Fear
by John Cale
- Type: Album
- Released: 1聽October聽1974
- Label: Island
- Country: United Kingdom
- Length: 40:43
- Community rating: 4.07/5 from 9 ratings
Album Notes & Community Reviews
On 'Fear', his first of three albums for Island Records, John Cale moved away from the orchestral arrangements of 'Paris 1919' toward a more stripped-down and unsettling art-rock style. The album juxtaposes musically accessible, yet often bleak, song structures with Cale's distinctive deadpan vocal delivery, creating a work that is both compelling and unnerving. Produced with collaborators including Brian Eno and Phil Manzanera of Roxy Music, the record's inventive and sometimes jagged sound is exemplified on tracks like "Gun," which features Manzanera's guitar processed in real-time through Eno's synthesizer.
Genres
Descriptors: avant-garde, theatrical, menacing, piano, ballad
Tracklist
- Fear Is A Man's Best Friend (03:52)
- Buffalo Ballet (03:28)
- Barracuda (03:47)
- Emily (04:22)
- Ship Of Fools (04:37)
- Gun (08:04)
- The Man Who Couldn't Afford To Orgy (04:34)
- You Know More Than I Know (03:35)
- Momamma Scuba (04:24)
Credits
- John Cale - lead vocals, bass guitar, guitar, keyboards, viola, producer
- Phil Manzanera - guitar, slide guitar on "momamma scuba", executive producer
- Fred Smith - drums
- Brian Eno - synthesizer, effects, executive producer
- Archie Legget - bass guitar
- Michael Desmarais - drums on "momamma scuba" and "fear"
- Richard Thompson - slide guitar on "momamma scuba"
- Bryn Haworth - slide guitar on "momamma scuba"
- Brian Turrington - bass guitar on "momamma scuba"
- Doreen Chanter - backing vocals
- Irene Chanter - backing vocals
- Liza Strike - backing vocals, girl's choir
- Judy Nylon - lead vocals on "the man who couldn't afford to orgy"
- John Wood - engineer, mixing
- George Peckham - mastering
- Keith Morris - photography