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Artist | John Cale
Title | Music For A New Society / M:FANS
Genre | Alternative Format | Album
Source | CDDA Time | 103:46
Label | Domino Store | 2016
Catalog | REWIGCD93 Rip | 2016
Bitrate | 240 kbps Size | 190.16 MB
Freq | 44.1 kHz Encoder | Lame 3.98.4
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CD 1/2 - Music For A New Society
01. Taking Your Life In Your Hands 4:46
02. Thoughtlesss Kind 2:47
03. Sanctus (Sanities) 6:06
04. If You Were Still Around 3:27
05. Close Watch 3:07
06. Broken Bird 4:46
07. Chinese Envoy 3:13
08. Changes Made 3:15
09. Damn Life 5:14
10. Rise, Sam And Rimsky Korsakov 2:23
11. Library Of Force (Unreleased) (Bonus Track) 4:47
12. Chinese Enjoy (Outtakes) (Bonus Track) 3:39
13. Thoughtless Kind (Outtakes) (Bonus Track) 2:34
CD 2/2 - M:FANS
01. Prelude (M:FANS) 2:17
02. If You Were Still Around (M:FANS) 5:18
03. Taking Your Life In Your Hands (M:FANS) 5:43
04. Thoughtless Kind (M:FANS) 5:27
05. Sanctus (Sanities Mix) (M:FANS) 5:19
06. Broken Bird (M:FANS) 5:10
07. Chinese Envoy (M:FANS) 3:51
08. Changes Made (M:FANS) 3:55
09. Library Of Force (Feat. Man In The Book Excerpt) (M:FANS) 3:09
10. Close Watch (M:FANS) 5:15
11. If You Were Still Around (Choir Reprise) (M:FANS) 4:44
12. Back To The End (M:FANS) 3:34
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While John Cale is one of the most famous and, in his own way, influential
underground rock musicians, he is also one of the hardest to pin down
stylistically. Much has been made of his schooling in classical and
avant-garde music, yet much of what he's recorded has been decidedly
song-oriented, dovetailing close to the mainstream at times. Terming him a
forefather of punk and new wave isn't exactly accurate, either. Those
investigating his work for the first time under that premise may be
surprised at how consciously accessible much of his output is, at times
approaching (but not quite attaining) a fairly 'normal' rock sound. There
is always a tension between the experimental and the accessible in Cale's
solo recordings, meaning that he usually finds himself (not unwillingly)
caught between the cracks: too weird for commercial success, and yet not
really weird or daring enough to place him among the top ranks of rock's
innovators.
John Cale had been careening through nearly a decade of chaotic and
paranoid rock music when he took an abrupt stylistic shift with 1982's
"Music For A New Society", a set of stark and minimal melodies performed
with a quiet touch that made the occasional bursts of volume all the more
violent, accompanying lyrics that dealt with a variety of damaged lives. It
was one of Cale's best and most powerful works, and more than 30 years
later, Cale has revisited the songs with fresh creative eyes on the album
"M:FANS".
Cale's new interpretations are significantly more aggressive than the
originals, and are based largely in electronic textures (the new
arrangements of "(I Keep A) Close Watch" and "Thoughtless Kind" could pass
for a gloomy variant on contemporary R&B, and "Chinese Envoy" now has a
cool, pop-wise sheen), though they trade nearly as strongly in dynamics as
the original performances. If the original album played as a set of stories
about desperate characters looking for something like salvation, "M:FANS"
sounds more like a series of scenes set in some future world shorn of hope,
and the flashes of humanity and compassion that lurked in songs like
"Thoughtless Kind" and "If You Were Still Around" are few and far between
here.
But where most artists who re-record material from their back catalogs
often produce something that's a pale shadow of the original, with "M:FANS"
Cale has come up with an album with a personality and intent far removed
enough from the 1982 album that it has a genuine life of its own. If
"M:FANS" represents a world that is colder and less forgiving than the time
and place that spawned "Music ForAa New Society", it also confirms that
Cale is still a strong and vital artist, and one capable of offering two
very different sets of perspectives on these songs that are both bold and
compelling listening.
Double CD pack with the long out-of-print 1982 masterpiece "Music For A New
Society" completely remastered from the original tapes and overseen by John
Cale. Includes 3 exclusive tracks - "Library Of Force" - an unreleased gem
- plus 2 out-takes from the original session. "M:FANS" is a complete
reworking of the original album. Cale re-contextualises the original songs
into radical new forms to resonate with the digital age. Includes a new
recording of "Back To The End" - a previously lost track from the original
session.
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