Hello, Aetix is still at that great southern land, that is increasingly getting confused about whether they belong to Asia or The West, commercially they are getting more and more tied in to Asia, that said emotionally connections to the west have gotten stronger as well, thanks to Skype. Whatever, they live in a wonderful place..
Todays artist can be called the star of the alternative music scene in Australia, musician, songwriter, author, screenwriter, and occasional film actor. Nick Cave has enjoyed, and continues to enjoy, one of the most extraordinary careers in the annals of music. Here today 3 slices of his aetix output with his band the Bad Seeds, enjoy
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After the Birthday Party called it quits in 1983, singer/songwriter Nick Cave assembled the Bad Seeds, a post-punk supergroup featuring former Birthday Party guitarist Mick Harvey on drums, ex-Magazine bassist Barry Adamson, and Einstürzende Neubauten guitarist Blixa Bargeld. With the Bad Seeds, Cave continued to explore his obsessions with religion, death, love, America, and violence with a bizarre, sometimes self-consciously eclectic hybrid of blues, gospel, rock, and arty post-punk. Cave also allowed his literary aspirations to come to the forefront; gloomy lyrics, dark musical arrangements, and deep baritone voice obsessed over death and love with a frightening passion.
Cave released his first album with the Bad Seeds, From Her to Eternity, in 1984, which contained a noteworthy cover of Elvis Presley's "In the Ghetto," foreshadowing much of Cave's style and subject matter on the follow-up The Firstborn Is Dead. Kicking Against the Pricks, an all-covers album, broke the band in England with the help of "The Singer," which hit number one on the U.K. independent charts. 1986's Your Funeral...My Trial, was originally released as two 12" EPs. The song "The Carny" is seen being played live by the band in the Wim Wenders film Der Himmel über Berlin, released one year later. During this period in his life, Cave was steeped in heroin addiction, perhaps evidenced by the melancholy, desperate mood of this album.Following that 'tour de force' Cave took a two-year hiatus from recording, and then returned with Tender Prey.
Cave's productivity picked up immensely over the next two years after he kicked a heroin habit. He had two books (1988's King Ink, a collection of lyrics, plays, and prose, and 1989's And the Ass Saw the Angel, a novel) published; appeared in the 1989 Australian film Ghosts...of the Civil Dead as a prisoner; recorded a soundtrack to the film with Harvey and Bargeld; and released 1990's The Good Son, his most relaxed, quiet album. Cave received his due as one of the leading figures in alternative rock when he was invited to perform on the 1994 edition of the Lollapalooza tour to promote his Let Love In album. Early in 1996, he released Murder Ballads, a collection of songs about murder. It became Cave's most commercially successful album to date, and, with typical perversity, he followed it with the introspective and personal The Boatman's Call in early 1997. A spoken word release, Secret Life of the Love Song, followed in 1999. Two years later, a rejuvenated Cave teamed up with the Bad Seeds once again for the piano-laden No More Shall We Part.
After the release of 2003's Nocturama, long-time member Blixa Bargeld announced he was leaving the band after twenty years with the group to devote more time to Einstürzende Neubauten. In 2004, the band released the acclaimed two-disc set Abattoir Blues/The Lyre of Orpheus, with English guitarist and organist James Johnston (of the group Gallon Drunk) replacing Bargeld. In October 2007, Cave was inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame. The band released their fourteenth and most recent studio album, Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!! in 2008. Inspired by the Biblical story of the resurrection of Lazarus of Bethany by Jesus Christ, the album received excellent reviews.
On 22 January 2009, following a string of Bad Seeds concerts in Australia, Mute Records issued a statement from Mick Harvey announcing his departure from the band after 25 years citing professional and personal reasons. It was the end of a 36 year-long musical collaboration between Cave and Harvey and left Cave as the group's only original member.
