40 years ago
Lux Interior and Nick Cave - giving their best mischevious looks - backstage at Perkins Palace in Pasedena when Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds opened up for The Cramps on June 22nd, 1984.
February 26th 1996, 28 years ago, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds released Henry Lee, a duet featuring PJ Harvey.
From 1996 to 1997, following their musical collaborations, Harvey had a relationship with Nick Cave, and their break-up influenced Cave's follow-up studio album The Boatman's Call (1997), with songs such as ‘Into My Arms’, ‘West Country Girl’ and ‘Black Hair’ being written specifically about her.
Giving #NickCave and the Bad Seeds' Murder Ballads (my least favorite Nick Cave) another whirl. I've always hated the song "Stagger Lee", but just read that it's based on a traditional song, so maybe I'll hate it a little less now. But just a little.
LT I think The Mercy Seat is one of the coolest sounding songs, though on paper it doesn't seem like something so repetitive would have such lovely tension. I wonder if anyone other than #NickCave could've made this song work.
Scratch that, old #LeonardCohen is #TomWaits, #NickCave, and #JeffGoldblum in a trenchcoat. At the very least, this song is the audio equivalent of Dr. Malcolm lying on his side with his shirt open.
Happy Birthday to Nicholas Edward Cave, Australian musician, singer-songwriter of The Birthday Party and frontman of the rock band Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, born on this day in 1957
I’m frustrated with #musicians who get SO excited about #AI tools that can write melodies and write chord progressions and write lyrics and do the producing, and use generative voice software to sing the song for them.
Like, do you even enjoy making #music? Or do you just want to make money? Because there are far easier ways to make money.
I'll also go ahead and link Nick Cave's response to #ChatGPT generating lyrics "in the style of Nick Cave," since he's awesome and his response is awesome and every musician should read it and think about why and how you create #Art 5/
So let's start this false Monday with #Songs4BrokenHearts. Why? Because it is #TuneTuesday and @Kitty pulled @pgs & @satsuma's prompt out of her tin can.
I will nominate this melancholic beauty of a ballad from a great album called The Boatman's Call:
"Ted Lasso" has never foregrounded music in the same ways as "Stranger Things" or "Yellowjackets." But in the most recent episode, Nick Cave's Milton-inspired "Red Right Hand" entered the locker room. Here's a look at why the creators might have chosen such a distinctive song.