Meanwhile... I'm Still Thinking » John Cale http://shanefaubert.com/blog It's not just stringing a bunch of notes together, is it? Tue, 07 Feb 2012 09:00:49 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.5 John Cale-Music For A New Society http://shanefaubert.com/blog/2012/01/10/john-cale-music-for-a-new-society/ http://shanefaubert.com/blog/2012/01/10/john-cale-music-for-a-new-society/#comments Tue, 10 Jan 2012 09:00:10 +0000 sfaubert http://shanefaubert.com/blog/?p=4466
  • John Cale-Helen Of Troy
  • John Cale-Slow Dazzle
  • The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society
    • ]]>     Music for a New Society

    Keepers:

    (I Keep a) Close Watch
    Broken Bird
    Chinese Envoy
    Damn Life
    If You Were Still Around
    Taking Your Life in Your Hands
    Thoughtless Kind

    Music for a New Society

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    1. John Cale-Helen Of Troy
    2. John Cale-Slow Dazzle
    3. The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society

    ]]>     http://shanefaubert.com/blog/2012/01/10/john-cale-music-for-a-new-society/feed/ 0     John Cale-Honi Soit http://shanefaubert.com/blog/2011/10/12/john-cale-honi-soit/ http://shanefaubert.com/blog/2011/10/12/john-cale-honi-soit/#comments Wed, 12 Oct 2011 09:00:13 +0000 sfaubert http://shanefaubert.com/blog/?p=4145
  • John Cale-Helen Of Troy
  • John Cale-Slow Dazzle
  • John Cale-Fear
    • ]]>     Honi Soit

    Keepers:

    Strange Times in Casablanca

    Honi Soit

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    1. John Cale-Helen Of Troy
    2. John Cale-Slow Dazzle
    3. John Cale-Fear

    ]]>     http://shanefaubert.com/blog/2011/10/12/john-cale-honi-soit/feed/ 0     John Cale-Sabotage/Live http://shanefaubert.com/blog/2011/07/07/john-cale-sabotagelive/ http://shanefaubert.com/blog/2011/07/07/john-cale-sabotagelive/#comments Thu, 07 Jul 2011 09:00:26 +0000 sfaubert http://shanefaubert.com/blog/?p=3808
  • John Cale-Music For A New Society
  • John Cale-Honi Soit
  • John Cale-Slow Dazzle
    • ]]>     Sabotage

    Keepers:

    Only Time Will Tell
    Sabotage
    Chorale
    Mercenaries (45 version)
    Rose Garden Funeral of Sores

    Sabotage

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    1. John Cale-Music For A New Society
    2. John Cale-Honi Soit
    3. John Cale-Slow Dazzle

    ]]>     http://shanefaubert.com/blog/2011/07/07/john-cale-sabotagelive/feed/ 0     John Cale-Helen Of Troy http://shanefaubert.com/blog/2011/04/01/john-cale-helen-of-troy/ http://shanefaubert.com/blog/2011/04/01/john-cale-helen-of-troy/#comments Fri, 01 Apr 2011 09:00:26 +0000 sfaubert http://shanefaubert.com/blog/?p=3480
  • John Cale-Music For A New Society
  • John Cale-Honi Soit
  • John Cale-Slow Dazzle
    • ]]>     Helen of Troy

    Keepers:

    My Maria
    Helen Of Troy
    China Sea
    Engine
    I Keep A Close Watch
    Pablo Picasso
    Leaving It Up To You

    Helen of Troy

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    1. John Cale-Music For A New Society
    2. John Cale-Honi Soit
    3. John Cale-Slow Dazzle

    ]]>     http://shanefaubert.com/blog/2011/04/01/john-cale-helen-of-troy/feed/ 0     John Cale-Slow Dazzle http://shanefaubert.com/blog/2011/01/19/john-cale-slow-dazzle/ http://shanefaubert.com/blog/2011/01/19/john-cale-slow-dazzle/#comments Wed, 19 Jan 2011 11:00:13 +0000 sfaubert http://shanefaubert.com/blog/?p=3043
  • John Cale-Music For A New Society
  • John Cale-Honi Soit
  • John Cale-Helen Of Troy
    • ]]>     Slow Dazzle

    Keepers:

    Taking It All Away
    Heartbreak Hotel
    Guts

    Slow Dazzle

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    1. John Cale-Music For A New Society
    2. John Cale-Honi Soit
    3. John Cale-Helen Of Troy

    ]]>     http://shanefaubert.com/blog/2011/01/19/john-cale-slow-dazzle/feed/ 0     John Cale-Fear http://shanefaubert.com/blog/2010/10/28/john-cale-fear/ http://shanefaubert.com/blog/2010/10/28/john-cale-fear/#comments Thu, 28 Oct 2010 11:00:10 +0000 sfaubert http://shanefaubert.com/blog/?p=2727
  • John Cale-Honi Soit
  • John Cale-Helen Of Troy
  • Mink DeVille-Where Angels Fear To Tread
    • ]]>     Fear

    Keepers:

