JOHN CALE Paris 1919 wlp PROMO 1A/1B 1973 NM LP w/ 2 INSERTs Velvet Underground

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JOHN CALE
PARIS 1919
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REPRISE Records MS 2131
Original 1973 issue • Stereo LP
WHITE LABEL PROMO Issue
1st PRESSING • 1A/1B Matrix
LYRICS INSERT + *PROMO Sheet
*=Cale BIO/album Review: PROMO only

VINYL is NM
Full gloss vinyl is near-pristine- with only one tiny (1 centimeter) barely perceptible sleeve scuff that is 100% inaudible, on one side. White Promotional Reprise STEAMBOAT labels are immaculate.
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COVER is EX
Spanking clean and snapping bright cover is crisp and tight with no wear, writing or soil. two very mild edge creases and one small faint age spot at bottom of front, one at bottom left corner of back. "PROMOTIONAL COPY NOT FOR SALE" sticker u.l. front. Sharp corners all around; Seams and spine 100% intact with no wear or splits.

STRICT CONSERVATIVE GOLDMINE GRADING
MINT(SEALED) / NM / EX(VG++) / VG+ / VG

MAIN DETAIL?.?

FIRST PRESSING
MATRIX NUMBERS:
?Side One: MS-2131  31550-A - 1B
?Side Two: MS-2131  31551-B - 1A

11 1/2" square, gloss-coat LYRICS SHEET INSERT is NEAR MINT.
8 1/2" x 11" Promotional PARIS 1919 / JOHN CALE BIO SHEET INSERT
has a tiny "NM" written in u.r. corner, but is otherwise NEAR MINT?.

"JOHN CALE has one of the richest resumes in rock music, with experience in avant-garde music even before he met Lou Reed and they formed the Velvet Underground. His record productions include such landmarks as the debut by the Stooges and Patti Smith's Horses. But as a solo artist, Cale has often seemed caught between his sophisticated leanings and his fondness for punky attitudes.

Two early albums, Vintage Violence and Paris 1919, were the work of a highly-developed pop musician; later albums found Cale the pop provocateur dominating the show. Cale's a fairly deadpan singer, but the sweet mix of rock band instrumentation and fuller arrangements make --Paris 1919 one of his strongest efforts, and the lovely "Andalucia" one of his very best songs. If the righteous boogie of "Macbeth" sounds familiar, that's because Lowell George and Richie Hayward, guitarist and drummer of Little Feat, formed the core of Cale's studio band.

John Cale's 1973 album PARIS 1919 has long been justly celebrated as the most accessible and most purely beautiful record of his storied, multi-faceted career. And despite the album's abiding eccentricities-- the literary and historical allusions, posh orchestration, and abstruse lyricism-- it has often seemed to be Cale's most personal and revealing work as well, a deeply felt meditation on loss, dislocation, and introspective yearning. Throughout the album, Cale populates his songs with geographic detail-- including not just Paris, but also Barbury, Andalucia, Dunkirk, etc.-- and cryptic characters like Old Taylor, Segovia, and Farmer John.

As writer Matthew Specktor points out in his lively liner notes, these wry characterizations allow the album to take on the appearance of a "Graham Greene" novella, with Greene himself the subject of one of the album's strangest and most erudite tracks. On this track, as elsewhere on Paris 1919, Cale's lyrics veritably drip with intrigue and thinly-masked violence ("It must all seem like second nature/ Chopping down the people where they stand") with the album's central narrative based very loosely upon the Versailles Conference in 1919 Paris. But many of these songs contain tantalizing autobiographical overtones as well, particularly on the opening "Child's Christmas in Wales", which blends its Dylan Thomas references with what might be memories from Cale's own childhood. And on the elegiac "Half Past France", it's left ambiguous whether the song's narrator is a battle-weary WWI soldier returning from the front, or simply an exhausted touring musician wondering where exactly on the map he is ...while the sardonic, irreverent "Hanky Panky Nohow" most strongly hearkens back to his Velvet Underground roots."

TRACK LISTING
SIDE ONE:
Child's Christmas In Wales
Hanky Panky Nohow
The Endless Plain Of Fortune
Andalucia
Macbeth
SIDE TWO:
Paris 1919
Graham Greene
Half Past France
Antarctica Starts Here

Near Mint, unsplit REPRISE/WARNER BROS. LOSS LEADER Company inner sleeve included.

Extremely well-preserved Original issue with brilliant 1st Press sound
The bright-white cover on this title is usually found grimy with distinct ring wear - this one is C.L.E.A.N!
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Disc inside a separate V.R.P. anti-static lined inner sleeve to protect both the Vinyl and the original Inner
Album kept in a protective, poly outer-sleeve
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