"A few minutes alone with me, darlin', and you'll be speaking in tongues." -Max Cadey
There is a certain religiousness to music. You have those people who can recite the words and know everything by heart but don't comprehend shit, and then you have those people that can feel the notes deep in their bones. I just so happen to be one of those unfortunate people, the holiest of the holy.
In 1969, a psych band named Aum, was lucky enough to be signed to a label by Bill Graham. The irony, I know, since they released a little known album called Resurrection. The titular track is downright amazing, especially since the band had a weird, pseudo-religious rebirth and then promptly broke up.
Channeling the same god of music in 2004, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds released the double album, Abattoir Blues/The Lyre of Orpheus. Orpheus being the legendary musician who may have been killed by Zeus for revealing the secrets of the gods to men, and Nick Cave probably eventually being killed in the same manner by the same god for the same sin, the closing track, O' Children, is very similar in tone.
This is how my brain works.