the dud part is the way i can't afford the seventy odd dollars it costs to see him next tuesday.
― acidmouth (acidmouth), Saturday, 7 May 2005 06:30 (nineteen years ago) link
― VegemiteGrrl (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 7 May 2005 06:39 (nineteen years ago) link
I don't think he's even come close to the level of The Boatman's Call since then, but there's enough there up to then to justify a resounding classic.
Seeing 16 Horsepower live made me decide Nick may as well retire as he wasn't really required any more - sadly he's managed to outlast them.
― Onimo (GerryNemo), Saturday, 7 May 2005 09:08 (nineteen years ago) link
Blixa didn't leave then, he just refused to do Lollapalooza. He left proper after Nocturama, having barely played on the last three records (Cave said that his presence and opinions in the studio were still personally valuable even if there wasn't anything for half the band to play tho). His replacement is actually Lolla fill-in James Johnston! Playing organ not guitar for the most part though.
― kit brash (kit brash), Saturday, 7 May 2005 14:59 (nineteen years ago) link
Funnily enough, 16 H opened for Nick on the 1998 tour. I always liked them, but not loved. Appreciated the obvious Ian Mc. from Echo jones in the dude's voice, though.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 7 May 2005 16:35 (nineteen years ago) link
But the person way upthread who mentions Cave's "stifling seriousness" is really missing something. One of the great things about the early stuff (Boys Next Door through Birthday Party through, well, even "God Is In The House") is his mordant humour.
My coincidental thoughts in way more detail than you want, from just the other day:http://www.livejournal.com/~frogworth/3437.html
― Peter Hollo (raven), Sunday, 8 May 2005 01:24 (nineteen years ago) link
Then again, each to their own. Praps just not your cup o tea.
― VegemiteGrrl (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 8 May 2005 01:40 (nineteen years ago) link
― VegemiteGrrl (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 8 May 2005 01:43 (nineteen years ago) link
― Jim Reckling (Jim Reckling), Sunday, 8 May 2005 12:49 (nineteen years ago) link
30th January Birmingham Symphony Hall31st January Cambridge Corn Exchange1st February Nottingham Royal Centre2nd February London Apollo Victoria - supported by Richard Hawley4th February Edinburgh Playhouse5th February Glasgow Concert Hall6th February Manchester Bridgewater Hall
― StanM (StanM), Monday, 30 January 2006 20:26 (eighteen years ago) link
― StanM (StanM), Thursday, 2 February 2006 12:17 (eighteen years ago) link
50 years old today! HB NC!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Cave
― StanM, Saturday, 22 September 2007 16:08 (sixteen years ago) link
tbh, everything he's done post-Birthday Party belongs in the arena of the worthy-but-dull.
The lp covers looks splendid when laid on designer furniture, however.
― PhilK, Saturday, 22 September 2007 18:26 (sixteen years ago) link
tbh, everything most of what he's done post-Birthday Party the first four solo albums belongs in the arena of the worthy-but-dull.
fixed
― StanM, Saturday, 22 September 2007 18:41 (sixteen years ago) link
:-)
I am glad to share a birthday with this man. I will listen to the Birthday Party all day.
― Ivan, Saturday, 22 September 2007 18:45 (sixteen years ago) link
Happy birthday!
― StanM, Saturday, 22 September 2007 18:48 (sixteen years ago) link
Yes, that's right he's a Virgo/Libra cusp isn't he? I always kindof forget what sign Nick is for some reason. Happy Birthday Ivan!
― Bimble, Sunday, 23 September 2007 00:56 (sixteen years ago) link
Not really feeling his new album at all. Anyone?
― If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Wednesday, 9 April 2008 04:31 (sixteen years ago) link
me either, can't get past the first two songs. same reaction i had to grinderman...I love nick cave but, maybe like the fall, I've just kind of had enough
― akm, Wednesday, 9 April 2008 06:11 (sixteen years ago) link
Yes, exactly.
