Swinging Modern Sounds #92: Perfection
You will now find some version of the list below. It is imperfect.
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Posts Tagged: nick cave
Saudade Manifest: Biography, Myth-Making, and Haunted Houses in the Amazon
A myth is its own kind of truth.
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The Driving Thing of It: A Conversation with Mick Harvey
Mick Harvey discusses his decades-long music career, working on cover songs written in another language, and finding longevity in the music business.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #66: Reimagining Children’s Literature as Mixtape
In the best collaborations, creative individuals push themselves to work with new media and singular, wild things issue forth. Jeff Antebi of Waxploitation Records has managed to create just this kind of magic in his book, Stories for Ways and Means. A product of ten years’ worth of seeking and story pitching, Stories for Ways […]
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The Rumpus Review of One More Time with Feeling
“We didn’t ask for it,” Cave begins another poetic flight, and again we think he’s talking about something ghastly, “but it’s all around us, a gratuitous beauty.”
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Swinging Modern Sounds #69: Meaning Yes
When in need of comfort, it’s always worth trying close reading.
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Nick Cave Monday #53: The Sick Bag Song
In a special edition of Nick Cave Monday, Tony DuShane attends a launch event for Cave’s new book, The Sick Bag Song.
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Jack-of-all-trades Nick Cave just pulled a J.K. Rowling, this time on barf bags rather than a cocktail napkin. During his 2014 tour with The Bad Seeds, the multimedia musician/writer/actor penned an entire book on the sides of airplane sick bags, appropriately titled The Sick Bag Song. A limited edition copy available June 4th will include […]
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The Rumpus Late Nite Poetry Show: Beth Bachmann
In Episode 8 of The Rumpus Late Nite Poetry Show, poet Beth Bachmann chats about her new collection, Do Not Rise, Dolly Parton, and the demands of lyric poetry.
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PJ Harvey Tuesday #1: “Henry Lee”
Now that Nick Cave Mondays have drawn to a close, the obvious next step is PJ Harvey Tuesdays.
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Nick Cave Monday #51: “Your Funeral, My Trial”
I loved you babe, but I had to kill you. Nick once said that he kills people in his songs so he doesn’t have to kill them in real life.
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Nick Cave Monday #50: “As I Sat Sadly By Her Side”
Earth is a bleak planet and the majority of humanity is selfish, each following the compulsion of their id. All you need to do is look out the window to be disgusted at the theater of the human race. Yet, leave it to Nick to create a beautiful, romantic ballad to capture the essence of […]
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Nick Cave Monday #48: “Red Right Hand”
When the bell chimes a man emerges from the shadows. Or it’s a ghost who wants to haunt your soul. Or it’s a guru to give you enlightenment for your path. Or it’s a god. There’s really no salvation with this murky character spoken of in “Red Right Hand”, only the journey that Nick takes […]
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Nick Cave Monday #46: “Loverman”
There is a sexy beast waiting to rip your clothes off. He’s dealing with a Devil inside because he’s a man with sexual urges. “Loverman” was released on the 1994 record “Let Love In.” We’re Devils in the sack and you’ll enjoy it, deal with it, love it. L is for LOVE:
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Nick Cave Monday #45: “Do You Love Me?”
Falling in love is a putrid, vile mind space filled with demons. It’s also an angel glowing in white light luring you into her. Let’s explore love, Bad Seeder style. One quick announcement, Nick Cave Monday ends at #52, so there are eight Nick Cave Mondays left to enjoy.
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Nick Cave Monday #44: “These Boots are Made for Walkin'”
Punk rock had exploded in New York City and the U.K., but kids in the Southern Hemisphere probably had to pay a lot of money to buy imports or have records shipped from the north.
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Nick Cave Monday #43: “Stranger Than Kindness”
Anita Lane was one of Nick’s early lovers. When Nick Cave and The Birthday Party left Australia for London, Anita was right by his side. She’s credited for co-writing other songs by The Birthday Party as well as “From Her To Eternity” from The Bad Seeds first record.
