Album: Murder Ballad
Artist: nick cave
They call me wild rose.
But my name is Irina Kaptelova Day.
I don't know why they call me that
Because my name is Irina Kaptelova Day.
From the first day I met her, I knew she was the only one for me.
She looked me in the eye and smiled.
Because her lips are the color of roses.
Growing down the river, full of blood and wildness.
When he knocked on my door and walked into the room.
My trembling disappeared in his firm embrace.
He will be my first man, and he will be careful.
He wiped the tears from my face.
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The next day, I brought her a flower.
She is more beautiful than any woman I have ever seen.
I said, do you know where wild roses grow?
So sweet, bright red and free?
The next day, he came with a red rose.
Say: You will give me your loss and yours.
grief
When I lay in bed, I nodded.
He said, if I show you roses, will you?
Follow?
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On the third day, he took me to the river.
He showed me roses and we kissed.
The last thing I heard was mumbling.
When he knelt in front of me (standing with a smile), he had a stone in his hand.
fist
On the last day, I took her to the place where wild roses grow.
She was lying on the bank of the river, and the wind was as light as a thief.
I kissed her goodbye and said that all beauty must be
die
Borrowed it and planted a rose between her teeth.
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Nick cave's song is like a rusty dagger. When you insert it into your heart, you will feel twice the pain. In the X-files of the movie version, when the song "With Bare Hands" was played again, the creepiness from the top of the head to the bottom of the foot was unforgettable, but when more than 20 years passed, nick cave also showed his emotional side. First of all, his album No More Shall We Part released in 20001made people feel that this eccentric man began to become friendly, and then he released a new album Nocturama this year, which made people feel as comfortable as the current weather. How can I put it? The * * nature of these two albums will make you realize that the singer who was originally full of Gothic charm and told a naked human story seems to have become more gentle and full of earth-like vastness and profundity after years of baptism. Especially now nick cave pursues the expression of lyrics. Although he still maintains his religious feelings, he actually wants to discover the struggle, doubt and existence value between human nature and nature on the theme.
Nick cave and Bad Seeds, a strange band from Australia, has nothing to do with Australia's freshness and simplicity. On the contrary, nick cave-centered nick cave and Bad Seeds constantly show deep German cultural origins in thought and music, which can be related to the band member Blixa Bargeld. Because Blixa Bargeld was the soul of Einsturzende Neubauten, a very popular German industrial noise band in 1980s, nick cave and other members of Bad Seed, such as Mick Harvey and Thomas Wydler, were outstanding in the European underground pioneer music circle. It can even be said that it is rare to see a band like nick cave and Bad Seeds, and there are so many talented musicians gathered together. It is precisely because of this that they can create a pen that skillfully blends various musical elements.
Nick cave, a man, added a rare intellectual flavor to the post-punk music in the early 1980s. It seems that a magazine used to describe his singing as "singing the whole world down", referring to his tragic style in the birthday band 1983. Nick cave reorganized the birthday party band into the current Bad Seeds band, and the music style also added elements of folk songs and blues on the basis of Gothic. For more than 20 years, although the members of this band composed of villains who look like gentlemen have been constantly changing, their outstanding rock spirit has been preserved because of nick cave. 1984, the album From Her to Eternity made the whole world know that there was a band called nick cave and Bad Seeds. By the time 1993 Live Seeds was released, nick cave and Bad Seeds had become the most distinctive rock band. Next, they began to achieve unexpected success in business. First, the best-selling album "Murder Ballad" was released, and then "Where Wild Roses Grow" and "Qiu Xiaodong", which the band cooperated with kylie minogue and PJ Harvey respectively, also became champion singles one after another. 1997' s album "the call of the boatman" was criticized as "the gentlest and most"
In February, 2003, nick cave and Bad Seed released their 12 album Nocturama. It took the band about one week to complete the recording, and regained the sense of speed in making the album when the band was founded. Nick cave's unique creative speed not only keeps the original impression of inspiration in his mind, but also gives other members of the band more freedom to play instrumental music. Nick cave said that this record has been influenced by many predecessors, such as poets Thomas Hardy, Bob Dylan, Van Morrison, etc. But nick cave's unique and shocking thoughts, emotions and voices can always inject a strong dramatic effect into the work, which makes you deeply immersed in mysterious imagination. During the album production, nick cave found his old partner Nick Laune. From Wonderful Life, He Wants You, Piano Piece Depicting Desire, Dead Man in My Bed, Rock Works with Gloomy Narrative Style to Still in Love and There's a Small Town to arouse homesickness. They all maintained the excellent artistic standards of nick cave and Bad Seeds. Another highlight of this album is their collaboration with Chris Bailey, the lead singer of the Australian punk band The Saints, on Bring It On.
On the whole, Nocturama is the latest album that continues the concept of "We will never be separated again". Our long wait is worthwhile, because nick cave's meaningful and beautiful lyrics can be seen everywhere in this album, and these lyrics are set off by the atmosphere created by Mick Harvey and Warren Ellis with superb instrumental skills. As a result, the whole album can only be described as good looks. At the beginning of the first note of the record, the elegant sound of guitar and piano will take you into the inner world of nick cave. When he sings his first song "Wonderful Life" sadly, it will really make you feel that you are sitting next to your lover. The scene is so close to you and me, so the ripples are so big! In the song Wonderful Life, nick cave rarely performs high notes. Sometimes it sounds like the singer Bryan Ferry singing, which is gentle and elegant, but it makes the voice full of emotion. In fact, judging from the strength of nick cave and Bad Seed members, it can be said that it is the strongest combination of this band in the past ten years, which makes many works in this album sound simple but full of melody, which is very tacit with nick cave's voice. For example, in Babe, I'm on fire, the gripping and unique timbre completely immersed the whole song in a very strange but holy atmosphere. Put this song at the end of the record, so that the whole "Nocturama" exudes a burning secular desire all the time, and slowly let your fear, vigilance and haste be comforted or redeemed in his songs. In Reach Out Your Hand, we hear nick cave almost crying and begging, but at the same time, we also hear the wild guitar timbre, which just contrasts the opposition and contradiction between the two. It also shows that even in the religious atmosphere, the craziest and darkest desires of human nature continue to spread endlessly in this world, which proves that this album is another beautiful achievement in nick cave's decades of music mileage.
If an album wants to be attractive, it is definitely not the one-sided words of a few people. So, whether you don't know nick cave or have been waiting for a long time, don't miss this calm, restrained, warm and lovely serenade, and apply nick cave's opening remarks to young people at this year's Fuji Rock Music Festival in Tokyo: "To all female friends and their boyfriends, God bless you!"