Solo albums
Laying down the tracks
John Cale's solo work is idiosyncratic. You will never know what the next album will sound like. Minimal music, full tilt hard hitting in-your-face machismo rock 'n' roll, Dylan Thomas' poems backed by a full classical orchestra...
"I'm content with making records, but I don't want to be doing the same thing all the time."
"The influence of The Velvet Underground doesn't mean anything to me. I don't and never have understood that. I have always tried to introduce a classical change from one album to another. I like writing songs and it's a difficult habit to drop."
Solo albums listed in chronological order
- Vintage Violence
- Church of Anthrax (with Terry Riley)
- The Academy in Peril
- Paris 1919
- June 1, 1974 (with Brian Eno, Nico and Kevin Ayers)
- Fear
- Slow Dazzle
- Helen of Troy
- Animal Justice
- Sabotage/Live
- Honi Soit
- Music For A New Society
- Caribbean Sunset
- John Cale Comes Alive
- Artificial Intelligence
- Even Cowgirls Get The Blues
- Words For The Dying
- Songs for Drella (with Lou Reed)
- Wrong Way Up (with Brian Eno)
- Fragments of a Rainy Season
- Last Day On Earth (with Bob Neuwirth)
- Walking On Locusts
- Bataclan 1972 (with Lou Reed and Nico)
- 5 Tracks
- HoboSapiens
- blackAcetate
- Circus Live
- Live At Rockpalast
- Extra Playful
- Shifty Adventures in Nookie Wood
- Music For A New Society + M:FANS
- Fragments of a Rainy Season (expanded reissue)
- Mercy
- POPtical Illusion