Songs where John Cale Screams

probably have to go with "fear is a man's best friend." always a thrill!
not quite so much on the record, but when i saw him do "cable hogue" live way back when the end was terrifying.
some pretty off the hook shrieks on his "waiting for the man" on that John Cale Comes Alive LP in the 80s...

"Leaving It Up To You"

haha great poll, this would make a solid album

voting 'cable hogue'

RIGHT NOW YOU FASCIST!

Fear is a Man's Best Friend is a better song obv but Leaving It Up To You really makes me concerned.

Not going to vote for it, but people shouldn't sleep on guts. Like lots of these, just so perfectly constructed.

Fear is probably the one where he's got the greatest variety in his live performances, in terms of all the different ways he syncopates and breaks it down. It's almost half a song and half a template for a song.

voted Fear cuz it's the better song but the best screaming *moment* is definitely RIGHT NOW YOU FASCIST

or what JoeStork said

THEY'RE BREAKING UP MY SPELL!!!!!!!!!

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easy! fear is a man's best friend
what else would warrant screaming?!

we could all feel safe / like sharon tate

Man I love John Cale.

guts tbh

One time I was listening to the Fragments version of "Fear" in my car. Just as I pulled up to the pump and rolled my window down, the freak out at the end commenced. Needless to say, the attendant was somewhat horrified.

"Fear."

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As others have said, love the scream on the live "waiting for the man" but especially love the fact that when he sang it for the vu reunion Lou tried to get him to scream the way he had been doing in recent solo concerts & he was like "yeah nah don't feel like it"

once i was giving someone a ride home from a work event and at one point i had "fear is a man's best friend" playing on my car stereo. he looked at me like "really?" and i was like YEAH REALLY

Bit too much screaming and bellowing on "Helen of Troy" (the album) for my liking.

surprise vote for Wilson Joliet.

sort of want to do a "songs where john cale rolls his Rs" thread but I can only think of fear's "prrrrrowl" and one other that I can't recall offhand. There must be more?

that "prrrrrowl" is the best part of fear imho.

there should be a poll for words he pronounces in a funny or amusing manner, like orghee

I just figured that was how they pronounced it in Wales, or the UK in general?

Bit too much screaming and bellowing on "Helen of Troy" (the album) for my liking.

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weakest album of that trilogy imo

Have we done a good artists-best-trilogy poll? Cale's Island Years vs Bowie's Berlin trilogy vs Wire's first 3, etc. It would be maddening!

listening to the album "fear" again and struck by just how much better it got as it evolved over the years. can't think of a single cale album track where i've also heard a live performance and where i still prefer the album track -- not because he's better live per se, but because he just keeps working and reworking the material and discovering new things inside it.

maybe some of the paris 1919 stuff where the orchestration is the point? probably not even then.

"you know more than i know" was stuck in my head for like 3 weeks recently
the part about the traps and the rats esp

can't find a "barracuda" live -- would love to hear it but i guess it didn't make it into rotation

Have we done a good artists-best-trilogy poll? Cale's Island Years vs Bowie's Berlin trilogy vs Wire's first 3, etc. It would be maddening!

Could we add in Talking Heads' Eno trilogy?

and the fripp exposure/gabriel 2/sacred songs "trilogy"

keep reading this as John Cage.

i love john cale's vocal range of emotion
most people stay within the same general range, but not john cale
he screams, he croons, he narrates, he whispers, he's all over the place

ok, now i'm leaning cable hogue again

The Hunt from Caribbean Sunset wuz robbed!!

ok yeah, that is a pretty good scream at 3:05 or so I guess.

on a rockpalast version of "leaving it up to you" he rolls he rolls a bunch of rs, don't think that's on the album version. he moves "crawling" to "rolling" to really go wild with it. r-r-r-r-rrolling over the hills like r-r-r-r-r-r-rrattlesnakes in the desert sun.

lately i have days where i just want to listen to chicken shit on repeat all day