John Cale - Antarctica Starts Here

[@cultureclashmusicvideo4545]

As a young teenager in 1973, I found this album lying around the house. I asked my mum where it came from, and she told me she had bought it. My mum didn't buy many records, and I am pretty sure she did not know that John Cale had been a member of the Velvet Underground. I just assumed that she was attracted by the cover. Anyway, she didn't mind me borrowing it, and thus began a special chapter in my musical education. Thanks mum!

[@WKaliberr]

This album taught me more about early 1900s European history than my school

[@SFCBenny57]

Every song on this album is a classic. Cale was working as an A&R man in Hollywood when he wrote and recorded these songs. He missed being in Europe (except for Wales) and every song, except Antarctica Starts Here touches on something about the old country socially, geographically or just emotionally. I think I appreciate it now more than I did before my good fortune of having spent a few fleeting moments in the continent of my ancestors. When I am feeling all Europey (Yeah I know that it isn't a word) I listen to this and Hamburger Concerto by Focus.

[@dn6442]

Some say it's inspired from Sunset Boulevard; but there are many hints in the lyrics that this really is about being in the grip of heroin and the withdrawal symptoms.

[@tonybates7870]

@@dn6442 Yeah, you could be right. I had struggles with certain addictive substances in my youth; whenever the stuff started to wear off and I had no more of it I always thought "Antarctica starts here".

[@quoddie]

ugly mane brought me

[@filmguy3d]

I never tire of this album. It sparks such memories and is so beautifully sculpted. John Cale is still with us and is forever amazing. Thank you!

[@tristramshandy5299]

This song can make shiver my backspine every damn time I listen it.

[@MatthewMcRowan]

back when i was fitfteen

[@kzartix_______________________]

it seemed ugly was untouchable

[@grillcoop]

Talk about mellowing me out. good song late at night.

[@leehoven5687]

Whenever i hear this song i can perfectly imagine it as an ending credits song of a very sad movie.

[@elrobertoreal]

Gänsehautnummer, auch noch nach x-maligem Anhören, eine seiner genialsten Nummern!

[@undergrounddaddy1]

1000% agree,,,erstklassich mr Ganser

[@natfletcher1445]

je suis d'accord. Geht mir genauso

[@andymorphic67]

this song makes me so sad...because of the end of the most perfect album ever made.

[@MisterSpinalzo]

back when i was 15 it seemed ugly was untouchable

[@patriciofernandez2711]

cigarette smoking man What do you mean? What an intriguing comment

[@Galil_Ace]

@@patriciofernandez2711 it's lyrics from another song that sampled this song

[@Guervens]

What, they gonna throw me in the juvy for a month or two?

[@TheXxxman64THERESNOPOINT]

Try me, im still ain't doing nothing that you want me to

[@kzartix_______________________]

cuttin and disruptin every classroom discussion

[@avoidbeing]

view a landscape littered with the blisters of potential, people letting ghosts govern most of their mental

[@honeymoonisover]

back when i was 15

[@boreddd35]

it seemed ugly was untouchable

[@blato4515]

@BIGBABYHAIR try me, i still aint doin nothin that they want me to

[@blato4515]

cussin out my mom, puffin blunts, gettin dusted@BIGBABYHAIR

[@Jan191]

@BIGBABYHAIR things I know now, I guess I felt em back then

[@Jan191]

@BIGBABYHAIR the shit that they condemn you can see amongst them

[@rlovedakid1580]

Drain counter - Lil Ugly Mane 0:00

[@yohppoy]

Sparklehorse 25 years before...

[@derkaderk]

my favorite song

[@blueconcretezebra]

Antarctica still starts here. And always will...

[@davidsiuraneta7300]

Glorious... agree, my friend!

[@hamfood9658]

so peaceful

[@borbetomagus]

Curiously, John Cale re-recorded the song for "Paris s'éveille" OST in a slightly more driving tempo (and accompaniment). Instead of searching that out, look for 'Amsterdam' from his debut album "Vintage Violence" and 'I've Got A Secret', which is perhaps John Cale's first widespread performance from 1963. He would meet Lou Reed in 1964.

[@rafaelwillems3244]

treacherous, oh so treacherously so

[@roxanakeret]

Te leo GGT y con eso me dispongo a escuchar tus recomendaciones...

[@jackemlyn062]

This is very nice indeed!!!!!! =))

[@stevecooper445]

sweetest

[@guybudziak6830]

Inspired by the 1950 Billy Wilder film Sunset Boulevard starring Gloria Swanson...

[@roberthdm]

I'm here because of William Gibson's MonaLisa Overdrive, anyone else?

[@BNardolilli]

why is this so damn quiet :(

[@kzartix_______________________]

back when i was 15 it seemed ugly was untouchable