might go for the occasion
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Saturday, 13 March 2010 17:46 (sixteen years ago)
this live show is gorgeous. not sure about the guitar solo on "Child's Christmas" but most of it is close to perfect. Cale's voice sounds great these days ...
― tylerw, Monday, 15 March 2010 19:14 (sixteen years ago)
love the Femme Fatale/Rosegarden Funeral of Sores mix, which I guess he's been doing for a while now?
― iatee, Monday, 15 March 2010 19:16 (sixteen years ago)
^^ yes, by the time the live set was over i was not digging all that guitar at all.
― nerve_pylon, Monday, 15 March 2010 19:18 (sixteen years ago)
kinda digging the psych-y guitar on Half Past France tho. Kind of unexpected.
― tylerw, Monday, 15 March 2010 19:32 (sixteen years ago)
always kind of hated this album but I feel like shit right now and it sounds great
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Thursday, 25 March 2010 19:23 (sixteen years ago)
I'll probably love this album forever now or something
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Thursday, 25 March 2010 19:27 (sixteen years ago)
hopefully!
― iatee, Thursday, 25 March 2010 19:52 (sixteen years ago)
http://www.uclalive.org/calendar/event_detail.asp?id=15
― tylerw, Monday, 9 August 2010 17:32 (fifteen years ago)
Cale rocking the soul patch
― Falkor Johnson (askance johnson), Monday, 9 August 2010 17:37 (fifteen years ago)
would love to see paris 1919 live.
― Daniel, Esq., Monday, 9 August 2010 17:41 (fifteen years ago)
$15 UCLA students, damn that's a steal
― iatee, Monday, 9 August 2010 19:06 (fifteen years ago)
yeah, no kidding. kind of cool -- i think the original Paris was recorded with the UCLA orchestra
― tylerw, Monday, 9 August 2010 19:23 (fifteen years ago)
Go see this. It was fantastic at the Royal Festival Hall. Some songs are improved by the new arrangements - Half Past France almost had me in tears.
― Haunted Clocks For Sale (Dorianlynskey), Monday, 9 August 2010 19:24 (fifteen years ago)
wish I could :(
― iatee, Monday, 9 August 2010 19:25 (fifteen years ago)
I am hoping he brings the live show to NYC. It would be crazy if he didn't right? RIGHT?
― FRESH MEAT (MFB), Monday, 9 August 2010 19:27 (fifteen years ago)
right
― iatee, Monday, 9 August 2010 19:27 (fifteen years ago)
also be pretty surprising if there wasn't an album released out of these shows ... Royal Festival Hall bootleg is great.
― tylerw, Monday, 9 August 2010 19:29 (fifteen years ago)
i would have voted andalucia.
― alex in mainhattan, Monday, 9 August 2010 21:37 (fifteen years ago)
"Andalucia" is knocking me out lately, in particular the melody of the vocal on "Andalucia, when can I see you". I am leaving you in a day and a year too, or at least I hope so, I love you.
I'm sorta caught in this album right now: it's kinda songwriting-by-Baedeker (Paris, Barbary, Dunkirk, Andalucia, Dundee, Berlin) but that speaks to me, looking backward but not inward.
― Euler, Friday, 15 October 2010 17:19 (fifteen years ago)
yeah i have no emotional connection to this album whatsoever but it's still one of my favorites of all time because it's so damn pretty
― only built 4 cuban linux... (ciderpress), Friday, 15 October 2010 17:52 (fifteen years ago)
gonna go with "andalucia"
― Notinnymane (k3vin k.), Saturday, 6 August 2011 06:10 (fourteen years ago)
Efficiency efficiency they say
― chawki (buzza), Saturday, 6 August 2011 07:30 (fourteen years ago)
this is the best album ever
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Friday, 5 October 2012 18:17 (thirteen years ago)
yes
― tylerw, Friday, 5 October 2012 18:18 (thirteen years ago)
Thirded
― Cosmic Fopp (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 6 October 2012 02:38 (thirteen years ago)
Half Past France knocking me out all over again today
― brio, Wednesday, 31 July 2013 18:32 (twelve years ago)
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Wednesday, 31 July 2013 18:47 (twelve years ago)
― brio, Wednesday, 31 July 2013 18:50 (twelve years ago)
would've been 'andalucia' for me
― kaiju rolling stone cover (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 31 July 2013 19:04 (twelve years ago)
"there's a law for everything / for elephants that sing to keep / the cows that agriculture won't allow"
― stefon taylor swiftboat (s.clover), Wednesday, 31 July 2013 19:43 (twelve years ago)
Cover art has always helped support the atmosphere of this record for me -- the arch Euro feel, the orchestral sweep, the pastoral elements.
