5/30/2023 0 Comments Nick cave from her to eternity zipThe song crawls along on its belly under the weight of Cave’s rabid-animal snarl. The album begins with a cover of Leonard Cohen’s “Avalanche.” One of the darkest of the great songwriter’s early career, Cave peels back the tinkling guitar in favor of a slow, sleazy bassline and rolling, muffled drum fills courtesy of Harvey. The Bad Seeds stripped the song down to its ramshackle elements, then pulled it inside-out to expose all the quivering viscera. ![]() ![]() Joined by, among others, fellow BP alum and lifelong collaborator Mick Harvey, Einsturzende Neubauten’s Blixa Bargled, and Magazine’s Barry Adamson, Cave crafted the ultimate fulfillment of The Birthday Party’s promise: a raw, wet lump of writhing passion a barb-wire tangle of love, hate, desire, and repulsion. Coming off his stint as front-man for Australian noise-punk outfit The Birthday Party, Cave seemed intent to carry on in his former band’s atavistic tradition. ![]() Of the four albums reissued and remastered by Mute records, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds’ seminal debut, From Her to Eternity, is probably the most abrasive and difficult to digest.
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