MUSTACHE WEDNESDAY: NICK CAVE

by Adam Jacobi on Aug 20, 2008 1:30 PM EDT

When we last left Nick Cave, he was recording a "stirring" cover of "What A Wonderful Word" with Shane McGowan, whose mouth is gruesome enough to be considered NSFW. Their rendition couldn't have possibly been recorded before 3 A.M., as they're both drunk enough that you can smell it through the tubes.

Cave and his coterie of ne'er-do-wells, the Bad Seeds, returned to the scene earlier this year with Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!, a sweeping work of art that... wait, sorry, I thought this was Pitchfork for a second. It's good.

Cave is 50 now, and he has approached his age with aplomb, growing out his receding hair and cultivating a dirtsweeper that would make even mid-80s Tom Selleck feel inadequate. Sure, he looks like a mix between half of Fred Armisen's costumes on SNL and Lawrence from Office Space, but come on, he's a 50-year-old rock star; who do you want him to look like, Sammy Hagar? Steven Tyler? Bono?

You can feel his Red Right Hand touching you right now. Don't fight it.

After the jump, the single-take video for the title track from this year's release. You can keep your CGI and needlessly expensive videos, pop music; Nick Cave prefers two screens, a treadmill, and a director who doesn't care if he only gets like 70% of the words right.

Happy Moustache Wednesday, motherfuckers!

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OPS, are you on the staff now?

by Geaux Irish on Aug 20, 2008 1:34 PM EDT reply actions

GI@1: Negatory. And double negatory if that’s some sort of euphemism.

I did like Nick Cave’s new album and dicktickler enough to want to write a MW post for Orson, though, so here we are. Both 5-star efforts in my book.

by Oops Pow Surprise on Aug 20, 2008 1:44 PM EDT reply actions

So if you were comparing his music to another band – would it be closer to The Wallflowers, Three Doors Down or post bulemia Silverchair?

by Ryno on Aug 20, 2008 1:44 PM EDT reply actions

Shane McGowan’s What A Wonderful World is a time-bomb of a masterpiece. If you like being horrified by your love songs, track down him and Maire Brennan doing “You’re The One.”

by Holly on Aug 20, 2008 1:47 PM EDT reply actions

Man, Ben Stiller has really let himself go.

by The Song of Hiawatha Francisco on Aug 20, 2008 2:26 PM EDT reply actions

Nick Cave sweats pure, undiluted Awesome.

Must listen to “Murder Ballads” immediately.

by bucketochicken on Aug 20, 2008 2:46 PM EDT reply actions

Well that is just pure shit, now isn’t it?

by Vol on Aug 20, 2008 2:48 PM EDT reply actions

Oh, man, I forgot all about Murder Ballads. Creeeeepy.

by Holly on Aug 20, 2008 3:03 PM EDT reply actions

OPS’s love of Nick Cave and Orson’s love of Deathklok is one more example of the difference between SEC speed and the rest of the country. Just now, we are measuring in BPM.

For reference:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6bGOBIW5PE

by Charlestowne on Aug 20, 2008 3:07 PM EDT reply actions

OPW:

Are you talking about the Grinderman album? If so, I agree. It’s pretty solid!

by LL on Aug 20, 2008 3:08 PM EDT reply actions

Typo Warning:

“Dethklok”: sorry ’bout that

by Charlestowne on Aug 20, 2008 3:11 PM EDT reply actions

Dammit! I meant “OPS” not “OPW”. Sorry.

Holly, you can add that to the “Corrections” for Friday if you’d like.

by LL on Aug 20, 2008 3:11 PM EDT reply actions

Wow, my life has come full circle-

80’s: Drinking Robitussin DM while listening to the Birthday Party.

00’s: Listening to Orson go on and on about “drank” then posting the Birthday Party’s lead singer on Moustache Wednesday.

Hands up who wants to die

by plastic paddy on Aug 20, 2008 3:14 PM EDT reply actions

get yo drank on to this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sx92L7TKgoc

by plastic paddy on Aug 20, 2008 3:19 PM EDT reply actions

Birthday Party is kinda lame (at least in the live video)

but Dethklok is like a full speed head on collision with Reggie Nelson – an unforgettable experience

never saw that video of hatredcopter… that is quite stimulating

by InsaneCoachPosse on Aug 20, 2008 4:05 PM EDT reply actions

What the HELL?? Buncha dungeons and dragons nerds grew up and got all angry. But they’re still dungeons and dragons nerds. Can we talk about football again?

by Vol on Aug 20, 2008 4:13 PM EDT reply actions

“Eurydice appeared brindled in blood
And she said to Orpheus
If you play that fucking thing down here
I’ll stick it up your orifice”

No one can combine the mythological and the scatalogical like St. Nick.

by DAve on Aug 20, 2008 5:00 PM EDT reply actions

It’s sad that the only time I’ve ever heard “Red Right Hand” was in Dumb and Dumber.

Oh, and I can’t decide what’s better – Shane with or without teeth. When he had them, they were horrendous. Without them, he just looks like everyone’s Grandpa 20 years too soon.

by poguemahone on Aug 20, 2008 5:26 PM EDT reply actions