Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - "As I Sat Sadly By Her Side"

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - "Ghosteen"

Beautiful as expected. Soft and haunting.

Teho Teardo & Blixa Bargeld - "Mi Scusi" and "Alone with the Moon"

Teho Teardo and Blixa Bargeld (latter ex-Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds & Einstürzende Neubauten frontman (both??)

Particularly "Mi Scusi" is beautiful.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXzcBpIGKas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQhMiiHowCg

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - "Higgs Boson Blues" (Push the Sky Away

I've got the Higgs Boson Blues
I've got the Higgs Boson Blues
I'm going down to Geneva

Who cares what the future brings

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - "(I'll love you) Till The End Of The World" (Until the End Of The World OST)

The parlando parts can be used directly in Nightporter.

The singing parts are very... poppy.

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - "Ain't Gonna Rain Anymore"

album "Let Love In"

At his best.

Grinderman - "Lazarus Dig Yourself"

More than once, iPod shuffle creates a horrible mix. Besides that, it seems incredibly non-random in its randomness (yes, I am aware of the fact that 1.2.3.4.5.6... can be randomly generated)

But today was a Good Shuffle Day.
And "Lazarus Dig Yourself" came by, and all was well.

But Larry grew increasing neurotic and obscene
I mean, he, he never asked to be raised up from the tomb
I mean, no one ever actually asked him to forsake his dreams

Nick Cave / Roy Orbinson - "Running Scared"

On "Rarities", Nick Cave plays a wonderful slightly slower version of "Running Scared". Crazy about it.

Big difference; Orbinson's last line reads "You turned around and walked away with me".

Nick Cave: "You turned around and walked away from me"

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

"Your Funeral... My Trial"

Great album. Eerie, nightmare.

• "The Carry", with its parlando voice, reminds of "the Cat Piano"

"The Boatman's Call"

• "Where Do We Go Now But Nowhere?" - slow, sad
• "Green Eyes" - this is pretty horrible, absolutely Cave-ish in lyrics, but the parlando-over-singing... it's a 50's pastiche!

"Henry's Dream"

• "Papa Won't Leave You, Henry" - power, a carriage running wild, with the Bad Seeds as dangerously answering choir
• "John Finn's Wife" - orchestral
• "I Had A Dream, Joe"

"Tender Prey"

• "Watching Alice" - strange, plonk-wieew guitars, slow
• "Up Jumped The Devil" - Cave at his best evil self (at moments his intonation (incantation) reminded me of Jules Deelder's "Oh kut": "O My O My / What a wretched life / I was born on the day / That my poor mother died / I was cut from her belly / With a stanley knife / My daddy did a jig / With the drunk midwife"

"The Firstborn Is Dead"

more experimental. less my liking.

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shit, not again

Strong M-moment.

Thought I'd left that behind by now. Shouldn't have listened to "the Weeping Song" that often today.