Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds' "More News From Nowhere"
Wednesday, May 14, 2008 at 06:23PM I've been enjoying Nick Cave's "More News From Nowhere" a lot since the release of Dig, Lazurus, Dig! It's quickly become one of my favorite tracks on the album, which I'm finding myself frequently listening to as I write. The band just released the video for the song, and it's as long and weird as the song itself is. Clocking in at just over eight minutes, the song has a repetition to it that alternates between sex and violence and excitement and boredom, much like expressions on the faces of the patrons of the surreal strip club in the video. It's a hard song to talk about but a good one to listen to. Here's the lyrics to an Odyssey-inspired verse from the middle of the song, followed by the video itself:
I turn another corner
I go down a corridor
And I see this guy
He must be about one hundred foot tall
And he only has one eye
He asks me for my autograph
I write nobody and then
I wrap myself up in my woolly coat
And I blind him with my pen
'Cause someone must have stuck something in my drink
Everything's getting strange lookin'
Half the people have turned into squealing pigs
The other half are cooking
Well let me out of here I cried
And I went pushing past
And I saw Miss Polly singing with some girls
I cried struck me to the mast
Also, Nick Cave's a terrible dancer. Or, possibly, a brilliant one. Even after eight minutes of his moves, I'm not sure which it is.


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