Paris 1919 Music Cd

John Cale - Paris 1919

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Paris 1919      Artist : John Cale      List Price : $11.98 USD        Your Price : $11.98 USD      ProductGroup: Music      Release Date : 1993-10-26      Studio : Reprise / Ada      Label : Reprise / Ada      Avg. Customer Rating : (21 reviews)

Reviews Customer Reviews for Paris 1919      one of the great albums of all time.      Rating:      lush, hypnotic, elegant, subtle and beautiful. small short stories sung perfectly. mr cale's great voice is one of the most underrated instruments in rock history. over the course of 25 years i have listened to this album as much as any other album i have (up there with nick drake, v. morrison's "astral weeks," and miles davis's "kind of blue"). it still strikes chords in me that few other albums reach, all these years on. my life is richer for this recording. thanks, mr cale.     Customer Reviews for Paris 1919 Cd      yes it's an anachronistic lush masterpiece      Rating:      He's so enamoured of place-names!--lots of Sagittarius in his horoscope I believe. Cale chose his Desert Island Discs on BBC 4, thusly: [FYI] 1. She Belongs To Me - Bob Dylan runners up= Some Kinda Love - Velvet Underground In My Room - Beach Boys She Said, She Said - Beatles Switching Off - Elbow Alexandra Leaving - Leonard Cohen Song Of Athene - Westminster Abbey Choir Here Comes The Flood - Peter Gabriel Interesting! Editorial Reviews for Paris 1919 Audio Cd      Amazon.com      John Cale has one of the richest resumes in pop, with experience in avant-garde music even before he met Lou Reed and they formed the Velvet Underground. His record productions include such landmarks as the debut by the Stooges and Patti Smith's Horses. But as a solo artist, Cale has often seemed caught between his sophisticated leanings and his fondness for punky attitudes. Two early albums, Vintage Violence and Paris 1919, were the work of a highly-developed pop musician; later albums found Cale the pop provocateur dominating the show. Cale's a fairly deadpan singer, but the sweet mix of rock band instrumentation and fuller orchestration make --Paris 1919 one of his strongest efforts, and the lovely "Andalucia" one of his very best songs. If the righteous boogie of "Macbeth" sounds familiar, that's because Lowell George and Richie Hayward, guitarist and drummer of Little Feat, formed the core of Cale's studio band. --John Milward