1. Vintage Violence - CBS 1970
Tracks:
1. Hello There / 2. Gideon's Bible / 3. Adelaide / 4. Big White Cloud / 5. Cleo / 6. Please / 7. Charlemagne / 8. Bring It On Up / 9. Amsterdam / 10. Ghost Story / 11. Fairweather Friend / 12. Fairweather Friend * / 12. Wall*
Rating : 8
2. Church of Antrax - RCA 1971
Tracks:
1. Church Of Anthrax / 2. The Hall Of Mirrors In The Palace At Versailles / 3. The Soul Of Patrick Lee / 4. Ides Of March / 5. The Protege
Rating :
3. The Academy In Peril - Reprise 1972
Tracks:
1. The Philosopher / 2. Brahms / 3. Legs Larry At The Television Centre/ 4. The Academy In Peril / 4. Intro / 5. Days of Steam / 6. Three Orchestral Pieces / 7. King Harry / 8. John Milton
Rating :
4. Paris 1919 - Reprise 1973
Tracks:
1. Child's Christmas in Wales / 2. Hanky Panky Nohow / 3. The Endless Plain of Fortune / 4. Andalucia / 5. Macbeth / 6. Paris 1919 / 7. Graham Greene / 8. Half Past France / 9. Antarctica Starts Here
Rating : 8
5. Fear - Island 1974
Tracks:
1. Fear Is A Man's Best Friend / 2. Buffalo Ballet / 3. Barracuda / 4. Emily / 5. Ship Of Fools / 6. Gun / 7. The Man Who Couldn't Afford To Orgy / 8. You Know More Than I Know / 9. Momamma Scuba
Rating : 8
6. June 1, 1974 (live) - 1974
Tracks:
1. Driving Me Backwards / 2. Baby's On Fire / 3. Heartbreak Hotel / 4. The End / 5. May I / 6. Shouting In A Bucket Blues / 7. Stranger In Blue Suede Shoes / 8. Everybody's Sometime And Some Peoples All The Time Blues / 9. Two Goes Into Four
Rating : 6
7. Slow Dazzle - Island 1975
Tracks:
1. Wilson / 2. Taking It All Away / 3. Dirty Ass Rock 'n' Roll / 4. Darling I Need You / 5. Rollaroll / 6. Heartbreak Hotel / 7. Ski Patrol / 8. I'm Not The Loving Kind / 9. Guts / 10. The Jeweller
Rating : 7
8. Helen of Troy - Island 1975
Tracks:
1. Maria / 2. Helen Of Troy / 3. China Sea / 4. Engine / 5. Save Us / 6. Cable Hogue / 7. I Keep A Close Watch / 8. Pablo Picasso / 9. Coral Moon ! 10. Baby, What You Want Me To Do? / 11. Sudden Death / 12. Leaving It Up to You*
Rating : 7
9. Sabotage/Live - Spy Records 1979
Tracks:
1. Mercenaries / 2. Baby You Know / 3. Evidence / 4. Dr. Mudd / 5. Walkin' The Dog / 6. Captain Hook / 7. Only Time Will Tell / 8. Sabotage / 9. Chorale / 10. Chickenshit* / 11. Memphis* / 12. Hedda Gabler* / 13. Rosegarden Funeral of Sores
Rating :
10. Honi Soit - A&M AMLH 64948 - 1981
Tracks:
1. Dear Or Alive / 2. Strange Times In Casablanca / 3. Fighter Pilot / 4. Wilson Joliet / 5. Streets Of Laredo / 6. Honi soit / 7. Riverbank / 8. Russian Roulette / 9. Magic & Lies
Rating :
11. Music For A New Society - Island 1982
Tracks:
1. Your Life In Your Hands / 2. Thoughtless Kind / 3. Sanities / 4. If You Were Still Around / 5. A Close Watch / 6. Broken Bird / 7. Chinese Envoy / 8. Changes Made / 9. Damn Life / 10. Risé, Sam And Rimsky-Korsakov / 11. In The Library of Force / 12. In The Library of Force*
Rating :
12. Caribbean Sunset - Island 1984
Tracks:
1. For Love / 2. Experiment Number 1 / 3. Model Beirut Recital / 4. Caribbean Sunset / 5. Praetorian Underground / 6. Magazines / 7. Where There's A Will / 7. The Hunt / 8. Villa Albani
Rating : 6
13. John Cale Comes Alive - Island 1984
Tracks:
1. La La / 2. Evidence / 3. Dead Or Alive / 4. Chinese Envoy / 5. Leaving It Up To You / 6. Dr. Mudd / 7. Waiting For The Man / 8. Heartbreak Hotel / 9. Fear / 10. Never Give Up On You
Rating :
14. Artificial Intelligence - Beggars Banquet 1985
Tracks:
