― D.I.Y. U.N.K.L.E. (dave225.3), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 17:54 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 18:10 (eighteen years ago) link
― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 18:37 (eighteen years ago) link
― Baaderonixx weaves a daisy chain for... SATAN!! (baaderonixx), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 19:08 (eighteen years ago) link
I met a guy the other night who said he played the viola. I asked him if he'd heard of John Cale. He said no.
HOW THE FUCK DO YOU PLAY THE VIOLA AND HAVE NOT HEARD OF JOHN CALE???
― Bimble, Saturday, 14 July 2007 03:17 (sixteen years ago) link
BECAUSE IT'S A BIG FUCKING WORLD BIMBLE COME ON
― Tim Ellison, Saturday, 14 July 2007 03:39 (sixteen years ago) link
All the same, folks in western countries who don't know Velvet Underground need to get with it, pronto. The end of the world is coming soon, there's not much time left. QUICKLY!
― Bimble, Saturday, 14 July 2007 05:41 (sixteen years ago) link
NEXT THING THEY'LL BE TELLING YOU THEY DON'T KNOW WHO PALL MACKNARTANEY IS!?!?!
― gershy, Saturday, 14 July 2007 06:09 (sixteen years ago) link
Why is there not a beautiful 4 or 5 CD box set career overview? The _Seducing Down The Door_ 2 disc set is necessarily very stingy. There's so much to his career and lots of great rarities could be included as well!
― Mr. Odd, Saturday, 14 July 2007 09:51 (sixteen years ago) link
yeaaaah I wanna hear outakes from Church of Anthrax and more live recordings from both the mid-70s and that beserko 78-79 period.
― m coleman, Saturday, 14 July 2007 11:33 (sixteen years ago) link
And if you give me half a chance, I'd do it now, I'd do it NOW, RIGHT NOW, YOU FASCIST!
So great.
― clotpoll, Thursday, 8 November 2007 07:36 (sixteen years ago) link
DAMN RIGHT MAMA!
― winston, Friday, 9 November 2007 02:55 (sixteen years ago) link
I just bought "The Island Years" and I can't believe my ears. I had no idea I'd like this that much. The likes of Coldplay only wish they'd done anything as good as "Ship of Fools".
Just don't understand how this CD could be as good as what I'm hearing.
― Bimble, Tuesday, 25 December 2007 01:03 (sixteen years ago) link
"Fear Is A Man's Best Friend", too...it's weird cause I think I heard that song before years ago. Just fucking fantastic, man.
― Bimble, Tuesday, 25 December 2007 01:05 (sixteen years ago) link
yeah, those 3 records are my favorite of his. look for the expanded CD version of "Sabotage" next!
― sleeve, Tuesday, 25 December 2007 01:07 (sixteen years ago) link
i've been playing "paris 1919" and "fear" all week. god, what a great album. "gun" completely kills. album for album, cale's post-VU work is just much more my scene than lou reed's, and i love "transformer" and "berlin" like, a lot. i'm not sure if i like the album version of "fear is a man's best friend" better than the live one from "fragments of a rainy season."
also, he is a very nice, articulate, handsome man.
― Emily Bjurnhjam, Tuesday, 25 December 2007 16:50 (sixteen years ago) link
yeah, when I got The Island Years I was like "I wasted all these years trying to like those damn Lou Reed albums when I could have been rocking this?!?!"
― sleeve, Tuesday, 25 December 2007 16:54 (sixteen years ago) link
EB he is great in that BBC Velvet Underground documentary if you ever get a chance to see it. I'd love to see a career-spanning doc on Cale with live footage.
