Right, to start with I've written about
Warren Ellis before but in other artists journals, not really just about him. This is going to be more about
Nick Cave & Warren Ellis'
White Lunar in the first bit and not at all about that audiobook thingy the other guy wrote. Also this is going to be a bit of a database of all Warren Ellis' recordings ever and also includes his favorites film soundtracks.
The Proposition is my all-time favorite soundtrack. I think it's one of the best things both Warren Ellis and or
Nick Cave have ever done. White Lunar is kind-off a "Best of" feature films (the first, white disc) and documentaries (the second, black disc). The Proposition film and
The English Surgeon doco have the most tracks on this compilation album. Nothing here is better than The Proposition tracks, maybe The English Surgeon comes close, so that is a good decision to have the most songs here. I would get the full album soundtrack if it was released, it is so much better than
Music From The Motion Picture The Assassination Of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford, to me that was a bit too like a big Hollywood soundtrack (which it is so it's just OK really).
The new tracks from the film
The Road is cool, to finally hear them. Also the new tracks for the doco for
The Girls Of Phnom are here and are cool to hear. But the tracks from
The Vaults are the other tracks that are most interesting and I would love to hear more. One more thing is most of thess tracks are so short that I would think you could really put more songs on the CD's. I have not added up all the track time to see how long it is but there is that old trick of the hidden track here too. I think I would have included something from the scores for theater.
Woyzeck and
Metamorphosis both from 2006 have never seen the light of day and only place you can hear them is at the plays when performed.
I would rate
White Lunar 3 and 1/2 out of 5 stars because it could have been better really. Anyway I have just read a very small interview with Ellis and without Cave which seem like they are a double act now, or joined at the hip, or something like that. Ellis was saying the songs for the soundtracks are recorded before seeing any films. So both are playing and recording all these tracks all the time and when a movie comes along to score they match up what is all there to the moving image. Which sounds great but there must have been a re-recording and or overdubbing for something like The Assassination which I think is a bit too over-produced. Warren is saying it's very "In the moment" creative process and I would love to read more but I think this interview is edited so much. You could possibly draw comparisons to
Dirty Three more than
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds but Ellis says it's nothing like them and is more about the "direction is out of your hands, you're in the image." But it's interesting that the last Dirty Three album
Cinder came out in 2005 and the first soundtrack The Proposition was out the same year too. Nick Cave has said his favorite Dirty Three album is
Ocean Songs and that is the one which, with Cave joining on piano, they have been playing as the classic album at ATP festival's Don't Look Back series.
Grinderman started a couple of years later too.
Anyway the interview I was reading has Warren Ellis' film soundtrack favorites, which are:
> Anything composed by
Bernard Herrmann or
Ennio Morricone
>
John Scott's score for
Wake In Fright
>
Elliot Goldenthal's score for
Heat
>
John Barry's score for
Walkabout
>
Brian May's score for
Mad Max (By the way this is not the Queen guitar player which is the only artist under this name on last.fm).
Warren Ellis his complete recordings. Off course to start with all of the Dirty Three albums, which are:
Dirty Three
Sad & Dangerous
Horse Stories
Ocean Songs
Whatever You Love, You Are
She Has No Strings Apollo
Cinder
Plus the EP's:
Sharks EP
Lowlands
Ufkuko
Strange Holiday which are the same tracks which were on the soundtrack to the Aussie film
Praise
and the single for
Great Waves
The Live album:
Live At Meredith
Dirty Three collaboration album with
Low:
Low & Dirty Three's
In the Fishtank
On the last Aussie tour in 2006 Dirty Three did a cover of
Rod Stewart's
Maggie May on Triple J's Live A Version and as an encore at some show not all, If anyone has song I would love to get a copy of Dirty Three's
Maggie May but I think it's never going to see the light of day again
Warren Ellis has played in these bands or on these albums or tracks:
Busload Of Faith which is the earliest band he was in but nothing recorded
The Slub which was a mid-80's Melbourne noise band which also included
Mick Turner on guitar
These Future Kings which was a short lived late-80's Melbourne band
Charlie Marshall & The Body Electric is a band from early-90's which also had
Jim White on drums
The Blackeyed Susans' album
All Souls Alive
David McComb's album
Love of Will
Tex, Don and Charlie's album
Sad But True
Kim Salmon's album
Hey Believer
Two track on
Kim Salmon and the Surrealists'
Sin Factory which are: Flute
Desensitized and Violin on
Rose Coloured Windscreen
Two tracks on
Robert Forster's
I Had a New York Girlfriend which are: Violin on both
Echo Beach and
Locked Away
Two tracks on Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds'
Let Love In which are: Violin on both
Ain't Gonna Rain Anymore and
Do You Love Me? (Part 2)
Three songs on
Spencer P. Jones' album
Rumour of Death which are
Where's Your Soul,
Execution Day and
The Demon Cup
Dave Graney 'N' the Coral Snakes'
You Wanna Be There But You Don't Wanna Travel
Crow's
Rabbits
The Plums'
Heavenly
Mick Harvey's
Bonnie & Clyde
Anita Lane's
The World's a Girl
Two songs on
Nighttown by
The Walkabouts which were
Forever Gone and
Nightbirds
Clarinet on
The Cruel Sea's
Just a Man
the Australian band
The Paradise Motel song called
Lorene Damage, which uses the music of
Jim's Dog
A collaboration with his Father
John Ellis which is the only song he sung the lead vocal but off course it's a duet with his Dad.
