Monday, March 31, 2025

John Cale: Titan - Discs 4 & 5

I re-watched the movie Big Fan and was reminded how perfect the placement of John Cale's Big White Cloud is in film. (The deployment of Helen Reddy's version of Delta Dawn at a critical juncture is also a nice touch).   I included the original version of Big White Cloud on another compilation, but there's an excellent alternative version of the song which leads off Disc 5.  As I'm posting the final two discs of the Cale compilation, I also wanted to pay homage to an excellent Cale playlist somewhere on the internet (in addition to the one that I mentioned last month), but I can't find it. (I really need a system to keep track of stuff like that.)  Anyway, these are the final two discs.  I know he's got a huge body of work, but I'd like to think I did justice to a true titan.


Disc 4

She Doesn't Live Here Anymore

John Cale

The Pianos, Pt. 1: Welcome to Europe

John Cale

The Jeweller

John Cale

Dying On The Vine

John Cale

Zen

John Cale

Church of Anthrax

John Cale & Terry Riley

Mercenaries (45 version)

John Cale

Mr Sparrow

John Cale

Secret Corrida

John Cale

Movement 3 [from Kiss]

John Cale

Hanky Panky Nohow

John Cale

Last Night I Said Goodbye to My Friend

The Velvet Underground

Disc 5

Big White Cloud (Alternative version)

John Cale

Opening Theme

John Cale

Poison

John Cale & Marissa Nadler

Venus In Furs (Live)

John Cale

Jim

John Cale

The Legal Status of Ice

John Cale

Shark-Shark

John Cale

Sabotage

John Cale

The Moon

John Cale

Mercy

John Cale featuring Laurel Halo

Verses

John Cale

Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night

John Cale

 

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Thank you for your hard work on all of these. Can a muti-disc tribute to Mo Tucker be far behind, chuckle chuckle

Kathy B said...

Was the playlist at this site?
https://werksman.home.xs4all.nl/cale/index.html

That is an exhaustive site of all things John Cale, and it's the most comprehensive fansite I've seen for ANY artist.