Nick Cave + Warren Ellis = Spoken Word x Soundtrack: Carnage Review by Professor Skye
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- Опубликовано: 18 сен 2024
- After admitting to being a bad Nick Cave fan, I work my way through this very impressive album and even end up reading an entire song. Plus smudges and dead lavender.
Skye's Homework (example song) Hand of God- • Hand of God
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I strongly suggest giving No More Shall We Part another chance, and he only mentions his “nurse” in one song. Darker With the Day is one of his best songs.
Where is his nurse, he needs some healing...
@@aaronottaviano8104 Yes, he mentions that on one song. Hallelujah.
As always, great review! I relate to the "I'm a bad Nick Cave fan" statement hahaha. I love his music but I haven't listened to all of his work either. Mainly because when I was born he had already been making music for 20 years or so. But also because english is my second language so it takes a while for me to understand some of his more complex lyrics.
About the Hand of God:
In the 1986 Fifa World Cup, Maradona did score a goal with his hand. It was given that name because of what he said during an interview after the match. He said he scored it "a little with his head, and a little with the hand of God". He should have received a yellow card for his illegal move but technology was not advanced enough for the referees to prove it. Later on it was voted Goal of the Century (yikes).
I actually listened to No More Shall We Part today, and absolutely love it. You shouldn't have skipped Abattoir Blues/Lyre Of Orpheus. I think you'll like it. Have to agree with you about Ghosteen. One listen was enough for me.
Everything Nick Cave does is always fascinating
As for the "kingdom in the sky" element in the White Elephant, it reminds me how Nick denied being a christian many times, yet maintains his fascination with the complex, symbolic imagery of christian mythology and makes frequent use of them. In this specific context I would be inclined to seeing it in a more fatalistic light, of reference to a "true world theory" - we strive to believe in some other, better world (that will supposedly be there after death) because of all the suffering we see in this world - it was however introduced by Nietzsche, so of course the wider outlook is how that mode of thinking is rooted in denial and false hope, the essentially nihilistic proclamation of the nature of this world being doomed and thus turning to another one. A heaven incoming is possibly a belief that the narrator/White Hunter holds and Cave is criticizing, as Hunter also happens to be a contributor to the cruelty and injustice present in this world, but about that too, is in denial.
Glad to see you reviewing this album. I'm loving it more and more with each listen. I hope you listen to Skeleton Tree as that's arguably his most poignant beautiful album.
I haven't heard every single album of Nick Cave's either, but the ones I've heard I've enjoyed immensely. I'm impressed that he's 40 years into his career and still making amazing music.
No more shall we part is one of my favorites. He talks about the album that after Boatman's call he felt he was exposing too much of his life, but even so he found a way to still doing that in a more confortable way.. he was getting married (that doesn't exclude the beautiful ominous songs about that topic, like Oh my lord or The sorrowful wife), stopped definetily doing heroin and they are complex songs with that particular sound and extebded lyrics. Hope the comments interest or help anybody!
Agree
Amazing review of a really unique album. However, at the very beginning where Professor Skye mentions the Wings of Desire film as being "too cheesy." Ok IMO Wings of Desire is one of the greatest films ever made, and I have heard that criticism many times, and I must say the cheesy, overtly sentimental segments of the film are 100% intentional and that's what makes the film so sweet and watchable. I mean the actors are wearing paper wings, they must have known how silly it looks.
Also, the Key & Peele reference at around 23:00 minute mark had me in absolute stitches.
Good point. I was unfair to that movie. I think it’s because that movie got me into Wenders and I like his other work more.
Still, when I visited Berlin in 05 I went to the library where the movie was filmed and recreated the scene.
@@professorskye There’s some good interviews with Wenders on the necessity of artists struggling with how to represent sweetness because it’s so much more difficult than representing brutality. Because representing sweetness must risk being cheesy or goofy or naive or just plain too silly for words (or images).
Loved your review. I think your White Elephant interpretation is spot on. I honestly felt like the music in the gospel bit at the end of the song sounded kind of comical, and it made me feel like the song was almost mocking the idea that this person full of hate believes they are going to a heaven in the sky - that was just my initial feeling though.
We are all "bad" Nick Cave fans. Part of being his fan is struggling with the questions you bring up.
Absolutely loved this record and agree with the title track being my least favorite out of the 8 of them.
Shattered Ground & Balcony Man are heartwrenching but Hand of God & White Elephant are incredible .
Definitely listen to Skeleton Tree and I think Nocturama is one of Nick Cave's best albums lol.
Fantastic! Just class! Keep on reviewing 👍🎼
Well, being a living legend doesn't exclude that he is a great artist. For me he is kind of a legend but is also very real. But I understand the kind of superficial image somebody could get from him, ironically enough without necessarily getting what he does.
I discovered him through his music (I don't think is that easy to get it also), and the image and the way he is as a consecuence of that, and I thought everything was great.
I think the first few lines of hand of god are supposed to be a kind of nick cave parody to be fair
This is very entertaining. "My nurse", ha ha! I can really relate to what you say here. I was really into him then drifted away and as for Bowie's Blackstar I still haven't been able to listen to it again due to feels.
Very intertaining indeed... But nothing more.
I’m glad you reviewed this. If you’re going back and listening to Nick’s previous records, I highly recommend listening to Skeleton Tree. It’s arguably his best album.
Do you think the white elephant is a reference to the Republican elephant?
Blimey!
34:00 I interprete it, coming from nick cave, not necessary as the now so called toxic relationship; but madness as a human condition in itself, not necessarily a bad thing. Meaning that some kind of reciprocity is possible
NMSWP is one of my favourites. I’m one of the minority that finds TBC really dull. Found it boring as Hell. Wasn’t a big fan of PTSA or Skeleton Tree. Ghosteen is growing on me as is Carniage.
27:20 that line I've been planning this for years remind me of those lines in First we take manhattan of Leonard Cohen I think at the end of the song. Check it out if you want ;)
I strongly recommend the abattoir blues/ the lyre of Orpheus if you have not listened to it yet at all. I think Nick Cave's lyricism is more focused, more brutal, less "my nuuurse". That is if you can make it past the opening track, which took me a few tries to be honest.
for me, ghosteen is bad. i would say its over sentimental but given the subject matter that would be absurd. perhaps its an album for nick, and no one else.
all the info on maradona was right XD
30:25 Nick says that the feeling of wondering, of reaching for something that religions have is very important to his songs, so I don't think is pure satire, may be is ambiguous related to the temathic in the song.
There isn't something like 'a bad fan'. You are a fan or you are not a fan. It is simple as that. Saying that you are some kind of a bad fan, should be a good reason NOT to review this album. Very snobistic attempt to nail Nick and his metaphores down. You need a nurse! Of course I am a fan. Because of that I don't review his work.
The last album I liked was the double 2004 pack.
Everything since - meh.
(Please no more piano ballads.
I'd rather he retire.)
What about Dig Lazarus Dig and the 2 Grinderman albums? They rock out.
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Nick Cave is a cliche. Kinda LA meets Australia. He mostly sucks but that's not to say he doesn't have good songs. He wishes he was Tom Waits and David Bowie's lovechild. And it's easy to be an artiste when you can afford the right drugs and violinists.