John Cale
John Davies Cale, OBE (born 9 March 1942) is a Welsh musician, composer, singer-songwriter and record producer who was a founding member of the American experimental rock band the Velvet Underground.
Though best known for his work in rock music, Cale has worked in various genres including drone and classical, and studied music at Goldsmiths College, University of London. Since leaving the Velvet Underground in 1968 he has released approximately 30 albums. Of his solo work, Cale is perhaps best known for his album Paris 1919, and his cover version of Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah", plus his mid-1970s Island Records trilogy of albums: Fear, Slow Dazzle and Helen of Troy.
Cale has produced or collaborated with Lou Reed, Nico, La Monte Young, John Cage, Terry Riley, Hector Zazou, Cranes, Nick Drake, Mike Heron, Kevin Ayers, Brian Eno, Patti Smith, the Stooges, Lio, the Modern Lovers, Art Bergmann, Manic Street Preachers and frontman James Dean Bradfield, Super Furry Animals, Marc Almond, Element of Crime, Squeeze, Happy Mondays, LCD Soundsystem, the Replacements, Siouxsie and the Banshees and Animal Collective.
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ALBUMS
- Le Bataclan '72 released: 2014
- Conflict & Catalysis: Productions & Arrangements 1966-2006 released: 2012
- Shifty Adventures in Nookie Wood released: 2012
- Live at Rockpalast released: 2010
- Church of Anthrax released: 2008
- Circus Live released: 2007
- Process released: 2005
- blackAcetate released: 2005
- Stainless Gamelan: Inside the Dream Syndicate, Volume III: Table of the Elements released: 2005
- Wrong Way Up released: 2005
- HoboSapiens released: 2003
- Vintage Violence released: 2001
- Dream Interpretation: Inside the Dream Syndicate Volume II released: 2001
- Inside the Dream Syndicate, Volume I: Day of Niagara (1965) released: 2000
- The Unknown released: 1999
- Le Vent De La Nuit released: 1999
- Close Watch: An Introduction to John Cale released: 1999
- Sabotage / Live released: 1999
- 1972-01-29: Le Bataclan, Paris, France released: 1997
- Eat / Kiss, Music for the Films by Andy Warhol released: 1997
- The Island Years released: 1996
- Walking on Locusts released: 1996
- Antártida released: 1995
- N'oublie pas que tu vas mourir released: 1995
- Last Day on Earth released: 1994
- Seducing Down the Door: A Collection 1970 - 1990 released: 1994
- 23 Solo Pieces for La Naissance de L'amour released: 1993
- Paris 1919 released: 1993
- Broken Hearts - Live released: 1992
- Cale Street released: 1992
- Fragments of a Rainy Season released: 1992
- Paris s'éveille released: 1991
- Even Cowgirls Get the Blues released: 1991
- June 1, 1974 released: 1990
- Words for the Dying released: 1989
- Artificial Intelligence released: 1985
- Caribbean Sunset released: 1984
- Music for a New Society released: 1982
- Honi Soit released: 1981
- Guts released: 1977
- Helen of Troy released: 1975
- Fear released: 1974
- The Academy in Peril released: 1972
- Slow Dazzle released:
- Songs for Drella released:
Le Bataclan '72
Released 2014- Waiting for the Man
- Berlin
- Black Angel's Death Song
- Wild Child
- Heroin
- Ghost Story
- The Biggest, Loudest, Hairiest Group of All
- Empty Bottles
- Femme Fatale
- No One Is There
- Frozen Warnings
- Janitor of Lunacy
- I'll Be Your Mirror
- All Tomorrow's Parties (encore)
- Pale Blue Eyes (rehearsal)
- Candy Says (rehearsal)
Conflict & Catalysis: Productions & Arrangements 1966-2006
Released 2012- Venus in Furs
- I Wanna Be Your Dog
- In Excelsis Deo / Gloria
- Afraid
- Pablo Picasso
- Who Is That Saving Me
- Re-Bop
- Disco Clone
- Italian Sea
- No King
- Sex Master
- Take Your Place
- Kuff Dam
- Runaway Child (Minors Beware)
- Omnes Gentes Plaudite (The Drinking Song)
- Needles for Teeth
- Scorch
- Dallas
- Tearing Apart
- Spinning Away
Le Vent De La Nuit
Released 1999- On the Road to Portofino
- At the Boats
- Naples
- On the Road to Turin
- Turin at Night
- The Seine at Night
- Suicide 1
- Truck Parking Lot at Night
- On the Road to Germany
- Waiting
- Thinking and Acting
- Suicide 2
- Memories of Paris: President Y Is Still Stable
- Memories of Paris: B. Calls
- Memories of Paris: Darkness on the Delta
- Memories of Paris: What Mrs Ives Saido to Mr Ives
- Memories of Paris: My Piano Thanks You for Visiting
N'oublie pas que tu vas mourir
Released 1995- The Piano, Part I: Welcome to Europe
- The Piano, Part I: Everybody's Cold Sometimes
- The Piano, Part I: A Snake in China?
