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
This stuff sounds pretty bad, folks. Surely he's capable of better.
― Tantamount To Pressurized Milk (Bimble), Thursday, 25 June 2009 16:03 (fourteen years ago) link
this sounds great! what do you expect?
― akm, Thursday, 25 June 2009 16:08 (fourteen years ago) link
"Avril Lavigne" is very nearly an anagram of "Evil Vagina"!
― Lostandfound, Friday, 26 June 2009 04:01 (fourteen years ago) link
nick cave's writing was almost always pretentious
― Zeno, Friday, 26 June 2009 04:04 (fourteen years ago) link
Gotta risk pretentiousness and sentimentality to get anywhere deep.
― Eazy, Friday, 26 June 2009 04:07 (fourteen years ago) link
That said, was that excerpted in Razzle?
― Eazy, Friday, 26 June 2009 04:09 (fourteen years ago) link
Dig Lazarus Dig (album) overall is amusing and well written, and there are plenty of great songs on it. I really like it.
― Evan, Friday, 26 June 2009 04:10 (fourteen years ago) link
actual LOLZ
Too bad "vagina" doesn't have two syllables or else you could sing it to the tune of "Evil Woman". That is, if you could do Jeff Lynne's falsetto.
― Tantamount To Pressurized Milk (Bimble), Friday, 26 June 2009 04:22 (fourteen years ago) link
i like grinderman and lazarus now. not sure what I was thinking a few years back. I even like nocturama now.
― akm, Saturday, 1 May 2010 06:14 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah Bunny Munro was pretty terrible. Hard to believe it was written by the same person who wrote the wonderful And The Ass Saw The Angel.
― anagram, Saturday, 1 May 2010 07:53 (thirteen years ago) link
i kind of like most of no more shall we part now as well. what is wrong with me. I'm still pretty sure bunny munro will not be any good though.
― akm, Wednesday, 5 May 2010 21:46 (thirteen years ago) link
Actually I see things exactly opposite. "...And the Ass Saw the Angel" was a nice try but Nick clearly wasn't up to the task of writing a story in the O'Connor/Faulkner mode. That book ends up a pretentious mess.
"Bunny Munro" on the other hand was, to me, pretty funny in parts and much more relaxed. It didn't pretend to be great literature and the tone much in line with the louche demeanor put forth by Grinderman.
― kwhitehead, Thursday, 6 May 2010 15:22 (thirteen years ago) link
after spending a lot of time with all the post-boatman's call albums over the past month, it's pretty obvious to me now that abattoir blues/lyre of orpheus is a monumental masterpiece of a record, maybe better than boatman's call, rivaling the good son for my favorite overall record of his. I suppose a lot of people already knew this but for some reason I slept on this album for a long time, maybe because of the length, maybe also because even though I'd purchased it, the version I had on my ipod was cobbled together mp3s of different bitrates and mis-sequenced and it seemed more like a mess than it actually is.
― akm, Friday, 14 May 2010 16:42 (thirteen years ago) link
Yes, it's fantastic. Probably my album of the year for 2004 and a hell of a masterpiece, his best work overall.
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Friday, 14 May 2010 17:14 (thirteen years ago) link
It is probably crazy how much better I like "From Her to Eternity" on the Wings of Desire soundtrack v. "From Her to Eternity" on the album of that name. It's just razor sharp, man.
― 17th Century Catholic Spain (Abbbottt), Saturday, 23 October 2010 02:09 (thirteen years ago) link
very much seconded. I discovered the song through that movie and was appalled when I heard the tinny original.
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Tuesday, 26 October 2010 09:00 (thirteen years ago) link
Totally otm. Movie version so much richer, much more dramatic. I always skip the original bc I hate the way it sounds.
