Artist: John Cale
Release: Music For A New Society
Discogs: 1679116
Released: 1982 / 1993
Label: ZE Records, Island Records / Rhino Records
Catalog#: 204 951 / R2 71743
Format: CD, Album, Reissue
Country: US
Style: Electronic, Pop, Rock, Alternative Rock, Abstract, Avantgarde, Art Rock, Experimental, Minimal

Tracklisting:

01. Taking Your Life In Your Hands (4:45)
02. Thoughtless Kind (2:37)
03. Sanities (5:58)
04. If You Were Still Around (3:25)
05. (I Keep A) Close Watch (3:06)
06. Broken Bird (4:43)
07. Chinese Envoy (3:09)
08. Changes Made (3:11)
09. Damn Life (5:10)
10. Risé, Sam And Rimsky-Korsakov (2:12)
11. In The Library Of Force (5:56)

This an album for days when you just feel unable to get out of bed and life has yanked your hair as a prelude to kneeing you in the balls. Music For a New Society is John Cale’s last great album before a parade of underwhelming efforts.
Music For a new Society is Cale’s most sparse and single-minded record as it is just Cale’s voice, piano, minimal percussion, eerie electronics and the occasional bagpipe solo. “I Keep a Close Watch on this Heart of Mine” is one of the most heartwrenching portraits of a man who has been burned too many times.
Music For a New Society may be one of my favorite albums, but it isn’t one that I dust off often because it’s so full of bad juju.
 
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