Vintage Violence, John Cale's first solo album following his departure from the Velvet Underground, is one of my favorite albums ever. Cale wrote and recorded the music in 3 days, around the same era he was producing The Stooges' first album, The Stooges, along with Nico's The Marble Index. Vintage Violence is mostly a pop album with elements of folk, and I can't describe the album better than Rolling Stone magazines' Ed Ward (sad, I know) who stated that Vintage Violence sounds "like a Byrds' album produced by Phil Spector marinated for six years in burgundy, anise and chili peppers". Actually, I'm not entirely sure what the fuck that means but the Phil Spector part is fairly accurate. If you have to pay $.99/track (I understand, we are living in a recession) then I'd recommend "Hello, There", "Cleo" and "Bring It On Up." Goodnight everyone.RATING: 93%
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"[M]arinated for six years in burgundy, anise and chili peppers" and shot to death.
its like this ablum was like if phil spector was eaten by satan and shitted out into a toilet full of snakes and sharks and imps and then those snakes and sharks and imps ate the shit and then they were baked into a pie and fed to jesus christ and then jesus christ was blended into a paste and that paste was used to glue together the two halves of a trapper keeper full of us nuclear secrets and then stone cold steve austen buried those nuclear secrets in the desert and dug them back up twoenty years later and then read them on national tv--this ablum is like what that would sound like
if anyone from roling stone is reading this i can be moved into an office by monday
Move over, Lester Bangs!
...and Ed Ward!
Wow, this must be a pretty scary comic book! It reminds me of silents of the lambs!
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