ooh la la was quite a fierce song played live with...

2012-01-07T04:24:23.853-05:00

ooh la la was quite a fierce song played live with a band. He also played a menacing slowed down version solo in Rotterdam in 1984. The single's picture sleeve was edited to remove the line of white powder next to the glass. Cale has always done silly songs, he has a big sense of humour/irony

It's an odd fit with most of Cale's output...

2011-12-26T23:07:41.837-05:00

It's an odd fit with most of Cale's output, isn't it; he's often witty, but rarely tries to be out-and-out funny. But he manages it, I think.

Of course it doesn't hurt that the whole Englishman-abroad bit, playing on the simultaneous horror and fascination that the British have for Continental Europe, is such a classic trope, and a rich mine of British comedy, high and low.

I'm most fond of the Seducing version -- the deadpan vocals make it much funnier, I think.

Comments on Fragments of a Cale Season: Ooh La La

ooh la la was quite a fierce song played live with...

It's an odd fit with most of Cale's output...