John Cale - Paris 1919 Poll

what i look like kd lang to you?

Holy shit, Cohen is almost 80!

Anyway, back to Cale's playing, which on "Darling I Need You" on Fragments renders the version definitive.

new cale single -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-yJuwkWsTo&feature=youtu.be

Not bad. Takes a while to get going but when it does it's fun.

yeah i had the same thought. dunno, still conflicted over that last album. some cool stuff alongside some really not cool stuff.

The adventures of nooky wooky or w/e? I listened to it once but never went back to it. Funny cause I think 5 songs & hobosapien are really good, and liked some of black acetate. I should listen again.

some cool stuff alongside some really not cool stuff.

i.e. it's a John Cale album

New single sounds like a John Maus b-side. I like it.

I think Nookie Wood is pretty great actually.

me too. And the EP before it.

In the wake of Lou Reed's death, I've finally, after years of inexplicable passivity, gotten around to listening to this album. And it's really, really amazing.

I get a wintry feel from it for some reason, but it doesn't feel cold. Might be the season.

<3

I listened to Hanky Panky Nohow yesterday after some JWs came to my door with a pamphlet illustrating that the dead are not actually dead. Nothing frightens me more!

This album is beautiful. I really love his voice on it too.

such a wonderful album.
figured out how to play "Antarctica Starts Here" recently on piano (not that it's super difficult or anything). i think i've annoyed my wife with playing it so much, but the chords are just so nice.

and godammit that first verse

The paranoid great movie queen
Sits idly fully armed
The powder and mascara there
A warning light for charm
We see her every movie night
The strong against the weak
The lines come out and struggle with
The empty voice that speaks

though i always heard "warning light for John" -- which I don't know, might be sort of weird, but I thought it was Cale inserting himself into the narrative or something.

And I love the fact that half of fucking Little Feet plays on it.

Used to only listen to Paris 1919 but ilx has convinced me to start listening to the threefer called The Island Years.

Wow I didn't know a single one of those lyrics tyler just posted, all I ever heard was beautiful Welsh-inflected mumbling.

you're a ghost la la la la la la la la la

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This album is beautiful. I really love his voice on it too.

Yes, he's so Welsh!

Best twee album ever

I'll never stop loving a line like "I suppose I'm glad I'm on this train - and it's long"

It's not even near the best song on this album, but I really enjoy Macbeth as an outlier. It doesn't seem to fit with the rest of the songs, but it's so enjoyable nevertheless. Where's the love?

the answer lies within the question

?love the where is

there's not much love because "It's not even near the best song on this album" and "It doesn't seem to fit with the rest of the songs"

yes! of course!

except i was trying to elicit responses based on its difference from the rest of the tracks. for example: what do you think?

It's a great glam rock boogie song and it does kinda disrupt the flow, I agree, but without it the album would be too short/slow/samey, perhaps?

Wrote on "Macbeth" last year:

http://thisiheard.blogspot.com/2013/07/john-cale-macbeth-1973.html

hate Macbeth and Graham Greene

Graham Greene has fun lyrics even if it's not JC's best song.

I finally picked up a copy of this - the reissue with the demos and works-in-progress. I quite like peaking behind the curtain, I find it fascinating to hear how some artists conceptualize their songs hole and others take an amazing leap i the studio.

I quite like peaking behind the curtain

triggering acid flashbacks here

This album is so good I can't stand it

The album bends the very fabric of space and time by running barely more than 30 minutes yet never feeling short.

The anaesthetic wearing off

he should do something special in Paris 2020

haha that would be fun

love this album, such a vibe

I am a John Cale fan and I certainly like Paris 1919 a lot, I really do - but it's not my favourite, it often surprises me that it seems to have a revered status. I do find about half of it utterly brilliant, but that's a relatively short set. Title track, Endless Plain, Hanky Panky - gorgeous! But Graham Greene can get on my nerves, I'm not too fond of Macbeth and I find a couple of other tracks nice enough but not classics.
The Islands triology albums are just as good as Paris, I think.

A Cale classic I can fully get behind is Music For A New Society - astonishing. Conversely, I have a very high opinion of Caribbean Sunset as well (really hoping for a CD re-release of that one). Words For The Dying is an odd favourite of mine too.

Valentijn OTM on all points. Caribbean Sunset is indeed criminally underrated

i love caribbean sunset too!

Oh, I listen to The Island Years set more than anything else.

I find a couple of other tracks nice enough but not classics.

half past france is a classic imo

this isn’t my favorite cale album either but it’s perfectly formed regardless imo

half Past France is my favorite on this but yeah there are a couple of out-of-place clunkers on it (Macbeth, Graham Greene)

macbeth rules wtf

those tracks are fun and i would like the album less without them, especially "graham"

chopping down the ppl
where they stand

Yes, Caribbean Sunset rulez!!! Hungry For Love is my jam!!!!!

he should do something special in Paris 2020

The Endless Plain Of Fortune is my pick these days... opening track forever, tho