Spooky, but elegant in a gin-soaked way, iconoclastic rocker Nick Cave has made some remarkable music videos since the mid-1980s--not that anyone has had much opportunity to see them on namby-pamby cable channels. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds: The Videos presents 20 of these in PCM stereo, and while some don't create sparks, many do. "Stagger Lee," the first entry, is easily the best, astonishingly violent in tone (though not in deed) and coming across very much like an old Kenneth Anger experimental film complete with vaguely homoerotic fascination about pure male energy. Other standouts include "Where the Wild Roses Go," featuring Kylie Minogue in a distinctly American-style myth about desire and death in what looks like bayou country; the haunting duet “Henry Lee,” in which Cave finds his onscreen soulmate in English punk siren Polly Jean Harvey; the gritty, crazed rock ‘n' roll dream “Deanna”; and "Straight to You," a Dylanesque epic complete with circus performers. Highly recommended. Aud: P. (T. Keogh)
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds: The Videos
(2004) 98 min. DVD: $14.99. Rhino Home Video (avail. from most distributors). Color cover. Volume 19, Issue 4
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds: The Videos
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