John Cale Slow Dazzle LP Island ILPS 9317 Original Press
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Original Press of John Cale's Slow Dazzle LP on Island (ILPS 9317)
Cover has edge wear. LP labels are clean. LP shows shelf wear.
Matrix A: ILPS 9317 A -1B SXT STERLING S2
Matrix B: ILPS 9317 B -1A SXT STERLING S1
"Mr. Wilson" is about Brian Wilson; the Beach Boys founding member has been a strong influence on Cale's work over the years. The song reflects the strong, divisive personal struggles in Wilson's life. The music's tone fluctuates from paranoid and unhappy to warm and pleasant moment by moment.[1]
"Heartbreak Hotel" is a cover version of the Elvis Presley 1956 song (written by Mae Boren Axton and Tommy Durden) with fundamental elements of the track changed such the singing taking in "chilling" screams and dark synthesizer elements added to the background.
The track "Guts" opens with the line "The bugger in the short sleeves fucked my wife". This refers to rock musician Kevin Ayers sleeping with Cale's wife before the concert captured on the June 1, 1974 live album; Cale related the details in his autobiography, with Victor Bockris, What's Welsh for Zen, that was published in 1998.
"The Jeweler" is a spoken word piece under an instrumental backdrop that recalls, at least in its poetic and freeform structure, the track "The Gift" from the Velvet Underground's second studio album White Light/White Heat (1968). While Cale speaks in a calm, monotone voice, "The Jeweller" features a drone-like set of unsettling sounds that appear to build and build without reaching a conclusion.
Track 2, "Taking It All Away", was misprinted on all Island Record CD releases of the album as "Talking It All Away".
The cover photography was by Keith Morris. It is also the second consecutive album to feature both Brian Eno and Phil Manzanera of Roxy Music.
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