Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - God Is in the House
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Actor: Nick CaveDVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD, Live, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 140 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-08-26
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Mute U.S.
DVD Reviews of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - God Is in the House
DVD Review: Nick is in the house
Summary: 5 Stars
Great concert video of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds live in Lyon, France, in mid-2001. The set includes several songs from his 2001 release "No More Shall We Part," which is probably my favourite Nick Cave album (I own them all). The band is tight, but not freaking out onstage, the crowd is into the band and shouting out requests like "Deanna" (which doesn't get played). One strange thing to note is the tall guy in the front row who seems to know every lyric of every song and is singing along.
Most of the Bad Seeds are wearing suits, Blixa Bargeld even in a three-piece with vest! It must be hot onstage, and Nick does shed his tie and jacket for the encore of "The Curse of Millhaven." Songs from "No More Shall We Part" include "Oh My Lord," "As I Sat Sadly By Her Side," "God Is In The HOuse," "We Came ALong This Road," and "Hallelujah." Standout is the title track "God Is In The House," which shows Nick at the piano, a close-up on the tattered left cuff of his jacket, his sweaty face, his emotional facial expressions, great.
The DVD also comes with a video of the Bad Seeds in Abby Road Studios putting together the song. They seem to have every song composed and are working out the arrangements and the sounds, perfecting the tambourine sounds, asking the female singers to try a few different things, Blixa is battling his feedbacking guitar and patch cords and crazy headsets. Lots of kids in the studio, one of them goofing around with Blixa, the other with Nick (his son?) in his studio booth. No narration, just scenes. Nick smoking. Warren toking. Warren wearing his AC/DC shirt, or his Michael Jackson jacket.
There are also videos included: "As I Sat Sadly By Her Side," with head shots of Nick on a black background, then multiplied by mirrors, showing sparks, fireworks, background images of war and savagery, shattered gunshots, KKK goons, splatterpunk. "Sixteen Feet of Pure White Snow" shows a disco full of middle-aged Russians boogying, then doing a zombie dance. With Jarvis Cocker, Jason Donovan, and a bunch of other people. Looks like it was a lot of fun. "Love Letter," Nick pictured on an old black and white TV on a short stand, then lots of shots of interior spaces, outdoor spaces, like things from the Atom Egoyan film "the Adjustor." Nice.
DVD Review: Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - God Is in the House
Summary: 5 Stars
God Is In The House
There is a misterious feeling that apears when I "see/hear" Nick Cave. Something familiar, a feeling that make me thought "I Known what it means" or " It already happened to me". It's just because what He sings is what he feels. He is honest with his feelings and it is very rare and marvelous.
DVD Review: So Glad I Bought This
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a great DVD. The primary feature is the concert, which alone, would be worth the price, but in addition it also includes three promo videos (Love Letter, AS I Sat Sadly By Her Side, and Fifteen Feet Of Pure White Snow), and a documentary on the recording sessions for And No More Shall We Part, which most cave fans that I've met agree is their best record.
I had never seen Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds live. Wasn't sure what I was in for.
Nick Cave is a rock star. He is so alive and animated on stage. He stomps and swaggers with the charisma of a mad man.
If you're into Nick Cave, there's no question: you need this DVD.
DVD Review: Someday he'll come out ... God Is In the House
Summary: 5 Stars
Perhaps the greatest example of a true showman. Nick Cave stomps around stage pointing and screaming at the audience one minute, then gently caressing the mic the next. He's a charismatic cross between an early 1950's crooner and a mid-1970's minister - somehow he makes it all accessible and brilliant. For those into masochistic entertainment, please apply here. It's lyrically brutal music, but transforms into an artform once Cave delivers in his Jim Morrison/Elvis/Johnny Cash baritone while proclaiming to the audience, "All of God's children will have to die."
This is, of course, a DVD of a show Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds performed in Lyons, France around 2001 (just after the recording of the album, `No More Shall We Part' - my favorite Cave release by the way). It showcases the mad, frantic, masterful way Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds can direct emotions and coax the audience into applauding even though he's bringing to light all their flaws (well not just them, but humans in general).
But I've gotten caught up in describing only one half of his musical persona. The other half consists of the brooding crooner (think David Bowie, Tom Waits, or Lou Reed) singing lines such as, "We've bred all our kittens white so that we can see them in the night ... God is in the house." - any songwriter who can compare forced Christian individualism and seclusion with cats, has my vote as one of the greatest lyricists of the 20th century.
It is rather terrifying, because if it wasn't for the documentary (more on that later), you'd think that Cave actually meant every lyric he pronounced - he's that good of a performer. Pure emotion and visceral honesty. After you hear him shouting, "Do you love me?" after describing his lover's bleeding thighs with complete conviction, you wonder, Is he talking from experience?
Now the crowning achievement (both of Cave and whoever produced this DVD), is the documentary which shows Cave and his cohorts recording the `No More Shall We Part' album. It shows Cave in a different light than what most people are used to. You think you'd see a brooding madman, berating and ranting (like his live shows), but here in his natural persona (I've used that word again), he is surprisingly normal. Quiet, encouraging, and sarcastically funny, he seems like someone worth knowing in real life. I was worried `cause, as entertaining as it is, his live personality is something I'd rather watch from a distance.
While Cave and his band (the Bad Seeds) aren't at their absolute best on this particular show (performing wise), they still have the energy they had back in the `80s (impressive, considering that there's not a person in the band younger than 40). Hopefully there will be another live performance released on DVD, but for those who need more, check out the album `Live Seeds' - a flawless performance - perhaps one of the greatest live albums of all time.
DVD Review: God Is In The House...and Nick is as well...
Summary: 5 Stars
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds would have to rate as one of the all-time great line-ups of musicians ever to grace the stages and stereos of the world, and thus its fitting that their first DVD be suitably impressive.The main extravagance of "God Is In The House" is a concert recorded in Lyon, France on the 2001 "No More Shall We Part" tour. Featuring a Bad Seeds line up of Mick Harvey (guitars), Blixia Bargeld (guitars), Conway Savage (piano), Jim Sclavonous (percussion), Warren Ellis (violin/organ), Tomas Wylder (drums) and Martyn Casey (bass). This is a truly spectacular line up and they deliver a very good concert. The curtain raiser, "Do You Love Me?", is very good, but the pace doesn't let up - nearly every song is a highlight, except (oddly) the title track, which personally doesn't do anything for me. Maybe other people get something out of it that I don't.
The extras are very impressive as well. All three "No More..." videos are included - the very abstract "As I Sat Sadly By Her Side", the incredibly hilarious "Fifteen Feet of Pure White Snow" and the beautifully emotional "Love Letter", which brought tears to my eyes. A forty-minute film of the band recording "No More Shall We Part" provides a great insight into the recording of an album (and the bit in the middle featuring the recording of "The Sorrowful Wife" is brilliant).
Ultimately, if you're a Nick Cave fan, there's simply no excuse not to own this (unless you don't have the money). It's not perfect, but damn it comes close. "The Videos" should be great, too.
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