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'An aphorism, properly stamped and molded, has not been "deciphered" when it has simply been read; rather one has then to begin its interpretation, for which is required an art of interpretation.' -- Nietzsche, 'On the Genealogy of Morals'

Nick Cave: critical evaluations « Previous | |Next »
August 1, 2010

I've never really clicked with Nick Cave's music since from Her to Eternity ----apart from a dip into Murder Ballads but recoiled from the posturing, blandness and sexism of this kind of syrup:

I have yet to hear The Boatman's Call or Nor More Shall We Part or Abbatoir Blues/The Lyre of Orpheus. But I was impressed by the film The Proposition. So I was interested to read Anwyn Crawford's article on Nick Cave--The monarch of middlebrow in Overland 197.

Cave now occupies a curious position in Australian culture. Rather than the Black Crow King of his own imagination, he’s more the Monarch of Middlebrow. His likeness hangs in the National Portrait Gallery; his journals displayed at the National Library. His headline appearances bankroll summer music festivals and arts festivals alike while his early solo albums have been reissued in deluxe packages. You can buy his lyrics as a Penguin paperback. He is a cover star of weekend newspaper supplements and most recently of the Monthly, that over-earnest, reliably dull bush telegraph of all that is causing mild consternation among the nation’s opinion columnists.
National icon is strange. Cave is an expatriate. But there is a debate of sorts about aesthetics and politics as Michael Christie at Eurhythmania points out.
| Posted by Gary Sauer-Thompson at 9:37 PM |