― sleeve, Tuesday, 25 December 2007 16:55 (sixteen years ago) link
"Child's Christmas in Wales" and "The Endless Plain of Fortune" are perfect Xmas music.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Tuesday, 25 December 2007 17:14 (sixteen years ago) link
Artificial Intelligence may not be all that, but "Dying on the Vine" is one of his four or five most beautiful songs & lyrically is some of his tightest, most cutting work I think
― J0hn D., Tuesday, 25 December 2007 18:21 (sixteen years ago) link
I'd love to see a career-spanning doc on Cale with live footage.
oh look, one is mentioned upthread! gotta find that...
― sleeve, Tuesday, 25 December 2007 18:30 (sixteen years ago) link
Some of the greatest music ever made. "Vintage Violence" up thru "Helen of Troy" is a flawless body of work - and it's pretty great after that too.!
― Davey D, Tuesday, 25 December 2007 18:51 (sixteen years ago) link
Oh my god, dude, that is just so OTM I don't even know where to begin. Cheers.
― Bimble, Wednesday, 26 December 2007 01:28 (sixteen years ago) link
i find myself jealous of those discovering john cale. on christmas, no less.
― nerve_pylon, Wednesday, 26 December 2007 02:02 (sixteen years ago) link
Just don't understand how this CD could be as good as what I'm hearing. Bimble, Monday, December 24, 2007 5:03 PM
HOW THE FUCK DO YOU PLAY THE VIOLA HANG AROND ILX FOR YEARS AND HAVE NOT HEARD OF JOHN CALE CAN NOT UNDERSTAND HOW GOOD THOSE ISLAND LPS COULD BE???
― nickn, Friday, 28 December 2007 05:46 (sixteen years ago) link
Well that looks like a typical ILX cheap-shot/smartass post to me, but if you're really looking for a serious answer, I've never been convinced by what I've heard of Cale's music in the past outside of a few songs here and there. A lot of his stuff with Nico scared me off, too even though I'm a pretty big fan of hers.
I'm listening to Music For A New Society now, though and I think I might end up liking it more overall than the Island stuff, actually. I do hope that news doesn't make you have a heart attack or something! ;)
I'm moving on to Sabotage next.
― Bimble, Friday, 28 December 2007 06:05 (sixteen years ago) link
Be cool, just a little joke. Your "HOW THE FUCK..." post did make you sound like a big John Cale fan.
― nickn, Friday, 28 December 2007 06:23 (sixteen years ago) link
hedda gabler is a monster track
― gershy, Friday, 28 December 2007 06:26 (sixteen years ago) link
Oh yeah Hedda Gabler is the fucking shit and if anyone can point me to something better than that in his entire career, I'll be quite grateful. But I doubt you could come up with better than that.
― Bimble, Saturday, 29 December 2007 05:34 (sixteen years ago) link
nope!
― sleeve, Saturday, 29 December 2007 18:14 (sixteen years ago) link
Good to know!
I played Music For A New Society last night in its entirety and was completely and totally blown away. It seemed like every time I thought it couldn't get better, it added some touch here and there (bagpipes at the end of 'I Keep A Close Watch', the quiet, solo piano brought in at the very end of the album) that just sent me over the top. I know I said the Island stuff was good, but there's nowhere near that kind of consistency for me.
― Bimble, Saturday, 29 December 2007 18:27 (sixteen years ago) link
Never win and never lose There's nothing much to choose Between the right and wrong Nothing lost and nothing gained Still things aren't quite the same Between you and me
I keep a close watch on this heart of mine I keep a close watch on this heart of mine
I still hear your voice at night When I turn out the light And try to settle down But there's nothing much I can do Because I can't live without you Any way at all
― winston, Monday, 31 December 2007 01:14 (sixteen years ago) link
that song hits me hard
bagpipes or none
― winston, Monday, 31 December 2007 01:15 (sixteen years ago) link
John Cale's 'The Man Who Couldn't Afford To Orgy' is about the best song title this side of Tom T. Hall.
― earlnash, Monday, 31 December 2007 05:31 (sixteen years ago) link
Yeah I'm sorry I should have clarified...winston, that song hits me real hard, too, with or without bagpipes and truth be told I think the version of it on the Island Years dbl CD (or the Helen of Troy album) with *strings* is actually the superior version (no bagpipes)!
