I rediscovered it 5 or 6 years ago, when I moved the turntable into my family's kitchen, pulled out the original 2 LP set starring Ian Gillan, and found that it was a great way to talk to my two young children about Judeo-Christian myth/theology and that funky western civilization. I then forgot all about it for the better part of 25 years. Jesus Christ Superstar was the first record I really fell in love with, back in the summer of 1971 when a bunk mate at summer camp played the JCS eight track non-stop. As Peter said, "the more you try to get Jesus out of your system, the more Jesus you get into your system." Maybe it wasn't Peter who said that. ![]() I had hoped that this show and blog post would finally get this out of my system for good. If you have any other versions not listed here, please e-mail me about them at ken at wfmu dot org. ![]() If you're not up for 78 megs of download, follow the jump for the individual tracks contained in the mix, plus a whole lot more. ![]() ![]() Here's the entire MP3 of it, extracted from my December 13th show archive: download MP3 (78 megs). After several years of threats, I finally devoted most of a radio show to an alternative version of Jesus Christ Superstar, playing each track in order using various versions of Andrew Lloyd Weber's bombastic masterwork which I've collected over the years.
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