    Fear Is A Man’s Best Friend
    Buffalo Ballet
    Barracuda
    Ship Of Fools
    Gun
    The Man Who Couldn’t Afford To Orgy
    You Know More Than I Know

    Fear

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    1. John Cale-Honi Soit
    2. John Cale-Helen Of Troy
    3. Mink DeVille-Where Angels Fear To Tread

    ]]>     http://shanefaubert.com/blog/2010/10/28/john-cale-fear/feed/ 0     John Cale-Paris 1919 http://shanefaubert.com/blog/2010/07/02/john-cale-paris-1919/ http://shanefaubert.com/blog/2010/07/02/john-cale-paris-1919/#comments Fri, 02 Jul 2010 11:00:37 +0000 sfaubert http://shanefaubert.com/blog/?p=2233
  • John Cale-Music For A New Society
  • John Cale-Slow Dazzle
  • Ultra-Lounge, Vol. 10: Bachelor in Paris
    • ]]>     Paris 1919

    One of my favorite albums of all time, and some of the extra tracks are just as good in their way as the versions that were originally released.

    Keepers:

    Child’s Christmas In Wales
    The Endless Plain Of Fortune
    Andalucia
    Paris 1919
    Half Past France
    Antarctica Starts Here
    Hanky Panky Nohow (Drone Mix)
    Paris 1919 (String Mix)
    Antarctica Starts Here (Rehearsal)

    Paris 1919

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    2. John Cale-Slow Dazzle
    3. Ultra-Lounge, Vol. 10: Bachelor in Paris

    ]]>     http://shanefaubert.com/blog/2010/07/02/john-cale-paris-1919/feed/ 0     The Gift http://shanefaubert.com/blog/2009/10/26/the-gift/ http://shanefaubert.com/blog/2009/10/26/the-gift/#comments Mon, 26 Oct 2009 11:05:33 +0000 sfaubert http://shanefaubert.com/blog/?p=662
  • Velvet Underground-White Light/White Heat
  • Where Have All The Good Times Gone?
  • You’re My World
    • ]]>     There was a guy who lived on my floor when I was a college freshman – personable, handsome and pretty good taste in music. His claim to fame was that he had gone out with Leonard Nimoy’s (Mr. Spock’s) daughter when they were in high school, and the only time I ever saw him get bristly was when I asked him if he’d checked her ears at any point while they were together. While I wasn’t quite sure how you’d go about doing something like that discreetly, I couldn’t imagine leaving that particular stone unturned for any length of time. He got a little peeved with me when I brought the subject up and told me that, as a matter of fact, he was the ONLY guy that had ever NOT asked to see her ears, and because of it he got to go out with her more than once, lucky him. How could he possibly know that if the subject hadn’t been brought up with her in the first place, though? Maybe he was just giving me a brotherly lesson about what kinds of things you might not want to do on a first date, but it seemed that I had inadvertently pressed one of his buttons and was careful not to do it again.

    One day he came down the hall to my room with a record in his hand and gave it to me. “You can have this. It’s the worst record I ever heard… you might like it, though.” He was right: it was terrible, and I loved it immediately. “White Light/White Heat” is as uncompromising an album as has ever been made. It sounds as though nobody was paying attention to recording levels in the studio (a good thing in this case), the songs are laden with drug and sex references and the band plays their instruments as though their lives depended on it, which might’ve been a distinct possibility. There are three kinds of people in this world: those who have listened to “Sister Ray” all the way through, those who haven’t, and those who’ve never tried. My copy of “White Light/White Heat” has the word “Sandler” written in magic marker on the cover, a mark of previous ownership and a representation of something that drifted into the hands of someone who was hungry for what it had to offer.

    Just as an aside – I really love drums, and bad (read “busy”) drumming usually makes a song unlistenable to me. In a sense, Mo Tucker is one of the best rock and roll drummers ever… can you imagine how much better Lou Reed’s solo stuff would’ve been with her pounding away back there, keeping him honest?

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    1. Velvet Underground-White Light/White Heat
    2. Where Have All The Good Times Gone?
    3. You’re My World

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  • Gene Clark (White Light)
  • Pentangle-Basket Of Light
  • The Velvet Underground
    • ]]>     White Light/White Heat

    Keepers:

    White Light/White Heat
    Here She Comes Now

    White Light/White Heat

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    1. Gene Clark (White Light)
    2. Pentangle-Basket Of Light
    3. The Velvet Underground

    ]]>     http://shanefaubert.com/blog/2009/10/26/velvet-underground-white-lightwhite-heat/feed/ 0     John Cale-The Academy In Peril http://shanefaubert.com/blog/2009/10/22/john-cale-the-academy-in-peril/ http://shanefaubert.com/blog/2009/10/22/john-cale-the-academy-in-peril/#comments Thu, 22 Oct 2009 11:00:32 +0000 sfaubert http://shanefaubert.com/blog/?p=598
  • John Cale-Slow Dazzle
  • John Cale-Fear
  • John Cale & Terry Riley-Church of Anthrax
    • ]]>     Academy in Peril

    Keepers:

    Days Of Steam

    The Academy in Peril

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    2. John Cale-Fear
    3. John Cale & Terry Riley-Church of Anthrax

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