But the back cover of Intoxicated Man had toplined the project as "Songs Of Serge Gainsbourg Sung In English By Mick Harvey & Anita Lane. Here are the four album-only Anita-featuring tracks from that round of Mick's translations:
Mick Harvey & Anita Lane - 69 Erotic YearMick Harvey & Anita Lane - Ford Mustang Mick Harvey & Anita Lane - Overseas Telegram Mick Harvey & Anita Lane - Bonnie & Clyde
― shivers me timber (sic), Tuesday, 26 January 2021 05:49 (three years ago) link
After another five year break, our old pal Hal Willner dragged Nicholas back last year for a T-Rex tribute album, AngelHeaded Hipster.
Nick Cave - Cosmic Dancer (LP August 2020, 7" Nov 2020) Willner had died of COVID four months before the album's release, so we might expect another long gap between covers for Cave. Due to a fluke of availability, the drummer on this recording is Superchunk / Bob Mould / Mountain Goats / Split Single skinsman and Best Show comedian Jon Wurster.
― shivers me timber (sic), Tuesday, 26 January 2021 18:17 (three years ago) link
For a 19th-anniversary double-LP reissue of the first two Gainsbourg records, Mick snuck out another Anita-aided track on a bonus 7". (both sides of which became two more bonus tracks at the end of Pink Elephants on the CD)
Mick Harvey & Anita Lane - Run From Happiness (unreleased until 2014, click to be the 100th listener)
― shivers me timber (sic), Wednesday, 27 January 2021 18:50 (three years ago) link
and Hugo Race played rhythm on
Mick Harvey - Jazz In The Ravine
― shivers me timber (sic), Wednesday, 27 January 2021 23:25 (three years ago) link
BALLOTS IN!!!
could we get a text list of all the nominees?
― Überschadenfreude (sleeve), Wednesday, 27 January 2021 23:27 (three years ago) link
(plaintext, Pastebin, whatever)
Just went to my spreadsheet to see how much faff this would be, and was reminded there's another 15 Mick Harvey non-Gainsbourg covers that I'd postponed before bcz they're not on youtube
― shivers me timber (sic), Wednesday, 27 January 2021 23:45 (three years ago) link
Plus a studio version of Sad Dark Eyes and live versions of two of the Serges
― shivers me timber (sic), Wednesday, 27 January 2021 23:46 (three years ago) link
Most of Mick's second or tenth or fourth solo album, depending on how you count, was recorded with a quartet that went on to tour in 2007 and release a live album, the next year, from one London date. Thomas Wydler drummed, James Johnston played organ and guitar, and non-Seed Rosie Westbrook joined them to play double bass.
This cover of a 1984 Saints song, from the era when the band had become Chris Bailey's backing group after the departure of the bloke who would, soon after this cover, replace Mick on live guitar with the Bad Seeds, has a video:
Mick Harvey - Photograph (on both Two Of Diamonds and Three Sisters - Live At Bush Hall)
― shivers me timber (sic), Thursday, 28 January 2021 00:12 (three years ago) link
(That one also features Rob Ellis from PJ Harvey, the band.)
― shivers me timber (sic), Thursday, 28 January 2021 00:42 (three years ago) link
The following were likewise released in both studio and live versions. And it turns out the studio ones are on youtube, if you set your VPN accordingly and search for each one individually, as they're under a Topic listing:
Mick Harvey - I Don't Want You On My Mind (original from Still Bill by Bill Withers, 1972)
Mick Harvey - Everything Is Fixed (retitled from Everything Fixed Is Killed, a David McComb song only recorded while overstaying a radio session, to use a taxpayer-funded facility for free, by his and Graham Lee's post-Triffids group The Red Ponies in 1994. Warren Ellis was in the band, pre-Bad Seeds, but had to leave after the official session.)
Mick Harvey - A Walk On The Wild Side (not the Lou Reed song, a 1962 film theme by Elmer Bernstein & Mack David - Harvey restored the "A" from Nelson Algren's novel to the title)
― shivers me timber (sic), Thursday, 28 January 2021 01:45 (three years ago) link
These Two Of Diamonds tracks didn't make it into the tour set:
Mick Harvey - Sad Dark Eyes (ibid.)
