John Cale in his home studio 2024
"I have a well-honed sense of what makes me uncomfortable."

John Cale

Fear Is A Man's Best Friend (Est. 1999) is the ultimate unofficial John Cale website
Fear Is A Man's Best Friend - John Cale

Music with an edge

Shifty Adventures in Nookie Wood

Exploring uncharted waters

Latest release: POPtical Illusion

Cale's music grows on you. As a musician he has explored the niches of noise as well as the commercial poppy sounds of the Seventies. Music For A New Society was even described as "chamber music for the homeless".

He doesn't snub hard rock, he explores the margins of minimal music, he keeps tabs on hip-hop, he rearranges or even deconstruct his songs when he plays live.

"I don't look over my shoulder. I focus on whatever I haven't been able to do before and strive for it. I remember what I didn't get done the last time I was recording and start there."

Ready to take a trip? Got your passport, had your shots and opened your mind?

NY 60s box set

Avant-garde

After much hassle, the avant-garde music recorded in New York in the sixties became available. Not for the squeamish!

Being Cale: the covers

Cale songs have been covered dozens of times.

Nico - Desertshore

Producer: John Cale

The Stooges, the Happy Mondays, Siouxsie, Patti Smith and a wealth of other artists who had their records produced by John Cale.

Helping out: John Cale

It's cool to have Cale playing on your record. Over the years he has lend a hand to a lot of bands and solo acts.

Unreleased songs and soundtracks

One-offs, live stuff and other rarities that never made it to vinyl and/or CD.


» Fresh Cale

Paris 1919 Order the remastered and expanded Paris 1919 album (2LP, CD) via Domino Records
The Academy in Peril Order the remastered and expanded The Academy in Peril album (LP, CD) via Domino Records
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