POX: Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds

The Mercy Seat
Stagger Lee (Live version with extra verse put a great ending on it)
Red Right Hand
Pappa Won't Leave You Henry
Saint Huck
Crow Jane
Scum
Do You Love Me?
Lime tree Arbour
Oh My Lord

1. "Wild World" live from Nick's solo tour of I think 2002, featuring a feisty Warren Ellis doing some demonic fiddlin' - best live Nick Cave song I've ever seen/heard (I'm taking some Birthday Party liberties here, sorry)

On that note:

2. "Sonny's Burning" for being my favorite BP song, with the greatest intro ever - "Hands up- Who wants to die?"

3. "The Mercy Seat"

(Ok, I just realized I don't really have a numeric preference with any of these- everything sort of rates according to my preferred Nick Cave experience- #1 being "live", #2 being "The Birthday Party", #3 being "Tender Prey is my favorite Bad Seeds album, so Mercy Seat goes here", etc.)

4. "Tupelo" (either the live version or original- great song)

5. "The Ship Song"

6. "From Her To Eternity"

7. "The Carny" (this should actually be up a few, as it reminds me of the need to throw a serious nod to "Wings of Desire" as being a huge part of having the complete Nick Cave experience)

8. "Red Right Hand"

9. "Where The Wild Roses Grow" live, so Blixa does the Kylie lyrics (well, he used to anyway)

10. "Deanna"

Oh man - I didn't even rep "Henry's Dream"!

It was BRILLIANT.

I'd rather he suffer slowly for a while.

People Ain't No Good

Here's Wild World from Perth .. maybe you can get to it. (fucking free web hosting..)
http://verbal.kint.tripod.com/Wild_World.mp3

the mercy seat

will send wild world & the rest laterr. must go slave in the book mines.

*I'm now returning to my self-imposed ALL NICK CAVE SUNDAY*

Good thread, Alex.

and in the spirit of the thread I present:
Nick Cave "Scum" (green flexi-disc, recorded July 1986)
http://s23.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0FAZSCFHTWR4Y1TJXIZI2D2IBT

I girl from Melbourne I met a few weeks ago says he still plays out in tiny bars once in a while and both looks and sounds terrible.

Anyone have anything to add?

Or should we start another thread? Six degrees of Bad Seeds or something?

I'll need to think on this a little, so I'll post tomorrow.....

and following on from the last, does anyone have the b-sides from Anita Lane's The World's A Girl single? I bought the 7" for clear-vinyl sexiness but the shit pressing isn't very iPod-friendly, ten years later...

ian do you have that solo piano version of "dead joe"??

pox:
"tupelo"
"from her to eternity"
"babe I'm on fire"
"nature boy"
"do you love me?"
"henry lee"
"the ship song"
"straight to you"
"the singer"
"deanna"

Go enjoy some cock.

Plus I always thought Nick was more of a whiskey man - maybe a fifth of the plastic bottle variety poured straight down the throat of Esteban would be a better course of action. That should clear up his attitude....

Plus he's calling you a dumb butt while signing his name Buttez. I think we can leave it at that.

Barry Adamson was in fucking Visage! We need a catch-all for all these connections.....

The Hammer Song
Do you love me?
Are you the one I've been waiting for?
Mercy Seat
Brother My Cup is Empty
Henry Lee
God is in the house
There she goes, my beautiful world
The good son
John Finn's wife

+ These immortal souls were great. + Rowland & Lydia Lunch collabs were great too.

I don't suppose somebody has/can YSI that cover of "I Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition was In)" he did with.. who.. Die Haut?

God this is hard, but thanks for reminding me why I love(d) NC. I had completely forgot...

POX Nick Cave peripheral moments:

pink I Love Take That shirt and skinny-white-jean hip-thrust on "fucked Billy Dilly in his MOTHERFUCKIN' ASS", Stagger Lee video

the half-embarrassed-for-knowing-what-Bragg's-going-to-say smirk that creeps onto his face when Billy Bragg, operating the camera, approaches him while running a spiel about how as the father of young boys, blah blah etc - smirk appears - then Bragg directs him to turn side-on so that the viewer can see how Cave's bodily profile matches that of "the Cat In The 'At", Ritual Habitual documentary

the biggest Nick Cave fan of my Nick Cave fan friends in high school getting his forehead cut open by a bottle of water hurled from the stage by Cave, Big Day Out 1993

that Birthday Party -era promo photo where he's putting gunfingers to his head through an exploding goffwig, possibly with a sunglassed Rowland or Mick hanging off his shoulder, found torn from a magazine and left in the book drawer of a school desk, 1988

the eventually-duelling "Hands up who wants to die!" and "garn get fucked" samples in TISM's Give Up For Australia, Machiavelli & The Four Seasons

the montage of different arrangements for live versions of The Mercy Seat, South Bank Show

the way Jack Barron's colleagues at the NME seemed to take his kicking as a PERFECTLY LEGITIMATE REACTION to the journalist's behaviour, IPC 1988 & passim

both Cave anecdotes in Rollins' Black Flag tour diaries - one where he and Blixa had largely taken over a largely-abandoned hotel, and one where various Seeds and Rollins invade an Australian film industry party in LA,

the 50,000 strong gasp of shock as the balding Cave emerged onstage with his new sealskin Ben Folds haircut, Homebake 2003

his current muzzie, possibly grown especially to promote The Proposition, but possibly for its own sake, who knows?, see all recent promo/red carpet/TV interview shots

http://network.news.com.au/image/0,10114,5056977,00.jpg

Release The Bats
Nick The Stripper (ever seen the video? far-freaking-out)
From Her To Eternity (1984 version)
Saint Huck
Jennifer's Veil
Hey Joe
Mutiny In Heaven
Big-Jesus-Trash-Can
Wanted Man
Swampland

and it is suitable for this thread because nick cave got kicked out of wangaratta for being a butt bandit which dont go down well in them parts

it's not another album of gainsbourg covers is it? (I like those records okay, actually)

Only one "z" is Jaz, dicklick.