Warren And John Ellis's
Mis'ry Is My Middle Name on the album
When Joy Kills Sorrow find it here:
http://wminc.com.au/catalogue1.shtml
Nick Cave wrote and recorded a song with Dirty Three for the
Songs in the Key of X: Music From and Inspired by the X-Files and now can be found on The Bad Seeds'
B-Sides And Rarities Volume II the track is called
Time Jesum Transeuntum Et Non Riverentum [featuring The Dirty Three] and also Dirty Three covered
X-Files Theme but both are track zero and you had to rewind the CD but some players didn't so you couldn't listen to the songs, a bit silly really
Dave Graney and Clare Moore vs The Dirty Three recorded a on a Burt Bacharach and Hal David tribute album called
To Hal And Bacharach with the track
What the World Needs Now (Is Love)
Ellis co-wrote Kim Salmon's
Anticipation from his record called
Record
Flute on The Cruel Sea's
No Choice
Tracks on
Tex Perkins' solo albums
Far Be It From Me and
Dark Horses
Warren played Accordion and Violin on
The Curse of Millhaven on
Murder Ballads and the B-sides songs for the same album which were
The Willow Garden and
King Kong Kitchee Kitchee Ki-Mi-O It wasn't till
The Boatman's Call album that Warren became a full-time Bad Seed and has been on every album since which are:
No More Shall We Part and co-wrote two tracks
Hallelujah and
Darker With the Day
Nocturama
Abattoir Blues / The Lyre Of Orpheus which he co-wrote
Get Ready for Love,
Nature Boy,
The Lyre of Orpheus,
Spell,
Abattoir Blues and
Let the Bells Ring
Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!! and co-wrote
Moonland,
Hold on to Yourself,
More News From Nowhere,
Night of the Lotus Eaters,
Albert Goes West and
We Call Upon the Author
Also played on Cave's
The Secret Life of the Love Song
Warren Ellis released a solo release called
3 Pieces For Violin around 2002.
Played on three tracks on
Marianne Faithfull's album
Before the Poison which are
Crazy Love,
There Is a Ghost and
Desperanto which is the line-up with Cave,
Martyn P. Casey and
Jim Sclavunos which formed the band Grinderman a few years later and released the album called
Grinderman but this is the first recordings with these four playing but Faithfull is singing but Desperanto could really be the first Grinderman song
Cat Power's
Good Woman
Primal Scream's
Hell's Comin' Down
On a few songs for the album called
Rogue's Gallery: Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs, & Chanteys which were:
Nick Cave's
Fire Down Below
Bryan Ferry's
The Cruel Ship's Captain
David Thomas'
Dan Dan
Eliza Carthy's
Rolling Sea
Nick Cave's
Pinery Boy
Bryan Ferry & Antony's
Lowlands Low
David Thomas'
What Do We Do With A Drunken Sailor
Ed Harcourt's
Farewell Nancy
Ralph Steadman's
Little Boy Billee
On two tracks on
Ute Lemper's
Punishing Kiss album which were the songs
Streets of Berlin and
You Were Meant for Me
Two tracks on
Dave Graney & Clare Moore's
Hashish & Liquor album which were the songs
I Wanna Get Lost Again and
Saturday Night Bath
Mandolin on
Valgeir Sigurðsson track called
Winter Sleep
Bryan Ferry's
Positively 4th Street from his
Dylanesque album
Ed Kuepper's song
Miracles on the album
Jean Lee and the Yellow dog
Song For Rowland by
Loene Carmen from
A Tribute To Rowland S. Howard album
Two songs on
Marianne Faithfull's new album
Easy Come Easy Go which is
Hold On Hold On and
Salvation
With
Grinderman on
Seasick Steve's
Just Like a King from his last album
I Started Out With Nothin and I Still Got Most of It Left
Plus two new Grinderman songs are on
Palermo Shooting soundtrack called
Dream (Song For Finn) and
Song For Frank
And off course
The Proposition and
The Assassination soundtracks, audiobook for
The Death of Bunny Munro and the new compilation
White Lunar. Anyway this has stopped being fun now, and I have to finish now but could have missed something so make a comment. Thanks for looking too.
P.S. On the new Bad Seeds remastered DVD's Warren Ellis said his favorite album of Cave's is
Your Funeral... My Trial
Brian May
