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Post by Sneelock on Oct 19, 2021 16:40:12 GMT
I like the lp but I didn't get around to it until the 80's at the earliest. the title track on the other hand was drilled into my head one way or the other. it must have been FM radio as unlikely as that seems. I don't know where else I would have heard it with frequency.
I can't counter DF's comments except to say that those things don't really bother me very much. when I was listening to Cale's Island records I was surprised he didn't get a lot more airplay than he did. I don't like all of it but for all his reputation as an avant-garde character it's pretty safe & sane, radio friendly stuff on the whole.
I think the lp is among his most solid but that might seem faint praise. I think most of his albums have highlights but also low-lights. I really started loving "Paris 1919" these last few years when I'd been away from Cale for a while.
the best of it fits under my Dad Rock umbrella very nicely. he has a VERY pleasant voice to my ears. I remember when "wrong way up" came out and I was shocked to admit that I preferred Cale's tracks to Eno's and by a pretty wide margin. I LOVE Eno's singing voice and was looking forward to hearing it.
I don't think any sort of reassessment of Cale's career is in the cards but it's nice to be reminded how comfortable he seemed in the basic "rock album" format.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 19, 2021 16:43:52 GMT
I didn't buy it for years because I thought it was Chris de burgh on the cover.
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Post by Reactionary Rage on Oct 19, 2021 17:18:41 GMT
Oh I think it's a gorgeous album. Warm, woody, autumnal, intimate but with moments of orchestral grandeur and beauty dotted throughout. It's very evocative, peculiarly British (lot's of references to people and places you don't find anywhere else) and Cale's flat vocals, a bit like Eno's are rather lovely. It feels like something from an earlier era as well as another time and place which of course makes it oddly timeless these days.
Great album.
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Post by loveless on Oct 19, 2021 22:52:48 GMT
I bought this over 40 years and couldn't believe this was the brown sounds of Little Feat... I am stunned to learn this, and I'd have never guessed such a thing in a million years.
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Post by Charlie O. on Oct 19, 2021 23:45:48 GMT
Little Feat definitely had their eccentricities. (Two of the founders had been in The Mothers, after all.)
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Post by fange on Oct 20, 2021 11:32:52 GMT
Well, it's definitely grown on me more - i've played it a few times over the past days, and some of the songs that were a bit boring and bland before seem more textured and evocative.
Thanks for the reminder, Os!
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