

Good for you.

[@Bane-l7h]

Cool. So you are definition of a troll. Why you here, Kitten?

[@orpheus1340]

@@Bane-l7h If you mistake expressing an opinion with trolling, you're the one who should be questioning himself. Enjoy what you like, so will I.