John Cale S/D

haha i am so glad we invented the Megadeth + John Cale collab on the other thread

if we talk about it enough, it will become reality

Well he's already done Church of Anthrax I guess.

Honi ...So What!

lol

I'm still holding out for the CaleRush album, Paris 2112

Ha. And ha at MegaCale, which I missed on the other thread

this looks kinda rad
http://www.dustygroove.com/images/products/c/cale_john~~_conflictc_101b.jpg
A nicely done tribute to John Cale's production work – from the late 60s era with the Velvets onward to the mid 00s – quite representative of his reach and diversity as a producer! Includes a few of his most legendary productions – art rock genius from The Velvet Underground & Nico, willfully crass primitivism from The Stooges, punk poetry from Patti Smith and more. Also fascinating is the wealth of wildly divergent styles he produced much later – for The Happy Mondays, Jesus Lizard, Alejandro Escovedo and others. 20 tracks: "Venus In Fur" by The Velvet Underground, "I Wanna Be Your Dog" by The Stooges, "Pablo Picasso" by The Modern Lovers, "Afraid" by Nico, "Disco Clone" by Cristina, "Italian Sea" by Chunky, Novi & Ernie, "Sex Master" by Squeeze, "Kuff Dam" by Happy Mondays, Tearing Apart" by Siouxsie & The Banshees, "Spinning Away" by Eno/Cale, "In Excelsis Deo/Gloria" by Patti Smith and more.

huh, I didn't know he produced Squeeze!

I didn't know he produced "Kuff Dam," which is to the rest of the Happy Mondays catalogue as Chateau Lafite is to Thunderbird

here's the full tracklisting
Venus In Furs - The Velvet Underground
I Wanna Be Your Dog - The Stooges
In Excelsis Deo / Gloria - Patti Smith
Afraid - Nico
Pablo Picasso - The Modern Lovers
Who Is That Saving Me - Harry Toledo & The Rockets
Re-Bop - Marie Et Les Garþons
Disco Clone - Cristina
Italian Sea - Chunky, Novi & Ernie
No King - Ventilator
Sex Master - Squeeze
Take Your Place - Alejandro Escovedo
Kuff Dam - Happy Mondays
Runaway Child (Minors Beware) - The Necessaries
Omnes Gentes Plaudite (The Drinking Song) - Mediaeval Baebes
Needles For Teeth - The Jesus Lizard
Scorch - Goya Dress
Dallas - Lio
Tearing Apart - Siouxsie & The Banshees
Spinning Away - Brian Eno and John Cale

huh, I didn't know he produced Squeeze!

Chris Difford: "It was so exciting working with someone I had idolised, especially to see him up close and find that he was actually taking as many drugs as people thought and that he was very ill and incoherent. He was everything I had imagined."

In the studio, Cale either terrorized the band (for instance, insisting that they switch instruments and figure out how to play "Amazing Grace") or passed out on a couch (Jools Holland wrote "I am a cunt" on his forehead and then the band put him in a cab back to his hotel). Cale also tried to convince them to name their first album "Gay Guys."

lollll

Um.

John Cale Announces New Album, Shifty Adventures In Nookie Wood

lol, hmmm.

http://www.doublesixrecords.com/doublesix/news/07-06-12/john-cale-shifty-adventures-in-nookie-wood-revealed

Since everyone here loves press releases with tracklists, here is some of it:

Shifty Adventures in Nookie Wood is a title to set tongues wagging and minds wondering, but for an album that seems born of a return to John's youth, it seems safely apt in its mischievousness.

Shifty Adventures in Nookie Wood is the result of sessions held at Cale's LA studio. Days were spent experimenting with MPCs, pounding fists onto pianos, manipulating glitches and lots of signature viola drone while patiently waiting for songs to reveal themselves. There was also a spontaneous session with Danger Mouse to create the opening track, "I Wanna Talk 2 U."

As a producer Cale has reached a new plateau on this record. At the albums most maximal, it feels like looking at a collection of precious stones. Myriads of differently colored and textured surfaces carefully placed together, each finding their own space to beckon the ear. It's a blend of chaos and beauty in equal measure and a testament to the exploratory spirit at work which ensures there's always something new to the ears on a John Cale record.

Shifty Adventures in Nookie Wood will be available on gatefold heavyweight vinyl, CD and digital.

