John Cale - Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night

[MrDSCarminia]

i love it !!!!

[RockingJamboree]

Amazing.

[barakobama]

I had drinks with Eno in the late 80's. It was one of those happenstance meetings. John Cale was there, and I ended up with a great tale.

Nice people.

Cheers!

[GDS4VR]

@barakobama  WAY COOL!!!!!!!

[barakobama]

@GDS4VR

It is, isn't it!

[GDS4VR]

@GDS4VR Read Dylan Thomas if you get a chance. In the 60's he was required + I'm glad he was. Also, Kevin Ayers "May I?"

[MisAnnThorpe]

I'm a very big fan of John Cale but I just find this deadly dull. No pun intended!

[edmund184]

@MisAnnThorpe Give it a few listens (like so much of Cale's work). It grows on you.

[natalik]

John Cale, my dearest friend, when I listen to you, I feel like myself again

[eklarabella]

Just so haunting, it gets more powerful with every hearing, stunning orchestration!

[BOXER62]

I can see this man has a talent but this is not a little ditty of a song This is a beautiful powerful poem. Made so with the spoken word . Only sixteen shades BrazenRogue im sure its more than that.

[BrazenRogue]

Right. Because even the greatest poems need a catchy pop beat. I like Cale, but this is sixteen shades of awful.

[batterycock]

0:49 thats the bassist and drummer from the smiths.

[jocksilver7]

in late 89 I bought the lp but didn't know he had been playing it live in such a classy manner as early as 87. This is golden stuff - thanks a lot for sharing! A Revelation!

[Buildaburgerdurka]

Sometimes a good steak should be eaten on it's own.

[SickboySecurity]

@Buildaburgerdurka I completely agree.

[SickboySecurity]

@Buildaburgerdurka 

[bowedmyhead]

@Buildaburgerdurka What do you mean by this?

[Buildaburgerdurka]

@bowedmyhead Listen to Dylan Thomas read the poem.

[Arykermanchi]

@Buildaburgerdurka Indeed, dear youtuber.

[glorigog]

Very Blake, my dear John Cale Thomas

[MyLordPariah]

@glorigog HAHAHA love the wit sarcasm and yet admiriation in that.

[haiboriver]

John Cale for Dylan Thomas' poem...what a match..

[egIeichmmalcquadrat]

0:54 min

Is this Jay Leno or the Elephant Man?

[MrUndersolo]

I have never heard this before, and as a former English major and VU fan, I thank ForARide for posting this... Amazing.

[tommyk77]

Certainly very different from Stravinsky's setting of the words

[hclee]

Thank you from the bottom of my scarlet heart.

[hurin6]

Those kids look really bored

[Eagle50461]

Man  kann doch einfach sagen: Genial(John)

mehr braucht es nicht!

[stiggyh]

@Eagle50461 hahahaha genau ;)

[Jestiron222]

I have to admit...I thought this was absolute garbage at first...but it really started to grow on me..

do dah dah dit dit dit dah...

do dah dah dit dit dit dah

do dah dah dit dit dit dah...

do dah dah dit dit dit dah...

I see....it represents the monotony of life...of time...and the droning nothingness that slips from us.

The more I listen...the more I like...

Perhaps a little fast...but still love what was done for the risk and the ability to envision it! Well done!!!

[Prometheus1st]

BTW....this is what I read at my Mother's Funeral when she died from cancer.

So....I know about loss...but this poem has a message....so take it....and run....PLEASE.

{don't respond to me about my Mother. She has been gone over 10-yrs, so I am past it....but TYVM for your sympathy}

I Just wanted to let you know how much a kind act can accomplish.

I have 3 children...and if they never achieve anything....if they show kindness to those who they meet...I will be happy.

I wish you all well.

[gtredshoes]

@Prometheus1st

Wonderful ... thanks for posting this. What a great tribute to your mom.

