John Cale’s inventive retrospection (2017)

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>> and Rufus Wainwright sings on the soundtrack for the animated film “Shrek”—that most people recognize.

And interestingly it's the John Cale version of Hallelujah used in the Shrek film :)

But due to licensing issues it was changed to Wainright's version on the soundtrack album! - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_songs_featured_in_Shre...

Short, shameful confession: I got into John Cale as a teenager because I meant to check out a J. J. Cale album from the music library and thought it was the same guy.

Cale (this one) wrote a song about the confusion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KG2Fp0Y0oCc#t=15. That was at the decadent end of his menacing phase.

That's hilarious! And he DOES sound quite a bit like JJ in this song.

I remember hearing a version where he changed the words to "Never wrote a song called Cocaine, never wrote a song called Heroin", which is pretty funny given the VU. Addressing two rivals at once.

J.J. Cale's style always struck me as transcendent laid-backness, while laid-back might be the very last term one could apply to John Cale.

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