― That is the stench of tyranny (VegemiteGrrrl), Wednesday, 27 October 2010 05:20 (thirteen years ago) link
When they're first committed to tape, lot of Bad Seeds numbers (in contrast to Nick Cave songs) seem to be a groove with a chord change and a monologue on top. It's later on that the noise and improv gets solidified into a song. The Live Seeds versions of his early 90s stuff is a lot more compelling too. "Tupelo" and "Mercy Seat" seem to be lucky situations where the total fire was there at the start.
― bendy, Wednesday, 27 October 2010 12:10 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah i'm not usually a fan of live albums but most versions on Live Seed kill the originals
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Wednesday, 27 October 2010 14:07 (thirteen years ago) link
Oops:
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/12/08/article-0-0C65AD15000005DC-492_634x415.jpg
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 8 December 2010 21:40 (thirteen years ago) link
Though I do love this:
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/12/08/article-0-0C65ADAF000005DC-582_634x647.jpg
wtf is that jacket
― Square-Panted Sponge Robert (VegemiteGrrrl), Wednesday, 8 December 2010 21:42 (thirteen years ago) link
(his I mean)
What's with all these Australians suddenly trying to bring back western civilization? First Assange, now this...
― StanM, Wednesday, 8 December 2010 21:51 (thirteen years ago) link
er, not back, down :-/
― StanM, Wednesday, 8 December 2010 21:53 (thirteen years ago) link
Love the comment:
Never heard of him but now I'm a big fan.
― one pretty obvious guy in the obvious (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 8 December 2010 22:07 (thirteen years ago) link
just discovered murder ballads. wow!
stagger lee is mindblowing. this is where cave laid the groundwork for the grinderman project, no?
― Daniel, Esq., Friday, 14 October 2011 01:05 (twelve years ago) link
stagger lee blows the rest of that album out of the water, which is saying a lot since it's packed with gems. love the video for it as well. it's basically just the band standing around, but NC and BB just have so much damn presence.
― charlie h, Friday, 14 October 2011 01:08 (twelve years ago) link
it reminds me of worm tamer from grinderman 2.
― Daniel, Esq., Friday, 14 October 2011 01:09 (twelve years ago) link
this is where cave laid the groundwork for the grinderman project, no?
no
― front-man for British post-punk turned pop chart-topper’s, Scritti Polliti (sic), Friday, 14 October 2011 09:26 (twelve years ago) link
yeah, i've now read the sound/vibe for grinderman goes back as far as cave's early band (the birthday-party, iirc?). i wasn't a fan years ago, when i heard that stuff. maybe it's time for another try, since i love grinderman 2 so much.
― Daniel, Esq., Friday, 14 October 2011 12:17 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.watfordobserver.co.uk/news/9530466.Julie_named_Alumnus_of_the_Year/
― The nIce Age (S-), Friday, 27 April 2012 03:36 (eleven years ago) link
awesome
bring back the handlebar mustache tho
― mookieproof, Friday, 27 April 2012 03:38 (eleven years ago) link
"Well of Misery", Electric Ballroom, 1984 - billed as Nick Cave & The Cavemen
fkn great performance
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFdUTM4gU-o
lol@ spanish subtitles
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 9 June 2012 06:09 (eleven years ago) link
goddammit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26zga0G_C4A
one more
St Huck, Barcelona 1984
melt ur face
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcnUvZqvBiI
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 9 June 2012 06:18 (eleven years ago) link
He was fantastic once.
― Pacific Rinko (Capitaine Jay Vee), Saturday, 9 June 2012 11:41 (eleven years ago) link
I'm sure I've wondered out loud here about this, but the de facto breakup of Grinderman and the return of the Dirty Three makes me wonder about the state of the current Bad Seeds. There's been boilerplate murmurings of a new album, but nothing concrete. Been four years.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 9 June 2012 13:19 (eleven years ago) link
its all a bit weird
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 9 June 2012 14:41 (eleven years ago) link
4 years? But Grinderman 2 came out in 2010. Seems like it had run its course and now he's figuring out the next phase of his career.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Saturday, 9 June 2012 17:35 (eleven years ago) link