Yet there they sit, along with George Harrison’s All Things Must Pass, woefully out of place, appallingly divided from their more conventionally packaged brethren. With the exception of the B-sides collection, it makes no organizational sense. Now Nick’s last four albums have no choice but to take up residency on the bottom shelf alongside the big clunky box sets, the Springsteen Tracks set, Dylan’s Biograph, etc. Another small victory for physics.įor someone who pays more attention to the organization of his CD collection than the balancing of his checkbook, this borders on catastrophic. (my copy of Abbatoir Blues still has a giant black mark on the spine where I tried to aggressively coerce it into proper place with a rubber mallet), but in the end the shelves just weren’t having it. That in it mind, I’ve forcibly tried to cram Cave’s albums onto the shelf in every way imaginable, rotating them by degrees, bludgeoning them with household tools, etc. In 1994, Pearl Jam’s bizarrely packaged Vitalogy presented the same problem, but after a short few weeks of national organizational mayhem, everyone realized that they could simply rotate the case ninety degrees and it would fit fine you sacrificed being able to read the writing on the spine, but since it was the only record in most people’s collection that was packaged inside an honest-to-God book, it didn’t really amount to much in the long haul. Dig Lazarus Dig!!! is Cave’s fourth straight album – along with 2004’s Abbatoir Blues/The Lyre of Orpheus, 2005’s B-sides collection, and last year’s Grinderman album – in which the dimensions of the package preclude it from fitting nicely where it belongs – which is to say, neatly alphabetized between Johnny Cash and Gnarls Barkley choirboy Cee-Lo’s 2004 solo album, Cee-Lo Green is the Soul Machine. It’s telling that my biggest gripe with Nick Cave is that he makes CDs that don’t fit on standard shelves.
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