Sabotage / Live

by John Cale

Sabotage / Live cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: December 1979
  • Label: SPY
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Length: 45:24
  • Community rating: 4.19/5 from 4 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Recorded at CBGB in New York, this album features completely new, unreleased material performed with an intensely aggressive, confrontational backing band. The harsh, dissonant guitar squalls and Cale's terrifyingly manic, paranoid vocal delivery鈥攆ocused heavily on espionage and nuclear anxiety鈥攑erfectly bridged his avant-garde past with the emerging post-punk movement.

Genres

Descriptors: political, war, live, confrontational, uncompromising

Tracklist

  1. Mercenaries (Ready For War) (7:32)
  2. Baby You Know (3:52)
  3. Evidence (3:28)
  4. Dr. Mudd (3:42)
  5. Walkin' The Dog (4:06)
  6. Captain Hook (11:26)
  7. Only Time Will Tell (2:37)
  8. Sabotage (4:59)
  9. Chorale (3:42)

Credits

  • Rufus Thomas - written-by
  • John Cale - primary artist, mixed by, producer, vocals, piano, guitar, fretless bass, viola, written-by
  • John Vogel - art direction
  • George Scott - bass, vocals
  • Dougie Bowne - drums, vocals
  • Jim Jordan - engineer [remix]
  • Rod Hui - engineer [remix]
  • Jane Friedman - executive-producer
  • Joe Bidewell - keyboards, vocals
  • Marc Aaron - lead guitar
  • Warren Frank - mixed by
  • Deerfrance - percussion, vocals
  • Hugh Brown - photography by [cover photos]
  • Charlie Martin - recorded by

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