Murder Ballads
If Murder Ballads was anthropomorphic I would never stop hugging them.
Granted, Murder Ballads personified would probably be like a strange cross between ATG, Bennet the Sage, and ... I don't even know. Someone creepy and very musically talented and soothing and funny and Crosses the Line Twice.
So yeah, I downloaded the full CD from amazon.com ( Read more... )
Granted, Murder Ballads personified would probably be like a strange cross between ATG, Bennet the Sage, and ... I don't even know. Someone creepy and very musically talented and soothing and funny and Crosses the Line Twice.
So yeah, I downloaded the full CD from amazon.com ( Read more... )
You are talking about my favourite album of all time, by one of my favourite musicians of all time. I have more Nick Cave stuff than any other band or musician. By A LOT. I might kinda sorta have 15 bootlegged concert recordings if you want them.
I have an epic piece of art planned to illustrate "Death Is Not The End" and I made myself this nifty pendant: http://fav.me/d1smwo6 I'm sure you'll understand it now. ;3
Bask in the glory of your newfound master. Bask, and let his corruption wash over you in glorious ecstacy.
Yes, there is a recording of Nick and Blixa singing "Where The Wild Roses Grow." There is even a video of them performing it live. There is a photo of one performance where they snogged during the song.
If you're especially into those two, you'll also want to look up the music video for "The Weeping Song" which is delightful and funny and kind of weirdly sexy in a very... sort of... Alice in wonderland way...
You'll also want to find the music video of Stagger Lee. It's a delightful demonstration of Nick's twisted-ass sense of humor in that he decided that the best way to do a song about a homosexual serial killer psychopath would be to dress up in Hot Topic teen girl clothes and kinda bop out to the song while a cast of extras ultimately conducts a kind of demented orgy around him and the band.
For other acts of music vodeo weirdness, see also "Babe I'm On Fire" which is about 15 minutes of the band dressing up as increasingly bizarre characters for 3-second shots in a song that makes no sense, and "Bring It On" which is a seriously done video of just the band playing in a Vegas-type setting except that they're interrupted every chorus by a battalion of sexy, bikini-clad dancers who you realize as you watch closely are all crossdressing men.
I love Nick Cave. I love him... so much.
And just as a note outside wackiness or slashiness... I think the video for "Henry Lee" is the sexiest thing I have ever seen. Not the sexiest music video. The sexiest film clip in any genre, EVER. It absolutely blows me away how jaw-droppingly sexy it is just watching Nick and PJ Harvey do nothing but LOOK at each other or put one hand on a shoulder or do a slow, simple dance... the way they lean in close and sing with lips ALMOST touching skin, a tilt of the head that accentuate the throat or a gesture that doesn't QUITE finish where it clearly wants to... This video is the most pornographic thing I've ever seen, and both people in it are fully clothed in identical black suits the entire time.
I also recommend checking out Blixa's band, Einsturzende Neubauten. They've been around a long, long, LOOOOONG damn time and their sound has changed a lot over the years, but he's got a hell of a cool thing going on there -- it's German industrial which means the primary sound in their music comes from members of the band banging on pipes and taking apart shopping carts and lobbing around boxes of nails and shit with a guitarist somewhere in the mix and Blixa singing. Try some stuff from different eras because it really is SO different, you may hate the 70's stuff and love the 2000's or vice versa.
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I might kinda sorta have 15 bootlegged concert recordings if you want them.
*SQUEE*
... Ahem, that is, yes, I am very interested in that.
Bask in the glory of your newfound master. Bask, and let his corruption wash over you in glorious ecstacy.
*basks* Nick Cave is too damn awesome. And UNF, that VOICE! The bits in O'Malley's Bar where he sounds like he's really getting off on all the murder ... yeah. *blushes*
Yes, there is a recording of Nick and Blixa singing "Where The Wild Roses Grow." There is even a video of them performing it live. There is a photo of one performance where they snogged during the song.
