...i saw some ordinary slaughter, i saw some routine attrocity...

[fanny splendid]

Nick Cave's back with a new album out at the end of September. Well, more of a double album really, the first single of which is released earlier on in the month. A real media to mp3 conversion is available here.

The video to the single, and other stuff including tour info, is available at the official website.

http://www.nickcaveandthebadseeds.com/

[mr rou-rou]

what's happened to his hair, his beautiful hair?

when the vid started off I thought it was Morrissey and then Neil Young.

On a first listen I like it, probably biased though, I can hear twangs of Steve Harley, but then again I did think he looked like Neil Young so I wouldn't listen to me.

[didgeripoo]

Lordy that sounds naff.

Lets see...the last few Cave albums...

Murder Ballads - amazing
The Boatmans Call - completely amazing
No More Shall We Part - Less amazing
Nocturama - Guff

What's happened??

[splattermac]

Not the most obvious Nick Cake thread title to find for a bump there fanny.

While it's about here's a link to the new double album , listen in full here

My first impressions are.... long and huh where am I and is this still on?

I liked a couple of the later tracks on CD2 but apart from that nothing leapt out at me, it struck me that the album had bugger all dynamics, it was just a burble of indivisible Cave b-sides. Where was the punch, the lyrics twisting back on themselves, the honest singing with your lungs wide open 'arggh its all shite and we're doomed, doomed I tells ya' but he words it better of course.

I'm sure I'll find something more positive to say after a couple of listens.

this is a weeping fan

[Partridge's Love Child]

Nature Boy is terrific stuff and the nod to Cockney Rebel is apparently intentional.

You took me back to your place/And dressed me up in a deep sea diver's suit.

[splattermac]

look at this excellent watercolour of the man that our own verbwhore '9' painted,



the new album is still available to listen to here