Nick Cave trivia/annoyance

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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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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.