John CaleBest John Cale Albums Ranked
7.9
Avg Score
25
Opinions
17
Albums
8
Reviewers
Summary from 25 ratings
On Wavelength, fans have rated John Cale's catalog across 17 albums from 25 opinions, with an overall average of 7.9/10. The top-rated John Cale album is POPtical Illusion (2024) with a 8.2/10 average from 5 ratings, followed by Mercy and Paris 1919 (Deluxe Edition). The discography on Wavelength spans 1970 to 2024.
Paris 1919 (Deluxe Edition)
“Rhino reissues this stately, haunting masterpiece, adding 11 previously unreleased tracks-- nearly tripling the running length of the original album.”
POPtical Illusion
“POPtical Illusion radiates John Cale's peace with the past”
Mercy
“For much of Mercy’s duration, it’s as though John Cale is participating from a supernatural plain. This striking tonal sensibility welcomes the listener with the airy opener and remains for its entirety. The Welsh artist is enveloped by twinkling textures, the reverb applied to his vocals (‘Marilyn Monroe’s Legs (beauty elsewhere)’, ‘Noise of You’) further conjures a spectral image of our protagon”
Music for a New Society/M:FANS
“Cale's 1982 solo album Music for a New Society is reissued and bundled with a vastly different new version of the record, allowing him to wring new meaning from old songs.”
POPtical Illusion
“Six decades into his run, the avant-garde rocker had made an album full of fresh focus and urgency”
POPtical Illusion
“To paraphrase dril, John Cale is mad. Absolutely do put in the newspaper that he gets mad on his 24th studio album, POPtical Illusion. The sound of it might suggest otherwise, especially when contrasted with last year’s Mercy; that record was rattled with anxiety, using thick blankets of ominous synth to evoke a claustrophobic and unsettling atmosphere that, when taken in tandem with the lyrics, w”
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