Today’s Lesson: A Nick Cave Podcast

The boys are back and ready to call upon author Adam Steiner to discuss his new book, "Darker with the Dawn: Nick Cave's Songs of Love and Death!" Delving into Adam's inspirations and creative process, you'll get a behind the scenes look at the making of this essential exploration of Cave's work.

"Darker with the Dawn" is available for purchase 12/1/23, and can be ordered on bookshop.org to support local booksellers.

Ending theme music includes Clap Along by Jason Shaw.

You better run, you better run... right into the ever-loving arms of your two hosts as they bounce along to this traditional number turned rompin' stomper, City of Refuge. ALSO: Rumblings persist! There may be another installment of everyone's favorite game afoot...

Mercy me! The boys are back at it, rolling through Tender Prey to arrive at the half-way point and fifth track: Mercy.

Thought we were never comin' back? Well don't ya worry buddy, cause here we come! The boys are back in town and picking up right where they left off: announcing the winner of the first Today's Lesson contest, and breaking down Watching Alice, the fourth track of Tender Prey.  

Things are really starting to heat up as the boys grab their proverbial toolboxes and stockings, hop in their proverbial Cadillac, and continue proverbially careening through Tender Prey. Next stop? Oh-oh, it's track number three: Deanna!

Up jump the boys back from their long winter's nap to keep on 'a rollin' through Tender Prey, making their next stop at the second track Up Jumped the Devil!

With Your Funeral... My Trial done and dusted the boys risk it all and pop a squat in the Mercy Seat to kick off the Bad Seed's fifth studio album, Tender Prey!

And just like that, it's all over. Another album down! Join the boys as they offer their thoughts on the album-wrapping Tim Rose cover Long Time Man and the marvellously petty B-side oddity Scum, then eulogize, and deliver their final verdicts, on Your Funeral... My Trial.

What's that boy? She's fallen away? Not to worry! The boys are on the case, falling themselves down the yawning crevice of Your Funeral... My Trial's penultimate track, She Fell Away.

Ending Theme Music - 'Clap Along' by Jason Shaw

Hold on to your hard-ons folks, 'cause the boys are getting hot and heavy with the next track from Your Funeral... My Trial, Hard On for Love!

The boys take a trip to the hole to investigate all the lesser darks and greater lights of Your Funeral... My Trial's fifth track, Jack's Shadow.

Yeah, it's getting strange in here as the boys hit the fourth track of Your Funeral... My Trial, Stranger Than Kindness.

The boys don their weeds and strap in for the third and titular track of Your Funeral... my Trial, Your Funeral... My Trial!

Step right up, ladies and germs! The boys are moving on the show to The Carny, the second track of Your Funeral... My Trial.

The boys are back to take on the Seeds' fourth studio album, Your Funeral... My Trial, beginning with a deep dive into Sad Waters.

The boys put the secondborn to rest, closing out the Seed's sophomore album The Firstborn is Dead with a B-Side and some parting thoughts.

The boys bring it on home (well, almost) with the final track on The Firstborn is Dead, Blind Lemon Jefferson.

Strap yourselves in for one hell of a road trip, because the boys got you just what you wanted, man: an episode all about the next track on The Firstborn is Dead, Wanted Man!

The boys head to the big house and knock it out of the park with a deep dive into the next song on The Firstborn is Dead, Knockin' On Joe.

Cave's still a-singin' so you know that means the boys must be a-talkin' as the journey through The Firstborn is Dead continues with Black Crow King!