Title: No redeeming qualities
Review: The professional review above says it all. Yes, "Dying on the Vine" is a significant Cale song, but you can find it in a much more listenable version on the live "Fragments of a Rainy Season" which trashes all the awful synthesizer arrangements and strips it down to Cale's gorgeous, untreated voice and piano."Chinese Takeaway" is an embarrsing instrumental that fails to engage the purported subject matter in any coherent way, and "Satellite Walk" is also a ridiculous mess of a song. The sound all the way through is thin and uninspired, and as with many Cale albums that are primarily performed on digital keyboard instruments (or whatever he uses) you often wonder why and how he came up with the sounds he chooses.Why this record was ever reissued I can't imagine. It would better be left forgotten, much like an early 80's Cale show at a "Chuck E. Cheese" in which he was too drunk to tune his guitar properly.
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