Brilliantly played.
Touchay.
I mean no offence mate but felt compelled to point it out.
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You’re talking about Anglo-Saxon spring, saying St. Brigid’s Day is in winter, trying to colonize TFK.
I’ll slap the head off ya, you cunt.
Cool story behind that one too
Sombre Tuesday…
Brian Eno - By the River
@farmerinthecity , I’ve been following all your TFK musings over the past few days quite closely. You like Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds but prefer the early stuff. Accordingly, I now present the most over-long and unnecessary post in TFK history:-
Tank’s Official Top 10 Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds Songs
TEN - Hiding All Away
Abattoir Blues marked the band’s first album without Blixa. No-one except for Nick himself could have predicted that the band’s use of noise would only grow more intelligent and forceful in the German’s absence. The themes remained as biblical as ever. Hiding All Away seemed to sum up everything Cave had said in the previous 21 years:- “We all know there is a law and that law it is love. And we all know there is a war coming and it’s coming from above.”
NINE - Hold on to Yourself
By the time of Dig Lazarus Dig, Cave had found marital happiness and stability for the first time in his life, living with Susie Bick in Brighton. This brought with it new stresses, which were reflected beautifully in this guitar-driven track.
EIGHT - The Sorrowful Wife
I’ve never been able to understand why Cave has such a dislike for “No More Shall We Part”. It has some dull tracks but what’s good on it arguably counts as Cave’s best and most menacing songwriting. The Sorrowful Wife is one of his most neglected songs, unloved even by its creator.
SEVEN - Song of Joy
The Murder Ballads gave the band their first taste of anything resembling mainstream success, with its duets with PJ Harvey and Kylie Minogue. Perhaps the best song was the under-looked opener. As ever horrific violence seems just a door away and as ever Cave is at his most emotional when he’s also at his most intelligent and literary.
SIX - Lucy
Drugs and love. A life without any meaning beyond the search for transcendent beauty so that beauty and tragedy are inescapable Siamese twins. The Bad Seeds in a nutshell.
FIVE - Oh My Lord
Kafka-inspired exploration of human bitterness and noise. The lyrics are an excellent short-story in their own right while the music rocks like a motherfucker. The end is a rare freedom , the kind that takes decades of musical mastery to achieve but sounds effortless
FOUR - I Need You
Cave’s domestic happiness ended in the cruellest possible manner. At the time he thought that desolation was the universe, an endless folding ocean, but he was wrong - there was still remained another element, which was beauty.
THREE - Sad Waters (acoustic piano version)
The top three entries are all piano ballads. This is the earliest of the three, from 1986. The best version was recorded for a series of lectures Cave recorded on “The Secret Life of the Love Song”. It tells a story of how love transforms the world. Love is the unknowable, is the undefinable, is god, is the transformer, is suffering, is love.
TWO - Into My Arms
Fuck, I’m such a basic.
ONE - Shoot Me Down
This was originally released as the B-Side to Bring It On. In other words, Nocturama was such a bad album that it even left out the best Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds song of all time. Everything that’s great about the Bad Seeds crammed into three and a half minutes; poetry, mystic love, heartbreaking beauty and cinematic scope. It’s epic in less than four minutes. Of course love like this can’t exist in reality and Cave knows it but that’s not the point. The point is to transform our existence through beauty, magic and hope and these all goals are ably achieved here.
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I’ll give you Nick Cave and I’ll raise you Tindersticks.
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From one of the best albums for me of the 21st century so far.
The Knife - Like a Pen (from Silent Shout)
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This song appeared in The Sopranos:
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How to play the guitar, Page 1.
Still a classic though.
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Their first two albums, and do a lesser extent the third, were off the charts in terms of quality.
Slow down
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