1. Everytime The Dogs Bark / 2. Dying On The Vine / 3. The Sleeper / 4. Vigilante Lover / 5. Chinese Takeaway / 6. Song Of The Valley / 7. Fadeaway Tomorrow / 8. Black Rose / 9. Satellite Walk
Rating :
15. Even Cowgirls Get The Blues - Roir 1987
Tracks:
1. Dance Of The Seven Veils / 2. Helen Of Troy / 3. Casey At The Bat / 4. Even Cowgirls Get The Blues / 5. Don't Know Why She Came / 6. Somebody Should Have Told / 7. Decade / 8. Magic & Lies
Rating :
16. Words For The Dying - Land 1989
Tracks:
1. The Falklands Suite / 2. Songs Without Words / 3. The Soul of Carmen Miranda
Rating :
17. Songs for Drella - Sire 1990
Tracks:
1. Smalltown / 2. Open House / 3. Style It Takes / 4. Work / 5. Trouble With Classicists / 6. Starlight / 7. Faces & Names / 8. Images / 9. Slip Away / 10. It Wasn't Me / 11. I Believe / 12. Nobody But You / 13. A Dream / 14. Forever Changed / 15. Hello It's Me
Rating :
18. Wrong Way Up - Land 1990
Tracks:
1. Lay My Love / 2. One Word / 3. In The Backroom / 4. Empty Frame / 5. Cordoba / 6. Spinning Away / 7. Footsteps / 8. Been There Done That / 9. Crime In The Desert / 10. The River
Rating : 7
19. Fragments Of A Rainy Season - Fnac 1992
Tracks:
1. A Child's Christmas In Wales / 2. Dying On The Vine / 3. Cordoba / 4. Darling I Need You / 5. Paris 1919 / 6. Guts / 7. Fear / 8. Ships Of Fools / 9. Leaving It Up To You / 10. The Ballad Of Cable Hogue / 11. Thoughtless Kind / 12. On A Wedding Anniversary / 13. Lie Still, Sleep Becalmed / 14. Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night / 15. Buffalo Ballet / 16. Chinese Envoy / 17. Style It Takes / 18. Heartbreak Hotel / 19. A Close Watch / 20. Hallelujah
Rating :
20. Last Day On Earth - MCA 1994
Tracks:
1. Overture / 2. Café Shabu / 3. Pastoral Angst / 4. Who's In Charge? / 5. Short Of Time / 6. Angel Of Death / 7. Paradise Nevada / 8. Old China / 9. Ocean Life / 10. Instrumental / 11. Modern World / 12. Streets Come Alive / 13. Secrets / 14. Maps Of The World / 15. Broken Hearts / 16. The High And Mighty Road
Rating :
21. Walking on Locusts - Hannibal 1996
Tracks:
1. Dancing Undercover / 2. Set Me Free / 3. So What / 4. Crazy Egypt / 5. So Much For Love / 6. Tell Me Why / 7. Indistinct Notion Of Cool / 8. Secret Corrida / 9. Circus / 10. Gatorville & Points East / 11. Some Friends / 12. Entre Nous
Rating :
22. 5 Tracks - EMI 2003
Tracks:
1. Verses / 2. Waiting for Blonde / 3. Chums of Dumpty / 4. E Is Missing / 5. Wilderness Approaching
Rating :
23. HoboSapiens - EMI 2003
Tracks:
1. Zen / 2. Reading My Mind / 3. Things / 4. Look Horizon / 5. Magritte / 6. Archimedes / 7. Caravan / 8. Bicycle / 9. Twilight Zone / 10. Letter From Abroad / 11. Things X / 12. Over Her Head / 13. Creepy Boys / 13. Reading My Mind (remix) / 14. Set Me Free
Rating :
24. Black Acetate - EMI 2005
Tracks:
1. Outta The Bag / 2. For A Ride / 3. Brother Man / 4. Satisfied / 5. In A Flood / 6. Hush / 7. Gravel Drive / 8. Perfect / 9. Sold Motel * / 10. Woman / 11. Wasteland / 12. TurnTheLightsOn / 13. Mailman
Rating :
25. Process - EMI 2005
Tracks:
1. Theme Intro / 2. Theatre / 3. Post-Sex / 4. Museum / 5. Radiology / 6. Candles / 7. Bedroom / 8. Car Blue / 9. Packing Books / 10. Reading Poem / 11. Burning / 12. Painting / 13. La Defense / Metro / 14. Suicide Theme/ 15. Ascension
Rating :
26. Shifty Adventures in Nookie Wood - EMI 2012
Tracks:
1. I Wanna Talk 2 U / 2. Scotland Yard / 3. Hemingway / 4. Face to the Sky / 5. Nookie Wood / 6. December Rains / 7. Mary / 8. Vampire Café / 9. Mothra / 10. Living With You / 11. Midnight Feast / 12. Sandman
