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John Cale - The Island Years

Track listing:
CD 1
  1. Fear Is A Man's Best Friend 3:53
  2. Buffalo Ballet 3:29
  3. Barracuda 3:48
  4. Emily 4:22
  5. Ship Of Fools 4:37
  6. Gun 8:05
  7. The Man Who Couldn't Afford To Orgy 4:34
  8. You Know More Than I Know 3:35
  9. Momamma Scuba 4:25
  10. Sylvia Said 4:09
  11. All I Want Is You 2:57
  12. Bamboo Floor 3:25
  13. Mr. Wilson 3:17
  14. Taking It All Away 2:58
  15. Dirty Ass Rock 'N' Roll 4:43
  16. Darling I Need You 3:37
  17. Rollaroll 3:58
CD 2
  1. Heartbreak Hotel 3:13
  2. Ski Patrol 2:08
  3. I'm Not The Loving Kind 3:08
  4. Guts 3:27
  5. The Jeweller 4:14
  6. My Maria 3:51
  7. Helen Of Troy 4:20
  8. China Sea 2:32
  9. Engine 2:47
  10. Save Us 2:22
  11. Cable Hogue 3:32
  12. I Keep A Close Watch 3:29
  13. Pablo Picasso 3:23
  14. Leaving It Up to You 4:35
  15. Baby, What You Want Me To Do? 4:51
  16. Sudden Death 4:39
  17. You & Me 2:51
  18. Coral Moon 2:17
  19. Mary Lou 2:47

Notes

This double CD combines all three of John Cale's mid-'70s Island albums (Fear, Slow Dazzle, and Helen of Troy) into one package, with the addition of some interesting bonus tracks: outtakes from Slow Dazzle and Helen of Troy, the B-side "Sylvia Said," "Leaving It up to You" (which only appeared on early copies of Helen of Troy before "Coral Moon" took its place), and "Mary Lou" (from the 1977 Guts compilation). This was undeniably one of Cale's most fertile periods. There is also no other body of work from the mid-'70s with such a confluence of listenable FM radio-ready tunes and sneaky, at times subversive experimentation, its eclecticism encompassing art rock, macabre recitations, and Beach Boy pastiches.