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| The Island Years | 
 enlarge | Artist: John Cale
Label: Ume Imports
Category: Music
List Price: $16.98
Buy New: $12.41
You Save: $4.57 (27%)
Buy New/Used from $12.41
Avg. Customer Rating:  (12 reviews)
Sales Rank: 26387
Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 731452423528
EAN: 0731452423528
ASIN: B000001E9K
Release Date: July 30, 1996
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Tracks:
Disc 1
| • | Fear Is a Man's Best Friend | | • | Buffalo Ballet | | • | Barracuda | | • | Emily | | • | Ship of Fools | | • | Gun | | • | The Man Who Couldn't Afford to Orgy | | • | You Know More Than I Know | | • | Momamma Scuba | | • | Sylvia Said | | • | All I Want Is You | | • | Bamboo Floor | | • | Mr. Wilson | | • | Taking It All Away | | • | Dirty Ass Rock 'N' Roll | | • | Darling I Need You | | • | Rollaroll |
Disc 2
| • | Heartbreak Hotel - John Cale, Axton, Mae Boren | | • | Ski Patrol | | • | I'm Not the Loving Kind | | • | Guts | | • | The Jeweller | | • | My Maria | | • | Helen of Troy | | • | China Sea | | • | Engine | | • | Save Us | | • | Cable Hogue | | • | (I Keep A) Close Watch | | • | Pablo Picasso - John Cale, Richman, Jonathan | | • | Leaving It Up to You | | • | Baby, What Do You Want Me to Do? - John Cale, Reed, Jimmy [1] | | • | Sudden Death | | • | You Me | | • | Coral Moon | | • | Mary Lou |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Album Details
Excellent Double Disc Collection of his Three Studio Albums on Island ("Fear", "Slow Dazzle", "Helen of Troy") and the Spare Track "Mary Lou" from the "Guts" Compilation plus a Bevy of Bonus Tracks (B-sides and Previously Unreleased Gems) to Boot.
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Lou Reed has hogged the spotlight since the breakup of the legendary Velvet Underground, but his former bandmate John Cale has had a much more consistent solo career. Cale never scored a breakthrough hit like Reed's "Walk On the Wild Side," but this new two-CD collection of Cale's mid-'70s releases-including all of the Fear, Slow Dazzle, and Helen of Troy albums plus assorted unreleased rarities-is the perfect opportunity to reassess his influential merger of art-rock smarts, classical melodicism, theatrical drama, and punk-rock abandon. Cuts range from beautiful, lulling ballads such as "Buffalo Ballet" and "I Keep A Close Watch" to full-throttle sensory assaults like "Fear Is A Man's Best Friend" and an Elvis Presley cover that will make your blood run cold. iJim Derogatis/i
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| Customer Reviews: Read 7 more reviews...
 mostly crap July 3, 2008
0 out of 4 found this review helpful
Cale was wonderful with the Velvets, and continued to do great work through "Paris 1919," one of the finest recordings of the 1970s. Most of this stuff is garbage, though -- "Fear" was about half good, "Slow Dazzle" about 1/4, and "Helen of Troy" redeemed only by "China Sea." Cale was drunk and ferocious at this time -- he later sobered up -- and most of the stuff he wrote has a weird mixture of arrogance and stupidity. br /br /Really bad, unless you are sentimental or willing to pick and choose amidst an astonishingly varied mixture of junk and gold.
