Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - God is in the House
"Moral sneaks in the white house, computer geeks in the school house, drug freaks in the crack house, we don't have that stuff here."
Album: No More Shall We Part [11th album]
Recorded: London, England
Genre: Singer-Songwriter, Piano Rock
Album Release: April 2nd 2001
Length: 5:44
Producer: Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, Tony Cohen
Vocalist: Nick Cave [age 43]
Label: Mute Records (BMG)
Official Audio
Live on Jools Holland
Charts, Streams & Sales
UK (albums): Certified silver (600,000 + units sold)
Spotify = 4,500,000 +
YouTube Music = 750,000 +
Winner of the 2001 ARIA Award for Best Male Artist
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- "I went on a honeymoon there.
Bizarrely enough, we decided to drive across America and it was
actually kind of wonderful. We drove through Arizona and stayed away
from the main cities and visited a lot of small towns, which I love. But
there is definitely this attitude of, “We’re alright here, and all the
problems are in the big cities.” But also, they were very, very sweet, I
have to say. I mean, genuinely curious, warm people. I actually felt a
bit bad about writing that song. You go to the dry cleaner for five
minutes and have a conversation and come back a few days later to pick
up your clothes and say goodbye, and they would be genuinely teary-eyed." (Nick Cave speaking to Magnet Magazine in 2001)
- At the end of the 90's Nick Cave got clean. After a near twenty year heroin addiction he did what every good songwriter is supposed to do, write songs, full time. Cave even rented a small, neat office in London where he would write five days a week from nine till five. He kept office hours, a fact I imagine a younger punk rock version of himself would find mortifying, he finally started treating songwriting as a proper job and the results are the best work he ever produced.
Into My Arms is such a powerful song that people want it playing at both their funerals AND their weddings. Everything on The Boatman's Call and No More Shall We Part has a new found clarity, an overall coherence that wasn't there before and marks the arrival of a fully matured artist. It's no wonder Nick Cave now advocates for clean living. - In 2001 you could hear the album by dialling 09068 626828.
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