Mick Harvey - Here I Am (by Emmylou Harris, from Stumble Into Grace, 2003)
Mick Harvey - Out Of Time Man (written by Manu Chao for Mano Negra's 1991 King Of Bongo)
― shivers me timber (sic), Thursday, 28 January 2021 01:54 (three years ago) link
...but this one did - recorded all-instruments solo by Mick on the record, so not linked:
Mick Harvey - Slow-Motion-Movie-Star
(another technically-maybe-not-a-cover: a still-unreleased song from PJ Harvey's Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea, which Mick had played on and co-produced in 2001. In lieu of the Three Sisters version with the Seed-filled group, have a live audience video from 2013.)
― shivers me timber (sic), Thursday, 28 January 2021 02:01 (three years ago) link
Mick Harvey - Everything Is Fixed
this one has Rob Ellis on drums instead of Wydler, fact fans
Chris Bailey... Photograph
Bailey ofc was a Bad Seed for one song, duetting with Cave on the 2003 single Bring It On
― shivers me timber (sic), Thursday, 28 January 2021 03:38 (three years ago) link
Also performed on the Three Sisters live album, but not linkable in that form (the album is out of print physically, not on major digital services, nor on either Mute or Harvey's own Bandcamps):
Mick Harvey - Come Into My Sleep (a Bad Seeds b-side from 1997, covered solo on Mick's album One Man's Treasure)
Mick Harvey - Louise (written by Don Walker for the 1993 self-titled album inaugurating micro-supergroup Tex, Don, & Charlie, also done on One Man's Treasure)
Mick Harvey - First St. Blues (a Lee Hazelwood song, possibly known to Harvey as a 1966 B-side by Australian boy/girl singing duo Bobby And Laurie (With The Rondells) - especially as he seems to have copied a typo from the credits. also played solo on One, live audience video, 2012)
Mick Harvey - Quasimodo's Dream (offical Tenth Best Australian Song Of All Time, recorded by The Reels in 1981 and 1983. the only song from Three Sisters not previously recorded by Mick, but played at least on tour in Amsterdam in 2005. guessing Johnston is on organ here?)
Mick Harvey - Planetarium (from Australian psych band Once Upon A Time's 1992 album The Blink Of An Eye {me neither. also solo on One Man's Treasure though.} here's audience video of the quartet in Praha on the same tour as the live album.)
Mick Harvey - Bethelridge (from Robbie Fulks' 1998 Let's Kill Saturday Night. also recorded solo on One Man's Treasure. audience video from 2013)
Mick Harvey - Come On Spring (the single from Australian rock/alt/dance supergroup Antenna's one album, 1998's Installation. The group consisted of Hoodoo Gurus' Dave Faulkner, Beasts Of Bourbon/Scientists/Surrealists/etc Kim Salmon, and the members of Olympic techno hitmakers Southend. Plus Coda on strings, and one-song guest vocals by Chrissie Amphlett. solo on One, here's quartet audience video in Praha from this tour.)
Two of the Gainsbourgs got live outings:
Mick Harvey - Intoxicated Man (and here's a video session in a Berlin club in 2013Mick Harvey - Black Seaweed (here's an audience-shot video in Moscow from a late-2019 Songs Of Serge tour
et fin:
Mick Harvey - Just A Little Bit Of Rain (from Fred Neil's 1965 Bleecker & MacDougall. had previously been recorded by Harvey for Evil Graham Lee's V/A 1997 sad country covers album Where Joy Kills Sorrow, which stocked several Australian radio formats that year. here's a 2012 living-room session video of him playing it with Loene Carmen, who did most of the female vocals on Pink Elephants, and Louis Tillett.)
― shivers me timber (sic), Thursday, 28 January 2021 04:56 (three years ago) link
Pastebin: https://pastebin.com/qUHLm2Qd
― shivers me timber (sic), Thursday, 28 January 2021 05:34 (three years ago) link
(missed a couple in there, I'm afraid, but still a hundred to pick from)
― shivers me timber (sic), Thursday, 28 January 2021 07:34 (three years ago) link
bump
― shivers me timber (sic), Friday, 29 January 2021 06:34 (three years ago) link
Johnny Suede on telly. Nick telling Brad Pitt "you just wrap it up in tinfoil" and then eating greasy chicken from a bag on the ground: scripted or just junkie-era Cave getting distracted at the end of a long take?
― shivers me timber (sic), Friday, 29 January 2021 12:05 (three years ago) link
This is due today, right?
― stirmonster, Friday, 29 January 2021 13:20 (three years ago) link
Yes please!
