Paris 1919, PDA and Britt Daniel (posted by Jack from SC)
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RE: Paris 1919, PDA and Britt Daniel
Jack from SC,
I like Paris 1919 pretty well, but you should try Fear (collected in it's entirety on the The Island Years double disk), as I find it to be his best of the era. Also collected on The Island Years is the wonderful Slow Dazzle, and that I also prefer to Paris 1919, an album which I find a little sterile. Vintage Violence his first post-Velvets "solo" work of pop music I like about as well as Paris 1919. Also check out the Sabotage Live LP of 1977, which is hard prog rock, not unlike at times what Shellac has been doing more recently.
And and and Fragments of a Rainy Season is a very strong solo piano "unplugged" live rendering of his career's many high points, as of 1991 at least, and maybe you should start there. The version of "Paris 1919" on that is faster and far more energetic than the original.
Cale has made some really bad records, though, and you must avoid Music For a New Society from '81 or '2. Or, you should only hear it not directly after eating or drinking, and only while seated without sharp or heavy objects in your immediate reach.
