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song: voodoo slaves
album: voodoo slaves 7”
band: minuteman
australia - 1982
song: more news from nowhere
album: dig!!! lazarus dig!!!
band: nick cave & the bad seeds
australia - 2008
+: cave’s music is generally characterised by emotional intensity, a wide variety of influences, and lyrical obsessions with “religion, death, love, america, and violence”
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song: under the milky way
album: starfish
band: the church
australia - 1988
sometimes when this place gets kind of empty,
sound of their breath fades with the light.
i think about the loveless fascination,
under the milky way tonight.
lower the curtain down in memphis,
lower the curtain down all right.
i got no time for private consultation,
under the milky way tonight.
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song: waving my arms
album: hee-haw
band: the birthday party
australia - 1988
it’s all a crumble locomotion on you
and we feel out the shining in our signaling suits
and explode into hohohoho!
it’s a manner, hehehehehe, stow!
song: where the wild roses grow
album: murder ballads
artists: nick cave & the bad seeds (feat. kylie minogue)
australia - 1996
all beauty must die.
+: cave was inspired to write ‘where the wild roses grow’ after listening to the traditional song, ‘down in the willow garden’, a tale of a man courting a woman and killing her while they are out together.
song: crush
album: immersion
band: pendulum
australia - 2010
pictures that i’ve been dreaming are coming down.
song: never tear us apart (inxs cover)
artists: beck, annie clark (aka st. vincent), julian gross and angus andrew (from liars), sergio dias (from os mutantes) and brian lebarton (from beck)
record club session #4
2010
+: inxs - kick sessions here
+: grab the mp3s here
+: more sessions (including yanni, skip spence, velvet underground & nico, leonard cohen)
song: hold your colour
band: pendulum
live @ brixton academy
hold your colours against the wall,
when they take everything away.
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song: reptile
album: starfish
band: the church
australia - 1988
too dangerous to keep
too feeble to let go
and you want to bite the hand
shoulda stopped this long ago
go now, you’ve been set free
another month or so you’ll be gorging on me
with your lovely smile
i see you slither away with your skin and your tail
your flickering tongue and your rattling scales
like a real reptile
song: nature boy (live @ jools holland) - short version
band: nick cave and the bad seeds
2004
i was just a boy when i sat down to watch the news on tv
i saw some ordinary slaughter i saw some routine atrocity
my father said, don’t look away, you got to be strong, you got to be bold, now
he said, that in the end it is beauty that is going to save the world, now
and she moves among the sparrows
and she floats upon the breeze
she moves among the flowers
she moves something deep inside of me
i was walking around the flower show like a leper coming down with nervous hysteria
when i saw you standing there, green eyes, black hair up against the pink and purple wisteria
you said, hey, nature boy, are you looking at me with some unrighteous intention?
my knees went weak, i couldn’t speak, i was having thoughts
that were not in my best interests to mention
and she moves among the flowers
and she floats upon the smoke
she moves among the shadows
she moves me with just one little look
you took me back to your place and dressed me up in a deep sea diver’s suit
you played the patriot, you raised the flag and i stood at full salute
later on we smoked a pipe that struck me dumb and made it impossible to speak
as you closed in, in slow motion, quoting sappho, in the original greek
she moves among the sparrows
and she walks across the sea
she moves among the flowers
and she moves right up close to me
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song: mutiny in heaven
album: mutiny
band: the birthday party
australia - 1983
there’s a mu-ti-ny in hea-ven!
