― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 21 February 2004 21:23 (twenty years ago) link
― Momus (Momus), Saturday, 21 February 2004 21:35 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 21 February 2004 21:42 (twenty years ago) link
regards,
REB
― Rik E Boy (Rik E Boy), Sunday, 22 February 2004 10:05 (twenty years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 22 February 2004 21:01 (twenty years ago) link
― willem (willem), Sunday, 22 February 2004 21:35 (twenty years ago) link
― Phil Freeman (Phil Freeman), Sunday, 22 February 2004 21:43 (twenty years ago) link
― Ian Grey (Ian_G), Monday, 23 February 2004 06:24 (twenty years ago) link
The BDay Party were fucking wicked and badass and awesome.Solo Nick Cave is hit and miss with some really awesome moments and some really low, bad moments.
But if it isn't totally awesome, then its atleast usually pretty funny.
― sunjammerr, Monday, 23 February 2004 06:31 (twenty years ago) link
I've also been listening to B-Sides & Rarities on my ipod, and that 3rd disc just keeps blowing my mind. Some of that stuff is jaw-droppingly good.
Just felt like gushing... that's all.. :)
― VegemiteGrrl (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 7 May 2005 05:21 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 7 May 2005 05:26 (nineteen years ago) link
― Seuss, Saturday, 7 May 2005 05:26 (nineteen years ago) link
I would love to see the Lyre Of Orpheus/Abbattoir Blues tour, that gospel choir he's got going would kill live. Imagine 'There She Goes, My Beautiful World' live. I'm also interested in their dynamic now that Blixa has gone. I wonder who'll do Kylie's part now on the live performances of "Where The Wild Roses Grow". Blixa had such a lovely falsetto. Maybe Mick will pitch in...
― VegemiteGrrl (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 7 May 2005 05:33 (nineteen years ago) link
Is it just me or does Cave have a lot better sense of humor than he's usually given credit for?
― daria g (daria g), Saturday, 7 May 2005 05:49 (nineteen years ago) link
Apparently his publicist announced that he's doing no tours for 2004/2005, and in 2003 he said he wasn't touring a country that had declared war on Afghanistan, so god only knows what 2006 holds.
― VegemiteGrrl (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 7 May 2005 06:01 (nineteen years ago) link
― VegemiteGrrl (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 7 May 2005 06:06 (nineteen years ago) link
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 (seventeen 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 (seventeen 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 (seventeen 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 (seventeen years ago) link
Happy birthday!
― StanM, Saturday, 22 September 2007 18:48 (seventeen 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