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Honi Soit
Rock · 1981 · 9 tracks

Honi Soit

John Cale

A jagged, high-tension collision of post-punk aggression and polished new wave production. Cale's most confrontational and commercially ambitious 80s statement.

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It's like a spy thriller set in a 1981 dive bar with a really aggressive house band.

A high-stakes, paranoid energy that feels both intellectually calculated and emotionally volatile.

Honi Soit · vs · John Cale
Intense+3.4σ

Intense saturates this record far more than the artist's norm.

Tracklist · 9 Tracks
01
Dead or Alive
3:51
02
Strange Times in Casablanca
4:13
03
Fighter Pilot
3:10
04
Wilson Joliet
4:23
05
Streets of Laredo
3:34
06
Honi Soit (La Première Leçon de Français)
3:20
07
Riverbank
6:26
08
Russian Roulette
5:15
09
Magic & Lies
3:26
Moments Worth Waiting For
The jarring opening trumpet blast of Dead or Alive that signals a violent break from his previous acoustic work.
The rhythmic, repetitive French lesson chanting in the title track that transforms from a tutorial into a hypnotic, unsettling mantra.
The final, relentless pounding of the drums on Magic & Lies that brings the album to a breathless, percussive collapse.
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