![]() ![]() I’m also likely the only one brave and idiotic enough to risk sending this list to Nick directly. ![]() I overtly, proudly, and loudly enjoy discussing the most astoundingly abysmal tunes in Nick’s otherwise impressive career. My friend and fellow Nick Cave enthusiast Jordan Zivitz messaged me almost immediately after reading Nick’s newsletter in the hopes that I was already bombarding Nick’s inbox with the worst of his musical output. ![]() I should note that I didn’t come up with this playlist idea all by myself. Yawn! So, instead, I sent him a playlist that I assumed would either inspire a laugh or render me banned from any future Nick Cave-related public events! The Best of the Worst (Or the Worst of the Best) of Nick Cave playlist! A whole lot of “Into My Arms,” “The Mercy Seat,” “The Ship Song,” “Red Right Hand,” “Stagger Lee,” “Jubilee Street,” you get the picture. And anyway, we all know what to expect on a Best of Nick Cave playlist. Believing himself to be ill-equipped to provide this musical guidance, Nick put the question to the fans, soliciting obsessives to send in their 15-song Best of Nick Cave playlists.Ī playlist, you say?!!! Well, this was clearly a job for Filthy Dreams!! But, let’s be honest, the Best of Nick Cave playlist sounds like a bit of a bore and not up to our normally inventive playlist thematic rigor. But, Nick wasn’t uncritical of his own abilities to be objective. ![]() Why you’d ask Nick Cave for recommendations of his own music rather than, say, take a look at pre-made Spotify playlists or, even better, risk it and hit play on a random album, just as I did way back when I first encountered Nick’s music in college, is a larger question. Last week, Nick Cave received a flurry of inquiries submitted to his Red Hand Files newsletter from new converts who, upon listening to his stint on the Louis Theroux podcast, turned to the man himself to ask where they should start with his extensive and intimidating discography. Never forget that this “Babe, You Turn Me On” Nick Cave doll by artist Plasticgod was a thingĬan the biggest stinkers from your favorite artist actually be much closer to your heart than the universally praised classics? I certainly think so. ![]()
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