Paris 1919 is to Transformer as Fear is to Blue Mask
― kornrulez6969, Tuesday, 3 March 2009 05:13 (fifteen years ago) link
I'd vote 'Church of Anthrax,' because I'm not a huge fan of singer-songwriter-mode Cale.
― Soundslike, Tuesday, 3 March 2009 05:38 (fifteen years ago) link
new option:uncool + wrong
― iatee, Tuesday, 3 March 2009 05:40 (fifteen years ago) link
Vintage Violence, appropriately enough, kills.
― inhibitionist, Tuesday, 3 March 2009 06:46 (fifteen years ago) link
i'm uncool and vote Paris 1919
been a few years since i had my huge cale love story. maybe it's time for a second phase seeing there are still a few things here i haven't heard
― sonderangerbot, Tuesday, 3 March 2009 11:39 (fifteen years ago) link
Fragments, since it's like a best of + all great cover versions of his own songs in one.
― StanM, Tuesday, 3 March 2009 15:15 (fifteen years ago) link
Sabotage is pretty cool. That spoken intro to "Mercenaries" is vicious. Also: Captain Hook.
― thirdalternative, Tuesday, 3 March 2009 15:22 (fifteen years ago) link
not to mention the great "Hedda Gabler", which is on the cd version of Sabotage!
― nerve_pylon, Tuesday, 3 March 2009 15:27 (fifteen years ago) link
GUTS GUTSGOT NO GUTS
― ۞_۞ (ciderpress), Tuesday, 3 March 2009 15:44 (fifteen years ago) link
I'll come back to this in a week once I've got through everything on Spotify.
― tomofthenest, Tuesday, 3 March 2009 17:09 (fifteen years ago) link
Hedda Gabler = 2nd greatest song of all time
but it can't count towards Sabotage in this pollbecause I included Animal Justice
― iatee, Tuesday, 3 March 2009 18:11 (fifteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Sunday, 29 March 2009 23:01 (fifteen years ago) link
AAAAAAAAH! OH MY GOD! THE JOHN CALE ALBUM POLL IS CLOSING TOMORROW!!! WHAT??!?!?!?!
I'm just now only getting into the meat of his career! Please give me a break! Wow. Oh shit. Woah.
― Is It Goth Enough For You? (Bimble), Monday, 30 March 2009 00:42 (fifteen years ago) link
There should never be polls at all.
― kornrulez6969, Monday, 30 March 2009 03:46 (fifteen years ago) link
bimb you should just vote CS so it gets some respect
― iatee, Monday, 30 March 2009 03:50 (fifteen years ago) link
fear
― drone/a/sore, Monday, 30 March 2009 04:10 (fifteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Monday, 30 March 2009 23:01 (fifteen years ago) link
I would like to hear from this Walking on Locusts person
― iatee, Monday, 30 March 2009 23:42 (fifteen years ago) link
3 votes for "Music For A New Society"? You fools. I didn't vote for it, of course.
― Sacco, Vanzetti, Passantino... (Tom D.), Tuesday, 31 March 2009 08:57 (fifteen years ago) link
Only 3 votes for "Slow Dazzle" and for "Music for a New Society" ??? What's wrong with you people ???
― Snowballing, Tuesday, 31 March 2009 09:00 (fifteen years ago) link
Paris 1919 should not have won by that much
and none for Helen of Troy???
― turtles all the way down (Face of Wolf), Tuesday, 31 March 2009 10:04 (fifteen years ago) link
dunno, that poll looks about right to me. If I didn't vote for Paris, I probably would've voted for Vintage Violence or Music for a New Society. I like the Island trilogy a lot, but as albums, those are my faves. Didn't vote for Fragments because that is more like a greatest hits to me.
― tylerw, Tuesday, 31 March 2009 14:42 (fifteen years ago) link
I would kill for a decent recording of the Even Cowgirls Get the Blues period.
― Naive Teen Idol, Tuesday, 31 March 2009 19:25 (fifteen years ago) link
has everyone heard the Ocean Club bootleg from 1976? Guest starring Lou Reed, David Byrne, Patti Smith, Chris Spedding, etc. Not as good as you want it to be, BUT PRETTY GOOD.
― tylerw, Tuesday, 31 March 2009 19:45 (fifteen years ago) link
I want that to be pretty good
― iatee, Tuesday, 31 March 2009 23:27 (fifteen years ago) link
I saw some video of that, I think.
― Naive Teen Idol, Tuesday, 31 March 2009 23:40 (fifteen years ago) link
why hasn't someone reissued Honi Soit, Music For A New Society, Carribean Sunset, and Comes Alive? aside from there not as good as his other stuff.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Saturday, 11 July 2009 23:43 (fourteen years ago) link
?? MFaNS is one of his best records. Honi Soit is pretty great, too...
― Naive Teen Idol, Sunday, 12 July 2009 00:05 (fourteen years ago) link
yah so you'd think they would get a reissue instead of costing a crapload for used copies on amazon.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Sunday, 12 July 2009 01:06 (fourteen years ago) link
They're not as good (or even okay) as the other works!
