Nick Cave : Classic or Dud ?

right now one of the 80's LPs on Homestead will run you around $50 used

these Brit and Aussie guys who wish they had hillbilly peckers do make me larf

Lol! he spent years being a slumming poseur-douchebag in sao paulo, trying to make his hilbilly pecker origin story work, then he got bored and moved to a posh bit of London with some excellent schools.

meh not that different from Dylan really

http://louderthanwar.com/nick-cave-and-the-bad-seeds-to-reissue-all-14-albums-on-vinyl/

It is going to be very easy for people buying me Christmas presents this year.

aw yeah, Funeral & Lazarus are both 2LP sets

never been a fan but i thought the movie was good in parts.

why would you see this if you weren't a fan?

because my boyfriend wanted to see it

it looked like it had something interesting to say about creativity, which it did, even if it was shopworn. i'm generally ok with slumming brit and aussie guys who wish they had hillbilly peckers as long as their music isn't laughably overblown garbage.

i'm a fan of warren ellis fwiw.

listening to This Is The Sea by waterboys this week for the first time, and outside of Whole Of The Moon it struck me as mega mega Bad Seedsy in places, albeit with a far wimpier vocalist... i'm sure everyone Seeds involved would be horrified by the comparison

some minor chuckling at how the build-up to the "Jubilee Street" performance at the end reminded me of the title track in "Purple Rain"

I finally saw the movie a few weeks back and really enjoyed it, much more than I thought I would. It took me a bit to get used to the..arch-ness?... of it, but goddamn the colors were so rich & it was shot so beautifully, it was impossible not to kinda fall back in love with him

i started to feel a bit fangirly, esp during the archive stuff, that was fun

and the little bit of blixa stuff was <3

He has a new book thing coming, The Sick Bag Song, a kind of tour diary written on airline sick bags. You can buy a limited edition version of it for £750. Might give that a miss.

http://www.thesickbagsong.com/
http://pitchfork.com/news/58943-nick-cave-compares-sick-bag-book-to-kanye-west-pornhub-more-in-silly-promo-video/
http://thequietus.com/articles/17474-nick-cave-announces-sick-bag-song-book

yeah i saw that

weird

seeing this movie somehow just made me feel worse about the maron interview

i still havent listened to that...secondhand embarrassment is holding me back

Telling that Mick Harvey wasn't one of the car interviews.

not telling of anything we didn't already know

^^^

i do miss him. it's fine without him but it's just not quite right :/:

then again, it's not like we can't just watch the other movies

http://youtu.be/5UMba2Rq8j4

dont really get what was so embarassing about the Maron interview

yeah me neither, thought it was just Cave being Cave: forthright, a little testy, but still likeable.

unprepared weirdo maron being the embarrasment, not cave.

For real, I think Cave gets testy cuz it's obv Maron hadn't heard of Cave until a week before, though I think in the end it turns out to be a good interview

yes. It does turn out ok. I just can't handle the initial awkwardness.

I loved the bit in the movie with Warren Ellis when they talk about Nina Simone and Jerry Lee Lewis and get all excited and let themselves be music freaks. I also thought the "archives" visit was a nice arch bit of self-parody about his navel-gazing and high self-regard - but then it led into some really interesting stuff too.

The Maron interview wasn't bad at all - I think maybe Maron was just really thin-skinned about a couple of good-natured jabs from Cave.

The archives bit was a set-up, right? That can't be real...

ok it's all just sets. too bad. Warren Ellis really should live in that cottage.

http://www.billboard.com/biz/articles/6259253/nick-cave-explains-the-truth-behind-his-staged-documentary-20000-days-on-earth

new vinyl reissue of Tender Prey sounds AMAZING, I am very pleased with this purchase

I find myself thinking 'I want some champagne, some cocaine, and some sausages' most days

Nick Korv and the Bratwurst Party

A friend who moved away maybe 7 years ago left me his record collection to hold on to until he stops living like a vagabond and returns to collect them someday. Tons of vinyl, a bunch of tapes, a couple of VHS tapes, and one dvd.

I set up a new TV and blu ray player recently and wanted to test it out, but all my dvds were upstairs and I remembered he had this one dvd sitting with all his other stuff right near the new TV, which happened to be the Nick Cave "God Is In The House" concert film. I picked it up and it felt much heavier than it should have, and upon opening it I found a stack of naked pictures of his now ex girlfriend.

I don't know why I found this so amusing but something a bunch of naked pics stashed in a Nick Cave dvd seems so appropriately seedy and awesome.

"god" is in the "house"

lol

I got to say the live version of "Higgs Boson Blues" from Live at KCRW to me slays the studio version. The slow and linguine groove of the live radio version is hypnotic, it kind of reminds me of the "Thrill Is Gone" groove. I hear the studio version of "Higgs Boson Blues" and it sounds way too fast.

agree, it's a great live album.

did you see the live studio take in 20000 days? now that's spectacular

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zQSuPDmBPc

otm

Holy shit this is awful:
http://www.theargus.co.uk/news/13420121.Rock_legend_Nick_Cave_s_son_killed_in_cliff_fall/

Read about the incident this morning before the victim was named, fuck. So many times I've seen Nick out with his boys, skateboarding on the seafront and such. What a dreadful fucking thing

it's terrible, so awful for all of them.

Oh fuck :(

that is heartbreaking.

It was just on the local news. shocking.

The death is being dealt by the coroner's officer and is not being treated as suspicious.

there was a great picture of nick w/ his boys on twitter the other day:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BtWdNlYIUAAWDve.jpg