Cave, Ellis, Sclavunos and Casey formed a new side-project Grinderman in 2006. The band, essentially half of The Bad Seeds and featuring Cave on guitar for the first significant time, perform more garage rock-influenced music that nonetheless retains much of The Bad Seeds' aura. Since this time, the two bands have operated simultaneously and Grinderman have since released two albums, 2007's Grinderman and 2010's follow-up Grinderman 2.
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The blues had long been a potent undercurrent in the Birthday Party's music, so it wasn't all that surprising that Nick Cave embraced the sound and feeling of rural blues on his second album with the Bad Seeds, The Firstborn Is Dead. Cave and his bandmates -- Barry Adamson, Mick Harvey, and Blixa Bargeld -- were able to create a sound that was unmistakably their own. The moody obsessions of rural blues -- trains, floods, imprisonment, sin, fear, and death -- seemed made to order for Cave, and he was able to tap into the doomy iconography of this music with potent emotional force . The blues helped transform Cave's music as well as his lyrics; the brutal sonic pummel of the Birthday Party here gave way to a more subtle and dynamic approach that still made effective use of dissonance and bare-wired electric guitar noise while proving the balance of loud and soft only made each side deeper and more resonant. The Firstborn Is Dead proved Nick Cave's musical palate was significantly broader than his debut album suggested and pointed to a path he would return to on many of his albums that followed.
Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds – The Firstborn Is Dead (flac 270mb)
01 Tupelo 7:18
02 Say Goodbye To The Little Girl Tree 5:10
03 Train Long-Suffering 3:49
04 Black Crow King 5:06
05 Knockin' On Joe 7:39
06 Wanted Man 5:28
07 Blind Lemon Jefferson 6:11
08 The Six Strings That Drew Blood 4:50
09 Tupelo (Single Version) 5:01
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Besides being noteworthy as an astonishingly good all-covers album, Kicking Against the Pricks is notable for the arrival of a new key member for the Seeds, drummer Thomas Wydler, it allowed Harvey to concentrate on adding guitar and keyboards live as well as in the studio. Former Birthday Party cohorts Rowland Howard and Tracy Pew guest, the latter on some of his last tracks before his untimely death. The selection of songs is quite impressive, matching the range of material, the Seeds are well on their way to becoming the rock/cabaret/blues showband of Cave's dreams, able to conjure up haunting, winsome atmospheres as much as higher-volume takes. The version of Leadbelly's "Black Betty" is particularly grand, Harvey's drumming driving the track with ominous power. Even more striking is how Cave's own vocals rebut the charges that all he ever does is overdramatize everything he sings -- consider the husky, purring delivery on Johnny Cash's "The Singer."
Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds – Kicking Against The Pricks ( flac 272mb)
01 Muddy Water 5:17
02 I'm Gonna Kill That Woman 3:44
03 Sleeping Annaleah 3:18
04 Long Black Veil 3:46
05 Hey Joe 3:56
06 The Singer 3:09
07 Black Betty 2:33
08 Running Scared 2:06
09 All Tomorrows Parties 5:52
10 By The Time I Get To Phoenix 3:39
11 The Hammer Song 3:50
12 Something's Gotten Hold Of My Heart 3:44
13 Jesus Met The Woman At The Well 2:00
14 The Carnival Is Over 3:16
Todays artist can be called the star of the alternative music scene in Australia, musician, songwriter, author, screenwriter, and occasional film actor. Nick Cave has enjoyed, and continues to enjoy, one of the most extraordinary careers in the annals of music. Here today 3 slices of his aetix output with his band the Bad Seeds, enjoy
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After the Birthday Party called it quits in 1983, singer/songwriter Nick Cave assembled the Bad Seeds, a post-punk supergroup featuring former Birthday Party guitarist Mick Harvey on drums, ex-Magazine bassist Barry Adamson, and Einstürzende Neubauten guitarist Blixa Bargeld. With the Bad Seeds, Cave continued to explore his obsessions with religion, death, love, America, and violence with a bizarre, sometimes self-consciously eclectic hybrid of blues, gospel, rock, and arty post-punk. Cave also allowed his literary aspirations to come to the forefront; gloomy lyrics, dark musical arrangements, and deep baritone voice obsessed over death and love with a frightening passion.
