Orpheus or Abbatoir?

[Davey]

So which disc from that great Nick Cave 2-CD set is your favorite now that it has sunk in for a year. Listening to The Lyre of Orpheus this morning and have to say that it's probably my favorite now, but that's kind of a switch for me since I've generally gone with Abbattoir Blues when I pulled it out, until recently. But wow, aside from the crappy compressed sound, what a great album! I can't really think of anyone else working right now, with maybe the exception of someone like Tom Waits, that could pull off a sprawling opus like this. Often brilliant and poignant, it's almost crazy how much good music is on these discs. Love it. In retrospect, the best album of 2004

Easy money
Rain it down on the wife and the kids
Rain it down on the house where we live
Rain it down until you got nothing left to give
And rain that ever-loving stuff down on me


Still your hands
And still your heart
For still your face comes shining through
And all the morning glows anew
Still your mind
Still your soul
For still, the fare of love is true
And I am breathless without you

EDIT: But then when I hear "There She Goes" and "Nature Boy" followed by "Abattoir Blues", ya know I'm sold all over again on the Abattoir Blues disc as my fave. When Nick pushes out "I got the abattoir blues, right down to my shoes," and the ladies come in behind, it's just so cool. And "Nature Boy" is one of my favorite songs from the last few years ... but there are couple songs on this disc that are a bit too heavy-handed for me some of the time, so maybe it's back to Orpheus agian ... but then again, it all sounds pretty nice right now