Nick Cave : Classic or Dud ?

Meantime if you were wondering what indeed Mick Harvey is up to

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaNdemwGXXU

he may be a doofus, but this is really beautiful stuff here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rk5gRVvf4Yc

And they all had quite posh red-haired girlfriends as well!

Unforgivable

Lol yeah that is a weird one

oh man not gingers

Imagine being so deeply regrettable a country that you think nowhere else in the world knows the difference between public school and private school either.

Nick's current posture -- that to hold any position securely is to signal that you have been ideologically captured -- is surely the most vapid justification yet of his lifelong goal: to ensure that Nick Cave gets to do whatever the hell Nick Cave wants to do, all the time.

— Elvis Buñuelo (@Mr_Considerate) May 2, 2023

he's also just a deeply horrible egomaniac with an awful singing voice imo. And who in the UK actually thinks people in other countries don't know the difference between private/public? you daft twat!

so what's your take on Nick Cave?

I find him repellent in every sense ... oh

And who in the UK actually thinks people in other countries don't know the difference between private/public? you daft twat!

Nick Cave went to public schools in towns 200 and 300km outside Melbourne, until he was expelled from a public school and began attending a public school instead.

I like how two guys on this thread are determined to turn Cave into the new Amanda Palmer

Or Morrissey

Honestly I'm surprised Palmer hasn't tried to get her hooks into him now that she's divorced.

Elvis bunuelo articulating what I was drunkenly going for last night

I’m not really sure who the two guys are among the last hundred posts of everyone except a few defensive stans agreeing cave is a silly reactionary twat tho, unless one of the guys is nick cave

he was expelled from a public school and began attending a public school instead.

ok now I'm confused

stan is a strong word.

The despair of spending so much time keeping tabs on how Nick Cave is wrong about things.

I went years without ever thinking about Nick Cave. But in the last three or four years he has clearly decided it's time he was talked about more, and his efforts are paying off!

It didn’t take me that much time to click on this thread and read nick cave being wrong about things, I learned to read English early in life and haven’t forgotten how

xxp

what's the despair element about it? And I've only read the quoted segments on the thread, wouldn't waste my time going any further. Whereas with you, this revive is like a siren to you.

i for one have only experienced glee reading the invective against nick cave in this revive.

I'm sure there are many more people more horrible than Nick Cave, they just have the good sense not to spout off about it in public too much. Although now I'm trying to imagine Blixa attending the coronation and can't quite manage it.

*throws crown to the ground, welds it to something*

he's clearly engaged in a long play for the poet laureateship. so mauve.

blixa would kick king charles in the nuts like he did gibby haynes from the butthole surfers

The despair of spending so much time keeping tabs on how Nick Cave is wrong about things.

LOL keeping tabs. I haven't thought about Nick Cave for about 15 years - I literally had never posted in this thread before today. 'Twas only when I found out that he's a miserable toadying bootlicker for the British royal family and a disgrace to his nation that I posted.

every country needs its own Lozza Fox apparently

You mean like Canada having VHS?

I like how two guys on this thread are determined to turn Cave into the new Amanda Palmer

I mean he makes much better records but "now I do an advice column," you know,...

so everyone now dropping off the NC train because of his attendance to this event surely has done the same with any musician/act that's been knighted?

having a hard time thinking of anyone worth caring about in 2023 with a knighthood

Sir Nose D Voidoffunk is my problematic fave.

I'm a huge hypocrite as I still listen to Sir Mixalot

Nah, once he bent the knee to accept that knighthood Mixalot was dead to me.

Mixalot is really leaving money on the table not starting the 1-900-MIXALOT advice podcast.

I remembered Bushwick Bill being Baron Wolfgang Von Bushwickin The Barbarian Mother-Funky Stay High Dollar Billster...but he was a Dr.

It always confused me why the army wanted to draft him in “Fuck a War” but maybe they needed his medical expertise.

I mean he couldn't be stopped so

not unlike Nick Cave's big brain in that respect

music's enlightened centrist pundit

Can the Nick Cave from 1981 attend the Coronation please?

https://www.discogs.com/master/20065-The-Birthday-Party-Live-81-82

^ that's the only thing with him in it that I really like.

I can remember that Australian bloke from - I think The Triffids - saying in an interview that The Birthday Party were all from frightfully posh public school backgrounds.

we don't have those here, cave & the rest of the birthday party (except howard) went to a posh private school together. none of that uk nonsense where 'public' means 'private'

i read an account of someone going backstage at a birthday party gig and expecting to see them writhing in blood and vomit, but they were playing bridge and dropping latin tags

which, i dunno, there's something i admire about it given the context

agreed but it also explains a lot about how we ended up here

Fuck Nick's "I'm-so-curious-about-inherited-wealth-and-privilege". This is the way to do it: https://www.heraldscotland.com/politics/viewpoint/23495407.buckingham-palace---day-invited-tea

xp yep 100%!

I re-listened to the Live Birthday Party record I mentioned previously. It starts with a version of Junkyard where Cave is screaming I AM THE KING for a solid minute.

He should challenge Charles to a duel on Saturday.

JUst rechecked, the Venue date on the lIve 81-82 set is the same set that was intentionally mixed to show the flaws for Drunk On The Pope's Blood set. Minus Scott and Piece singing Danger Zone in The Heart of Missouri which started that set.
I thought there would be more archival material released since the ex-band members got teh right to their material back. Possibly an idds and sods collection like teh one that Drunk On The Pope's Blood was paired with on teh Missing LInk Records box set. I think there were remastered versions of Junkyard and the 83 eps sets released as vinyl with free cd but otherwise thought there would be more. The band members haven't disowned that era or anything have they?

I thought the interviews on Conan neutron's podcast indicated tehy were still pretty proud of what they had recorded so further surprise taht there hasn't been further expansion of what is around. Also looked like the Boys next Door/s/t Birthday party lp and Prayers on Fire weren't included in that vinyl plus free cd remaster. I thought the band had got all of their rights back so surprised those would be excluded.
Looks like Prayers o Fire has come out on Drastic Plastic since but I still play mainly cds when my machine works.