2. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Your Funeral My Trial
http://www.nickcaveandthebadseeds.com/reissues/your-funeral-my-trial
I am a crooked man
And I’ve walked a crooked mile
Night, the shameless widow
Doffed her weeds, in a pile
The stars all winked at me
They shamed a child
Your funeral, my trial
A thousand Marys lured me
To feathered beds and fields of clover
Bird with crooked wing cast
It’s wicked shadow over
A bauble moon did mock
And trinket stars did smile
Your funeral, my trial
Here I am, little lamb…
Let all the bells in whoredom ring
All the crooked bitches that she was
(Mongers of pain)
Saw the moon
Become a fang
Your funeral, my trial
This is Wings of Desire-era Bad Seeds and if you remember “The Carny” nightclub performance scene you’ll remember its strong narrative voice – like theater. Like punk Weill/Brecht. Their cover of Tim Rose’s (of “Hey Joe” fame) “Long Time Man” ranks among the classic covers and “Hard On For Love” is as Grinderman as Grinderman – “I am the fiend hid in her skirts /and it’s as hot as hell in here“. And “Stranger Than Kindness” penned by Anita Lane and Blixa Bargeld is as convincingly strung-out and lonesome as they come.
Nick Cave’s writing is as sharp as a straight razor and his delivery goes from deliriously blasè to biting in a breath. The band is super-tight creating that warehouse of horrors atmosphere and they’re one of my favorite incarnations of the Bad Seeds.And the sound is excellent, something you can’t say for most of the early Bad Seeds LPs. This music jangles, dances (Wim Wenders captures this perfectly), preaches, nods, threatens and seduces all with that angry and dangerous snarled barely contained love/hate growl that appears to be seeping out from Mr. Cave’s psyche once again. Hooray!!
If you’re a fan, you want this record and this pressing.
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
• Nick Cave – vocals (1–8), piano (5, 7, 8), hammond (1, 3, 4, 6), harmonica (1, 2)
• Mick Harvey – Bass guitar (1, 6–9), guitar (1, 3, 5–8), drums (1, 3, 4, 7, 8), piano (2, 3), organ (2), glockenspiel (2), xylophone (2, 7), backing vocals (6)
• Blixa Bargeld – guitar (1–9), backing vocals (2)
• Barry Adamson – bass (3, 5)
• Thomas Wydler – drums (2, 3, 5, 7, 9)
Your Funeral… My Trial is the fourth studio album by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, released on 3 November 1986 by Mute Records. Your Funeral… My Trial was originally released as a double EP. The album was issued on CD with a different running order and the bonus track „Scum“. During this period in his life, Cave was steeped in heroin addiction, perhaps evidenced by the melancholy, desperate mood of this album.[3][6]
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds appeared in the 1987 Wim Wenders film Der Himmel über Berlin, performing „The Carny“ and „From Her to Eternity“. „The Carny“ also inspired the 2004 animated short film Jo Jo in the Stars, which won the BAFTA Award for Best Animated Short Film. The film was created and directed by Marc Craste, who said about „The Carny“: „The lyrics read like a short story, it seemed to suggest a film – a straight visual interpretation of the text…“[7]
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