― Bimble, Tuesday, 1 January 2008 02:34 (sixteen years ago) link
Just picked up Church of Anthrax - newly reissued but no bonus tracks or anything. Fantastic. Other than The Soul of Patrick Lee, you could really think it was some great lost krautrock classic.
― Hurting 2, Tuesday, 1 July 2008 21:49 (fifteen years ago) link
is this remastered or anything? sketchy that the promo copy says "never before on cd" when obviously it's been available for a long time.
― matinee, Tuesday, 1 July 2008 22:48 (fifteen years ago) link
I don't think it's remastered or anything. I think it's just been out of print on CD and now it's back in print. I got a new copy from some amazon seller for $11 with shipping, which was way lower than the list price.
― Hurting 2, Wednesday, 2 July 2008 00:16 (fifteen years ago) link
John Cale has sortof been my rebirth. Caribbean Sunset, etc.
But Chinese Envoy, god, I was in love with someone who knew that song.
― Sleep Tundra (Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You), Monday, 23 March 2009 10:56 (fifteen years ago) link
Look I'm gonna have to have this Music For a New Society album. This is some wonderfully heavily postpunk stuff.
What happened to that guy I was in love with, though? Is he reading this? Do you remember we played John Cale, honey? I love it, John Cale. Never forget, we played him. Don't forget. Sweetheart, don't forget it. Don't you remember? I can't forget.
― Sleep Tundra (Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You), Monday, 23 March 2009 11:03 (fifteen years ago) link
I've never heared Music for a New SOciety and this makes me sad :(
― turtles all the way down (Face of Wolf), Monday, 23 March 2009 11:06 (fifteen years ago) link
But do you know Caribbean Sunset? Cause that album just absolutely kills me
― Sleep Tundra (Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You), Monday, 23 March 2009 11:08 (fifteen years ago) link
NOisn't that supposed to be one of his worst albums?I'm too poor to love music :(
― turtles all the way down (Face of Wolf), Monday, 23 March 2009 11:10 (fifteen years ago) link
Okay I admit it, I'm too drunk. I'm sorry. I'm going to chill out and be quiet, now.
― Sleep Tundra (Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You), Monday, 23 March 2009 11:11 (fifteen years ago) link
But Mr. Bimble, I dream of meeting a lady who digs on Mr. Calethat sounds wonderful
― turtles all the way down (Face of Wolf), Monday, 23 March 2009 11:18 (fifteen years ago) link
i just bought a (new!) copy of Even Cowgirls Get The Blues on cassette at a record store in Taos, NM. I'll be driving around listening to live Cale in no time.
― tylerw, Monday, 23 March 2009 16:43 (fifteen years ago) link
Caribbean Sunset is worse than a lot of his albums but there's still a lot find in it.
― iatee, Monday, 23 March 2009 16:49 (fifteen years ago) link
Is there any discussion of the New York in the 1960's stuff that Table Of The Elements put out hiding away on here? I like the two of those albums that I have, particularly Sun Blindness Music, which was the first one I found.
― krakow, Wednesday, 14 October 2009 14:11 (fourteen years ago) link
I've been listening to that volume a lot, lately. I love that guitar drone piece, it's very metal.Preparing to do a big Velvets radio show on Oct 28th. Going to read passages out of the Unterberger book and play a lot of live/rare/solo stuff and just some favorites, too. Should be a lot of fun.
― Trip Maker, Wednesday, 14 October 2009 14:19 (fourteen years ago) link
"Beethoven In The Old West" is the Cale-iest Cale song title ever.
― bendy, Tuesday, 26 March 2024 16:01 (three days ago) link
Speedy for him!
― Slorg is not on the Slerf Team, you idiot, you moron (Boring, Maryland), Tuesday, 26 March 2024 17:57 (three days ago) link