John Cale VINTAGE VIOLENCE lp Columbia Original
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Description
NM disk with no blemishes. Shiny, clear, black disk.
Excellent cover with minor wear on bottom 3 inch left front corner where clear plastic sheeting is not visible. No writing, seam splits, small bend on front right corner.
Vintage Violence is the debut studio album by Welsh musician John Cale. But 'Church of Anthrax' was recorded BEFORE this album and was released before 'Church of Anthrax' in 1970 by record label Columbia.
Produced for a mere $15,000, Cale stated in his autobiography What's Welsh for Zen? that there wasn't "much originality on that album, it's just someone teaching himself to do something". He also "thought the songs were simplistic". He pieced together a band to play on the album, and they named themselves Penguin. However, the group didn't last beyond the recording sessions.
The cover of the album features Cale with his face obscured by a glass mask over a nylon stocking, which he would later cite in his autobiography as symbolic of the content of the record: "You're not really seeing the personality".
Vintage Violence was released on 25 March 1970 by record label Columbia. The album was re-released in remastered form in 2001 (this is not it).
Vintage Violence received mostly positive reviews. Rolling Stone magazine's Ed Ward said that the album sounds "like a Byrds album produced by Phil Spector who has marinated for six years in burgundy, anise and chili peppers". Ward was also quoted in Billboard magazine as saying, "I believe that this is destined to become one of the most important albums of the past few years."
In his retrospective review, Mark Deming of AllMusic wrote: "John Cale had the strongest avant-garde credentials of anyone in The Velvet Underground, but he was also the Velvet whose solo career was the least strongly defined by his work with the band, and [...] Vintage Violence certainly bears this out."
Track listing
All songs written and composed by John Cale, except "Fairweather Friend" by Garland Jeffreys.
Side A No. Title Length 1. "Hello, There" 2:48 2. "Gideon's Bible" 3:22 3. "Adelaide" 2:18 4. "Big White Cloud" 3:31 5. "Cleo" 2:35 6. "Please" 4:19 Side B No. Title Length 7. "Charlemagne" 5:03 8. "Bring It on Up" 2:24 9. "Amsterdam" 3:14 10. "Ghost Story" 3:48 11. "Fairweather Friend"price rating
