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Nick Cave

Well, So Long Soldier, We’re Deep In Dutch:
Rest In Peace, Rowland S. Howard

January 5, 2010

Rowland S. Howard, guitarist and songwriter, died Dec. 30 of liver cancer while waiting for a transplant. (Please register as an organ donor — here are some links to get you started: U.S. / Australia / U.K.)
Howard was a founding member of The Boys Next Door, which would soon become the legendary Birthday Party. His [...]

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It Serves Ya Right Ta Suffer [video]

October 24, 2009

Nick Cave & The Cavemen (soon to be the Bad Seeds) – Electric Ballroom, London, 1984:
I Put A Spell On You
Well Of Misery
Mutiny In Heaven
In The Ghetto

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They Are The Sick Breath Gatherin’ At My Hind [video]

October 6, 2009

Dear Lord, have I not mentioned Nick Cave yet this week? Here’s “The Mercy Seat” from 1989 (or so):

[via Put(r)]
Plus, if you can figure out what the heck Concert.tv is and where you can find it (I have it on DirecTV VOD), there’s a one-hour retrospective of Señor Cueva’s BBC performances that might or might [...]

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Today’s Vegetable:
Come Come Crawl Over Here, Darlin’, And We’ll Watch This Whole Thing Turn

August 20, 2009

Today’s Vegetable is brought to  you by my ipod’s shuffle function.
There are many times, say on a Monday morning, when you skip more than the usual amount of songs because they just don’t fit the situation.
But there are other times when you have the fortitude to listen to every song that comes up, no matter [...]

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Hair Of The Dog(?)

April 24, 2009

Well damn, y’all, you think I’m gonna post a track by an angry Australian band and then not go on a Boys Next Door/Birthday Party jag? They were only the GREATEST ROCK BAND OF ALL TIME.
When I’m 80 years old (which feels like it will be soon), I’ll hear the astounded voices of youths [...]

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Last Night I Lay Trembling

September 9, 2008

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 [...]

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You Won’t Find Me In Your Handbook Of Heroes

June 13, 2008

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 [...]

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Prolix!

April 8, 2008

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 [...]

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Don’t Talk To Me

November 28, 2007

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 [...]

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I Must Above All Things Love Myself

June 18, 2007

Grinderman – No Pussy Blues

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