![]() ![]() The transformative leaps are fascinating: in her storied career Deborah Harry has rarely sounded like she does – folkie and empathetic – on the bittersweet 2009 duet Free to Walk, a Jeffrey Lee Pierce song. The contrast is akin to time travel: youthful menace supplanted by ageing contemplation, the elegiac violin of Ellis now a second voice in the sombre piano ballad. ![]() Leonard Cohen’s Avalanche, a song Cave attempted on his first solo album, 1984’s From Her to Eternity, was covered again in 2015. It is, for example, a record of the paths Cave chose not to pursue: Fleeting Love, a 2008 B-side, is the alternate history where Cave leaned into country-pop balladry with his weathered baritone recalling Glen Campbell’s Wichita Lineman the Nashville radio echoes are gently consolatory. Perhaps a different way is to consider the songs Cave didn’t elevate, the moments that were put aside – that is, the ground-up view of greatness.Ĭave’s second B-Sides & Rarities compilation – the first came in 2005 – comprises 27 songs offering differing perspectives on the most celebrated of Australian musicians. How do you frame a career as vast as Nick Cave’s? It’s not easy to plot the peaks when the 64-year-old continues to set such a sustained pace, moving between a solo career backed by the Bad Seeds, film scores with collaborator Warren Ellis and side projects such as Grinderman. Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds illuminate some other sides of their work.ĪLTERNATIVE ROCK Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, B-SIDES & RARITIES (PART II) (BMG) ★★★½ ![]()
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