0495. John Cale
Paris 1919

Not what you'd might expect from the one described as the artsy one in The Velvet Underground (whose only appearance on the list this far was the one after Cale left), this is a very accessible album. And also a good one.

It's noticable throughout that John's first and foremost a composer. As the orchestration of The Endless Plain Of Fortune bears witness, this isn't a run of the mill studio producer adding stuff, but the guy who actually wrote the track who included an orchestra in it from the start. I like it a lot.

I don't, however, like Macbeth's almost-glam rock sound. It just feels like too much of a hee-haw stomp for this album.
Also, while it's a good album I'd have thought that Cale would have shown up with one of his more experimental albums (no, as 1001 Albums You Must Hear... lists 'em mostly by sales I'm not expecting any more John Cale here).