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John Cale will probably always be best known as a member of the Velvet Underground, but Fragments of a Rainy Season, basically a live retrospective of the first two decades of his solo career, shows that Cale"s subsequent years have yielded more interesting and varied work than his relatively brief stint in the "60s with that legendary New York group. Recorded in Brussels in 1992, this hour-long concert finds Cale performing by himself, on piano and acoustic guitar. Though classically trained, he"s not a great pianist; nor is his guitar playing dazzling, and he"s no one"s idea of a technically great vocalist. Still, Cale is a convincing, passionate performer, and his songs--theatrical, narrative in nature, not conventionally "pretty" (indeed, they"re sometimes quite harrowing) but usually compelling--suggest what Kurt Weill might done had the late German composer brought his avant-garde sensibilities to the rock era.

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1. On A Wedding Anniversary
2. Lie Still Sleep Becalmed
3. Do Not Go Gentle Into that Good Night
4. The Soul Of Carmen Miranda
5. Cordoba
6. Ship of Fools
7. Leaving It Up To You
8. The Ballad Of Cable Hogue
9. Chinese Envoy
10. Fear (Is A Man"s Best Friend)
11. Dying Of The Vine
12. Heartbreak Hotel
13. Styles It Takes
14. Paris 1919
15. (I Keep A) Close Watch
16. Hallelujah

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