Extra Painful

Please Let us respect John Cales stand as a rock musician's face it: The man torpedoed for over 25 years (since Artificial Intelligence, 1985) his own grandiose career of the seventies and early eighties. "John Cale - Extra Playful: Transitions" is for me the (temporary?) End point, an admission incredible ideas and irrelevance, a sound wallpaper with almost no substance and that after nearly seven years without studio album. I'm still on the assumption that where John Cale draufsteht also John Cale has to be there, that although here have high and low risks the regulator other performers, Mr. Cale should have at least given his consent to that in 2012 this EP as Download and even adds a vinyl catalog his work. Just why? Finally, there are electronic music that deserves to be resourceful, controversial, exciting, provocative and influential called. These five sound gimmicks are not. They are the opposite of!

Since 1982, I hear even John Cale. At that time I got myself on the advice of a friend the album Fear and need to say today (Iceland 1974 Rec.): What kind of a milestone in rock music history still! No, I do not want to turn back the wheel of history and John Cale should not always take the same album again also. The have other sizes in his class also avoided and consistently developed as Leonard Cohen or Bob Dylan. John Cale, however, is no longer running for a long time on top form - unless he plays live the old masterpieces. He shows what he can do and what he could under certain circumstances. But as Jack Bruce, Pete Townshend and Lou Reed, he's a has-been, the one true must pay respect, but whose current works are only a pale reflection of yesterday for me. Unfortunately Cale is now in this squad with Extra Playful: Transition - the original EP Extra Playful was underwhelming - arrived far below. Very, very bad!