Wild God

I bought a CD. I know that dates me, but I did. It was Wild God by Nick Cave and I played it old school, over and over again. I have over part years become like most of us and dipped in and out of music, streaming favourite tracks — maybe listening to a whole album the first time round then just cherry-picking. Though maybe that’s just me. Either way, it’s a bad habit.

But this album, I played and played it and it did the magic that used to happen when you put a new record on the turntable and played it over and over. The magic for me is this — songs that I thought on first and second listening ‘Yeah, they’re okay’ through repeated playing get into my chest and heart.

God, I love this album to bits now, far more than I did now. So I want to quote a few lines that moisten my eyes:

For every evil under the sun
If there be one, seek it till you find
For there's either a remedy or there is none
And if there is none, never mind, never mind

Never mind.

And then I did, as we moderns do, and searched online and found this quote and I copied that into my ‘personal knowledge management system’ which is funny and ironic. Here’s the quote.

Cave said he believes the world has grown “thoroughly disenchanted, and its feverish obsession with politics and its leaders had thrown up so many palisades that had prevented us from experiencing the presence of anything remotely like the spirit, the sacred, or the transcendent – that holy place where joy resides”.

After what he’s been through, to be able to find joy at all, says something.

I don’t think I’ve ever done a post like this before. Who knows why I did?

God, maybe.