A Totally Nick Cave Quiz

How Big a Fan Are You? Test Your Knowledge!

by Sharon Nichols, March 25, 2007

1. Which true story is retold in a Nick Cave song? a) Billy Blake cries to his warden b) Junkie Joe writes letter to his woman with blood-filled syringe c) Someone is gloomy d) Scab gets picked with Stanley knife e) Black-haired nun gets skull smashed in with rock f) Man with gaping eye is feelin’ low g) All of the above 2. Which is not the title of a Nick Cave album? a) "Flies Squirm In the Heat" b) "Trailer Trash Wept In Mah Soup” c) "The Night Is Black And Full O’ Rage” d) "Crickets Chirp In The Thickets" e) "Brick Layer Ate A Naked Root A-Risin' From The Soil" f) "The Moon Is In The Ghetto" g) None of the above 3. What is the name of Nick's current woman? a) Dead Nancy b) Swoopy Crow Lolita c) Aniterr e) Lamentation Sally e) Alice of th’ Sorrows f) Murderous Mary g) Polly Jean Harvey h) Depends on mood 4. Which is an authentic Nick Cave lyric? a) "Looka yonder at mah clapboard shack..." b) "Christ's apostles did a jig and drank mah booze..." c) "Mah weddin’ ring went jingle jangle in mah whiskey glass..." d) "Greasy, crooked-winged crows circled ‘round a dead beggar's body..." e) "Wanted man shot a drunk midwife..." f) "Bells of whoredom ring on a long black train..." g) all of the above 5. What is the name of Nick's firstborn son?

a) Strife b) Nick the Stripper, Jr. c) Hammerin' Henry Boy d) Grizzly Crow King e) Mean Bline Belly Bones f) Reverend Black Paul Slum g) Huckleberry John Finn h) Depends on mood 6. Which song did Nick recently perform on Letterman? a) “Black-Hearted Joe/Black Cloud Betty” b) "Devil Shot A Hole In Mah Pointy Boot" c) “Mah Nag Is Spooked” d) “Swamp of Despair” e) “Her Breast Loomed Thick Like A Mission Bell” f) “Ahm Gagged And Tied In The Gutter Of Old Man River’s Bar” g) “Midlife Crisis In A Louisiana Latrine” h) All of the above 7. Where does Nick Cave compose most of his songs? a) Jailhouse b) Deep well c) Back woods d) Tavern e) Briar patch f) Church g) Ditch h) Dumpster i) Motel room in Memphis while watching “Hee Haw” j) All of the above Answers: 1)g 2)g 3)h 4)g 5)h 6)h 7)j How did you score? 0 correct: You should be stabbed in the neck with a whalebone corset. 1 correct: Subject yourself to death by drowning. 2 correct: You are sorry, sorry, SORRY! Go stack some bodies. 3 correct: Bite the bullet and claw out your pickled eye. 4 correct: May Jesus smite you with a big trash can. 5 correct: Go get a skull and dagger tattoo and read some John Milton. 6 correct: You're one set of brass knuckles short of a good weepin'. 7 correct: May Lottie of Millhaven pass you by.