Peace, gtr

[Prometheus1st]

What this poem means...beyond the obvious tribute to Dylan's Father is....FIGHT....do NOT be repressed...do NOT be subjugated. MAKE the future. Do not be it's observer.

A contemporary fictional movie..."The Terminator" said it best: "NO FATE EXCEPT WHAT YOU MAKE."

Get involved in the world around you.

[Dracklen248]

I think the message is a little different, those alive need you still to struggle against the last part of your life, because in your last phase of life, we want to validate what we have done.

I don't know if it was suggesting a way of life of 'seize the moment,' but rather a way to cope of recognition of the strength of the human spirit.

Just my take on it

[southsydney]

this is beautiful

[icemangcoy]

i love this

[rajasmasala]

what is the instrument cale plays?

[rajasmasala]

pedal steel guitar

[stiggyh]

its called a piano ;)

[rajasmasala]

no, i did some wikiing. you can see the table format, the strings, a slide, and the pick. These are all features of the pedal steel

[slyfusion]

it's an electric grand piano (something like a Yamaha CP-80)

[rajasmasala]

can see where interpol stole its style from

[gloriagomezguzman]

¡ABSOLUTELY PERFECT: DYLAN THOMAS AND jOHN CALE!  ¡THE GODDES EXIST!

[renetastoimenova]

..and it doesn't need to be grave as the poem is optimistic despite imminent death, and that might be just a natural example of irony in life, unintentional irony, as our whole existence seems to be ;)

[renetastoimenova]

honestly, i miss their smiles :))))

[viergevivacebel]

I like very much Cale and `Words For The Dying-The Falkland Suite´, but I have'nt pay any attention to the lyrics. I just read them and really this music is a pop love song in contrast with the poem. The rythm of the poem demands also a totally different musical rendering.

[baller11331]

What the heck is this crap

[dylas1]

what the hell has he done to this poem - its like a soap advert - thomas is spinning in his grave

[trollfinger]

This was on the radio the day after my dad died. That's when I first heard it. It was the poem, not this song. But I love John Cale too.

[medmondsr]

i loled

[lgeisj8888]

hideous

[jonesthestone]

what a load of shite, poor old dylan would be turning in his grave, richard burton would be cringing in his,

[grrss]

I'm not expert, but isnt this a little too 'cheerful' for this poem?

[alannigelmarshall]

The studio versions arent so cheerful

[tahoecigs]

This is a disgrace not only to Dylan Thomas, but to poetry as an art. Not everything is meant to be placed to music... especially not this poem. John Cale has tried to destroy a masterpiece.

[NicoDraak74]

From the Velvet Underground to this...

John Cale is a musical genius, no less.

[pimmeke07]

This is more than incredible. This is the first time John Cale did his Falkland Suite in public. I sang in that choir, I'm on this video!!! Incredible to find this almost 20 years later. Thanks to the person who posted this!!!!!

[peterzang]

@pimmeke07 That is so cool. How did he find you guys?

[TheNorseLegend]

@pimmeke07 you must feel yourself to be a most lucky person. at least once you were bathed in welsh gold

[Mk2ification]

@pimmeke07 bullshit

[fracturedminds]

Music can be so powerful, expressive and emotive - it can summon a long forgotten feeling or memory from within the hardest soul

But not in this case - what a load of old tosh! Great peom let down terribly by the music

[n9freaky]

I don't think this captures the mood for me.

[hctfonyt]

Filmed at the Paradiso in Amsterdam, The Netherlands - November 15, 1987.

[xxpiggystardustxx]

awesome

[astroman287]

nice touch with the choir,it kinda suits with the song.

[Toyboy789]

an absolute Cale masterpiece - as is everything on this amazing set! I particularly like the use of slide here. Neat!

Thanks ForARide. I have checked all yr Cale postings, and there are some real pearlers among them!

[cannibaljuice]

i love john cale cause he is also classy

[moribundlust]

joy, rapture