 Elegance And Anarchy June 24, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
On these landmark mid-70's albums, John Cale expertly blends his classical training with his anarchic protopunk tendencies. He achieves this with aplomb and grace.br /br /His history is fairly well known, so I won't go into great detail. The native Welshman won the Leonard Bernstein scholarship to study music, with the help of composer Aaron Copland. In New York he fell in with the LaMonte Young crowd of avant-jazz noise and dissonance-makers, recording with them as the Dream Syndicate. He then co-founded the Velvet Underground with Lou Reed, and stayed for their first 2 albums before leaving to pursue a solo career.br /br /That career began with 1970's "Vintage Violence", and culminated with the brilliant "Paris 1919", on which he wrote and sang stately, elegant pop with members of Little Feat and others. "Paris 1919" is widely acclaimed to this day, and Cale continues to perform songs from it in concert. It was his first "masterpiece", if you'll allow me to use that over-used word from time to time.br /br /He then signed with the Island record label, and released these 3 albums that are collected in their entirety with bonus tracks on this 2-CD set. I believe they are the pinnacle of his career. Guest musicians include Phil Manzanera and Eno of Roxy Music, guitar "gun for hire" session ace Chris Spedding, and Phil Collins. Manzanera is on fire throughout, and no one's ever gotten better work out of Spedding. These are rock records through and through. Of these, "Fear" and "Slow Dazzle" are perfect, "Helen Of Troy" a little less so (there's a few duff tracks not quite up to his standards).br /br /I reiterate - there's 2 John Cale's - the one that plays almost classical piano and beguiles us with his perfect elocution on stately ballads, and the one that bangs out dischord and screams. In concert, you never knew which Cale you were going to get. Both Cale's show up on these records, and I'll say this for him - he's the best screamer in rock. And his ballads are gorgeous.br /br /His output after these is of varying quality. I highly recommend "Walking On Locusts" and "HoboSapiens", which are every bit as good as his Island releases. If you can find his CD "Fragments Of A Rainy Season", it provides a good overview of his career from a solo "man and his piano" perspective without other accompaniment. The 2-disc compilation "Seducing Down The Door" spans many years and is worthwhile.br /br /I can't conclude without mentioning his fruitive career as a producer. Cale produced the debut albums of the Stooges, Patti Smith, Squeeze, and the Modern Lovers - and arranged and produced all of Nico's best albums. I also want to mention that this collection goes well with Kevin Ayers' "The Island Albums", which collects together the 3 great albums Ayers recorded for Island.
The Raw Material Of Everything Unique Post Velvet Underground.. May 9, 2006
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
The mythic proportions the Velvet Underground achieved resonates for all time..this co-founder John Cale deserves a lot of credit since he too stands as a giant on his own right as these 3 solo albums comprised on 2 discs made clear.br /A musicians musician, a self-styled iconoclast, avant-garde imagery throughout,,Cale is not typical nor are his diverse styles of musicianship anything but classifiable...br /The wonderful use of the electric viola in a rock and roll setting remains a unique staple of his soundscape, his guitar and keyboard playing,steeped in Classicisim and gorgeous touches of bittersweet harmonies remain despite the use of his voice as an instrument of utter emotion with all the screams and snarls..total sensitivity with a passion for Elvis the Beach Boys and everyone else from this Welshman trained classical prodigy.br /These 3 Lps/2 Cd's are Cale's entire Island records studio output from 1974 and 1975, a time I used to see him at CBGB's New Year's eve in utter disbelief..after the Velvets and his Paris 1919 album.br /The albums contained within.. Fear,Slow Dazzle and Helen Of Troy are all extraordinary with Roxy Music luminaries and Eno throughout, added are the additional bonus tracks,remixes and wonderful black and white booklet offering a fine history.
A Bargain! January 6, 2006
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This 2 CD set containing the complete John Cale Island Records releases; together with a handful of great bonus tracks, is really a bargain. br /br /His three Island albums are all classics, each containing several Cale Classics. To mention just a few tracks from each album, I would bring out "Buffalo Ballet" and "Ship of Fools" (Fear), "Mr Wilson" and "Guts" (Slow Dazzle) and "Cable Hougue" and "I Keep a Close Watch" ( Helen of Troy)br /br /Among the bonus tracks "All I Want is You" and "Bamboo Floor" from the "Slow Dazzle" sessions are gems that had deserved inclusion in the first place.br /br /The 24 pages booklet with a fine essay by Ben Edmonds contains interesting recollections from the various sessions and informative notes on many tracks.br /br /Simply a great buy!
compelling August 24, 2005
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
I feel compelled to write a short review for this now, and I will update it as time goes by. br /br /There are many memorable tracks on here. If you like Cale at all, PICK THIS ONE UP RIGHT AWAY. It has brought me great joy. br /br /Unfortuntaley, I just lost (they were stolen) both of these CDs, and I will have to wait a little while to replace them. I'm hurtin for it right now.
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