He looks, by turns, like an itinerant preacher, a gangster, a businessman, a funeral director. I might even say it’s a kind of uniform, a spiritual habit it’s hard to imagine him in anything else. Nick Cave, the musician, is always in a close-fitting black suit at every concert, in every interview. I’m not a good person, obviously, but bear with me: This is what I’m thinking about as I drive to the funeral of a twenty-one-year-old man-a nephew by marriage-dead of an overdose. With a terrible engine of wrath for a heartĪ black suit could stand by itself on a mannequin in an art gallery, and I would think, Nick Cave, the musician.īut there’s an artist named Nick Cave too, and that Nick Cave makes sculptures called Soundsuits-suits that stand by themselves in art galleries-and if that Nick Cave’s suits are designed to refract the light, then the other Nick Cave’s suits are designed to absorb it absolutely. He’s a completely kind of atmospheric guitarist and incredibly economical and it gave me room to breathe.Cause they say there is a cougar that roams these parts / I wanted it to be more lyrically orientated and getting Blixa Bargeld from Einstürzende Neubauten in the group made an incredible difference. “Well, I guess we weren’t kicking people in the teeth anymore. This classic album was fresh off the breakup of The Birthday Party, and was the beginning of a long collaboration between Nick Cave and Blixa Bargeld of Einstürzende Neubauten. Tracks on the record feature the Leonard Cohen cover of Avalanche, the single In the Ghetto on CD reissues, and a title track that 3 years later caused Angels and Trapeze artists to fall in love under the skies of Berlin. On June 18th, 1984, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds released their debut, From Her to Eternity, an album whose title is a pun on the book/movie From Here to Eternity.
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