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Music for a New Society
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0081227174323
Label: Rhino / Wea
Manufacturer: Rhino / Wea
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Rhino / Wea
Release Date: May 03, 1994
Studio: Rhino / Wea
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Rating:  - Buy Far one of...If Not His Best. Cale's Equivelant 2 Lou's Berlin
This is by far Cale's most imaginitve rock album full of very sentimental and emotional tracks. It is expensive on CD, but I bought it on Cd and I even own already on Cassette and Vinyl. If you like John Cale just a little bit you will still be blown away buy his originality on this album. By far one of his best top 3. Next to Paris and Vintage Violence and Church of Anthrax.
Rating: - This Is The New Society
This is still, quite simply, a stunning, brave record, twenty years after its release.
Cale's music has rarely been accessible in a commercial sense, and this recording seems to represent the extreme in that concept. Madness and violence are main themes in this record, but from the opening electric piano riff of "Taking Your Life In Your Hands", it becomes apparent that the route to Cale's no-man's-land is not going to be what one would expect. 'Traditional' rock arrangements are ... Read More
Rating:  - Not Cale's best by far
After reading so many laudatory reviews of this album and being an avid Cale fan, I decided to purchase the album. Some of the songs are evocative, but they remain elusive and the album seems inchoate or incoherent. As far as being hailed as Cale's most experimental album, perhaps it is his most experimental lyrical album (cf. the much more avant-garde 'Church of Anthrax' and 'The Academy in Peril'). 'Sanities' is another exploration of madness by Cale, but is not as effective a spoken word piece ... Read More
Rating: - Scary, realistic music
Listening to this is like being alone in a world without meaning. Your stomach gnarls, the hall echoes and your thoughts float aimlessly. When the melody rears its head it does so from somewhere far away, as if coming from somewhere beyond or beneath the ambience of music. Glimpses of well known melodies (from other people's music) take strange form, like a twisted memory, before disappearing again. Like reverie, stream-of-consciousness, you seem to enter J.Cale's head and go along with his vague ... Read More
Rating: - Introspective, maybe?
Even though John Cale achieves here one of his best efforts, the album (as many others of his) doesn't give the feeling of being really complete -the recitation with atmospheric background in "Sanities" and "Sam, Rise and Rimsky-Korsakov" {is it really Rimsky-Korsakov?}, the remake of an old track ("Close Watch") and the copping of three classical themes at the three last pieces (one each) spoil some very brilliant moments ("Take Your Life In Your Hands" and "Broken ... Read More
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