― Naive Teen Idol, Wednesday, 31 July 2013 21:59 (twelve years ago)
s clover otm
― Charlie Slothrop (wins), Wednesday, 31 July 2013 22:03 (twelve years ago)
always heard it as "elephants that sing to feed" imho iirc
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Wednesday, 31 July 2013 22:17 (twelve years ago)
I love you
― flamboyant goon tie included, Wednesday, 31 July 2013 23:15 (twelve years ago)
"Macbeth" sucks though
this (like a lot of Cale's albums tbh) strikes me still as about 2 great songs and a bunch of interesting ones
― tight in the runs (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Wednesday, 31 July 2013 23:19 (twelve years ago)
I agree. He's an A- artist, i.e. at least two tracks with fascinating arrangements and lyrics that don't cohere.
― first I think it's time I kick a little verse! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 31 July 2013 23:20 (twelve years ago)
"endless plain of fortune", imo.
― ( (brimstead), Wednesday, 31 July 2013 23:24 (twelve years ago)
could have sworn the amazing I Keep A Close Watch.. was on this.
― piscesx, Wednesday, 31 July 2013 23:30 (twelve years ago)
More like 4 great songs per album IMO. Absolutely hate at least 1 song per album though.
― kaiju rolling stone cover (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 31 July 2013 23:37 (twelve years ago)
At least it runs a modest 30 minutes or so. These days there are 78 min monsters with only two or three good tracks. But I pretty much love everything on this one and "Fear" (esp. the latter's ballads!). After that he descends into a description in line with Aero's.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 31 July 2013 23:42 (twelve years ago)
xxp now THAT song i think is extraordinary, emotion breaking through his archness. "big white cloud" with those blown speakers breaks through that wall as well.
― ( (brimstead), Wednesday, 31 July 2013 23:43 (twelve years ago)
slow dazzle is really consistent, imo, it's that dumb long track with eno at the end that sucks.
― ( (brimstead), Wednesday, 31 July 2013 23:44 (twelve years ago)
for me the thing is that the best ones on any given Cale album tend to be among the best songs you'll hear that year. British Passport is not a spectacular album, but "Dead or Alive" is a monolithic fucking TUNE. Artificial Intelligence doesn't cohere at all, but fuckin' A, "Dying on the Vine"? I'd shave several years off the end of my life to write a song that good.
― tight in the runs (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Wednesday, 31 July 2013 23:59 (twelve years ago)
aero: I prefer this version:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DeFYJdW3xDg
― first I think it's time I kick a little verse! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 1 August 2013 00:06 (twelve years ago)
the Fragments of a Rainy Season version of Close Watch is the definitive one for me
― Number None, Thursday, 1 August 2013 00:18 (twelve years ago)
Christ that lyric is seamless. Seamless.
― tight in the runs (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Thursday, 1 August 2013 00:30 (twelve years ago)
Wrote on "Macbeth" just now:
http://thisiheard.blogspot.com/2013/07/john-cale-macbeth-1973.html
― timellison, Thursday, 1 August 2013 00:39 (twelve years ago)
(Sorry, that post was a little unclear. I think I fixed it OK.)
― timellison, Thursday, 1 August 2013 00:42 (twelve years ago)