No but seriously.
― Badmotorfinger Debate Club (MFB), Sunday, 12 September 2010 02:52 (thirteen years ago) link
surprisingly, the new record sounds better than the debut, but still - Nick isn't what he used to be, and i got somewhat tired of those Stooges imitations.
― Zeno, Sunday, 12 September 2010 20:49 (thirteen years ago) link
he's written songs for a stage version of Kafka's "Metamorphosis"? Is this new?
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 12 September 2010 20:55 (thirteen years ago) link
i don't no, but i wouldnt be surprised if he did.
― Zeno, Sunday, 12 September 2010 21:01 (thirteen years ago) link
know
he and Woz scored a theatre adaptation four/five years back that's been staged in a few countries - if it's all songs qua songs now that could be new
― Teddybears.SHTML (sic), Monday, 13 September 2010 04:16 (thirteen years ago) link
Nick isn't what he used to be
it's probably a good thing he isn't trying to do the same things he did 30 years ago
this is a really good album
― congratulations (n/a), Monday, 13 September 2010 13:01 (thirteen years ago) link
THIS IS OUT TODAY
― markers, Wednesday, 15 September 2010 21:01 (thirteen years ago) link
85 on Metacritic
http://www.metacritic.com/music/grinderman-2
"Nick isn't what he used to be
it's probably a good thing he isn't trying to do the same things he did 30 years ago"
i meant in terms of talent. imo.
― Zeno, Thursday, 16 September 2010 02:01 (thirteen years ago) link
i dunno, i never cared for nick cave before, but i dig what i've heard from this new disc. and i think i dig it precisely because of his aging, angsty letch he plays in these songs.
― Daniel, Esq., Thursday, 16 September 2010 02:03 (thirteen years ago) link
did you care for The Birthday Party?
― Zeno, Thursday, 16 September 2010 02:04 (thirteen years ago) link
no. i thought TBP had some interesting-to-provocative lines (e.g., "oh! god! please let me die beneath her fists"), but the music left me cold.
― Daniel, Esq., Thursday, 16 September 2010 02:08 (thirteen years ago) link
i didn't give TBP much of a chance, to be fair.
― Daniel, Esq., Thursday, 16 September 2010 02:09 (thirteen years ago) link
will this album make me believe in the essential goodness of mankind
― markers, Thursday, 16 September 2010 02:10 (thirteen years ago) link
yes
― Daniel, Esq., Thursday, 16 September 2010 02:10 (thirteen years ago) link
ok i was thinking of buying it today & didn't but maybe I'll head out to the record store tomorrow and do so
― markers, Thursday, 16 September 2010 02:11 (thirteen years ago) link
uhh . . . i was kidding? it won't make you believe in the essential goodness of humankind. it will make you appreciate the depths to which people will sink to quiet their personal demons.
― Daniel, Esq., Thursday, 16 September 2010 02:14 (thirteen years ago) link
i know it's probably only me, but i see a very slow and painful decline in Cave's releases ever since TBP hiatus.(though Grinderman are better than anything he did in the last 20 years)
― Zeno, Thursday, 16 September 2010 02:14 (thirteen years ago) link
uhh . . . i was kidding?
hahaha, i know man
still thinkin of grabbin the record though
― markers, Thursday, 16 September 2010 02:16 (thirteen years ago) link
"it's probably a good thing he isn't trying to do the same things he did 30 years ago"
on 2nd thought, he does, but this is so much better:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A76bcBTdBMs
― Zeno, Thursday, 16 September 2010 02:16 (thirteen years ago) link
((((((((((d-_-b))))))))))
― ☞ ☹ (markers), Sunday, 19 September 2010 23:32 (thirteen years ago) link
I dig the new album but it sags a bit in the middle.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Monday, 20 September 2010 00:41 (thirteen years ago) link
yea my take on the grinderman stuff from the last album was like 'oh good he's back to something he's better at, well kinda'. but it's like he can't shake that literary monkey off his back? and yeah i really prefer the raucous jokester side of nick and i'm glad he's mining that or something like it again but maaaan do i miss rowland.
― she's one intense bitch, she rides a unicycle (arby's), Monday, 20 September 2010 00:45 (thirteen years ago) link
which = basically i am unrealistically wanting this to be the birthday party and setting myself up for disappointment.
― she's one intense bitch, she rides a unicycle (arby's), Monday, 20 September 2010 00:46 (thirteen years ago) link
I can't quite fathom anyone liking Grinderman better than the Birthday Party.
― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Monday, 20 September 2010 00:55 (thirteen years ago) link
This is shit music made by shit people for shit people.
