Nick Cave trivia/annoyance

[rm]

So I've just discovered Nick Cave's live album from the Abattoir Blues/Lyre of Orpheus tour. And it's great, but hey, that missing verse from Easy Money in Milan? Was that Nick Cave forgetting the lyrics to one of his songs again (although that happens less now than it did in the 80s and 90s) or was that "Italy isn't fond of the verse that makes it explicitly clear that part of this song is about male prostitution?"

Cranky. (This is one of my major auditory references for something I'm writing, so hearing a song I love, in an amazing version, missing the pivotal verse (seriously, the first time I heard the original version of the song, I had to rewind because I wasn't sure I'd actually heard it correctly), is really grumpy-making).

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[syna.livejournal.com]

I mean, I imagine if you go to a Nick Cave concert you know what you're getting into, and it is Italy. So I would imagine it is just that he's getting old. XD I do understand what you mean by - I get like half my music-related dopamine rush from having memorized lyrics and anticipating them, so although intellectually I am all for artists changing up lyrics as they see fit in the live versions, I do tend to get irrationally grumpified by alterations.

Here, have Blixa and Nick kissing to cheer you up: http://wolfmoonlady.vodspot.tv/watch/1760254-where-the-wild-roses-grow-midtfyns-1998?u=wolfmoonlady&c=wolfmoonlady

I'm always cheered by that at any rate~

[rm.livejournal.com]

Well, it's better that he's getting old than the "he's fucked up out of his goddamn mind" which was what it was like in the 80s.

And I've never seen that video! OMG!

Blixa!

[syna.livejournal.com]

As much enjoyment as I get out of watching that on tape (and with the knowledge that he's 50+ and not dead), I would have to agree.

Yaaay Blixa <3 (Apparently that used to be a tradition when they sang that song together!)

[rm.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure I've ever seen them do that song. I do know that seeing them perform The Weeping Song together has always been really shattering.

Also, seeing a video that old, although it's still from about 12 years after I first got into them, makes me go "wow, I was one seriously dark 15 year old."

[syna.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah, the Weeping Song is tremendous. I love Blixa's singing in general. There's something about the earnestness and aghastness with which he sings "Wild Rose", though - the original was fine, but uninterestingly pedestrian to me; he transforms it. It's the only version I can listen to.

I mean of course I love the queering of it too, but still.

Yeah, I'd say so! :) I listened to NIN of all things in adolescence for about a month, hiding it carefully from my parents of course, and Nick is so titanic in comparison to that. Reznor's petty little dark fantasies don't stand a chance.

[azn-jack-fiend.livejournal.com]

This is my favorite version-is-very-different Nick Cave song. I saw him do this live on the piano... oh man.

session version

live: http://nickcavefixes.wordpress.com/2009/04/12/papa-wont-leave-you-henry-solo/