― If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Wednesday, 9 April 2008 06:22 (sixteen years ago) link
I've had Straight to You on repeat all evening - it's an amazingly beautiful song. Not two things I normally associate with one another, beauty and Nick Cave
― Ismael Klata, Thursday, 2 October 2008 21:18 (fifteen years ago) link
Classic but Dig Lazarus Dig hasn't appealed to me either.
― Vision, Thursday, 2 October 2008 21:43 (fifteen years ago) link
Most of Lyre of Orpheus is beautiful imo
― an abduction of a guy into a weird artsy world... (wilter), Thursday, 2 October 2008 21:51 (fifteen years ago) link
― Eazy, Thursday, 2 October 2008 21:55 (fifteen years ago) link
Dud. Birthday Party great, but after that I sometimes wonder whether he is responsible for Bad Things in music. PJ Harvey turned rubbish after she hung out with Cave, then he infected Will Oldham, and he also gave Kylie cancer.
All rather stagey for me and a friend who saw Grinderman recently came back spitting venom.
He is in some way responsible for the song Mr Cave's A Window Cleaner Now by Half Man Half Biscuit though, so I suppose we must put our bright swords up and let the good Lord calculate the final reckoning.
― GamalielRatsey, Friday, 3 October 2008 00:14 (fifteen years ago) link
Your post really made me scared that the Nick Cave show I'm seeing on Monday night might not live up to my expectations but then I saw that you liked at least part of Will Oldham's career.
― Reatards Unite, Friday, 3 October 2008 03:37 (fifteen years ago) link
PJ Harvey turned rubbish after she hung out with Cave
Motherfucker you crazy. PJ has always been great, always will be. Put out her best album a year ago, in fact... in case you didn't notice.
― ilxor, Friday, 3 October 2008 05:07 (fifteen years ago) link
reatards unite, don't fret, it will be great. i've seen nick a few times (though the last time was maybe 3 years ago) and he has never once been disappointing. MUCH better than when i saw will oldham, no doubt.
― ian, Friday, 3 October 2008 05:10 (fifteen years ago) link
also lol @ the pinefox hating on the caveman.
― ian, Friday, 3 October 2008 05:11 (fifteen years ago) link
I didn't like it, sadly, but I'm pretty sure that's my loss. My music tastes have got so narrow as to be the aural equivalent of an old man with dyspepsia picking at his food.
Nick Cave is one of those people who, because he gets close to the sort of thing I like, but doesn't quite hit the mark for me, gets my hackles up more than people I like less. Does that make sense? I'm not sure it does...
Will Oldham was dreadful the last time I saw him, I almost wept with boredom.
Christ - me, I, me, I, me, I. Shut up, man, who wants to know?
― GamalielRatsey, Friday, 3 October 2008 08:26 (fifteen years ago) link
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds US Tour Dates
After seeing their most recent show, still classic. His relevance has outlasted all of his younger acolytes, including Gallon Drunk, The Flaming Stars (James Johnston has been a Bad Seed for the past 4 years), 16 Horsepower, Black Heart Procession...
― Fastnbulbous, Friday, 3 October 2008 21:26 (fifteen years ago) link
Classic.
Nick Cave is the coolest man on the planet, next to Leonard Cohen.
I'm seeing Nick Cave tomorrow night here in NYC and I am psyched. I've missed him several times...but no more. I'm sure he's going to leave me stunned by greatness.
― peskypesky, Saturday, 4 October 2008 04:45 (fifteen years ago) link
Dear Nick,
Please come back to Austin, Texas. I miss you being here. If you come I will buy a ticket to your show, get drunk and sing along to "Stagger Lee" with you... and really, what could be better?
Cheers,ilxor
― ilxor, Saturday, 4 October 2008 05:39 (fifteen years ago) link
i walked past warren ellis near madison square gardens a couple of hours ago, and it made me wish i'd be spending tonight watching him legkick and flail. report back, nyc-ers.
