John Cale - Seducing Down the Door: A Collection 1970 - 1990 '1994

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 Welsh composer, viola terrorist, and art rocker John Cale remains a unique
link between dirty ass rock & roll (as one 70s mission statement was titled),
the avant garde and classicism--a droll, thoughtful musician who studied with
John Cage, joined the Velvet Underground, and went on to craft a series of often
divergent post-Velvets solo projects. Early projects that confronted the clash
of classicism and pop head-on, like The Academy In Peril and the classic Paris
1919, which mixed string sections with electric slide guitars, gave way to more
stripped-down, primal rock in the 70s, but Cales music has always left a door
open to musical and thematic invention. This intelligently assembled two-CD
anthology offers a smart entry point into a beguiling maze of Cale personae.
--Sam Sutherland
:: TRACKLIST ::

Disc: 1
 1. The Protege
 2. Big White Cloud
 3. Amsterdam
 4. Days of Steam
 5. Temper
 6. Dixieland And Dixie
 7. Childs Christmas In Wales
 8. Paris 1919
 9. Andalucia
 10. Fear Is A Mans Best Friend
 11. Gun
 12. I Keep A Close Watch
 13. Hearbreak Hotel
 14. Dirtyass Rock N Roll
 15. Guts
 16. The Jeweller
 17. Pablo Picasso
 18. Leaving It Up To You
 19. Coral Moon
 20. Memphis

Disc: 2
 1. Jack The Ripper
 2. Hedda Gabler
 3. Walkin The Dog
 4. Dead Or ALive
 5. Strange Times In Casablanca
 6. Taking Your Life In Your Hands
 7. Thoughtless Kind
 8. Chinese Envoy
 9. Caribbean Sunset
 10. Wating For The Man
 11. Ooh La La
 12. Everytime The Dorgs Bark
 13. Dying On The Vine
 14. The Soul Of Carmen Miranda
 15. One Word
 16. Cordoba
 17. Trouble With The Classicists
 18. Faces And Names

This compilation covers the 1970-1990 period and includes rare tracks like Jack
The Ripper. The 50-page booklet contains liner notes by Barry Alfonso.
Dixieland And Dixie was originally released as a single to fulfill a contractual
obligation for CBS.
Temper is an outtake of The Academy In Peril, previously released on the
promotional compilation Troublemakers (Warner PRO A 857, 1980).
Jack The Ripper previously released on These People Are Nuts! (I.R.S. #82010,
1990).
Also of interest are the included tracks from Comes Alive: Waiting For The Man
and Ooh La La (albeit in a quite different mix). This album was never released
on cd.
2 CD boxset released in 1994. Rhino R2 71685

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