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Nick Cave (1) (1957–)

Autor/a de And the Ass Saw the Angel

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64+ obres 4,143 Membres 88 Ressenyes 2 preferits

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Crèdit de la imatge: Nick Cave at the Union Square Barnes & Noble to read from his new book, The Death of Bunny Munro. Photo by David Shankbone

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Obres de Nick Cave

And the Ass Saw the Angel (1989) — Autor — 1,743 exemplars
The Death of Bunny Munro: A Novel (2009) 1,251 exemplars
King Ink (1988) 253 exemplars
Faith, Hope and Carnage (2022) 198 exemplars
King Ink II (1997) 131 exemplars
The Sick Bag Song (2015) 128 exemplars
The Complete Lyrics, 1978-2001 (2001) 76 exemplars
Stranger Than Kindness (2020) 63 exemplars
The Complete Lyrics, 1978-2013 (2013) 51 exemplars
Best of Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds (1998) — Songwriter — 35 exemplars
The Complete Lyrics, 1978-2007 (2007) 32 exemplars
Henry's Dream (1992) 31 exemplars
The Good Son (1990) — Artist — 19 exemplars
Nick Cave Anthology (2001) 12 exemplars
The Complete Lyrics 1978–2022 (2022) 10 exemplars
The Four Gospels (2010) — Introducció — 7 exemplars
God is in the House [DVD] (2007) 6 exemplars
Carnage (2021) 6 exemplars
Greetings From Detroit (2015) 6 exemplars
AS-FIX-E-8 (1993) 5 exemplars
The Complete Lyrics, 1978-2019 (2022) 4 exemplars
Gladiator 2 3 exemplars
Punishing Kiss (2000) 2 exemplars
Murder Ballads 2 exemplars
Live (1992) 1 exemplars
Válogatott versek, 1984-2004 (2005) 1 exemplars
Mars 1 exemplars
The Little Thing 1 exemplars
Wind River (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (2014) — Redactor/compositor — 1 exemplars
Straight To You (1992) 1 exemplars
Idiot Prayer (2020) 1 exemplars
Ghosts of Civil Dead (1989) 1 exemplars
White Lunar (2009) 1 exemplars
From Her Eternity (1988) 1 exemplars
Skeleton Tree 1 exemplars

Obres associades

Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives (2009) — Narrador, algunes edicions1,549 exemplars
Nina Simone's Gum (2021) — Introducció — 144 exemplars
Lawless [2012 film] (2012) 96 exemplars
Mark (Pocket Canon) (1998) — Introducció — 84 exemplars
The Proposition [2005 film] (2005) 82 exemplars
Speeches of Note: An Eclectic Collection of Orations Deserving of a Wider Audience (2018) — Narrador, algunes edicions50 exemplars
La Bible (1990) — Prefaci — 25 exemplars
Letters of Note: Music (2020) — Narrador, algunes edicions16 exemplars
Step Back in Time: The Definitive Collection (2019) — Col·laborador — 8 exemplars
Wings of Desire (soundtrack) (1990) — Artist — 6 exemplars
The Abbey Road Sessions — Col·laborador — 3 exemplars

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Euchrid Eucrow ist das Produkt mehrerer Generationen von Inzucht. Seine Mutter ist eine Säuferin und sein Vater ein wortkarger Fallensteller. Wortlos wächst er in einem fundamentalistischen Südstaatenkaff auf, welches von einer eigenartigen Sekte und vom Anbau von Zuckerrohr lebt. Euchrid wird von den Städtern gejagt und misshandelt. Nur die Hobos des Ortes stehen noch unter ihm. Getrieben von sozialer Isolation, flüchtet er sich in Wahnvorstellungen und kreiert seine eigene Welt.… (més)
 
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ela82 | Hi ha 25 ressenyes més | Mar 23, 2024 |
Worthwhile read of a series of interviews conducted over the better part of a year during the pandemic, explicitly modeled on the Paris Review long-form type, for people who enjoy Nick Cave’s music, especially his hauntingly more abstract work of recent years created in partnership with Warren Ellis, and who find him to be an interesting person. Indeed, who else would be likely to read it. Strong running themes include discussions of what is art for and what does it do, the death of Cave’s 15 year old son which is as he says now the condition of his life, and of course his intelligent and emotional wrestling with God, faith and doubt. He’s a real one.

Below passages are just ones that particularly resonated with me.
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O’Hagan: So, for you, it’s a part of the artist’s duty, not just to create work but to make sure it goes out into the world and is experienced by others?

Cave: There are obviously a multitude of reasons why people might choose to make art or music, but, as far as I’m concerned, the work I do is entirely relational, actually transactional, and has no real validity unless it is animated by others. It does not exist in its true form unless it moves through the hearts of others as a balm. Otherwise, it is just words and notes and little more.

So your music is a force for good?

