"See, the beauty of Cale in the beginning was that he really didn’t know very much about rock. In fact, he knew next to nothing. So, if you turned him loose on an instrument he wasn’t able to play any kind of cliched anything because he didn’t know any of the cliches. It was all original."Sterling Morrison
Fear Is A Man's Best Friend (Est. 1999) is the ultimate unofficial John Cale website
Compilations
Close Watch - An Introduction To John Cale
About this album
Compilation released in 1999. Island Remasters IMCD 259/524 642-2.
Tracks:
- Paris 1919
- Mr. Wilson
- Leaving It Up To You
- Dying On The Vine
- Guts
- Set Me Free
- Heartbreak Hotel
- Ship Of Fools
- Cable Hogue
- Gun
- Riverbank
- Child's Christmas in Wales
- Fear Is A Man's Best Friend
- If You Were Still Around
- Wilson Joliet
- I Keep A Close Watch
All tracks are remastered. Island took the trouble to license material from other record companies. Liner notes by Nick Johnstone.
Dying On The Vine is the live version taken from Fragments Of A Rainy Season.
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Order the remastered and expanded Paris 1919 album (2LP, CD) via Domino Records
Order the remastered and expanded The Academy in Peril album (LP, CD) via Domino Records