- The Piano, Part I: First Train to Heaven
- The Piano, Part I: Martyrs and Madmen
- The Piano, Part I: Take a Deep Breath
- The String Quartets: Never Seen Anything So Beautiful
- The String Quartets: Angels in the Clouds
- The String Quartets: Madonna's Blues
- The String Quartets: Sunflowers Fields
- The String Quartets: Al dente
- The String Quartets: Hadrian Was Here
- The String Quartets: Kiss Me Once More My Love
- The String Quartets: Alive at Dawn
- The Piano, Part II: Skin in the Mirror
- The Piano, Part II: Who Said Love's Safe?
- The Piano, Part II: 100% Pure
- The Piano, Part II: Do Not Forget...
- The Piano, Part II: Last Train to Bosnia
- The Piano, Part II: Gold and Crimson
- The Piano, Part II: So Far So Good
23 Solo Pieces for La Naissance de L'amour
Released 1993- La Naissance de L'amour I
- If You Love Me No More
- And If I Love You Still...
- Judith
- Converging Themes
- Opposites Attract
- I Will do It, I Will do It
- Keep It to Yourself
- Walk Towards the Sea
- Unquiet Heart
- Waking Up to Love
- Mysterious Relief
- Never Been So Happy
- Beyond Expectations
- Conversation in the Garden
- La Naissance de L'amour II
- Secret Dialogue
- Roma
- On the Dark Side
- La Naissance de L'amour III
- Eye to Eye
- Marie's Car Crash & Hotel Rooms
- La Naissance de L'amour IV
Cale Street
Released 1992- Ghost
- Ship of Fools
- Leaving It Up to You
- Amsterdam
- Child's Christmas in Wales
- Antartica Starts Here
- Taking It All Away
- Riverbank
- Paris 1919
- Guts
- Chinese Envoy
- Thoughtless Kind
- Only Time Will Tell
- Cable Hogue
- Dead or Alive
- I'm Waiting for the Man
- Heartbreak Hotel
- Chorale
- Fear Is a Man's Best Friend
- Close Watch
- Buffalo Ballet
Fragments of a Rainy Season
Released 1992- A Child's Christmas in Wales
- Dying on the Vine
- Cordoba
- Darling I Need You
- Paris 1919
- Guts
- Fear (Is a Man's Best Friend)
- Ship of Fools
- Leaving It Up to You
- The Ballad of Cable Hogue
- Thoughtless Kind
- On a Wedding Anniversary
- Lie Still, Sleep Becalmed
- Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
- Buffalo Ballet
- Chinese Envoy
- Style It Takes
- Heartbreak Hotel
- (I Keep A) Close Watch
- Hallelujah
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by John Cale
Guts
by: John CaleThe bugger in the short sleeves fucked my wife
Did it quick and split
Back home, fresh as a daisy to Maisy, oh Maisy
And the twelve-bore it stood in the corner
Quite operatic in its self disgust
It blew him all over the living room floor
Like parrot shit, parrot spit, parrot shit was shot
Now suppose it was someone familiar
Someone we all would know
Embarrasing denouement, ne c'est pas?
Familiar hyperbole
And there would go the secret plot
The piss had missed the hole in the pot
Like that ancient teenage dream
From soul to poison soul to poison soul
Guts, guts, got no guts
And stitches don't help at all
Guts, guts, got no guts
Holes in the body, holes in the legs
Holes in the forehead, holes in the head
Holes in the body, holes in the legs
There should never be holes at all
There should never be holes at all
So: kill all you want or more
Make sure, do it right
Dead is dead, and door nails forget
And then you'll notice
How the waster and the wasted
Get to look like one another
In the end, in the end
In the end, in the end
In the end, in the end
In the end, in the end