Cohen reflected on his early work with Cave , in an interview with Richard Fidler in September 2006 , " it was all very experimental then , because we were all learning – I fell in love with this new way of recording ... because there were no rules . We were looking for sounds that made your fillings drop out rather than pleasant pop tunes , so we got to do crazy things like find concrete stairwells and abuse equipment , so it was all very attractive for me . Some of it did n't work , but as history has shown Nick really honed his craft , he 's done some brilliant records ... some of the early stuff was a bit rough but it was a learning curve then . " Ed Nimmervoll , an Australian journalist and editor of '' Rock Australia Magazine '' , recalled " Nick Cave 's Birthday Party were allowed to take up some of the studio time slack . Rather than home , their producer Tony Cohen slept in the air conditioning duct . " The Cruel Sea used Cohen 's services for their debut studio album , '' This Is not the Way Home '' ( December 1991 ) . He was nominated at ARIA Music Awards of 1993 for Producer of the Year for that album and for " Get Thee to a Nunnery " , a track on TISM 's EP , '' The Beasts of Suburban '' ( 20 July 1992 ) . At the following year 's ceremony Cohen won Producer of the Year for The Cruel Sea 's next album , '' The Honeymoon Is Over '' ( May 1993 ) . In 1995 he won both Engineer of the Year and Producer of the Year . Over the previous 18 months – the eligibility period – Cohen had produced '' Let Love In '' ( Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds , 18 April 1994 ) , '' You Wan na Be There But You Do n't Wan na Travel '' ( Dave Graney 'n' the Coral Snakes , June 1994 ) , '' Parables for Wooden Ears '' ( Powderfinger , 18 July 1994 ) , '' Livin ' Lazy '' ( Maurice Frawley and Working Class Ringos , 1994 ) , '' Three Legged Dog '' ( The Cruel Sea , April 1995 ) , '' Kim Salmon and the Surrealists '' ( Kim Salmon and the Surrealists , April 1995 ) and '' Mouth to Mouth '' ( The Blackeyed Susans , July 1995 )
ARIA Music Awards of 1993
ARIA Music Awards of 1993
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