― schlump, Saturday, 4 October 2008 23:26 (fifteen years ago) link
nick cave is the motherfuckin man, c'mon now
― M@tt He1ges0n, Sunday, 5 October 2008 01:05 (fifteen years ago) link
Best places to start? Live Seeds is incredible and can stand in for the entirety of his solo output to that point. The only album of Mr. Cave's I currently own or feel the need to own is the b-sides comp, which only has one stone dud on it and which - kind of - can stand in for the rest of his solo records.
― staggerlee, Sunday, 5 October 2008 15:09 (fifteen years ago) link
nick cave is doing the music for a production of Woyzeck where i work. should be amazing. http://www.bam.org/view.aspx?pid=112
― Surmounter, Sunday, 5 October 2008 15:14 (fifteen years ago) link
xpost pretty much everything he did in the 80's/early 90's is awesome. Since then, it's mostly been pretty good. I probably listen to the first half of Henry's Dream the most. Nick Cave's got that kind of Fall thing where you have to just dig in at random and start feeling your way out from wherever you are, and you feel like you have to get more and more and become familiar with lots of his stuff before you can understand any of it well. That Very Best of is actually a pretty dec introduction; it doesn't really work as an album, but it does a great job of sampling all the kinds of stuff they've done. Getting that and going from there would be as good a way as any to dig into them.
― BigLurks, Monday, 6 October 2008 18:07 (fifteen years ago) link
Anybody see the DC show(s)?
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 7 October 2008 04:36 (fifteen years ago) link
Mr. Monster & I were there on Monday!
― i've got a bracelet too (jessie monster), Tuesday, 7 October 2008 23:57 (fifteen years ago) link
I was there on Monday and thought it was a pretty badass show. I'd like to shake the hand of the man who yelled out for "Your Funeral My Trial," which killed.
― deusner, Wednesday, 8 October 2008 00:22 (fifteen years ago) link
How was Kid Congo?
― Capitaine Jay Vee, Wednesday, 8 October 2008 02:31 (fifteen years ago) link
Just read a few pages of Cave's new novel, The Death Of Bunny Munro:
Bunny stops thinking about Sabrina Cantrell's backside and starts thinking about her pussy instead and quite soon he is thinking about Avril Lavigne's vagina. He is almost positive that Avril Lavigne possesses the fucking Valhalla of all vaginas, and in response to this late-night lucubration he carefully folds a copy of the Daily Mail over his semi-tumescent memeber. There is, after all, a child in the room.
― Zelda Zonk, Thursday, 25 June 2009 13:06 (fourteen years ago) link
Is this book published yet?
― anagram, Thursday, 25 June 2009 13:07 (fourteen years ago) link
Don't think so, but there's an extract in a magazine called Loops.
― Zelda Zonk, Thursday, 25 June 2009 13:09 (fourteen years ago) link
the fucking Valhalla of all vaginas
Oh dear. The porn mustache has finally taken its toll.
― Alex in NYC, Thursday, 25 June 2009 13:17 (fourteen years ago) link
YOU'RE A OLD SLEAZY GUY NOW, WE GET IT, WELL DONE
― The New Beautiful South's New Bassist (King Boy Pato), Thursday, 25 June 2009 13:19 (fourteen years ago) link
And that quote actually makes it sound better than it is! It's pretty bad. It honestly reads like it was written by some smart-arse seventeen year old. Shit doesn't hit the fan, instead "the shit and the fan had their fateful assignation." You'd never guess he already has a previous novel and various screenplays under his belt. Avril Lavigne's vagina seems to be some sort of leitmotif:
A great wall of darkness moves towards him. It is unconsciousness and it is sleep. It moves like a vast tidal wave but before it breaks over him and he is away, before he renders himself completley to that oblivious sleep, he thinks, with a sudden, terrible, bottomless dread, of Avril Lavigne's vagina.
― Zelda Zonk, Thursday, 25 June 2009 13:49 (fourteen years ago) link
they dragged Avril & her vaginerrrr from the holeand the bulb that burned above themdid shine both day and nightand the 'giner learned to love its greater darks and lesser lights
― worm? lol (J0hn D.), Thursday, 25 June 2009 13:57 (fourteen years ago) link