Kevin said:
Cave's novel, THE ASS SAW THE ANGEL. Truth
to
> tell, I wasn't even thinking of his book, just his
songs, >
Actually, that's what I thought you were referring to - I
just thought I'd mention the novel (which, by the way John W
correctly named as "And the Ass Saw the Angel"). I personally
much prefer his records - I admit to being a fan since back
in the days when he & Mick Harvey were in the now
legendary Birthday Party.Some of the shows they did in Sydney
when I was still a young 'un were the most exciting gigs I
ever saw ( & a couple weren't). As I got older, Cave's
music got a little more
"conservative" , superficially, but he's always moving on in
his own little groove (with Harvey's indispensible aid),
someone who ,generally, seems to get better at well past the
point most other popular muso's run dry of ideas. Tom Waits
(who's an even bigger musical hero of mine) is similar in
that respect. Tom also has strong associations with noir in
his music, going back even earlier in his career - even
rare-birds who don't like rock music should listen to his
early classic track (which isn't rock at all, anyway; Tom
rasps out a sort of hardboiled beatnik poem over a cool noiry
jazz sax) - "Small Change" a track that reminds me of an old
Damon Runyan short, title forgotten, that I read long ago
about a dying gangster.(Just love those Gangster Romances.)
That story was very hardboiled too, as I recall. In fact, I'm
surprised that no-one ever seems to have brought up Runyon on
this list. It's been a long time but I recall some of his
stories as being very hardboiled (& all of them a good
read).I guess I better stop now, or I'll be going off on
tangents all night.
Rene.
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