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[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds Henry's Dream (Mute 1992) The swooningly romantic Henry's Dream is, in large part, a musical response to John Berryman's poems, and each song, like almost every Nick Cave song, is packed with so many literary allusions it would take a reference library (or the internet) to unpack them all.
com) with a literary allusion that’s very nearly a perfect fit.
Minchin successfully combines highbrow literary allusions with a welcome dollop of smut - and anyone who can rhyme 'Portuguese skier' with 'neck-down alopecia' has got to be worth seeing.
 
 
 
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