― My name is Kenny! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 12 July 2009 01:07 (fourteen years ago) link
music for a new society is great, esp. if you're in the mood for some bleak stuff
― J0rd D. (velko), Sunday, 12 July 2009 01:20 (fourteen years ago) link
His "unplugged" versions of those songs are superior.
― My name is Kenny! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 12 July 2009 01:39 (fourteen years ago) link
agreed but please never use the term "unplugged" again
― worm? lol (J0hn D.), Sunday, 12 July 2009 01:59 (fourteen years ago) link
Pretty nifty double live set just released:
http://www.amazon.com/John-Cale-Band-Live-Rockpalast/dp/B003BWBA6M/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1288558270&sr=8-1
Way, way better than "Comes Alive", and rehabilitates some of the "Carribean Sunset" material nicely.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Sunday, 31 October 2010 20:52 (thirteen years ago) link
Paris 1919 or Music for a New Society for me....never could choose between the two, both nigh on perfect!
http://devonrecordclub.wordpress.com/2011/10/13/john-cale-paris-1919-round-16-toms-selection/
― yugi ex, Thursday, 13 October 2011 21:07 (twelve years ago) link
Having recently re-listened to both albums, I reckon MFANS is his true masterpiece, but I would always prefer to listen to Paris 1919.
― yugi ex, Wednesday, 26 October 2011 11:01 (twelve years ago) link
He's 70 today!
(I unwittingly posted as such on the De Subjectivisten board; my browser was set to auto-translate Dutch and I didn't notice)
― an elk hunt (Ówen P.), Friday, 9 March 2012 14:01 (twelve years ago) link
Penblwydd Hapus!
― willem, Friday, 9 March 2012 14:12 (twelve years ago) link
well said, willem, well said:)i'd put it just slightly differently, though:john cale on kõigiti äge säga ja õnne sünnipäevaks ja kanget tervist talle!
― t**t, Friday, 9 March 2012 14:23 (twelve years ago) link
happppy birthday. one of the greatest.
― tylerw, Friday, 9 March 2012 16:05 (twelve years ago) link
interesting that it's also Ornette Coleman's birthday, and that the artwork for Ornette's Free Jazz album was Pollock's "White Light." Interesting to me anyway.
― tylerw, Friday, 9 March 2012 17:15 (twelve years ago) link
lol, Cale and Lou born in the same year and a week apart!
I seem to remember some wanky discussion panel item on Lou last week. This hasn't been as dubiously celebrated and it sucks!
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 11 March 2012 11:56 (twelve years ago) link
Sabotage is pretty underrated, methinks. Mercenaries is enormous. Listening to it a lot lately.
― Everything You Like Sucks, Sunday, 11 March 2012 21:15 (twelve years ago) link
When I could take you apart And if you give me half a chance I'd do it now, I'd do it now, right now, you fascist
this guy
― giallo pudding pops (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 31 July 2012 20:14 (eleven years ago) link
It is cruel to choose. He is the only interesting lyricist of paranoia. Even when no guns or threat of foul play are involved, his paranoia is exquisite. Here is a lyrical sequence of non-violent paranoid bits from three consecutive records: "Nothing frightens me more than religion at my door," "You know more than I know," "They're taking it all away."
― Vic Perry, Wednesday, 1 August 2012 03:10 (eleven years ago) link
The ones you need.
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 4 December 2018 02:37 (five years ago) link
Nice. I just joined twitter and I follow you. I commented on your twitter about Honi Soit and the great Hungry For Love.
― kornrulez6969, Tuesday, 4 December 2018 03:14 (five years ago) link
The ones you need🕸.
― Naive Teen Idol, Tuesday, 11 December 2018 00:23 (five years ago) link
Yo La covered "Hanky Panky Nohow" *and* "Andalucia," which is pretty cool. Paul Kelly did a lovely cover of "Buffalo Ballet" that makes me wonder why more people don't cover John Cale.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4cBcd0IaIA
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 11 December 2018 01:04 (five years ago) link
Btw, it's getting to the point where every time a dormant thread pops up I assume the person is dead when really I should start assuming it's a Soto list.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 11 December 2018 01:07 (five years ago) link
I heard Paul Kelly's cover before the original, it's close but I still prefer Paul's version.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Tuesday, 11 December 2018 02:09 (five years ago) link
Cale has a rare ability to be equally convincing in crazed punk mode as well as evocative wide-screen mode a-la "Buffalo Ballet"
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Tuesday, 11 December 2018 02:11 (five years ago) link
Soto lists always come in threes.
― The Greta Van Gerwig (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 11 December 2018 02:13 (five years ago) link
like my dates!
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 11 December 2018 03:54 (five years ago) link
lol. have to listen to Fear again, but I love Paris 1919
― Dan S, Tuesday, 11 December 2018 03:59 (five years ago) link
Don't sleep on Tyler's excellent Unreleased Cale comp on his blog!
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Tuesday, 11 December 2018 04:24 (five years ago) link
Hedda Gabler had a very funny face
― velko, Tuesday, 11 December 2018 06:58 (five years ago) link