I've seen two videos on youtube, including the one where they made out at the end ("SQUEE" does not begin to cover it. Hot dayum.) but is there an actual recording that I could put on my iPod floating around somewhere?
*watches "The Weeping Song"* Oooo, I liked that a lot! The beat was very soothing in a steady sort of vaguely ominous kind of way.
… oh my, they're wearing suits. And priest outfits. *tugs at collar* And … and flailing around each other … and they look so YOUNG! Wow.
I love the bit around 3:51 where they're flicking their fingers at each other. Nick's grin is just delightful there.
*watches the video for "Stagger Lee"*
*jawdrop* What? Huh? Pink? Wow! Ack! What?!
What I want to know is, where did he get those cage-dancers-who-weren't-in-cages?
Hee, gotta love Blixa's little dance moves. And his infamous "dying child/strangled cat" screaming. Yowza.
Mr. Cave, it takes a lot of strength to wear something like that. I have never worn something like that, and I grew up with everyone from my mother, father, my father's boyfriend, and my grandmother trying to get me into pink clothes.
DAYUM those men can shimmy! (Now I know why I dance so strangely, it was because I was meant to be born a man, thirty years ago, and become part of this band! Then me and my dancing would have fit right in!)
*watches the video for "I'm On Fire"*
Nick Cave in skinny jeans and a tight dark shirt dancing around in a dimly basement is giving me Thoughts. Like "don't touch it, you don't know where it's been! ... but I don't care! I wanna touch! I wanna lick!" Those hips … *swoons* I have a type: long and lanky.
"The man at the bank says" *giggles*
"The mouse in my pocket" … ok, what were these drugs, and where can I get some?
"The backyard abortionist" … *backs away slowly* That was too far. At least for me. I mean, I know that seems weird, me being into all the murder ballads and dark humor and Crosses the Line Twice stuff in the rest of the songs … but that was too far. Some things just aren't funny to me, and unsafe abortion is one of them. (And other bits in this one went a bit too far. For me. I'm a strange person.)
Why hello thar female!NickCave! *faints* Is it pretty much confirmed that he's got a selfcest fetish by now?
"The horrible moth" That is indeed a horrible moth. It looks like the Mothman. I'm going to hide under the bed, ok?
The kangaroos and platypus ones were utterly fantastic. How must that have gone? "Ok guys, now we all get together and hop around like kangaroos!" "Ok Nick." "Ok guys, now we all put books in our mouths and pretend to be platypi!" "… ok Nick."
I love how their tactic for everything to do with water (the sailor, the fisherman, etc.) involved flinging a bucket of water at someone.
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You know what I'm realizing as I watch these videos? The camera doesn't just focus on Nick Cave, it checks in on the rest of the band too. That isn't seen in modern music videos much, which is wrong.
And just as a note outside wackiness or slashiness... I think the video for "Henry Lee" is the sexiest thing I have ever seen. Not the sexiest music video. The sexiest film clip in any genre, EVER. It absolutely blows me away how jaw-droppingly sexy it is just watching Nick and PJ Harvey do nothing but LOOK at each other or put one hand on a shoulder or do a slow, simple dance... the way they lean in close and sing with lips ALMOST touching skin, a tilt of the head that accentuate the throat or a gesture that doesn't QUITE finish where it clearly wants to... This video is the most pornographic thing I've ever seen, and both people in it are fully clothed in identical black suits the entire time.
I saw that the other day and made an LJ post about it. Words really failed me. It was just so .. sensual? Intense? Intimate? It was amazing, whatever it was. They were just so perfectly attuned to each other, it was so powerful to see them interacting. All that scantily-clad writhing that 20-somethings do in current music videos can't even come within a hundred yards of "Henry Lee."
Today I danced crazy to "The Ballad of Robert Moore and Betty Coltrane." Like, I've never danced like that. I think I was doing a kind of weird shuffling spinny tap-dance thing in my sneakers. I probably looked completely insane, but I couldn't stop! I just HAD to dance around to it, and the shuffling got more and more insistent and then I was whirling around the room and flailing my arms and I freaking LOVE that song.
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