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RARE UK 1973 ORIG! PARIS 1919 ~ JOHN CALE ~ x-VELVET UNDERGROUND High Rated!
Sold Date:
April 30, 2017
Start Date:
April 25, 2017
Final Price:
$43.00
(USD)
Bid Count:
10
Seller Feedback:
17440
Buyer Feedback:
9
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~CLEAN~
ORIGINAL 1973 BRITISH FIRST PRESS x- Velvet Underground
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PARIS 1919
John Cale
UK - REPRISE - K 44239
MINT CLEAN ...
RARE and CLEAN 1973
=BRITISH= FIRST PRINT...impossible (nearly) to find a copy of this cover SO clean
when almost every survivor has some sort of shelf wear, dirt,
soil...here a COLLECTION WORTHY keeeper !
Two early albums, Vintage Violence and Paris 1919, were the work of a highly-developed pop musician; later albums found Cale the pop provocateur dominating the show. Cale's a fairly deadpan singer, but the sweet mix of rock band instrumentation and fuller arrangements make --Paris 1919 one of his strongest efforts, and the lovely "Andalucia" one of his very best songs. If the righteous boogie of "Macbeth" sounds familiar, that's because Lowell George and Richie Hayward, guitarist and drummer of Little Feat, formed the core of Cale's studio band.
John Cale's 1973 album Paris 1919 has long been justly celebrated as the most accessible and most purely beautiful record of his storied, multi-faceted career. And despite the album's abiding eccentricities-- the literary and historical allusions, posh orchestration, and abstruse lyricism-- it has often seemed to be Cale's most personal and revealing work as well, a deeply felt meditation on loss, dislocation, and introspective yearning. Throughout the album, Cale populates his songs with geographic detail-- including not just Paris, but also Barbury, Andalucia, Dunkirk, etc.-- and cryptic characters like Old Taylor, Segovia, and Farmer John. As writer Matthew Specktor points out in his lively liner notes, these wry characterizations allow the album to take on the appearance of a Graham Greene novella, with Greene himself the subject of one of the album's strangest and most erudite tracks. On this track, as elsewhere on Paris 1919, Cale's lyrics veritably drip with intrigue and thinly-masked violence ("It must all seem like second nature/ Chopping down the people where they stand") with the album's central narrative based very loosely upon the Versailles Conference in 1919 Paris. But many of these songs contain tantalizing autobiographical overtones as well, particularly on the opening "Child's Christmas in Wales", which blends its Dylan Thomas references with what might be memories from Cale's own childhood. And on the elegiac "Half Past France", it's left ambiguous whether the song's narrator is a battle-weary WWI soldier returning from the front, or simply an exhausted touring musician wondering where exactly on the map he is.
Child's Christmas In Wales
Hanky Panky Nohow
The Endless Plain Of Fortune
Andalucia
Macbeth
Paris 1919
Graham Greene
Half Past France
Antarctica Starts Here
CONDITION: The cover: rated: "EX" (excellent) - really nice for such a fragile uK cover prone to dirt and soil ... besides little evidence of previous use (handling) there is no wear or soil to the fragile white cover.... there are no delete marks, no split seams, and no writing ... VERY collection worthy 42 years ago UK rarity...
The vinyl: Rated: M- ALL Clean and glossy with very enjoyable CLEAN audio ...play back should not reveal alarming distracting surface problems ... both Reprise labels are clean
A cool addition to anyone's music library!
SEE: SELLERS OTher items for similar cool sounds for "head" people...
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