25 years of From Her To Eternity. Playlist for June 15, 2009

Like last week's celebration for Unknown Pleasures, this week's program marks the 25th anniversary of Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds debut album From Her to Eternity. Rising from the ashes of Nick Cave's previous band, The Birthday Party, The Bad Seeds have been one of the most consistently great bands of the last three decades, with Nick Cave ranking among the highest of songwriters.

While Nick Cave is the only remaining member from the From Her to Eternity line-up, core Bad Seeds members Mick Harvey and Blixa Bargeld (who also fronts legendary German experimental band Einsturzende Neubauten) are present on guitars, while Cave's early muse Anita Lane co-wrote the lyrics to the title track.

Apart from Nick Cave, this week's program featured new music from the long-awaited new Toritoise album, Beacons of Ancestorship, along with classic cuts from Berlin's Einsturzende Neubauten and Atari Teenage Riot. I will also mention Montreal's Pawa Up First, an experimental rock act with influences ranging from Ennio Morricone, Jaga Jazzist, Wu-Tang Clan, Fugazi, and Miles Davis. When I saw all those influences listed on their myspace page, I got really excited, and the song played was stunning. Imagine someone rapping over Tortoise or Don Caballero, and that's what Pawa Up First's "In a Hurry to Nowhere" sounded like.

This is the url to their myspace page: http://www.myspace.com/pawaupfirst. Check it out!

The playlist:
1) Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds- Cabin Fever (From Her to Eternity)
2) Caledonia- We Are America (We Are America)
3) Flowers of Hell- Forest of Noise (Come Hell or High Water)
4) Flogging Molly- Paddy's Lament (Float)
5) Pawa Up First- In a Hurry to Nowhere (The Outcome)
6) Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds- From Her to Eternity [Wings of Desire version] (From Her to Eternity)
7) Einsturzende Neubauten- Vanadium-I-Ching (Zeichnungen des Patienten O.T.)
8) Bethlehem- Veheiking Du Krone Des Todeskultes (Dictius te Necare)
9) Atari Teenage Riot- Destroy 2000 Years of Culture (The Future of War)
10) Fancy- Chinese Eyes (Get Your Kicks)
11) Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds- The Moon is in the Gutter (From Her to Eternity)
12) Boo Hoo- Married to the World (Don't Die)
13) Tortoise- The Fall of Seven Diamonds Plus One (Beacons of Ancestorship)
14) Kara Kieth- Monsters (Visions Fugitives)
15) Mike Evin- Good Watermelon (Good Watermelon)

From 1984 to 1990, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds primarily operated out of West Berlin. As expats in the city, this convieniently allowed them to appear in Wim Wenders wonderful 1987 film Wings of Desire. Below is the clip from the aforementioned film, where the band performs 'The Carny' (from their 1986 album Your Funeral, My Trial) and the title track to the album celebrated.