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Nick Cave Monday #42: “We Call Upon the Author”
Many songs by Nick have a way of throwing you down for a good tickling and then, when everything is happy times, he’ll lyrically smack you upside the head. Pay attention, he’s going deeper than that. He’ll sing you a lullaby before dropping you to the floor and sticking his boot on your throat. As […]
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Nick Cave Monday #41: “Momma’s Boy”
Nick Cave was a singer named Freak Storm in the 1991 film Johnny Suede. Tom DiCillo wrote and directed the film. It was his directorial debut. Before this film he paid his dues as cinematographer for Jim Jarmusch. One day, Nick was at DiCillo’s friend’s place in London and saw the script for Johnny Suede […]
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Nick Cave Monday #40: “City of Refuge”
If you commit manslaughter, you better run to the City of Refuge. It’s what the Old Testament tells us to do because under biblical law the family of the victim can kill you even if it was an accident. We learned about an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth in Nick […]
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Nick Cave Monday #39: “Fifteen Feet Of Pure White Snow”
In a dreary, isolated town stands a building. Throughout the bland hallways are rooms that have been deserted for years. Old computer equipment, basically just a bunch of shit around. That doesn’t stop Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds from cleaning it up, bringing in some gear and throwing a moderately attended party.
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Nick Cave Monday #38: “Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!”
Rest in peace. RIP. That’s what we say when someone dies. So this Jesus dude in the Bible resurrects some people according to the gospels. One of the privileged to come back from the dead was Lazarus. Lazarus was in his tomb and all of his family wept. Jesus asked them to pull the stone […]
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Nick Cave Monday #37: “The Singer”
What does it all mean? Does it even matter that we are all Bad Seeders in this existence? Is the journey worth it? When we suck our last breath and the only good we end up doing for planet Earth is decaying in the soil, will anyone care? Sure, some will care, some will guffaw, […]
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Nick Cave Monday #36: “Dead Joe”
Even though we’re in the month of May, we can always use a little bit of Christmas spirit. The Birthday Party, Nick Cave’s pre–Bad Seeds band, gave us a song that we can sing anytime of year. There was this dude named Joe. Well, he’s dead, totally mangled in a car wreck. It’s such a bloody […]
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Nick Cave Monday #35: “The Lyre of Orpheus”
Happy Mother’s Day. And a big hug to Dawn Cave, the mother who gave us the King of The Bad Seeds. Thank you, Dawn, and thank you, Calliope. Calli-a-who? Calliope was the mother of the greatest musician of all time, Orpheus. So it’s quite proper that Nick would turn some Greek mythology on its head […]
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Nick Cave Monday #34: “The Ship Song”
“The Ship Song” can induce emotions of love, lust and affection. It’s a sexy and soft ballad. If you listen to the song and no one is around to kiss or fondle, there is no shame in showing your affection to a soft pillow. Many children were conceived while listening to “The Ship Song” when […]
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Nick Cave Monday #33: “I’m Gonna Kill That Woman”
Have you ever been harassed by a bully? Someone who comes up to you on the school playground. And all you’re trying to do is eat your ice cream cone in peace. So the bully comes up to you and first asks why you’re wearing a fitted suit and have your hair slicked back. You […]
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Nick Cave Monday #32: “West Country Girl”
What do you do when you think a girl is hot and you really want to get with her? You write her a song. Nick Cave did that for PJ Harvey and “West Country Girl” was released on “The Boatman’s Call” in 1997. Thus kindled the romance between Nick and Polly.
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Nick Cave Monday #31: “Deanna”
Deanna was a girl from Melbourne, Australia. She meant so much to Nick she got her own song on the 1988 album, “Tender Prey.” If you have ever seen The Bad Seeds live in the last 25 years there is a very good chance “Deanna” was on the set list. The Bad Seeds even performed […]
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Nick Cave Monday #29: “Avalanche”
Around the year of our Lord 1984, there were fans of The Birthday Party wandering aimless through the streets. Their post-punk gods vanished. But, just like a dude named Jesus, there would soon come a resurrection, into a different body of sorts.
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