I've been playing this over and over in the last few days. I really like it. It's from a synthy mid-80s album of his which is a mixed bag, but I've had it for years on this Beggar's Banquet sampler* that I bought in a junk shop in Wood St, Walthamstow when we were students in a flat above the chip shop.
John Cale - 'The Sleeper' (1985)
*I'm steering clear of some of the other things on it. Gene Loves Jezebel? You know I'm really not so sure.
funnily enough my pal tim sent me a very good dub mix thingy that ashley beedle'd put together and that's got a gene loves jezebel track on it.
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oh by the way. i'm a bit worried bloggers going funny with commenets and stuff - round mine the last post keeps changing the number of comments from 1 to 2 and then back again nilly willy. there's still 2 there but it's all a bit of a woorry after the bother round beths.
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Don't know this album or the comp. I've black acetate and the june 74 album with eno _ both are worth grAbbing
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Wired Mond, wired. For me 'Fear' and 'Paris 1919' are the must-have Cales: if you Spotify you'll find them both there.
ReplyDeleteHave you still got a secret Dusty7s on Wordpress Miss A? I think of my secret Ghost as a way of saving comments too. It's a strange business though, and no mistake.
Oh yes forgot Fear I think Eno's on there too..
ReplyDeleteYes, and Phil Manzanera I believe. You could make an interesting rock family tree with all the Roxy-Eno-Nico-Cale connections.
ReplyDeleteWas that the "Brothers" chip shop you lived above? Drove past it about an hour ago. Wood St was crawling with pOLice this evening
ReplyDeleteCan't remember what it was called Stoib - imagine it's been through a few changes since then: ain't we all? The flat was across the road from a milk depot - I'd hear the clinking bottles and whirry electric float motors at 5:00 each morning. Lovely actually. I expect that's gone now too.
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