Vintage Violence

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Vintage Violence
Vintage Violence cover
Studio album by John Cale
Released March 25, 1970
Genre Rock
Length 34:25
Label Columbia Records
Producer John Cale, Lewis Merenstein
Professional reviews
John Cale chronology
Vintage Violence
(1970)		 Church of Anthrax
(1971)

Vintage Violence was the first solo album from former Velvet Underground member John Cale. 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, which he would later cite as symbolic of the content of the record: "You're not really seeing the personality."[citation needed]

Originally released in 1970, 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 marinated for six years in burgundy, anise and chili peppers".[1]

The album was rereleased in remastered form in 2001.

[edit] Track listing

All tracks written by John Cale, except "Fairweather Friend" by Garland Jeffreys.

  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
  7. "Charlemagne" – 5:03
  8. "Bring It On Up" – 2:24
  9. "Amsterdam" – 3:14
  10. "Ghost Story" – 3:48
  11. "Fairweather Friend" – 2:32

Bonus tracks

  1. "Fairweather Friend" – 2:38 - alternative version
  2. "Wall" – 6:06 - instrumental outtake

[edit] Personnel

Executive producer: John McClure

[edit] References

  1. ^ Ward, Ed (Sept. 17, 1970). Review. Rolling Stone.
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