sammynb 1473 Posted February 17 Share Posted February 17 Not a podcast but a blog with audio. A few of you may have caught on to my disdain for contemporary Nick Cave, actually any Nick Cave post 1986 but I will give Grinderman a pass because at least he was trying, anyway my pity for Nick is only topped by my complete loathing of Steve Kilbey from the Church. But I've always rated Marty Wilson-Piper from the same band and he has a daily blog about music. There is obviously a lot of hippy rubbish but there are other, interesting things too. https://www.indeepmusicarchive.net/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blastronaut 790 Posted February 17 Share Posted February 17 Fucking hell @sammynb are you implying he sold out after the Birthday Party? Big Jesus Trash Can took a really long time to grow on me. It was even harder work than most Cardiacs stuff tbh. I'll agree that Cave has got far less adventurous as the years went on but 86 seems a weird cut off date (though I'll concede I'm not hugely well versed in his output). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sammynb 1473 Posted February 17 Share Posted February 17 Just now, Blastronaut said: Fucking hell @sammynb are you implying he sold out after the Birthday Party? Big Jesus Trash Can took a really long time to grow on me. It was even harder work than most Cardiacs stuff tbh. I'll agree that Cave has got far less adventurous as the years went on but 86 seems a weird cut off date (though I'll concede I'm not hugely well versed in his output). Not sold out as such but once he was off the gear it all turned to shite. Last decent album was Tender Prey, which was actually 1988 but even some of that is just bang average. The Birthday Party stuff is my fave, Mutiny is just brilliant in your face, angry at the world and all the lies that religion and politics bring, punk. To me Nick is summed up in his muses, Birthday Party it was Roland S Howard who's music I rate highly. He was also the calm that churned Nick's anger/hate and that made for great music. Then early Bad Seeds Hugo Race, from The Wreckery another great band from Melbourne if you have heard them, took over the RSH role and although he wasn't as good he still had a darkness about him. Also Barry Adamson was still playing bass for them at that stage and Blixa was only a bit player. Then by Tender Prey Blixa Bargeld had become Nick's latest muse and Nick starts moving to more of his ballad type rubbish - remembering Blixa had Einsturzende Neubauten as his outlet for noise and mayhem. And so now Nick is drowning in the Ship song and doing duets with Kylie, bore-fucking-ing. Then Blixa moves on and is replaced by Warren Ellis, the mad violinist from the Dirty Three and again his new muse has another outlet for mayhem outside of the Bad Seeds plus by this time Nick is a tea totalling, got to get up for my morning constitutionals at 5am middle aged man, he's now just a caricature of the singer from The Birthday Party, singing about God and shit. But he's popular and middle aged formerly indie/alt women love him! That's my unpopular opinion anyway! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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