Seducing Down the Door: Collection

John Cale | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (July 19, 1994)
• Number of Discs: 2
• Label: Rhino / Wea
• ASIN: B0000033AE
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #40,289 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

Disc: 1

1. The Protege

2. Big White Cloud

3. Amsterdam

4. Days of Steam

5. Temper

6. Dixieland And Dixie

7. Child's Christmas In Wales

8. Paris 1919

9. Andalucia

10. Fear Is A Man's Best Friend

See all 20 tracks on this disc

Disc: 2

1. Jack The Ripper

2. Hedda Gabler

3. Walkin' The Dog

4. Dead Or ALive

5. Strange Times In Casablanca

6. Taking Your Life In Your Hands

7. Thoughtless Kind

8. Chinese Envoy

9. Caribbean Sunset

10. Wating For The Man

See all 18 tracks on this disc

Editorial Reviews

JOHN CALE Seducing Down The Door (1994 US 38-track 2-CD album compilation of material from 1970-1990 includes Heartbreak Hotel Paris 1919 Guts and Waiting For The Man. Each disc is housed in a jewel case picture sleeve complete with a 48-pagebooklet and presented in an outer picture slipcase R271685)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This collection proves Cale is better than Reed., September 15, 1998

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This review is from: Seducing Down the Door: Collection (Audio CD)

I knew a coupla guys in college many years ago who were constantly trying to convince me that John Cale, not Lou Reed, was the superior force to emerge from the legendary Velvet Underground. As a die-hard Lou Reed fan, I would have none of it. And, even though I still prefer much of Reed's 70s work to Cale's, "Seducing Down the Door" is a career-spanning collection that showcases Cale's amazing talents as a rocker, classical composer, and ambient music stylist. Compared against Reed's "Between Thought and Expression" boxed set--indisputable evidence of Reed's uneven career--Cale wins, hands down.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Shows How Good Cale is, April 6, 2000

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M. Scagnelli (Brandon, Florida) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Seducing Down the Door: Collection (Audio CD)

Seducing down the door is an excellent overview of John Cale's career after the Velvet Underground. It really shows how much Cale changed over the years; The beautiful Beatlesque Parisi 1919 to the wrenching Fear is A Man's Best Friend and Gun to his dismal cover of Heartbreak Hotel to the great Jack The Ripper to the peaceful Strange Times in Casablanca to his songs with Lou Reed Trouble With Classicists and Faces and Names. If you are looking for only one album to get by John Cale, Seducing Down The Door is the best choice. It is just about one step away from a box set. Buy It.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars CALE IS KING, June 26, 2000

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Pieter "Toypom" (Johannesburg) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Seducing Down the Door: Collection (Audio CD)

This dude should not be a cult artist only! This vast swathe of prime cuts from his magnificent oeuvre contains lots of very melodic, even hummable songs that should have ruled the charts. I was pleasantly surprised by those tracks I had not heard before (Protege, Dixieland, Coral Moon, Ooh La La). I bought "The Island Years" compilation at the same time, because "Dirtyass Rock 'n Roll" should be heard as a sequence together with "Roll a Roll" and "Where were you when I needed you" from the Slow Dazzle album. Although "One Word" & "Cordoba" are good choices from the Wrong Way Up abum, I would also have included "Lay My Love" and "The River." Very pleased to have "Soul of Carmen Miranda" from Words For The Dying album ; to me, it's one of his most glorious creations. The following songs are accessible enough to have been top 5 chart material: Paris 1919, Andalucia, Fear Is A Man's Best Friend, Dirtyass R'n R, Guts (perhaps too extreme? -- I love it), Dead Or Alive, Ooh La La, Carmen, One Word, Cordoba. Get this one and The Island Years too -- only about 7 tracks are repeated.