John Cale

Seducing Down the Door: A Collection 1970-1990

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AllMusic Review by William Ruhlmann

The range of John Cale's work can be shocking: it's hard to believe that the piano duets with minimalist composer Terry Riley on Church of Anthrax, the lush orchestral pop of Paris 1919, and the raucous, dissonant guitar rock of "Gun" and the rest of Fear are all the work of the same man, much less that they were all released within a four-year span. The well-chosen 38-track, two-and-a-half-hour double-CD/cassette anthology Seducing Down the Door does nothing to reconcile the apparent musical contradictions in Cale's classical-to-punk sensibility, but it does bring coherence and consolidation to a recording career that, spread across a multitude of labels and plagued by popular indifference, has been difficult to grasp as a whole.

Track Listing - Disc 1

	Title/Composer	Performer
1	The Protege	John Cale feat: Terry Riley
2	Big White Cloud John Cale	John Cale
3	Amsterdam John Cale / Janis Ian / Robert J. Mondlock	John Cale
4	Days of Steam John Cale	John Cale
5	Temper	John Cale
6	Dixieland and Dixie	John Cale
7	Child's Christmas in Wales John Cale	John Cale
8	Paris 1919 John Cale	John Cale
9	Andalucia	John Cale
10	Fear Is a Man's Best Friend John Cale	John Cale
11	Gun Chris Cornell	John Cale
12	I Keep a Close Watch John Cale	John Cale
13	Heartbreak Hotel Mae Boren Axton / Tommy Durden / Elvis Presley	John Cale
14	Dirtyass Rock 'N' Roll John Cale	John Cale
15	Guts John Cale	John Cale
16	The Jeweller	John Cale
17	Pablo Picasso Jonathan Richman	John Cale
18	Leaving It up to You John Cale	John Cale
19	Coral Moon	John Cale
20	Memphis Chuck Berry	John Cale

Track Listing - Disc 2

	Title/Composer	Performer	Time
1	Jack the Ripper	John Cale	3:09
2	Hedda Gabler John Cale	John Cale	8:12
3	Walkin' the Dog Rufus Thomas	John Cale	4:15
4	Dead or Alive	John Cale	3:53
5	Strange Times in Casablanca John Cale	John Cale	4:17
6	Taking Your Life in Your Hands John Cale	John Cale	4:48
7	Thoughtless Kind John Cale	John Cale	2:44
8	Chinese Envoy John Cale	John Cale	3:11
9	Caribbean Sunset	John Cale	4:23
10	Waiting For the Man Lou Reed	John Cale	4:43
11	Ooh la La	John Cale	4:22
12	Everytime the Dogs Bark John Cale / Larry Sloman	John Cale	4:17
13	Dying on the Vine John Cale / Larry Sloman	John Cale	5:18
14	The Soul of Carmen Miranda	John Cale	3:26
15	One Word John McLaughlin	John Cale feat: Brian Eno	4:38
16	Cordoba John Cale / Brian Eno	John Cale feat: Brian Eno	4:25
17	Trouble With Classicists	John Cale feat: Lou Reed	3:44
18	Faces and Names	John Cale feat: Lou Reed	4:12

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John Cale

Seducing Down the Door: A Collection 1970-1990

AllMusic Review by William Ruhlmann

Track Listing - Disc 1

Track Listing - Disc 2