Cale can be very hard work on some albums (IMNSHO, of course); but can be fantastic. I've seen him at the RFH (or somewhere like that) with a string quartet and at Dingwalls with a guitar. And he can pull them both off fantastically.
I would strongly recommend Fear, which has 'Fear is a Man's Best Friend' (which Billy Bragg once covered). Caribbean Sunset and Slow Dazzle are two that I used to listen to a lot, because I had them back-to-back on a tape, and they're both very good. I'm not sure whether you can still get any of those, though.
Emusic has his latest,Things</>, in the title track of which he has the line 'things to do in Denver when you're dead', which apparently he took from the film, without knowing that they got the title from a Warren Zevon song.
Right, that's enough John Cale trivia: I only meant to ask if you knew which album his version of 'Rosegarden' is on? I didn't know he wrote it.
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on 2006-02-06 09:54 am (UTC)I would strongly recommend Fear, which has 'Fear is a Man's Best Friend' (which Billy Bragg once covered). Caribbean Sunset and Slow Dazzle are two that I used to listen to a lot, because I had them back-to-back on a tape, and they're both very good. I'm not sure whether you can still get any of those, though.
Emusic has his latest,Things</>, in the title track of which he has the line 'things to do in Denver when you're dead', which apparently he took from the film, without knowing that they got the title from a Warren Zevon song.
Right, that's enough John Cale trivia: I only meant to ask if you knew which album his version of 'Rosegarden' is on? I didn't know he wrote it.
Oh, and: excellent writeup.