Cave released his first album with the Bad Seeds, From Her to Eternity, in 1984, which contained a noteworthy cover of Elvis Presley's "In the Ghetto," foreshadowing much of Cave's style and subject matter on the follow-up The Firstborn Is Dead. Kicking Against the Pricks, an all-covers album, broke the band in England with the help of "The Singer," which hit number one on the U.K. independent charts. 1986's Your Funeral...My Trial, was originally released as two 12" EPs. The song "The Carny" is seen being played live by the band in the Wim Wenders film Der Himmel über Berlin, released one year later. During this period in his life, Cave was steeped in heroin addiction, perhaps evidenced by the melancholy, desperate mood of this album.Following that 'tour de force' Cave took a two-year hiatus from recording, and then returned with Tender Prey.
Cave's productivity picked up immensely over the next two years after he kicked a heroin habit. He had two books (1988's King Ink, a collection of lyrics, plays, and prose, and 1989's And the Ass Saw the Angel, a novel) published; appeared in the 1989 Australian film Ghosts...of the Civil Dead as a prisoner; recorded a soundtrack to the film with Harvey and Bargeld; and released 1990's The Good Son, his most relaxed, quiet album. Cave received his due as one of the leading figures in alternative rock when he was invited to perform on the 1994 edition of the Lollapalooza tour to promote his Let Love In album. Early in 1996, he released Murder Ballads, a collection of songs about murder. It became Cave's most commercially successful album to date, and, with typical perversity, he followed it with the introspective and personal The Boatman's Call in early 1997. A spoken word release, Secret Life of the Love Song, followed in 1999. Two years later, a rejuvenated Cave teamed up with the Bad Seeds once again for the piano-laden No More Shall We Part.
After the release of 2003's Nocturama, long-time member Blixa Bargeld announced he was leaving the band after twenty years with the group to devote more time to Einstürzende Neubauten. In 2004, the band released the acclaimed two-disc set Abattoir Blues/The Lyre of Orpheus, with English guitarist and organist James Johnston (of the group Gallon Drunk) replacing Bargeld. In October 2007, Cave was inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame. The band released their fourteenth and most recent studio album, Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!! in 2008. Inspired by the Biblical story of the resurrection of Lazarus of Bethany by Jesus Christ, the album received excellent reviews.
On 22 January 2009, following a string of Bad Seeds concerts in Australia, Mute Records issued a statement from Mick Harvey announcing his departure from the band after 25 years citing professional and personal reasons. It was the end of a 36 year-long musical collaboration between Cave and Harvey and left Cave as the group's only original member.
Cave, Ellis, Sclavunos and Casey formed a new side-project Grinderman in 2006. The band, essentially half of The Bad Seeds and featuring Cave on guitar for the first significant time, perform more garage rock-influenced music that nonetheless retains much of The Bad Seeds' aura. Since this time, the two bands have operated simultaneously and Grinderman have since released two albums, 2007's Grinderman and 2010's follow-up Grinderman 2.
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The blues had long been a potent undercurrent in the Birthday Party's music, so it wasn't all that surprising that Nick Cave embraced the sound and feeling of rural blues on his second album with the Bad Seeds, The Firstborn Is Dead. Cave and his bandmates -- Barry Adamson, Mick Harvey, and Blixa Bargeld -- were able to create a sound that was unmistakably their own. The moody obsessions of rural blues -- trains, floods, imprisonment, sin, fear, and death -- seemed made to order for Cave, and he was able to tap into the doomy iconography of this music with potent emotional force . The blues helped transform Cave's music as well as his lyrics; the brutal sonic pummel of the Birthday Party here gave way to a more subtle and dynamic approach that still made effective use of dissonance and bare-wired electric guitar noise while proving the balance of loud and soft only made each side deeper and more resonant. The Firstborn Is Dead proved Nick Cave's musical palate was significantly broader than his debut album suggested and pointed to a path he would return to on many of his albums that followed.
Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds – The Firstborn Is Dead (flac 270mb)
01 Tupelo 7:18
02 Say Goodbye To The Little Girl Tree 5:10
03 Train Long-Suffering 3:49
04 Black Crow King 5:06
05 Knockin' On Joe 7:39
06 Wanted Man 5:28
07 Blind Lemon Jefferson 6:11
08 The Six Strings That Drew Blood 4:50
09 Tupelo (Single Version) 5:01
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Besides being noteworthy as an astonishingly good all-covers album, Kicking Against the Pricks is notable for the arrival of a new key member for the Seeds, drummer Thomas Wydler, it allowed Harvey to concentrate on adding guitar and keyboards live as well as in the studio. Former Birthday Party cohorts Rowland Howard and Tracy Pew guest, the latter on some of his last tracks before his untimely death. The selection of songs is quite impressive, matching the range of material, the Seeds are well on their way to becoming the rock/cabaret/blues showband of Cave's dreams, able to conjure up haunting, winsome atmospheres as much as higher-volume takes. The version of Leadbelly's "Black Betty" is particularly grand, Harvey's drumming driving the track with ominous power. Even more striking is how Cave's own vocals rebut the charges that all he ever does is overdramatize everything he sings -- consider the husky, purring delivery on Johnny Cash's "The Singer."
Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds – Kicking Against The Pricks ( flac 272mb)
01 Muddy Water 5:17
02 I'm Gonna Kill That Woman 3:44
03 Sleeping Annaleah 3:18
04 Long Black Veil 3:46
05 Hey Joe 3:56
06 The Singer 3:09
07 Black Betty 2:33
08 Running Scared 2:06
09 All Tomorrows Parties 5:52
10 By The Time I Get To Phoenix 3:39
11 The Hammer Song 3:50
12 Something's Gotten Hold Of My Heart 3:44
13 Jesus Met The Woman At The Well 2:00
14 The Carnival Is Over 3:16
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The Seeds followed up Tender Prey with the equally brilliant but generally calmer Good Son. At the time of its release there were more than a few comments that Cave had somehow softened or sold out, given how he was more intent on exploring his dark, cabaret pop stylings than his thrashy, explosive side. But then he had just married the year before, spending his time on brazilian beaches with his new wife. Not knowing this, the softly crooning group vocals and sweet strings on the opening "Foi Na Cruz" certainly cought many off guard. The title track itself captured the overall mood of the album, a retelling of the Bible's prodigal son story from the other son, the one who stayed at home and did what he was meant to do. The jigh lights of the album come dead center. "The Weeping Song," a magnificent duet between Cave and Bargeld, starts out sounding a bit like Gene Pitney's "Something's Gotta Hold of My Heart," which the Seeds covered on Pricks, before shading into its own powerful, blasted drama. "The Ship Song," meanwhile, equals if not overtakes the Scott Walker ballads Cave so clearly is inspired by, a soaring, tearjerking declaration of intense love that's simply amazing.
Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds – The Good Son (flac 245mb)
01 Foi Na Cruz 5:39
02 The Good Son 6:04
03 Sorrow's Child 4:38
04 The Weeping Song 4:11
05 The Ship Song 4:15
06 The Hammer Song 4:17
07 Lament 4:54
08 The Witness Song 4:58
09 Lucy 4:17
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elsewhere
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Your Funeral, My Trial (86 ^ 99mb)
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2 comments:
Love to see the firstborn & kicking reupst
Please
B
Hi Rho,
Can you re-up The Firstborn Is Dead please?
Thanks as always
AJ
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