Artificial Intelligence Music Cd

John Cale - Artificial Intelligence

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Artificial Intelligence      Artist : John Cale      List Price : $13.98 USD        ProductGroup: Music      Release Date : 1996-03-12      Studio : Beggars UK - Ada      Label : Beggars UK - Ada      Avg. Customer Rating : (8 reviews)

Reviews Customer Reviews for Artificial Intelligence      Frustrating but better with repeated listenings      Rating:      After Cale's romantic and melodic Caribbean Sunset, I was disappointed with Artificial Intelligence. The songs seemed unclear and the work of an artist in a state of transition. Some of the songs, like Chinese Takeaway and Dying On The Vine, have intriguing, haunting melodies, but other songs, like Everytime the Dogs Bark and Song of the Valley, seemed like works-in-progress: reflections of the artist's mind but not a finished song. The first couple of lines in Everytime The Dogs Bark kind of sum the album up for me: "If you want to be the heart of midnight, you've got to be either cynical or dead". But after a few listenings, I started to appreciate the high-quality weirdness of the album. Satellite Walk is a catchy new-wave style song with a memorable keyboard riff. The Sleeper is mysterious and enigmatic, with an interesting lyric, and Vigilante Lover is a harder-edged song that works very well. Overall, an uneven effort, but worth buying, and better with repeated listenings (and with interesting lyrics co-written by Ratso Sloman).     Customer Reviews for Artificial Intelligence Cd      Not that bad!      Rating:      This album is not as bad as other reviewers say. It is much better than "Walking on Locusts", his other fairly weakish album. Every song is OK in my book except "Chinese Takeaway", which sees Cale doodling away playing recognizable motifs to a backgound droney synth soundscape-almost like a soundcheck throwaway. At one stage the intro to Beach Boy's "Wouldn't it be nice" start up and he cracks up.That really sums up the track. The rest is pretty good if you are a diehard Cale fan. Sattelite Walk is a tad weak but I can still listen to it ok.