Albums Produced by John Cale

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Commentary (music and lyrics not included). Pages: 27. Chapters: Horses, The Modern Lovers, The Stooges, Peel Slowly and See, What Goes On, The Velvet Underground, VU, The Best of The Velvet Underground: The Millennium Collection, Another View, Gold, Circus Live, The Best of The Velvet Underground: Words and Music of Lou Reed, The Rapture, The Very Best of The Velvet Underground, Rock and Roll: An Introduction to The Velvet Underground, Camera Obscura, The End..., Songs for Drella, Helen of Troy, Chronicles, BlackAcetate, HoboSapiens, Vintage Violence, Music for a New Society, Slow Dazzle, Sabotage/Live, Squeeze, Fear, Caribbean Sunset, Desertshore, Squirrel and G-Man Twenty Four Hour Party People Plastic Face Carnt Smile, Wrong Way Up, Church of Anthrax, Le Bataclan '72, Loads, The Boxing Mirror, The Academy in Peril, Fragments of a Rainy Season, The Best of Lou Reed & Velvet Underground, Packet of Three, Artificial Intelligence, Undrentide, Guts. Excerpt: Horses is the debut album by American musician Patti Smith, released in 1975 on Arista Records. The record was a key factor and major influence on the New York punk rock scene. At the time she recorded Horses, Patti Smith and her band were favorites in the New York club scene along with Blondie and The Ramones. The former's influence can be best heard in the track "Gloria," a radical retake on the Them song. "Birdland," in particular, owed more to the jazz which Smith's mother enjoyed than to the influence of punk. When recording this song, which was improvised by the band in Electric Lady Studios, Smith has said she imagined the spirit of Jimi Hendrix watching her. The lyrics of "Birdland" are based upon A Book of Dreams, a 1973 memoir of Wilhelm Reich by his son Peter. Several of the album's songs - "Redondo Beach," "Free Money," "Kimberly" - were inspired by moments with members o...