― shivers me timber (sic), Friday, 29 January 2021 20:50 (three years ago) link
bump for sarahell or any other hellions
― shivers me timber (sic), Saturday, 30 January 2021 20:24 (three years ago) link
thx, voted
― Überschadenfreude (sleeve), Saturday, 30 January 2021 21:36 (three years ago) link
I've been contemplating receiving and tabulating ballots
― shivers me timber (sic), Sunday, 31 January 2021 04:02 (three years ago) link
Just popping in to give a big thank you to sic for pulling this all together. There's lots I have missed over the years, am going to attempt to listen to them all!
I think we've got a few Nick-less but still Badseeds adjacent covers so maybe worth mentioning the brief tenure of Joe Strummer as a Pogue which included covers of London Calling and I Fought the Law.
https://www.discogs.com/The-Pogues-Tuesday-Morning-5-Tracks/release/15593852
― new variant (onimo), Monday, 1 February 2021 17:07 (three years ago) link
I miss anticipating her next record a lot, but after all these years, there's also an appeal to the tidiness of six albums so good I cant choose among them, evenly spaced over a specific decade, produced with the same raw sheen, as though there was a Felt-like manifesto she completed.
― Citole Country (bendy), Monday, 1 February 2021 18:22 (three years ago) link
That was meant for the Nastasia thread! Though I wouldn't mind hearing the Bad Seeds interpret "Blackened Air" or "Brad Haunts a Party".
― Citole Country (bendy), Monday, 1 February 2021 18:35 (three years ago) link
i didn't realise non Nick songs were eligible. Is it too late to re-submit?
― stirmonster, Monday, 1 February 2021 18:41 (three years ago) link
It's not too late, because I'm still waiting on a ballot for cover poll enthusiast sarahell!
(Hoping for Veg Grrl too?)
Anything that Cave, or any two of his compatriots in various bands, have recorded is eligible
- hence Sclavunos and Wydler duetting on Raindrops counts, Sclavunos singing Bee Gees with no other Seeds playing on the record doesn't. Mick Harvey singing and playing every instrument doesn't count, but Mick playing everything and Anita singing does, or Mick with three other players, two of them Seeds, does. Die Haut with any Seed singing counts because Thomas is a member of Die Haut.
― shivers me timber (sic), Monday, 1 February 2021 20:15 (three years ago) link
Sorry for brain damaged diversion
― new variant (onimo), Monday, 1 February 2021 20:16 (three years ago) link
I figured it was a chemo cloud making your train of thought skip a track after leaving the Shane station :) Great to see you popping in, and hope everything's going well.
― shivers me timber (sic), Monday, 1 February 2021 20:23 (three years ago) link
I would it's going as well despite the evidence :)
― new variant (onimo), Monday, 1 February 2021 20:26 (three years ago) link
Jeezo my kingdom for a proofreader!
― new variant (onimo), Monday, 1 February 2021 20:27 (three years ago) link
ah, ok. thanks.
i patently missed the crucial line...
― stirmonster, Monday, 1 February 2021 20:37 (three years ago) link
ack sorry totally spaced on this - will send ballot tonight if thats ok?
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 1 February 2021 21:34 (three years ago) link
👌
― shivers me timber (sic), Monday, 1 February 2021 21:52 (three years ago) link
thank youuuu <3
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 1 February 2021 22:20 (three years ago) link
voted!
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 1 February 2021 23:38 (three years ago) link
where is sarahell
― Überschadenfreude (sleeve), Monday, 1 February 2021 23:40 (three years ago) link
sleeve otm
― shivers me timber (sic), Tuesday, 2 February 2021 05:36 (three years ago) link
RIP sarahell
― shivers me timber (sic), Wednesday, 3 February 2021 20:58 (three years ago) link
jfc that scared me for a minute - not cool can you change that link to just say Covers Poll pls
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 3 February 2021 21:26 (three years ago) link
tbc I hope sarahell is having a nice rest!
(she is not, she is posting busily in a deems thread on ILE)
― shivers me timber (sic), Wednesday, 3 February 2021 21:43 (three years ago) link
Producer (and guitarist) T-Bone Burnett recruited Nick and Warren for the 2015 True Detective telly soundtrack album. They took on a 1979 #1 single by Larry Gatlin And The Gatlin Brothers Band, notably performed at Ronald Reagan's second inaugural gala. Bringing in a star violinist saw Laurel Canyon Rambler and Punch Brother Gabe Witcher switch to bass from fiddle for this track.
Nick Cave & Warren Ellis - All the Gold In California
Big fan of this one
― deep luminous trombone (Eazy), Thursday, 10 March 2022 18:57 (two years ago) link