for reference here's a list of his production work i random-googled, seems pretty much like he took whatever work he was offered but maybe there's some logic at work here i cannot see. I don't thinki i've heard enough of these records to know how i feel about him as a producer... i do know the ones i've listened to a lot, like stooges and horses, i like a lot.
here's that list i was talkign about:
Art Bergmann Crawl With Me 1988Chunki, Novi and Ernie Chunki, Novi and Ernie 1974Element of Crime Try to be Mensch 1987Alejandro Escovedo The Boxing Mirror 2006Louise Feron Amour Fou 1991Garageland Feel alright 1997Goya Dress Glorious 1996Goya Dress Rooms 1996Happy Mondays Squirrel And G-man Twenty Four Hour Party People Plastic Face Carnt Smile (White Out) 1987Happy Mondays Loads (& Loads More) 1995Jesus Lizard Jesus Lizard 1998David Kubinec Some Things Never Change 1978Larry and Tommy Yo-Yo 1978Lio Popmodel 1986Made For TV So Afraid of the Russians/Unknown Soldier 1983Maids of Gravity The First Second 1996Marie et Les Garçons Attitudes/Re-Bop 1978Mediæval Baebes Undrentide 2000Menace I Need Nothing (single) 1977Model Citizens Shift the Blame (ep) 1979Modern Guy Une Nouvelle Vie 1980Modern Lovers Modern Lovers 1973Necessaries You Can Borrow My Car / Runaway Child (single) 1979Nico Desertshore 1970Nico The End 1974Nico Camera Obscura 1985Les Nouvelles Polyphonies Corses In Paradisu 1996Los Ronaldos Sabor Salado 1992Sham 69 I Don't Wanna / Red London / Ulster (single) 1977Silverhead Sixteen And Savaged 1973Siouxsie & The Banshees The Rapture 1994Patti Smith Group Horses 1975Snatch Shopping For Clothes/Joey/Red Army 1980Squeeze Packet of Three (EP) 1977Squeeze Squeeze 1978Squeeze Wrong Way (single) 1979Alan Stivell I Douar 1998Stooges Stooges 1969Harry Toledo & The Rockets Harry Toledo & The Rockets 1978Various Artists Sixteen Candles 1984Various Artists Caged/Uncaged 1993Ventilator desert station frequency 1999Big Vern Lullabies for Lager Louts 1989Jennifer Warnes Jennifer 1972
― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Saturday, 23 September 2006 02:01 (nineteen years ago)
― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Saturday, 23 September 2006 02:03 (nineteen years ago)
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Saturday, 23 September 2006 02:19 (nineteen years ago)
― timmy tannin (pompous), Saturday, 23 September 2006 02:23 (nineteen years ago)
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Saturday, 23 September 2006 02:25 (nineteen years ago)
I always assumed Adrian Sherwood produced this. He produced Judy Nylon's Pal Judy record which came out sometime after and sounds similar, or at least is dubbed out to a greater degree.
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Saturday, 23 September 2006 03:32 (nineteen years ago)
She wasn't yet Jennifer Warnes, she was still Jennifer Warren, late of the Smothers Brothers TV show and the LA folkie circuit. She'd done two albums for Parrot by this time, IIRC, as just "Jennifer", and Cale's production in 1972 was the third (and last) Jennifer LP. I don't think any of them have been released on CD, except for some of the Parrot material on some obscure Warnes compilations.
I'd characterize what little I've heard (via MP3 blogs and WFMU) as "art-pop", and I think they're all covers of contemporary rock/pop songs — it may not be uniformly great, but it seems uniformly interesting, and not the sort of stuff you'd expect if you know her by her AOR/Top-40 successes (or even the Leonard Cohen stuff). Cale may have been the perfect producer for her.
Here's a review of Jennifer (the Cale one), from the Bomp List.
― mark 0 (mark 0), Saturday, 23 September 2006 10:10 (nineteen years ago)
― mark 0 (mark 0), Saturday, 23 September 2006 10:13 (nineteen years ago)
― timmy tannin (pompous), Saturday, 23 September 2006 14:43 (nineteen years ago)
― DV (dirtyvicar), Sunday, 24 September 2006 17:40 (nineteen years ago)