Honi Soit (album)

Infobox Album | Name = Honi Soit
Type = Album
Artist = John Cale


Released = 1981
Recorded = CBS, E. 30th St. & Media Sound, NYC
Genre = Rock
Producer = Mike Thorne
Executive producer: John Cale
Length = 37:45
Reviews = * Allmusic Rating|3|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:0em1z88ajyv2 link]
Last album = "Sabotage/Live"
(1979)
This album = "Honi Soit"
(1981)
Next album = "Music for a New Society"
(1982) |

"Honi Soit" is a 1981 album by John Cale. All songs were written by Cale, except "Streets Of Laredo", a traditional song arranged by Cale.

Andy Warhol suggested the album should be called "John and Yoko." The musicians on this album are listed as the crew of fighter airplane, with Cale as the flight surgeon.

The album's title is an abbreviation of the phrase "Honni soit qui mal y pense" (French: "shame upon him who thinks evil of it"), the motto of the British Order of the Garter. The spelling of the word "Honi" is old French, it would nowadays be spelt "Honni".

The album is Cale's only album to date to chart in the US, reaching #154.

Track listing

All songs written by John Cale, except "Streets Of Laredo", traditional arranged by John Cale

# "Dead Or Alive"
# "Strange Times In Casablanca"
# "Fighter Pilot"
# "Wilson Joliet"
# "Streets of Laredo"
# "Honi Soit ("La première Leçon De Français")"
# "Riverbank"
# "Russian Roulette"
# "Magic & Lies"

Personnel

* John Cale: guitar, keyboards, viola, lead vocals
* John Gatchell: trumpet
* Jim Goodwin: keyboards, synthesizer, background vocals
* Peter Muny: bass, background vocals
* Robert Medici: drums, background vocals
* Sturgis Nikides: guitar, background vocals
* Bomberettes (a.k.a. The Mo-dettes): background vocals on "Fighter Pilot"