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Honi Soit (album)

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Released
  
March 1981

Producer
  
Mike Thorne, John Cale

Release date
  
March 1981

Genres
  
Rock music, Art rock

Length
  
37:45

Artist
  
John Cale

Label
  
A&M Records

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Recorded
  
CBS Studios, East 30th St. & Media Sound, New York City, United States

Honi Soit (1981)
  
Music for a New Society (1982)

Similar
  
John Cale albums, Rock music albums

John cale honi soit full album 1981


Honi Soit is the seventh studio album by Welsh musician John Cale, released in 1981 by record label A&M.

Contents

Dead or alive


Content

All songs were written by Cale, except "Streets of Laredo", a traditional song arranged by Cale. The track "Need Your Loving" was left off the album in favour of "Riverbank".

Andy Warhol suggested the album should be called John and Yoko, and provided the cover art, in black and white, but against Warhol's wishes Cale colorized it. In a tongue-in-cheek allusion to the song "Fighter Pilot", the credits on the sleeve give each of the musicians a mock military aviation role, with Cale described as "flight surgeon". The album's title is an abbreviation of the phrase ″Honi soit qui mal y pense″ (French: "shame upon him who thinks evil of it"), the motto of the British Order of the Garter.

Release

Honi Soit was released in March 1981 by record label A&M. The album is Cale's only album to date to chart in the US, reaching number 154.

Track listing

All tracks composed by John Cale; except where indicated

Side A
  1. "Dead or Alive"
  2. "Strange Times in Casablanca"
  3. "Fighter Pilot"
  4. "Wilson Joliet"
  5. "Streets of Laredo" (Traditional)
Side B
  1. "Honi Soit (La Première Leçon de Français)"
  2. "Riverbank"
  3. "Russian Roulette"
  4. "Magic & Lies"

Personnel

  • John Cale – lead vocals ("flight surgeon"), guitar, keyboards, viola
  • John Gatchell – trumpet
  • Jim Goodwin – keyboards, synthesizer, backing vocals ("gunner")
  • Peter Muny – bass guitar, backing vocals ("wing and prop")
  • Robert Medici – drums, backing vocals ("navigator")
  • Sturgis Nikides – guitar, backing vocals ("hellcat")
  • Bomberettes (members of Mo-dettes) – backing vocals on "Fighter Pilot"
  • Technical
  • Mike Thorne - producer ("computer processing")
  • Harvey Goldberg – recording, mixing
  • Carl Beatty – engineering
  • Harold Tarowsky – assistant engineering
  • Jane Friedman - management ("propaganda")
  • John Vogel - graphic design
  • Andy Warhol - cover concept
  • Fred Lorey - photography
  • Warren Frank - "flight engineer"
  • Louis Tropia - "logistics"
  • Thank you "Michael Leon and A&M Records"

    Songs

    1Dead or Alive3:52
    2Strange Times in Casablanca4:13
    3Fighter Pilot3:10

    References

    Honi Soit (album) Wikipedia