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Geoff Nicholson Paste Magazine, GA - Dec 1, 2008 Drifting from pop culture to esoteric philosophy—Samuel L. Jackson occupies the same page as Pontius Pilate, John Cale—Nicholson looks for meaning in what ...

Rotary Tree of Light 2008 Malvern Gazette, UK - Dec 03,2008 David John Cale - Mrs S Cale. Rachel Callaghan (Our dear daughter, who died. Christmas 2006) - Ley & Owen Toms. Rachel Callaghan (my Granddaughter) - Mrs ML ...

I Wish I Knew by Sharon Van Etten Times Online, UK - Dec 03,2008 IF YOU ONLY NEED TO KNOW ONE THING: Sharon Van Etten pretty much keeps to herself, but I do know that she is a fan of Fear by John Cale, a great record that ...

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The Velvet Underground & Nico

It's nothing at all. White light. I am tired. I am weary. I could sleep 4000 years, a thousand dreams that would awake me.

Every so often, searching for my mainline, I play The Velvet Underground, a rock group whose records I have owned for forty years. The Velvet Underground never gets old to me: the first album with Nico, White Light/White Heat, Loaded, the redundant eponymous one later. Those four, mostly. The Velvet Underground are like The Beatles. I have never been a heroin addict, but I have read the works of William Burroughs, word by cut-up word, so I consider myself entitled.

Tracks:
    1. Sunday Morning
    2. I'm Waiting For The Man
    3. Femme Fatale
    4. Venus in Furs
    5. Run Run Run
    6. All Tomorrow's Parties
    7. Heroin
    8. There She Goes Again
    9. I'll Be Your Mirror
    10. The Black Angel's Death Song
    11. European Sun

The Modern Lovers

So Jonathan Richman might be described as an acquired taste. And as time passes on, what was once a cult classic can perhaps be reborne and re-examined anew. I have had this experience with my wife, who has no clue who this Richman or the Modern Lovers are/were.

This album is straight ahead, stripped down rock and roll. The band may sound garage like, but if you like that minimalist kind of raw rock (not the colliseum, Journey type theatrics) this is it. Throw in funny and sometimes clever lyrics, and incredible pop hooks, seemingly casually thrown out there, and what you have is a true musical genius just trying to be real and perhaps wry.

Tracks:
    1. Roadrunner
    2. Astral Plane
    3. Old World
    4. Pablo Picasso
    5. She Cracked
    6. Hospital
    7. Someone I Care About
    8. Girlfriend
    9. Modern World
    10. Dignified and Old
    11. I'm Straight
    12. Government Center
    13. I Wanna Sleep in Your Arms
    14. Dance with Me
    15. Someone I Care About
    16. Modern World
    17. Roadrunner

The Stooges

Not as monumental as Funhouse or Raw Power but still great. All guitarists need to study Ron's playing on this - simple but not simplistic, great tone and completely unique. Many have tried to imitate his style but nooone comes close. And Scotty, Iggy and Dave aren't too bad either!

Check out Mighty High...In Drug City.

Tracks:
    1. 1969
    2. I Wanna Be Your Dog
    3. We Will Fall
    4. No Fun
    5. Real Cool Time
    6. Ann
    7. Not Right
    8. Little Doll
    9. No Fun
    10. 1969
    11. I Wanna Be Your Dog
    12. Little Doll
    13. 1969
    14. I Wanna Be Your Dog
    15. Not Right
    16. Real Cool Time
    17. Ann
    18. No Fun

The Stooges

The Stooges! Back then they may have been considered an ordinary rock band who wasn't able to stand tall against bands like Led Zeppelin and Who, but today people look at the band in a totally different light- a band that was one of the first, if not THE first band, to have that rough punk rock sound, dirty and nasty. It was different from everything else we've been exposed to up to that point in time. I guess there was just too many revolutionary musical ideas going on back in the late 60's that the world of rock wasn't ready to appreciate something like this.

Tracks:
    1. 1969
    2. I Wanna Be Your Dog
    3. We Will Fall
    4. No Fun
    5. Real Cool Time
    6. Ann
    7. Not Right
    8. Little Doll

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