It's funny, just before I heard this song for the first time I'd said to myself (having heard The Velvet Underground & Nico several times) "the Velvets sound like a really New York band, you'd forget that they had a Welshman in their midst" and then The Gift starts up, followed by Lady Godiva's Operation, two songs which showcase the brilliantly Welsh vocals of John Cale. How many times I practised reading these lyrics in a thick Welsh accent! And Cale played piano on the last Super Furry Animals album (if you didn't know, they are, with the Manic Street Preachers, Wales' biggest & best band).
I'm not actually Welsh BTW, but I live not too far away from there.
It's funny, just before I heard this song for the first time I'd said to myself (having heard The Velvet Underground & Nico several times) "the Velvets sound like a really New York band, you'd forget that they had a Welshman in their midst" and then The Gift starts up, followed by Lady Godiva's Operation, two songs which showcase the brilliantly Welsh vocals of John Cale. How many times I practised reading these lyrics in a thick Welsh accent! And Cale played piano on the last Super Furry Animals album (if you didn't know, they are, with the Manic Street Preachers, Wales' biggest & best band).
I'm not actually Welsh BTW, but I live not too far away from there.