All Ive ever heard was Murder Ballads and I thought it was really good. How does this other stuff stack up to it... much different? Im interested in getting some more stuff, so recommend it to me please.

mgb

michaeltheangryrussian wrote:All Ive ever heard was Murder Ballads and I thought it was really good. How does this other stuff stack up to it...

Murder Ballads and The Boatman's Call are the only Bad Seeds records that I don't like. The rest are far superior, Your Funeral, My Trial being my personal favorite. Some of the finest music Cave ever recorded is squirrelled away among the two lectures he recorded a few years back, available as The Secret Life of the Love Song. Most are solo piano renditions of songs from various points in his career, but he's sometimes joined by 2/3 of The Dirty Three and a bassist. Beautiful stuff.

I got Abattoir Blues/ The Lyre of Orpheus last night.
So good.

michaeltheangryrussian wrote:All Ive ever heard was Murder Ballads and I thought it was really good. How does this other stuff stack up to it... much different? Im interested in getting some more stuff, so recommend it to me please.

mgb

Murder Ballads, while a great album, was sort of a parody of himself. It was the album I started out with too. If you like the faster, louder songs then go backwards from there, chronologically speaking. If you like the quieter, softer songs then go forward.

Rotten Tanx wrote:

michaeltheangryrussian wrote:All Ive ever heard was Murder Ballads and I thought it was really good. How does this other stuff stack up to it... much different? Im interested in getting some more stuff, so recommend it to me please.

mgb

Murder Ballads, while a great album, was sort of a parody of himself. It was the album I started out with too. If you like the faster, louder songs then go backwards from there, chronologically speaking. If you like the quieter, softer songs then go forward.

thanks, this is good advice. I went back really far. I got The Birthday Party's "Prayers On Fire". Still digesting it. Im kind of lost in it right now, but it's slowly coming into focus.

mtar

michaeltheangryrussian wrote:thanks, this is good advice. I went back really far. I got The Birthday Party's "Prayers On Fire". Still digesting it. Im kind of lost in it right now, but it's slowly coming into focus.

mtar

you need to get junkyard and live '81-'82. seriously. it'll knock you on yer ass. try to find the live dvd "pleasure heads must burn." it's a must own.

Anyone check out that new soundtrack he did with Warren Ellis?

Christopher_Dragon wrote:Anyone check out that new soundtrack he did with Warren Ellis?

More atmospheric than song like. I like it quite a bit.

One of the tracks intersperses a melody from a dirty 3 album.
Of which i cannot remember. You'll like it i'm sure.

Not Crap.

The Hammond refrain from "Your Funeral, My Trial" has been running through my mind all day. It has proven to be a very pleasant constant in an otherwise frenetic day.

Salut, Nick Cave! Salut, Whoever Plays Organ on That Song!

Christopher_Dragon wrote:Anyone check out that new soundtrack he did with Warren Ellis?

I'm excited for this. has anyone heard anything about the movie? All I know is NC wrote it and its about someone in australia. I dunno. If it plays like some of is prose reads, it's going to be a hard one to swallow.

More on Nick Cave music: I played some for my mom (neil diamond, rod stewart). She liked it a lot. Still, Not Crap.


And they move about the city like they're in a Tarentino movie: