Saw the film this weekend, and yeah mixed feelings.
Liked:Nick Cave taxi service (esp. Blixa)The archive (Pew piss/punch commentary especially)The look of itClosing performance
Disliked:most of the Deep Thoughts voice oversMost of the music (not a PTSA fan)
Missed Royal Albert Hall tickets but then noticed the Hammersmith gig on his website basically before it was announced & got great tickets - middle of the second row. Best tickets I've had for anything ever tbh, v happy.
― woof, Tuesday, 14 October 2014 09:22 (nine years ago) link
FINALLY xp
people are straight up pirating those on vinyl b/c the demand is so high, I see all these lame color copied LPs with the loose shrink on 'em
― sleeve, Tuesday, 14 October 2014 14:16 (nine years ago) link
right now one of the 80's LPs on Homestead will run you around $50 used
― sleeve, Tuesday, 14 October 2014 14:17 (nine years ago) link
these Brit and Aussie guys who wish they had hillbilly peckers do make me larf
― this horrible, rotten slog to rigor mortis (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 14 October 2014 16:23 (nine years ago) link
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.
― xelab, Tuesday, 14 October 2014 21:09 (nine years ago) link
meh not that different from Dylan really
― this horrible, rotten slog to rigor mortis (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 14 October 2014 21:13 (nine years ago) link
http://louderthanwar.com/nick-cave-and-the-bad-seeds-to-reissue-all-14-albums-on-vinyl/
― goth colouring book (anagram), Wednesday, 15 October 2014 14:52 (nine years ago) link
It is going to be very easy for people buying me Christmas presents this year.
― Eyeball Kicks, Wednesday, 15 October 2014 15:32 (nine years ago) link
aw yeah, Funeral & Lazarus are both 2LP sets
― sleeve, Wednesday, 15 October 2014 15:36 (nine years ago) link
never been a fan but i thought the movie was good in parts.
― mattresslessness, Monday, 20 October 2014 20:17 (nine years ago) link
why would you see this if you weren't a fan?
― akm, Monday, 20 October 2014 20:23 (nine years ago) link
because my boyfriend wanted to see it
― mattresslessness, Monday, 20 October 2014 20:24 (nine years ago) link
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.
― mattresslessness, Monday, 20 October 2014 20:28 (nine years ago) link
i'm a fan of warren ellis fwiw.
― mattresslessness, Monday, 20 October 2014 20:30 (nine years ago) link
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
― jamiesummerz, Monday, 20 October 2014 21:02 (nine years ago) link
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"
― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Thursday, 26 March 2015 04:53 (nine years ago) link
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
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 26 March 2015 05:17 (nine years ago) link
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
― Eyeball Kicks, Thursday, 26 March 2015 14:53 (nine years ago) link
yeah i saw that
weird
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 26 March 2015 16:39 (nine years ago) link
seeing this movie somehow just made me feel worse about the maron interview
― Team Foxcatcherwatcher (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 26 March 2015 21:58 (nine years ago) link
i still havent listened to that...secondhand embarrassment is holding me back
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 27 March 2015 01:37 (nine years ago) link
Telling that Mick Harvey wasn't one of the car interviews.
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 27 March 2015 01:58 (nine years ago) link
not telling of anything we didn't already know
― oochie wally (clean version) (sic), Friday, 27 March 2015 02:21 (nine years ago) link
^^^
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 27 March 2015 02:53 (nine years ago) link
i do miss him. it's fine without him but it's just not quite right :/:
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 27 March 2015 02:54 (nine years ago) link
then again, it's not like we can't just watch the other movies
http://youtu.be/5UMba2Rq8j4
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 27 March 2015 02:59 (nine years ago) link
dont really get what was so embarassing about the Maron interview
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Friday, 27 March 2015 09:50 (nine years ago) link
yeah me neither, thought it was just Cave being Cave: forthright, a little testy, but still likeable.
― charlie h, Friday, 27 March 2015 11:51 (nine years ago) link
unprepared weirdo maron being the embarrasment, not cave.
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 27 March 2015 14:11 (nine years ago) link
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
― chr1sb3singer, Friday, 27 March 2015 14:14 (nine years ago) link
yes. It does turn out ok. I just can't handle the initial awkwardness.
― Team Foxcatcherwatcher (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 27 March 2015 14:45 (nine years ago) link
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.
― Brio2, Friday, 27 March 2015 14:54 (nine years ago) link
The archives bit was a set-up, right? That can't be real...
― Brio2, Friday, 27 March 2015 14:55 (nine years ago) link
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
― Brio2, Friday, 27 March 2015 15:02 (nine years ago) link
new vinyl reissue of Tender Prey sounds AMAZING, I am very pleased with this purchase
― sleeve, Thursday, 18 June 2015 15:30 (eight years ago) link
I find myself thinking 'I want some champagne, some cocaine, and some sausages' most days
― sʌxihɔːl (Ward Fowler), Thursday, 18 June 2015 17:32 (eight years ago) link
Nick Korv and the Bratwurst Party
― Stevolende, Thursday, 18 June 2015 18:16 (eight years ago) link
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.
― joygoat, Thursday, 18 June 2015 18:27 (eight years ago) link
"god" is in the "house"
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 18 June 2015 18:43 (eight years ago) link
lol
― drash, Thursday, 18 June 2015 18:46 (eight years ago) link
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.
― earlnash, Saturday, 27 June 2015 07:36 (eight years ago) link
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
― niels, Saturday, 27 June 2015 08:21 (eight years ago) link
otm
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 27 June 2015 17:03 (eight years ago) link
Holy shit this is awful:http://www.theargus.co.uk/news/13420121.Rock_legend_Nick_Cave_s_son_killed_in_cliff_fall/
― feargal czukay (NickB), Wednesday, 15 July 2015 12:00 (eight years ago) link
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
― feargal czukay (NickB), Wednesday, 15 July 2015 12:06 (eight years ago) link
it's terrible, so awful for all of them.
― estela, Wednesday, 15 July 2015 12:48 (eight years ago) link
Oh fuck :(
― You’re being too simplistic and you’re insulting my poor heart (Turrican), Wednesday, 15 July 2015 12:49 (eight years ago) link
that is heartbreaking.
― Acting Crazy (Instrumental) (jed_), Wednesday, 15 July 2015 12:56 (eight years ago) link
It was just on the local news. shocking.
― Mark G, Wednesday, 15 July 2015 12:57 (eight years ago) link