Everything (Henry Rollins album)

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Everything
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Studio album by Henry Rollins
Released 1996
Genre Audiobook
Length118:19
Label Thirsty Ear
Producer Alyson Careaga
Henry Rollins chronology
Get in the Van
(1994)
Everything
(1996)
Black Coffee Blues
(1997)
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Eye Scream
Author Henry Rollins
Country United States
Language English
Publisher 2.13.61
Publication date
1997
(Album in 1996)
Media type Print Paperback
Pages 219
ISBN 978-1-880985-32-8
OCLC 35134789

Everything is a 1996 spoken word album by Henry Rollins. Everything is the audiobook of Rollins' book Eye Scream which was written over a period of nine years from 1986 to 1995. Eye Scream covers a number of social issues over that time period including racism, homophobia, and police brutality. The album features Rollins' spoken word accompanied by jazz musicians Charles Gayle and Rashied Ali.

Spoken word is a performance art that is word-based. It is an oral art that focuses on the aesthetics of word play such as intonation and voice inflection. It is a "catchall" term that includes any kind of poetry recited aloud, including poetry readings, poetry slams, jazz poetry, and hip hop, and can include comedy routines and prose monologues. Although spoken word can include any kind of poetry read aloud, it is different from written poetry in that how it sounds is often one of the main components. Unlike written poetry it has less to do with physical on the page aesthetics and more to do with phonaesthetics, or the aesthetics of sound.

Henry Rollins American singer-songwriter

Henry Lawrence Garfield, better known by his stage name Henry Rollins, is an American musician, actor, writer, television and radio host, and comedian. He hosts a weekly radio show on KCRW, and is a regular columnist for Rolling Stone Australia and was a regular columnist for LA Weekly.

An audiobook is a recording of a text being read. A reading of the complete text is described as "unabridged", while readings of a shorter version, or abridgement of the text are labeled as "abridged".

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Everything" – 12:36
  2. "Everything (Continued)" – 12:23
  3. "Everything (Continued)" – 13:24
  4. "Everything (Continued)" – 12:28
  5. "Everything (Continued)" – 12:25
  6. "Everything (Continued)" – 12:00
  7. "Everything (Continued)" – 9:52
  8. "Everything (Continued)" – 9:48
  9. "Everything (Continued)" – 8:02
  10. "Everything (Continued)" – 15:05

Personnel

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