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Nick Cave & Shane MacGowan’s What A Wonderful World EP was a cover song maven’s delight. First you had both the boys crooning the hell all over the old standard, then you had them covering each other.
Shane MacGowan seersly owns “Lucy,” though. Once that belltower rings, that song no longer belongs to Nick Cave.
Shane MacGowan [...]

I avoided listening to Door, Door for years — thinking it was the usual “let’s reissue the famous guy’s first album” deal (The Manish Boys, anyone?).
Then my pal hooked me up with a copy, and I was (to say the least) flubberblusted. I regretted the years of listening to it that I had missed, but [...]

A friend once asked me how the latest Nick Cave album was, and she was surprised when I said I thought it was good. She had assumed that because Nick Cave had been kicking for around so many years, he must have run out of juice. That conversation was sixteen years ago.
He’s approaching 30 years [...]

I don’t know what I was going to post originally, but this is what was in my brain this morning as I awoke. I think this was the first Nick Cave-related record I ever bought — the beginning of a long, beautiful relationship. Kicking Against The Pricks is all cover songs, and although [...]