tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2367859846495854541.post8232359348832330606..comments2024-03-29T03:15:12.732-04:00Comments on Fragments of a Cale Season: SanitiesInverarityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09838650110847975337noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2367859846495854541.post-88993457635559658452007-11-12T13:52:00.000-05:002007-11-12T13:52:00.000-05:00Jack, I think I'm responsible for "Safeties" - I m...Jack, I think I'm responsible for "Safeties" - I mooted it as the original title back on <A HREF="http://fragmentsofcale.blogspot.com/2007/07/chinese-envoy.html" REL="nofollow">Chinese Envoy</A>. I checked Welsh for Zen, though, and it was "Sanctus." <BR/><BR/>Cale later did an electronic composition called "Sanctus," which is included on the Paris S'eveille compilation. It bears no resemblance to this.Inverarityhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09838650110847975337noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2367859846495854541.post-28577995489902108952007-11-12T12:10:00.000-05:002007-11-12T12:10:00.000-05:00Moore's quoting of Cale - his mis-quoting, even - ...Moore's quoting of Cale - his mis-quoting, even - is still one of my favourite epigraphs of all time.Ianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05740401073988507304noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2367859846495854541.post-71995541756316569182007-11-12T10:41:00.000-05:002007-11-12T10:41:00.000-05:00I came to John Cale via Music For A New Society, s...I came to John Cale via <I>Music For A New Society</I>, specifically via that citation in WATCHMEN—and, in retrospect, it's surprising that I kept listening, so determinedly off-putting and abrasive an album it is. And then to understand that this same lunatic could make a record like <I>Paris 1919</I>, and that, in context, neither <I>Paris</I> nor <I>New Society</I> is at all unrepresentative...<BR/><BR/>The story behind the title has several variations—I've heard another version where the track was meant to be called "Safeties"—and it seems like a tale that has grown in the telling; that is, there's the teensiest whiff of bullshit around the whole thing.Jack Feerickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06957899718721006732noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2367859846495854541.post-56402255304265476032007-11-12T00:38:00.000-05:002007-11-12T00:38:00.000-05:00P.S. "St. Andrew (This Battle Is in the Air)", a b...P.S. "St. Andrew (This Battle Is in the Air)", a bagpipe-driven song off the last White Stripes album, bears considerable similarities to this one in both concept and execution. I'm just sayin'.Inverarityhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09838650110847975337noreply@blogger.com