Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - 'Anthrocene' (Official Audio)

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - 'Anthrocene' (Official Audio)

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[erlineandrews]

The instruments sound like they're talking mournfully in their own language.

[geengenee]

best song on the album, pure art and passion

[dislajk]

Such a masterpiece.. I was blown away on first listening and still i am.. I mean these loops, these strings or pads i dont know how they produce this sounds. Amazing.. Usually when bands get older they start to suck, but these people are just getting better and better.. True artists..

[MrDanbloom]

All the fine winds gone
And this sweet world is so much older
Animals pull the night around their shoulders
Flowers fall to their naked knees
Here I come now, here I come
I hear you been out there looking for something to love
The dark force at the edge of the tree
It's alright, it's alright
When you turn so long and lovely, it's hard to believe
That we're falling now in the name of the Anthrocene  All the things we love, we love, we love, we lose
It's our bodies that fall when they try to rise
And I hear you been looking out for something to love
Sit down beside me and I'll name it for you
Behold, behold
The heaven bound sea
The wind cast its shadow and moves for the tree
Behold the animals and the birds and the sky entire
I hear you been out there looking for something to set on fire
The head bow children fall to their knees
Humbled in the age of the Anthrocene Here they come now, here they come
Are pulling you away
There are powers at play more forceful than we
Come over here and sit down and say [?] prayer
A prayer to the air, the air that we breathe
And the astonishing rise of the Anthrocene Come on now, come on now
Hold your breath while you're safe
It's a long way back and I'm begging you please
To come home now, come home now

[dannyv]

Nick is an artist's artist. The Skeleton Tree and One More Time With Feeling DVD is a serious, introspective work. Anyone looking for a Cave redux or Murder Ballad should know by now that Nick doesn't repeat himself. Enjoy his latest tour de force.

[lovornika]

It's our bodies that fall when they try to rise. Maestoso Nick Cave.

[GravityBoy]

Amazing.
Who would have guessed this could be a show opener.
It was superb last night at Manchester.

[surfraptor]

That movie is still in my head 30 hours later ...

[xero]

This song gets a new dimension nowadays...

[RingfSaturn]

Although the biologist Eugene Stoermer is often credited with coining the term "anthropocene", it was in informal use in the mid-1970s. Paul Crutzen is credited with independently re-inventing and popularising it. Stoermer wrote, "I began using the term 'anthropocene' in the 1980's, but never formalised it until Paul contacted me." Crutzen has explained, "I was at a conference where someone said something about the Holocene. I suddenly thought this was wrong. The world has changed too much. So I said: 'No, we are in the Anthropocene.' I just made up the word on the spur of the moment."

And now, "Anthrocene". Great song. Great album.

[lilninja]

I hope in 400 years time, people will look at Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds the same way we look at Shakespeare today.

[BEHEDETY]

this album is beautiful made Nick thanks very much sorry for you loss!!!

[lucasgomesduarte]

awesome as always wish you the best of the world nick and the same to all bad seeds

[vaniasofia]

Some people named coldplay. I am here because I totally love Nick Cave since Wim Wenders wings of desire. A long term relationship :)

[warriorofGod]

Killer song! I'm picking up the new album in the morning. 😀

[zbouaerg]

All the fine wind is gone
And this sweet world is so much older
The animals pull the night around their shoulders
The flowers fall to their naked knees
Here I come now, here I come
I hear you been out there looking for something to love
There's a dark force that shifts at the edge of the trees
It's alright, it's alright
Well, you've turn so long and lovely, it's hard to believe
That we're falling now in the name of the Anthrocene

Oh the things we love, we love, we love, we lose
It's our bodies that fall when we're trying to rise
And I hear you been out looking for something to love
Sit down beside me and I'll name it for you
Behold, behold, the heaven-bound seas
The wind cast its shadow and it moves through the trees
Behold the animals and the birds and the sky entire
I hear you've been out there looking for something to set on fire
The head-bowed children fall to their knees
Humbled in the age of the Anthrocene

Here they come now, here they come, pulling you away
There are powers at play more forceful than we
Come over here and sit down and say a short prayer
A prayer to the air, to the air that we breathe
And the astonishing rise of the Anthrocene

Come on now, come on now
Hold your breath while you say
It's a long way back and I'm begging you please
To come home now, come home now
Well, I heard you been out looking for something to love
Close your eyes, little world and brace yourself

[MrDanbloom]

Cassandra Silver wrote: ''It's wonderful--Thank you for pointing it out. With his permission, I hope I will be able to use it.
My solipsistic grief about living in the Anthropocene has found a word itself: solastalgia
'In 2003 the Australian philosopher Glenn Albrecht coined the term solastalgia to mean a “form of psychic or existential distress caused by environmental change”'. Robert Macfarlane

"The movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connexion with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle."
Rainer Maria Rilke

(Also, back in 2011, a sad prophecy: "In articles for Yale Environment 360, New Yorker writer Elizabeth Kolbert reported on a study that found that the pace of global warming is outstripping projections, and on the possibility that scientists will designate a new geological epoch to reflect the changes that humans have caused.")

[This is not so much self-advertising---as that the whole purpose of it is--my having found so many illuminating things said brilliantly by the most perceptive people on this most important subject]

[tomas_horn]

first 15 seconds in... and it's perfect already

[MrDanbloom]

Notice he does not sing "in the name of the AnthroPOcene" in the song since four syllables would be too long for the line he needed, and Anthrocene, which was first coined by science writer Andrew C. Revkin in a book in 1992, makes much better sense with a shorter spelling and a 3 syllable sound than the longer 4 syllables, which is harder to pronouce. Nick Cave's song may just tip the scales back to using the term as Anthrocene, at least in pop culture and news headlines. And if academics still want go with with the longer Paul Crutzen 4-syllable term, that's fine, too. BOTH can co-exist; one in academia, one in pop culture. Long live Nick Cave! And Andy Revkin!

[chrisconnolly]

Nick Cave's song "Anthrocene" sounds and feels Like an out of body experience.The song sounds like a tragedy is happening like the end of the world is happening and everything is disintegrating and being two songs throughout this whole entire world I would choose to Die to....would be "And All That Could Have been" by Nine Inch Nails and "Anthrocene" by Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds.Hands down. Just imagine being high listening to this song.