NICK CAVE DISCOGRAPHY SONG OF JOY MOVIE
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The words have played over communists shaking hands, and over the reveal that Sam NeillвЂ™s Chester Campbell has connections to the fighters from Ulster.

NICK CAVE DISCOGRAPHY SONG OF JOY SERIES

Over the series weвЂ™ve played with what the вЂRed Right HandвЂ™ could be. The lyrics conjure up our industrial landscape and the вЂtall handsome manвЂ™ could, of course, be Tommy Shelby. The show's creatorВ Steven Knight told the NY Post(POSSIBLE SPOILER ALERT): Or maybe, it's divine wrath, as referred to in Milton's original poem: What if the breath that kindled those grim firesДЄwaked, should blow them into sevenfold rageДЇor Peaky Blinders, the song has taken on several meanings. It's interesting that Nick Cave carried the idea of the 'red right hand' to the next album, an album that sees the demise of 65 (fictional) victims (yes, someone counted!).В So, maybe 'Red Right Hand' isn't about the 'devil' himself, but about the devil that lurks within, that compells a man to murder his entire family. The references to вЂњhis red right handвЂќ and other Miltonian citations sprinkled throughout link the two songs but the gory details in вЂњSong of JoyвЂќ make it clear that Cave had left behind the baleful romantic brooding of Let Love In, and this was to be a more bloodthirsty successor. With the working title of вЂњRed Right Hand IIвЂќ, it relates the tale of a father of three that murders his entire family - the very same scenario laid out in вЂњSong of JoyвЂќ, the opening track of Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds 1996 album Murder Ballads. Toward the end of Bad Seed (Ian JohnstonвЂ™s autobiography of Nick Cave), a fleeting clue is dropped about a new song Cave was in the process of writing at the time. And in an essay on an old version of the Nick Cave website, Bad Seeds drummerВ Jim Sclavunos reveals: And while I can't find a direct quote from Cave to confirm it, it's treated as common knowledge across the internet that 'Red Right Hand' was inspired by 'Paradise Lost' by 17th centuryВ English poet John Milton, an epic poem with over ten thousand lines of verse on the Biblical story of Adam & Eve.В The closest we get to a confirmation is 'Song of Joy,' a song he described to Swedish magazine PopВ in 1994 as 'the pre-eminently most nasty, most implacable song' on his following album Murder Ballads. The police are investigating at tremendous costД¬ave grew up the son of a librarian and an English professor, so it's no surprise that he's inspired by literature. Quotes John Milton on the walls in the victimвЂ™s blood It is about someone, who pretends to be the saviour, but he isn't. I suppose, 'Red Right Hand' is a hand, plunged in blood, you know? It is the Evil. So this is a somewhat mysterious song for me. I have to sing a few verses with the music that we have written together. Nick: I'm really not sure what about I'm talking there, to be really honest with you. Spex: But here you're clearly talking about the devil. ArenвЂ™t I incredible?ДЄnd modest, too! In another 1994 interview with German magazine Spex, he dances around the idea of the devil: ThereвЂ™s certain lines in there, obviously, that arenвЂ™t off the top of my head, but thereвЂ™s ones in there that definitely are. I had the title, and basically I knew what I wanted to sing about, and it was a matter of just going in and putting it down. One of my great talents is ad-libbing, I have to say. In fact, he apparently didn't even plan this one out, admitting to Rolling Stone magazine in 1994 that he ad-libbed the lyrics in the studio: Unfortunately, Nick Cave is not exactly one to divulge what his songs are about. (Founding and former Bad Seeds member Mick Harvey told the NY Post,В вЂњThat happened quite by accident.В IвЂ™m not sure we would have wanted it in a film like that, but there you go!вЂќ) Most recently, the song has been the opening theme to the BBC crime show Peaky Blinders, resulting in a slew of covers, like the one by Cave's former girlfriend PJ Harvey that will appear on the 2LP Peaky Blinders soundtrack, out November 15th.

NICK CAVE DISCOGRAPHY SONG OF JOY MOVIE

The track was used effectively in the first three films in the Scream movie franchise, in an episode of The X-Files, and, well, in the movie Dumb & Dumber, which is scary in a different way. The man has an album titled Murder Ballads, for crying out loud!В But his single 'Red Right Hand' (off the 1994 album Let Love In) has become shorthand for 'creepy mood' inВ television and film, making it the most well-known song of his catalog. There's no shortage of bone-chilling songs in the discography of Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds.

In a dusty black coat with a red right hand On a gathering storm comes a tall handsome man

Please note, this post contains highly disturbing and graphic content. рџљЁ WARNING: For Halloween, KEXP is exploring the horrifying true stories behind some of the creepiest songs we play.

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