Slow Dazzle
Slow Dazzle cover
Studio album by John Cale
Released 25 March 1975
Recorded Sound Techniques, London
Genre Rock
Length 35:49
Label Island Records
Producer John Cale
Professional reviews
John Cale chronology
Fear
(1974)		 Slow Dazzle
(1975)		 Helen of Troy
(1975)

Slow Dazzle was the fifth album and the second for Island Records by former Velvet Underground member John Cale, released in 1975. The cover photography was by Keith Morris.

Contents

Track listing

All tracks composed by John Cale; except where indicated

  1. "Mr. Wilson" – 3:17
  2. "Taking It All Away" – 2:59
  3. "Dirty-Ass Rock 'N' Roll" – 4:44
  4. "Darling I Need You" – 3:38
  5. "Rollaroll" – 3:59
  6. "Heartbreak Hotel" – 3:14 (Mae Boren Axton, Tommy Durden, Elvis Presley)
  7. "Ski Patrol" – 2:12
  8. "I'm Not The Loving Kind" – 3:12
  9. "Guts" – 3:27
  10. "The Jeweller" – 5:07

Musicians

Executive producers: John Wood; A. Secunda on "Heartbreak Hotel"

Song information

"Mr. Wilson" is about the Beach Boys founding member, Brian Wilson. "Heartbreak Hotel" is Cale's infamous and unsettling recording of the original Elvis song. "Guts" opens with the line, "The bugger in the short sleeves fucked my wife". This refers to Kevin Ayers sleeping with Cale's wife before the June 1, 1974 concert, as John Cale related in his autobiography, with Victor Bockris, What's Welsh for Zen (1998). "The Jeweler" is a spoken word piece.

External links

Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slow_Dazzle"


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