qotd...hey nick, how deep was that well?

[theholyinnocent]

Well, the well went down so very deep
Very deep went down the well
Well the well went down so very deep
Well, the well went down to hell...

~Nick Cave, "The Lyre of Orpheus"

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[maroukian.livejournal.com]

No knowing very much about Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, I googled them and here is what I found...
The title track tells the myth's tale in Cave's ironical fashion, where God eventually throws a hammer at the subject and Eurydyce threatens to shove his lyre up his nether orifice. :)

and one of their instruments is bouzouki!

[theholyinnocent.livejournal.com]

bouzouki!

I'm picturing a Greek bazooka. Or a bassoon?

[maroukian.livejournal.com]

Greek bazooka
heh heh..Is that like a Greek rocketgun?

Apparently, Nick Cave et al uses one in the song from which your qotd comes... not a very common instrument outside of Greece, I think

http://www.diodinos.com/the.htm

[theholyinnocent.livejournal.com]

Ah, you can hear it distinctively on the song. To my untrained ear, I thought someone was torturing a mandolin (well, the bouzouki looks very similar to a mandolin...). At any rate all this talk of Greek music, very predictably, makes me think of Never on Sunday.

[jack-mccoy-fan1.livejournal.com]

Whoa, I'm so loaded up on allergy meds that my heads a bit fuzzy.

That quote reminds me of an episode of Angel from the last season called "The Hole in the World". Now I want to hear the rest....

[cabenson.livejournal.com]

Wait a minute...I thought Xena had the lyre of Orpheus.