Rod Stewart - Every Picture Tells A Story
Rod the Mod finds his solo footing, headed for stardom, with the Faces in his wake.
6:00 AM GMT 22/06/2011
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Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
Your Funeral… My Trial
(Mute, 1986)
Choice cuts of Victorian menace from the belly of the beast.
There has always been something of Brontë’s Heathcliff in Nick Cave, a tightly wound intensity always teetering on the edge of unhinged. Even his prettiest ballads sound like they’d be best heard echoing dolefully across a barren moor. While evidence of Cave’s turbulent disposition are scattered throughout his discography, it’s never better expressed than on Your Funeral… My Trial. Recorded in Berlin under the yoke of heroin, Cave’s fourth Bad Seeds record is the darkest nightmare in a career filled with dark nightmares.
This record teems with Gothic melodrama, rendered with gusto. Jack’s Shadow, a bruising tale of violent self-destruction, claws at the listener with menacing guitar squalls and belly-rumble bass. Hard On For Love both amuses and appals with its sweaty-palmed exploration of aggressive, voyeuristic lust (“I am the fiend hid in her skirts / And it’s hot as hell in here”). And Scum is downright unpleasant, a virtual death threat of a song, a deluge of murderous intent towards a couple of very specific rock writers (including Cave’s sometime flatmate, MOJO’s lovely Mat Snow). But surrendering to base impulses is what Your Funeral… is all about, and it’s what makes it so scary, so magnetic, 22 years on.
Chris Lo
Posted by Danny_Eccleston at 6:00 AM GMT 16/08/2008
Further Listening
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Tender Prey (Mute, 1988)
The Gun Club – Fire Of Love (Ruby/Slash, 1981)
Tom Waits – Swordfishtrombones (Island, 1983)
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