#thoughtless kind

thoughtless kind at max's oct 3 1978

the thoughtless kind - schwabinger brau munich feb 28 1983

thoughtless kind at mabel's champaign ill sep 28 1981

The veteran musicians somehow end up looking in their own pasts to make the sense of their own possible futures, if that makes a lick of sense then. I mean, some manage to tour by playing their most famous albums, yet a couple like to rerecord them. Cale belongs to the category of these musicians, but don't hold that against him. Sure, he could've picked a better album for that than Music For A New Society. M:FANS, the remake, is not bad, one just find the latter a bit unnecessary thanks to the spectre of the original that remains one of Cale's greatest LPs thanks to the latter's haunting minimalism. I sort of get what Cale wanted to do with M:FANS, i.e. he wanted to check what happens with the grief later. Still, he should've tackled an album of original material for this theme.

John Cale - Thoughtless Kind

John Cale // “Thoughtless Kind” // M:FANS [2016]