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From http://www.spincds.com:

"John Cale - 'Paris 1919'

A 'Remastered & Expanded' version of John Cale's classic 1973 album from Rhino. More details soon, released May 29th"

Cool. Wonder if it'll have the studio version of 'The Biggest, Loudest, Hairiest Group Of All' that was recorded at the same time as 'Dixieland And Dixie'?

This is good news, now I have this to look forward to along with new Cure, Depeche Mode, and Siouxsie and the Banshees remastered albums.

Tower has this listed as a release date of June 13th.
Amazon has June 15th as the street date.
But Rhino http://www.rhino.com/store/upcoming.lasso doesn't have it listed at all. . .so I'm not going to hold my breath.
Loads of bonus tracks though. Yep, this one is going in my collection.
1. Child's Christmas In Wales / John Cale
2. Hanky Panky Nohow / John Cale
3. Endless Plain Of Fortune / John Cale
4. Andalucia / John Cale
5. Macbeth / John Cale
6. Paris 1919 / John Cale
7. Graham Greene / John Cale
8. Half Past France / John Cale
9. Antarctica Starts Here / John Cale
10. Burned Out Affair (Sketches & Roughs For Paris 1919) / John Cale
11. Child's Christmas In Wales (Alternative Mix) (Sketches & Roughs For Paris 1919) / John Cale
12. Hanky Panky Nowhow (Drone Mix) (Sketches & Roughs For Paris 1919) / John Cale
13. Endless Plain Of Fortune (Alternative Version) (Sketches & Roughs For Paris 1919 / John Cale
14. Andalucia (Rehearsal) (Sketches & Roughs For Paris 1919) / John Cale
15. Macbeth (Rehearsal) (Sketches & Roughs For Paris 1919) / John Cale
16. Paris 1919 (String Mix) (Sketches & Roughs For Paris 1919) / John Cale
17. Graham Greene (Rehearsal) (Sketches & Roughs For Paris 1919) / John Cale
18. Half Past France (Alternative Version) (Sketches & Roughs For Paris 1919) / John Cale
19. Antarctica Starts Here (Rehearsal) (Sketches & Roughs For Paris 1919) / John Cale
20. Paris 1919 (Piano Mix) (Sketches & Roughs For Paris 1919) / John Cale

GET FOOKING IN!!

As I believe they say in, er, Wales.

As an aside, it's odd, isn't it, how John and Lou's early solo albums seem to kind of mirror each other:

1. Low-key, surprisingly conventional rock album - Lou Reed / Vintage Violence

2. Accomplished, beautifully produced, relatively poppy - Transformer / Paris 1919

3. Dark and evil - Berlin / Fear

4. Stodgy, decadent rock - Sally Can't Dance / Slow Dazzle

On the other hand, much like The Gift and Booker T, there are of course as many differences as there are similarities!

Happy to have it (and I'm not doing much double dipping these days), but it seems strange that "Dixie and Dixieland" isn't on there - yeah, I know most of us probably have it already on the Rhino compilation, but it seems it would be a no-brainer as a bonus track nonetheless.

Mark wrote: On the other hand, much like The Gift and Booker T, there are of course as many differences as there are similarities!

Getting topical now are we Mark!

Speaking of the Rhino releases, how come these get so quickly unavailable? The John Cale releases at least. I can't find MFANS and the Seducing Down The Door compilation anywhere but on eBay. Is it because of a low circulation, bad distribution or just lack of interest?

It's probably because they're a relatively small company, and once they've gone through the X-thousands of copies they manufacture, they figure there's not enough potential sales left to have another pressing made.

Just a guess.