Seducing Down the Door
| Seducing Down the Door: A Collection 1970−1990 | ||||
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| Compilation album by John Cale | ||||
| Released | 5 July 1994 | |||
| Recorded | 1970−1990 | |||
| Genre | Rock | |||
| Length | 2:34:17 | |||
| Label | Rhino | |||
| Producer |
John Cale Lewis Merenstein (Vintage Violence tracks) Chris Thomas (Paris 1919 tracks) Mike Thorne (Honi Soit tracks) Brian Eno (Words for the Dying and Wrong Way Up tracks) Lou Reed (Songs for Drella tracks) | |||
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Seducing Down the Door: A Collection 1970−1990 is the second compilation album by Welsh musician John Cale, released by Rhino Records in July 1994. It featured songs from Cale's albums released between 1970 and 1990 (including songs from collaborative albums with Brian Eno and Lou Reed). It is perhaps most notable for including the songs "Jack the Ripper" (unreleased single from 1978), and "Temper" (outtake from The Academy in Peril album)
Track listing
| Disc 1 | ||||
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| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Original album | Length |
| 1. | "The Protege" | John Cale, Terry Riley | Church of Anthrax (1971) | 2:56 |
| 2. | "Big White Cloud" | Cale | Vintage Violence (1970) | 3:30 |
| 3. | "Amsterdam" | Cale | Vintage Violence (1970) | 3:14 |
| 4. | "Days of Steam" | Cale | The Academy in Peril (1972) | 2:01 |
| 5. | "Temper" | Cale | The Academy in Peril outtake | 5:00 |
| 6. | "Dixieland and Dixie" | Cale | single (1971) | 3:20 |
| 7. | "Child's Christmas in Wales" | Cale | Paris 1919 (1973) | 3:23 |
| 8. | "Paris 1919" | Cale | Paris 1919 (1973) | 4:05 |
| 9. | "Andalucia" | Cale | Paris 1919 (1973) | 3:53 |
| 10. | "Fear Is a Man's Best Friend" | Cale | Fear (1974) | 3:55 |
| 11. | "Gun" | Cale | Fear (1974) | 8:06 |
| 12. | "(I Keep A) Close Watch" | Cale | Helen of Troy (1975) | 3:26 |
| 13. | "Heartbreak Hotel" | Mae Boren Axton, Tommy Durden, Elvis Presley | Slow Dazzle (1975) | 3:15 |
| 14. | "Dirty-Ass Rock 'N' Roll" | Cale | Slow Dazzle (1975) | 4:46 |
| 15. | "Guts" | Cale | Slow Dazzle (1975) | 3:32 |
| 16. | "The Jeweller" | Cale | Slow Dazzle (1975) | 4:17 |
| 17. | "Pablo Picasso" | Jonathan Richman | Helen of Troy (1975) | 3:23 |
| 18. | "Leaving It up to You" | Cale | Helen of Troy (1975) | 4:33 |
| 19. | "Coral Moon" | Cale | Helen of Troy (1975) | 2:15 |
| 20. | "Memphis" | Chuck Berry | Animal Justice (1977) | 3:24 |
| Disc 2 | ||||
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| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Original album | Length |
| 1. | "Jack the Ripper" | Cale | unreleased single (1978) | 3:09 |
| 2. | "Hedda Gabler" | Cale | Animal Justice (1977) | 8:12 |
| 3. | "Walkin' the Dog" (live) | Rufus Thomas | Sabotage/Live (1979) | 4:5 |
| 4. | "Dead or Alive" | Cale | Honi Soit (1981) | 3:53 |
| 5. | "Strange Times in Casablanca" | Cale | Honi Soit (1981) | 4:17 |
| 6. | "Taking Your Life in Your Hands" | Cale | Music for a New Society (1982) | 4:48 |
| 7. | "Thoughtless Kind" | Cale | Music for a New Society (1982) | 2:44 |
| 8. | "Chinese Envoy" | Cale | Music for a New Society (1982) | 3:11 |
| 9. | "Caribbean Sunset" | Cale | Caribbean Sunset (1984) | 4:23 |
| 10. | "Waiting for the Man" (live) | Lou Reed | John Cale Comes Alive (1984) | 4:43 |
| 11. | "Ooh La La" | Cale, Larry Sloman | John Cale Comes Alive (1984) | 4:22 |
| 12. | "Everytime the Dogs Bark" | Cale, Sloman, David Young | Artificial Intelligence (1985) | 4:17 |
| 13. | "Dying on the Vine" | Cale, Sloman | Artificial Intelligence (1985) | 5:08 |
| 14. | "The Soul of Carmen Miranda" | Cale, Brian Eno | Words for the Dying (1989) | 3:26 |
| 15. | "One Word" | Cale, Eno | Wrong Way Up (1990) | 4:38 |
| 16. | "Cordoba" | Cale, Eno | Wrong Way Up (1990) | 4:25 |
| 17. | "Trouble with Classicists" | Cale, Reed | Songs for Drella (1990) | 3:44 |
| 18. | "Faces and Names" | Cale, Reed | Songs for Drella (1990) | 4:12 |
Total length: |
2:34:17 | |||
References
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