Shifty Adventures in Nookie Wood tracklist:

01. I Wanna Talk 2 U

02. Scotland Yard

03. Hemmingway

04. Face To The Sky

05. Nookie Wood

06. December Rains

07. Mary

08. Vampire Cafe

09. Mothra

10. Living With You

11. Midnight Feast

12. Sandman (Flying Dutchman)

oops

excellent song titles. i'm looking forward to this! that ep from a year or so ago was pretty cool.

"I Wanna Talk 2 U" is on soundcloud. It's pretty great.

http://soundcloud.com/double-six/john-cale-i-wanna-talk-2-u

nice! yeah, very good. danger mouse-y but not overly so.

that sounds horrible! tell me more.

haha, well, danger mouse produced it.

it's the least Mousey thing I've heard him work on.

that wah-wah rinkydink guitar (or synth?)_sound is sorta grating

http://ih.constantcontact.com/fs046/1102021487007/img/100.jpg

the combination of beats and john cale is just not a very palatable one for me i don't think

I like that a lot! The cover's cool, too.

New video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtC2418nNcU

Not sure about the video but the song is good.

I was looking through an old notebook and I saw that I've seen John Cale perform once, apparently the same week or so as DMX. Don't recall a minute of either show.

http://open.spotify.com/album/6xzqLW3MaJlFWWtT9uXJYh

Third track in and this is a cracker. His voice sounds fantastic and the slightly swampy feel of the production works a treat. Very much an 'Idiot'/'Lodger' vibe to it so far.

One song in and I agree.

so far this record is cool as hell

you got a thousand yard staaaaaare

*cascade of crashing pianos*

Whole lotta autotune on this.

I'm going to see Paris 1919 performance in Brooklyn.

"Ten murdered oranges/Harder/Faster/Stronger/Break it down!"

So here Cale plays some of his favorite things, talks about them and Shifty, also excerpted. Or you can do like I just now did, and go right to three new songs, in full. "Doing hard time in Nookie Wood/Doing hard time again."
http://www.npr.org/2012/10/02/162158655/guest-dj-john-cale Be sure to bask in "Melody Laughter" too!

coooool, thanks for the link!

Spent a ton of time with this the last few days. It's a really dense record, but deep as well. "Scotland Yard" is a fave so far -- the climax is really something. In places, there's an Eno vibe -- "Vampire Cafe" has a stuttering percussion track that could be off of Fourth World Vol. 1. "Sandman" sounds like an Eno melody performed and produced by Cale. And honestly, the production is pretty amazing. It's kind of stunning that a 70 y/o guy could make a record that sounds so entirely contemporary but also entirely his own.

Yeah, he sounds entirely at home on the tracks I've heard. re the xpost first Squeeze album, the songs I remember, like "Strong In Reason" sound suavely macho--not like I usually think of Squeeze, except when they briefly featured Paul Carrack--but Difford and/or Tilbrook show no strain-- the vocal effect is def Calean but not alien to them. Although they weren't exactly eager to repeat the experience, judging by interviews.

oh damn this is unexpectedly good.

Cool, his MySpace has several albums I haven't heard
http://www.myspace.com/johncaleofficialsite/music/albums

(gotta click Album; MySpace Radio intrudes after playing an isolated track.Can always pause Album when needed)

....and the new album is now atop his MySpace booty. You're too good to us, JC!

JOHN CALE TOUR DATES:

Tue. Dec. 4 - Portland, OR @ Mission Theatre w/ Cass McCombs

Thu. Dec. 6 - Seattle, WA @ Showbox w/ Cass McCombs

Sun. Dec. 9 - San Francisco, CA @ Regency Ballroom w/ Cass McCombs

Tue. Dec. 11 - Los Angeles, CA @ El Rey w/ Cass McCombs

Wed. Jan. 16 - Brooklyn, NY @ BAM [Life Along The Borderline - tribute to NICO]

Fri. Jan. 18 - Brooklyn, NY @ BAM [When Past & Future Collide: Paris 1919]

Sat. Jan. 19 - Brooklyn, NY @ BAM [When Past & Future Collide: Paris 1919

grr, i would like to see cale w/ mccombs

there on fri the 18th. Tempted to see the Nico tribute a well.

whoa maybe I need to drive 2 hours to Portland in 6 weeks or so

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLWeqGZT5Wc
recent live clip. great! he's one of those guys whose voice hasn't deteriorated at all -- he sounds pretty much the same as 1975.

and how many 70 year olds could pull off his ensemble.