I love both of them, and do find both of them similar in tone, but Nick Cave and Tom Waits have a lot to differentiate.
Tom Waits used to be one of my heroes. Recently, io9 or someone else figured out, or surmised, or speculated, that Heath Ledger based his Joker performance in "The Dark Knight" on Tom Waits. Well, Tom Waits is certainly weird, sometimes scary, but almost never terrifying. The song I put up above features a Tom Waits with his voice growly, like it always and, and ark, inexplicable lyrics, but it's one of his loveliest. He's been making music since the seventies, but his first two albums or almost Jackson Browne in their not-scariness.
Meanwhile, Nick Cave, who looks better, is releasing this.
A song called "Cannibal's Hymn." It's a good song when you get a few minutes into it. This is a guy who released an album called "Murder Ballads," as well as songs called "The Six Strings that Drew Blood" and "The Moon is in the Gutter."
I used to think of Tom Waits as the man I would least like to meet in a back alley: now I think the man who could make "Cannibal's Hymn" into an acceptable song title takes that place.
I first heard of Mr. Cave in Harry Potter, which is the irony. As dark as the Harry Potter series got, I would not have imagined that this
--Which is a great scene, I think, although I didn't like it at first--could become this:
Which is just about the darkest song I can think of. This is what Satan listens to when he wants to go around and have his friends be all-like, "hey, we're not gonna bug him today."
I like dark music; in this case, it's not darka and depressing, as is a commonly expected fusion, but dark and chill. Some works of art involve sad stories: some stories end sadly, but at the ends of those, maybe you think "that guy had it coming." I hope I'm making sense; I guess I would compare it to a movie where the hero gets killed (sad story, potentially depressing) to a movie where a really likeable, criminal villain gets killed (he had it coming, still sad, presumably)--that last one, you end up focusing on the character and structure of the story, versus the alternative, where pathos are used to suppress the critical instinct.
I was going to end up comparing Nick Cave and Tom Waits to Lou Reed, Johnny Cash, and Bruce Springsteen, but after my use of the word "pathos," and my uncertainty in using said word, I feel like I'm going to let this one go here. I hope said use of the word "pathos" made sense.
Tom Waits used to be one of my heroes. Recently, io9 or someone else figured out, or surmised, or speculated, that Heath Ledger based his Joker performance in "The Dark Knight" on Tom Waits. Well, Tom Waits is certainly weird, sometimes scary, but almost never terrifying. The song I put up above features a Tom Waits with his voice growly, like it always and, and ark, inexplicable lyrics, but it's one of his loveliest. He's been making music since the seventies, but his first two albums or almost Jackson Browne in their not-scariness.
Meanwhile, Nick Cave, who looks better, is releasing this.
A song called "Cannibal's Hymn." It's a good song when you get a few minutes into it. This is a guy who released an album called "Murder Ballads," as well as songs called "The Six Strings that Drew Blood" and "The Moon is in the Gutter."
I used to think of Tom Waits as the man I would least like to meet in a back alley: now I think the man who could make "Cannibal's Hymn" into an acceptable song title takes that place.
I first heard of Mr. Cave in Harry Potter, which is the irony. As dark as the Harry Potter series got, I would not have imagined that this
--Which is a great scene, I think, although I didn't like it at first--could become this:
Which is just about the darkest song I can think of. This is what Satan listens to when he wants to go around and have his friends be all-like, "hey, we're not gonna bug him today."
I like dark music; in this case, it's not darka and depressing, as is a commonly expected fusion, but dark and chill. Some works of art involve sad stories: some stories end sadly, but at the ends of those, maybe you think "that guy had it coming." I hope I'm making sense; I guess I would compare it to a movie where the hero gets killed (sad story, potentially depressing) to a movie where a really likeable, criminal villain gets killed (he had it coming, still sad, presumably)--that last one, you end up focusing on the character and structure of the story, versus the alternative, where pathos are used to suppress the critical instinct.
I was going to end up comparing Nick Cave and Tom Waits to Lou Reed, Johnny Cash, and Bruce Springsteen, but after my use of the word "pathos," and my uncertainty in using said word, I feel like I'm going to let this one go here. I hope said use of the word "pathos" made sense.
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