Discord and Rhyme: An Album Podcast
Music:Music Commentary
For this year’s Halloween episode, we wanted to go with an artist who scares the living daylights out of us, and what better choice than Nick Cave? After all, this is a man who once recorded an entire album of murder ballads, and whose legendary single “The Mercy Seat” charts a killer’s stream of consciousness as he is led to the electric chair. We could have picked almost any of Cave’s albums with the Bad Seeds, but Mike threw a curveball and chose the covers album Kicking Against the Pricks, because sometimes the best way to get to the essence of an artist’s work is examining the way they interpret and curate the work of other artists. The album boasts a truly eclectic set of songs, with pitch-dark Delta blues sharing a tracklist with light pop by Tom Jones, Gene Pitney, and the Seekers, all cloaked in the one-of-a-kind, macabre atmosphere that Cave’s fans have come to know, love, and fear. Yet by the time this carnival is over, you’ll have a sense of the light that glows beneath the darkness of his music. Happy Halloween!
Cohosts: Mike DeFabio, Rich Bunnell, Amanda Rodgers
Complete show notes: https://discordpod.com/listen/128-nick-cave-and-the-bad-seeds-kicking-against-the-pricks-1986
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141: The Band - Music from Big Pink (1968)
140: R.E.M. - Automatic for the People (1992)
139: R.E.M. - Murmur (1983)
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138: Peter Gabriel - Peter Gabriel (III) (1980)
137: Iron Maiden - Powerslave (1984)
136: Kylie Minogue - X (2007)
135: The Dillards - Live!!!! Almost!!! (1964)
134: Uriah Heep - Demons and Wizards (1972)
133: Rodgers and Hammerstein - Oklahoma! (1964)
132: Simon and Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water (1970)
131: Wire - Pink Flag (1977)
130: The Dukes of Stratosphear - Chips from the Chocolate Fireball (1987)
129: Gentle Giant - Octopus (1972)
127: The Beatles - Beatles for Sale (1964)
126: Slint - Spiderland (1991)
125: The Beach Boys - All Summer Long (1964) & Sunflower (1970)
124: Warren Zevon - Excitable Boy (1978)
123: Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings - Naturally (2005)
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