Or a Jim Morrison who wasn't a gob****e.

Murder Ballads is great... I've kinda missed out on hearing everything from Mr. Cave... the last album I bought by him was The Lyre of Orpheus double album... I really ought to find everything since then because I know I'll like it, as I have done everything previous... it's just a matter of time!

As for the title of this thread, well, as much as I love his music, i can't consider him better than any other artist posted here... that is highly subjective, and I, too, like other artists better.

You're judging this by the forum today. You should have seen the state of this place in 2004 when I made it ;)

I think what Urban's trying to say is that he's the purveyor of everything good and pretentious here at MB.

Maybe.

And that

Hmmmm, yes, since i wasn't here then, I can only accept that it was highly likely Nick Cave was better than a good many artists that were probably posted about...

Took that long for a Nick Cave thread to be made?Given how net-savvy his fanbase are that's a surprise.

I'm instantly thinking that some time in MB's genesis as a web site it may have sported some fairly terrible music and opinions... well if that was the case, thank God it changed! When i joined late in 2008 I was very impressed by the diversity of topics / artists / subjects on offer... it's still a very compelling forum to this very day.

Back in 2004 it was pretty much all punks , emo kids & classic rock fans with a couple of indie & metal kids.

Glad that MB has significantly diversified since then! Might not have hung around too much if that was the only clientelle hanging about...