Gold [Import]

John Cale | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 5, 2007)
• Original Release Date: 2007
• Number of Discs: 2
• Format: Import
• Label: Universal
• ASIN: B000OCZCG6
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #520,264 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Fear Is A Man's Best Friend

2. Buffalo Ballet

3. Barracuda

4. Emily

5. Ship Of Fools

6. Gun

7. Man Who Couldn't Afford To Orgy

8. You Know Me More Than I Know

9. Momamma Scuba

10. Sylvia Said

11. All I Want Is You

12. Bamboo Floor

13. Mr. Wilson

14. Taking It All Away

15. Dirty Ass Rock N Roll

16. Darling I Need You

17. Rollaroll

18. Heartbreak Hotel

19. Ski Patrol

20. I'm Not The Loving Kind

See all 36 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars same as John Cale - The Island Years, August 6, 2007

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Razide17 (Australia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Gold (Audio CD)

This set contains the three Island albums:
Fear
Slow Dazzle
Helen of Troy
plus some B-sides.

The same songs in the same order as "The Island Years" but almost twice the price.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars same tracks, but not the packaging, January 23, 2008

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M. Chapman "Michael Mouse" (Australia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Gold (Audio CD)

To the previous reviewer, back in the day, 2001, I bought The Island Years as an American Import and paid $60 Au !!!
I have since seen this release and it is considerably cheaper than that.
One drawback with this release is it does not have the wonderful packaging including a box and substantial booklet.

5.0 out of 5 stars The Island Years, December 12, 2008

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Pieter "Toypom" (Johannesburg) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Gold (Audio CD)

During the Island years John Cale made some of his most accessible music, including tuneful songs like The Man Who Couldn't Afford To Orgy, Mr Wilson (tribute to Brian Wilson), Ski Patrol (which reminds me of the John Berryman poem, Song Of The Tortured Girl) and also his most menacing: Fear, Gun, Guts, Heartbreak Hotel and the power trio of Dirty-ass Rock 'n Roll, Darling I Need You and Rollaroll, the high point of the Slow Dazzle album.

Cale is a great musician and producer. His impressive body of work is always interesting, including the collaborations with Eno, Bob Neuwirth and Lou Reed; it encompasses the highly experimental like Music for a New Society and melodious ballads like those on Paris 1919. One can see how artists like Patti Smith were influenced by Cale's style.

Not only is this the best entry point for those wishing to investigate the work of this genius and innovator, it is also handy to have the three seminal Island albums together in one place. For completists, I also recommend his anthology Seducing Down the Door: A Collection 1970-1990, with the warning that it only contains Dirty-Ass Rock 'n Roll without the other two of the power trio mentioned above.