Well, yes, it is. Music is a spiritual currency unlike any other in its ability to transport people out of their suffering, so I don’t take my job lightly. The indisputable goodness of music, the clear benefits it brings - its capacity to enlarge the spirit, provide solace, companionship, healing, and, well, meaning - is much like religion in a way.
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O’Hagan: Do you think that, on some subliminal level, your brain tells you not to take creative risks as an artist?

Cave: I do. I’ve been thinking about this a lot. The brain enjoys its patterns and paths and wants us to do the things that are familiar. What I’m saying is that you can’t get to that truly creative place unless you find the dangerous idea. And, once again, that’s like standing at the mouth of the tomb, in vigil, waiting for the shock of the risen Christ, the shock of the imagination, the astonishing idea.
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O’Hagan: When you were younger, people bought into an image of you as a dark and dangerous, self-destructive figure. You have certainly confounded them of late.

Cave: Well, good, I’m glad. But, as you know, I really don’t see the young man in The Birthday Party as a separate entity from the person who made Ghosteen or does The Red Hand Files. That’s not how it goes. What I mean is, we may shed many skins, but we are essentially the same damn snake.

But surely your outlook is entirely different now?

Well, the young Nick Cave could afford to hold the world in some form of disdain because he had no idea of what was coming down the line. I can see now that this disdain or contempt for the world was a kind of luxury or indulgence, even a vanity. He had no notion of the preciousness of life - the fragility. He had no idea how difficult, but essential, it is to love the world and to treat the world with mercy.
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Cave: “Oh man, I’ve still got to read Bobby’s biography. I hear it’s good, but it’s sitting there on an ever-growing pile of book to be read. Christ, there is so much to read. Do you find that?”
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Cave: “I don’t know about you, but for me there is forever a struggle between the rational side of myself and the side that is alert to glimpses or impressions of something otherworldly. And, of course, I know there is no coherent argument to be had here. My rational self has all the weaponry, all the big guns - reason, science, common sense, normality - and all that far outweighs the side of me that only has suspicions and hints and signs of something else, something mysterious and quietly spoken. But, even still, it feels, under the circumstances, that to dismiss the existence of these things that live beyond our reasonable selves outright is, at best, ungenerous. Don’t you think? I mean, I don’t blindly succumb to these feelings, but still I remain watchful for that promise. This is how I have chosen to live my life - in uncertainty, and by doing so to be open to the divine possibility of things, whether it exists or not. I believe this gives my life, and especially my work, meaning and potential and soul, too, beyond what the rational world has to offer.”
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Cave: “Many people will, of course, disagree, although I tend to think most musicians have more time for these spiritual considerations, because when they make music, when they lose themselves in music, fall deep inside it, they encounter such strong intimations of the divine. Of all things, music can lift us closer to the sacred.”

O’Hagan: And yet there are many great songs and pieces of music that don’t reach into the divine. You’ve written some of them.

Well, I don’t know what those songs are. A song doesn’t have to be explicitly religious to have transcendent qualities.

Did this notion of transcendence apply when you were writing your older, less obviously religious songs?

Yes, I think so.

A song like ‘Breathless’, for instance, seems to me to exalt the luminous beauty of the everyday. Is that not a wondrous subject in and of itself?

Yes, and the luminous and shocking beauty of the everyday is something I try to remain alert to, if only as an antidote to the chronic cynicism and disenchantment that seems to surround everything, these days. It tells me that, despite how debased or corrupt we are told humanity is and how degraded the world has become, it just keeps on being beautiful. It can’t help it.
But ‘Breathless’ is, in fact, an explicitly religious song. A love song to God.

No! It was one of the songs we played at our wedding. I never took it for a God song.

Well, that’s what’s known as Jesus smuggling! And it worked. But, to be honest, it’s not about a God that is separate from nature, or apart from the world; rather, it’s about a God that is in attendance and animating all things.
… (més)
 
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lelandleslie | Hi ha 2 ressenyes més | Feb 24, 2024 |
Incredible language. Incredible insight into the darkness of a small insular broken community. Impossible to imagine how a 27 year old could have so much understanding of a time and a place and a destruction so removed from his own life.
But it was Nick Cave. And he was deep in addiction.
It's a tough story. Nobody survives.
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andrewlorien | Hi ha 25 ressenyes més | Apr 28, 2023 |

Incredibly illuminating images at times, but often blank pages or a wallet.

Severely lacking in the quality of essay that one would expect to find as the centerpiece of such a pricey printed work.

This is at best a companion to the Nick Cave discography and docudrama trilogy.

Also one cant go without saying that this is not even really a book about Nick Cave. This is a book about the inspiration spawned by the nurturing love and companionship given by two incredibly gifted women that happen to take the perspective of the back pocket of their more famous friend.

I love Nick Cave but timing and presentation and cost leave more questions than answers with this piece.
… (més)
 
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trabovas | Feb 14, 2023 |

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Membres
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