While John Cale is one of the most famous and, in his own
way, influential underground rock musicians, he is also one
of the hardest to pin down stylistically. Much has been
made of his schooling in classical and avant-garde music,
yet much of what he's recorded has been decidedly
song-oriented, dovetailing close to the mainstream at
times. Terming him a forefather of punk and new wave isn't
exactly accurate either. Those investigating his work for
the first time under that premise may be surprised at how
consciously accessible much of his output is, at times
approaching (but not quite attaining) a fairly "normal"
rock sound. There is always a tension between the
experimental and the accessible in Cale's solo recordings,
meaning that he usually finds himself (not More...
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