If you like this, blog about Nick Cave's fucking facial hair then cut yourself with a piece of fucking glass and throw yourself off a fucking bridge.
― Hipstamatic Priest (King Boy Pato), Monday, 20 September 2010 11:56 (thirteen years ago) link
Insightful criticism!
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Monday, 20 September 2010 12:10 (thirteen years ago) link
If you're wondering what music King Boy Pato does enjoy, he can recently be found on the Interpol new s/t album thread ("Might get around to listening to this"): Interpol - Interpol
― ilxor has truly been got at and become an ILXor (ilxor), Monday, 20 September 2010 13:17 (thirteen years ago) link
Pato wants a barricade to keep him away from shit music made by shit people for shit people
― ☞ ☹ (markers), Monday, 20 September 2010 14:32 (thirteen years ago) link
Pato's trolling itt is boring and stuff
― ☞ ☹ (markers), Monday, 20 September 2010 14:44 (thirteen years ago) link
We're always calling his bluff.
― ilxor has truly been got at and become an ILXor (ilxor), Monday, 20 September 2010 15:17 (thirteen years ago) link
Great Pfork interview w/ Grinderman today:
http://pitchfork.com/features/interviews/7843-nick-cavegrinderman
I'm just grinder man, y'all never mind me
― ☞ ☹ (markers), Monday, 20 September 2010 15:46 (thirteen years ago) link
Here is the gorgeous Nick Cave with his rabbit Fluffy:
http://mog1.state51.co.uk/tid/3d963eca0c73ddf4e16b0e32be22b53bcebd9e4a/eehbgui/hoifjumcc/1576770000054.jpeg
― ilxor has truly been got at and become an ILXor (ilxor), Thursday, 23 September 2010 13:37 (thirteen years ago) link
Mo bunny blues?
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Thursday, 23 September 2010 17:42 (thirteen years ago) link
"Have you seen how Bunny's purring?"
― Duran (Doran), Thursday, 23 September 2010 18:59 (thirteen years ago) link
I love that he's also toting an extremely dorky looking canvas shopping bag, like he's returning from Trader Joe's.
I've been surprised/amused to see some fairly huffy reviews in The Wire and NME about Grinderman's "boring misogyny." Does one really need to be familiar with his body of work going back to The Birthday Party to appreciate the humor in Grinderman?
― Fastnbulbous, Thursday, 23 September 2010 19:35 (thirteen years ago) link
mate, worm tamer is actually awesome. His voice managed to not piss me of like it does with post BP stuff.
― owenf, Friday, 24 September 2010 12:55 (thirteen years ago) link
an extremely dorky looking canvas shopping bag
That is a Current 93 shopping bag, the picture is from their most recent mailout.
― margana (anagram), Friday, 24 September 2010 13:34 (thirteen years ago) link
Uhh guys, I just picked up Grinderman 2 this afternoon... and it FUCKING SLAYS.
― ilxor has truly been got at and become an ILXor (ilxor), Saturday, 25 September 2010 00:05 (thirteen years ago) link
everything ilxor just said can also be said for myself.
― surfboard dudes get wiped out, totally, Monday, 27 September 2010 16:52 (thirteen years ago) link
man this rules
― The Black NAGL's Death Thong (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 27 September 2010 21:45 (thirteen years ago) link
nick is hilarious on this record! also like 65 percent of this seems to be nick trying to talk housewives into fucking him
― The Black NAGL's Death Thong (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 28 September 2010 15:58 (thirteen years ago) link
From Glasgow Barrowlands on Tuesday night...
http://krakow.zenfolio.com/img/s10/v18/p595028631-3.jpg
The live experience got a thumbs up from me, even if it was a frantic pain to shoot.
― krakow, Wednesday, 29 September 2010 23:58 (thirteen years ago) link
he's awful close to that masturbating caveman
― she's one intense bitch, she rides a unicycle (arby's), Thursday, 30 September 2010 00:02 (thirteen years ago) link
Nick really doesn't like the look of Ellis' instrument either.
Caption competition!
― krakow, Thursday, 30 September 2010 00:06 (thirteen years ago) link
I AM SO FUCKING PUMPED UP FOR THIS SHOW
― da poupier (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 13 October 2010 20:52 (thirteen years ago) link
i still haven't heard either of these records! how did that happen, i'd probably like them. tho i always feel like the odd man out in that i like cave's brooding piano ballad thang, too.
― tylerw, Wednesday, 13 October 2010 20:59 (thirteen years ago) link
nah man i love that stuff too, nick is awesome but yeah grinderman smokes
― da poupier (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 13 October 2010 21:00 (thirteen years ago) link