DON’T BLINK.
reblogging mostly for frankieteardrop’s tags, which I don’t know how to quote properly: #nick cave and the bad $eed$ #blixa babegeld #conbabe savage #thomas babeler #martyn p. babesey
but #nick babe
Baby Michael Gira.
It was really fantastic. It was just great to have that feeling that you were capable of upsetting people so much.
Rowland S. Howard
(on playing New York with The Birthday Party)
Autoluminiscent (via sterility)
Then there was Jim Thirlwell, Foetus to his fans, who seemed to have been around forever. He and Cave already had a collaboration up their sleeve; just weeks after the final session, at the end of October, the pair would be jetting to New York to join Marc Almond and Lydia Lunch for one of rock’s most legendary one-off performances, the Immaculate Consumptives - there, Cave would treat audiences to the world premiere of one of the newly recorded songs, “A Box for Black Paul.”
Right now, Thirlwell was more of a presence than a performer in the studio, as Mick Harvey recalls. “We were just really kind of feeling our way. Jim was very used to working by himself and pulling this methodical style with him which didn’t really fit somehow. Thirlwell ultimately dropped from the gelling line-up, but his presence remains palpable, glinting in the shadows that drape from behind the music.
From Her to Eternity liner notes
I had my German final today, so I gave my professor a mix CD of Einstürzende Neubauten songs. My professor knew I liked them; she told me at the beginning of the semester that she loved their lyrics and that they were written at a very high level. She’d even tried to use a song of theirs in an upper-level German class, but it didn’t go over very well because, as she put it, “they’re not exactly a pop group.” It turned out that she already had lots of the songs on the mix (which I figured might be the case, since I didn’t ask her before making it), but she didn’t have all of them, so it was time well spent.
