Nick cave stranger than kindness song5/30/2023 “She wrote a song called ‘Stranger Than Kindness’,” Cave declared, “which we still perform to this day, mostly because it’s such a beautifully obscure lyric.” And the obscurity of the lyric derives from the fractious tumult that comes with the firmament of being in a relationship with a drug-addled Nick Cave. Anita was great at that middle part.” What she lacked, Cave explained was the latter stage which he aptly brought to the table for many of their collaborative projects. “The not knowing, the sudden knowing of what to do, then the doing of it. “There seem to be three parts to the creative process,” Nick Cave once said. On the sad week of her passing, we would like to thank her for that. It needed honing and refining, and it was at this pivotal moment, when The Bad Seeds rose from the ash heap, that they needed the force of Anita Lane’s vitalising inspiration the most. And yet, it was fated to be terminal from its very inception. For all of its defiant originality at a time where the fantastic incendiary brilliance of the late sixties finally began to wane into synth saturated sedation, it was a chaotic boon that summoned up a new sonic maelstrom from the embers in a melee of creativity. Nick Cave’s first vehicle to stardom was The Birthday Party, and in truth, it was a vehicle that was always headed towards beautiful, flaming wreckage.
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