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JOHN CALE

Founding member of the Velvet Underground, then a producer, collaborator, solo artist, and soundtrack composer.

While John Cale is one of the most famous and, in his own way, influential underground rock musicians, 

he is also one of the hardest to pin down stylistically. Much has been made of his schooling in classical 

and avant-garde music, yet much of what he's recorded has been decidedly song-oriented, dovetailing close 

to the mainstream at times. Terming him a forefather of punk and new wave isn't exactly accurate either. 

Those investigating his work for the first time under that premise may be surprised at how consciously accessible 

much of his output is, at times approaching (but not quite attaining) a fairly "normal" rock sound. 

There is always a tension between the experimental and the accessible in Cale's solo recordings, 

meaning that he usually finds himself (not unwillingly) caught between the cracks: too weird for commercial success, 

and yet not really weird or daring enough to place him among the top rank of rock's innovators

LP     CBS RECORDS    STEREO  64256

MADE IN ENGLAND    MID/LATE-70s REPRESSING

SINGLE COVER

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LABEL: CBS - YELLOW/ORANGE LABEL - BLACK TEXT

Label Code: none

Catalog on cover: 64256 

Catalog on labels: S 64256 (S 64256 A°) CS 1037 / S 64256 (S 64256 B°) CS 1037

Matrix / Runout (Side A, Stamped): S 64256 A1

Matrix / Runout (Side B, Stamped): S 64256 B1

On labels: top rim text "All Rights........Made in England"

? 1971

Rights Society / Publishing: Kinney Mus. Ltd.

On back cover: Produced by John Cale and Lewis Merenstein for Inherit Productions

Accompanying Music by Penguin

Arranged and Conducted by John Cale

Notes by John Cale, Garland Jeffreys and Lewis Merenstein

CBS is a Trademark of the Columbia Broadcasting System Inc., U.S.A.

SHOREPAK by Shorewood Packaging Co. Ltd., ENGLAND. Patents Pending

tracklisting

Side A: HELLO, THERE - GIDEON'S BIBLE - ADELAIDE

BIG WHITE CLOUD - CLEO - PLEASE

Side B: CHARLEMAGNE - BRING IT ON UP - AMSTERDAM

GHOST STORY - FAIRWEATHER FRIEND*

*by Garland Jeffreys

RECORD EX but (please, read above description)

SLEEVE VG+ but (please, see pictures and read above description)

John Cale had the strongest avant-garde credentials of anyone in the Velvet Underground, but he was also 

the Velvet whose solo career was the least strongly defined by his work with the band, and his first solo album, 

Vintage Violence, certainly bears this out. While the banshee howls of Cale's viola and the percussive stab of 

his keyboard parts were his signature sounds on The Velvet Underground and Nico and White Light/White Heat, 

Cale's first solo album, 1970's Vintage Violence, was a startlingly user-friendly piece of mature, intelligent pop 

whose great failing may have been being a shade too sophisticated for radio.  Cale's work with the Velvets 

was purposefully rough and aurally challenging, but Vintage Violence is buffed to a smooth, satin finish, 

with Cale and his group sounding witty on tunes like "Adelaide" and "Cleo," pensive on "Amsterdam," 

and lushly orchestrated on "Big White Cloud." (Cale also gets a lot of production value out of his backing group, 

credited as "Penguin" but actually members of Garland Jeffreys' band, Grinder's Switch.) 

 If Cale wanted to clear out a separate and distinct path for his solo career, he certainly did that with 

Vintage Violence, though it turned out to be only one of many roads he would follow in the future...(AllMusic)