All the pop tendency of their Melbourne band was replaced with Beefheart lurch (not sure how much I'm supposed to be spelling out here. Shed skin was replaced with soul sickness and cowboy hats. Maybe the lineup (Cave, Howard, Phill Calvert, Mick Harvey, Tracy Pew) was largely the same, but London and heroin made them different humans. Some, like Wikipedia apparently, consider The Boys Next Door album the first Birthday Party album. I feel like we're practicing kissing on red velvet pillows in a room with more shades than windows. I won't argue it doesn't matter, everything does now, but don't lose focus on the main thing: You're about to become a Nick Cave fan! This is so exciting. I feel like we're practicing kissing on red velvet pillows in a room with more shades than windows.īlack suit wearers and dark crooner aficionados of all stripes can argue till the bats come home about which Nick Cave album is best to start with. You're about to become a Nick Cave fan! This is so exciting. You can read Cave's 1989 novel, And The Ass Saw The Angel, if you like, but reading books by musicians-hell, reading any music books at all-will never do as much for your hair as good pomade and two days without a shower will. Southern gothic is at least as important to understanding Nick Cave as the bat cave variety. But you should at least skim a Flannery O'Connor book. I'm not going to insist you read Faulkner.
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