Maybe it's the Indian-giving weather, but some days you just can't bring yourself to feel much empathy for your fellow man. And when the devil doesn't seem like such a bad neighbor, it's often a Nick Cave song that comes into your head. I'm gonna hedge on my earlier preference for his later albums, most of which are actually boring. But today's track is classic stuff — the "devil made me bad" tension wrapped in imagery that deftly works the bad seed mythic archetypes. I like that it feels genuinely literary almost as much as I do the funhouse piano and the bass that grinds like rusted gears.
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Up Jumped The Devil
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