Rating :
27. M:FANS- EMI 2016
Tracks:
1. Prelude / 2. If You Were Still Around / 3. Taking Your Life in Your Hands / 4. Thoughtless Kind / 5. Sanctus / 6. Broken Bird / 7. Chinese Envoy / 8. Changes Made / 9. Library of Force / 10. Close Watch / 11. If You Were Still Around (Choir Reprise) / 12. Back to the End
Rating :
28. Mercy - Double Six 2023
Tracks:
1. Mercy / 2. Marilyn Monroe's Legs / 3. Noise of You / 4. Story of Blood / 5. Time Stands Still / 6. Moonstruck / 7. Everlasting Days / 8. Night Crawling / 9. Not the End of the World / 10. The Legal Status of Ice / 11. I Know You're Happy / 12. Out Your Window
Rating :
24. Poptical Illusion - Domino 2024
Tracks:
1. God Made Me Do It / 2. Davies and Wales / 3. Calling You Out / 4. Edge of Reason / 5. I'm Angry / 6. How We See the Light / 7. Company Commander / 8. Setting Fires / 9. Shark - Shark / 10. Funkball the Brewster / 11. All to the Good / 12. Laughing in My Sleep / 13. There Will Be No River
Rating :
Essential Albums!
Original albums as listed and rated on “Rate Your Music” - December 25 - 2005
13 Paris 1919 - 1973
17 Sabotage - 1979
24 Music for a New Society - 1982
46 Fear - 1974
52 Songs for Drella - 1990
54 Fragments of a Rainy Season - 1992
99 Vintage Violence - 1969
112 Wrong Way - 1990
113 Slow Dazzle - 1975
132 Helen of Troy - 1975
172 Church of Anthrax - 1971
222 The Academy in Peril - 1972
288 Hobo Sapiens - 2003
319 Words for the Dying - 1989
327 Honi Soit - 1981
373 Black Acetate - 2005
391 Artificial Intelligence - 1985
565 Comes Alive - 1984
673 Carribean Sunset - 1984
690 Sunblindness Music - 2000
750 Walking on Locusts - 1996
800 Dream Interpretation - 2002
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My Suggestion For a 80 minutes (app.) Best Of Compilation:
( More tracks will be added eventually!)
1. Gideon's Bible ( Cale ) Vintage Violence
2. Buffalo Ballet ( Cale ) Fear
3. Child´s Christmas in Wales ( Cale ) Paris 1919
4. I Keep A Close Watch ( Cale ) Helen of Troy
5. Leaving It Up to You ( Cale ) Helen of Troy
6. My Maria ( Cale ) Helen of Troy
7. Hallelujah ( Cohen ) Fragments Of A Rainy Season
8. Fear Is A Man's Best Friend ( Cale ) Fear
9. For Love ( Cale ) Caribbean Sunset
10. You Know More Than I Know ( Cale ) Fear
11. Hanky Panky Nohow ( Cale ) Paris 1919
12. The Endless Plain of Fortune ( Cale ) Caribbean Sunset
13. Big White Cloud ( Cale ) Vintage Violence
14. Charlemagne ( Cale ) Vintage Violence
15. Cable Hogue ( Cale ) Helen of Troy
16. Barracuda ( Cale ) Fear
17. Mr Wilson ( Cale ) Slow Dazzle
18. Taking it All Away ( Cale ) Slow Dazzle
19. Ship of Fools ( Cale ) Fear
20. Bamboo Floor ( Cale ) The Island Years
21. Ski Patrol ( Cale ) Slow Dazzle
22. Guts ( Cale ) Slow Dazzle
23. I´m Not the Loving Kind ( Cale ) Slow Dazzle
24. Coral Moon ( Cale ) Helen of Troy
25. China Sea ( Cale ) Helen of Troy
26. Please ( Cale ) Vintage Violence
27. Ghost Story ( Cale ) Vintage Violence
28. Caribbean Sunset ( Cale ) Caribbean Sunset
29. Helen of Troy ( Cale ) Helen of Troy
30. Half Past France ( Cale ) Paris 1919
31. Paris 1919 ( Cale ) Paris 1919
32. Where There´s a Will ( Cale ) Caribbean Sunset
33. Andalucia ( Cale ) Paris 1919
34. Burned Out Affair ( Cale ) Paris 1919
35. The Man Who Couldn´t Afford to Orgy ( Cale ) Fear
36. Antactica Starts Here ( Cale ) Paris 1919
LINKS:
Fear is a Man´s Best Friend
The Official John Cale
