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Die Haut & Nick Cave

Burnin' The Ice - 2025 Reissue

    Nick Cave, new in Berlin, entered the world of Die Haut in 1982. The result is a furious album that paves the way for the music that Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds have been making since 1984.

    'Burnin' The Ice' has not been available for a long time. Now the record is being reissued on vinyl - and after many years, it closes a gap that drove Cave completists to despair.

    No wild god has fallen from the sky yet. Not even Nick Cave, perhaps the best music performer of the present day. Cave has worked hard for his power, his aura, his reputation. An important early milestone on this journey: 'Burnin' The Ice', released in 1983 together with Berlin band Die Haut. An album like
    a contemporary document. A ticket to the diffuse and adventurous Berlin of the early 80s, right in the middle of Nick Cave's hot period between The Birthday Party and The Bad Seeds.

    'Burnin' The Ice' captures the moment when Nick Cave and Die Haut first developed the music that would later make him seem larger than life. The sound on this record is existential and experimental. Interested in ecstasy and excess. Relentless and uncompromising.



    TRACK LISTING

    1. STOW-A-WAY
    2. TOKYO EXPRESS
    3. TRUCK LOVE
    4. THE VICTORY
    5. PLEASURE IS THE BOSS
    6. DUMB EUROPE
    7. THIS FLAME WILL NEVER DIE

    Santi Elijah Holley

    Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds' Murder Ballads - 33 1/3

      In a bar called The Bucket of Blood, a man shoots the bartender four times in the head. In the small town of Millhaven, a teenage girl secretly and gleefully murders her neighbors. A serial killer travels from home to home, quoting John Milton in his victims’ blood.

      Murder Ballads, the ninth studio album from Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, is a gruesome, blood-splattered reimagining of English ballads, American folk and blues music, and classic literature. Most of the stories told on Murder Ballads have been interpreted many times, but never before had they been so graphic or profane. Though earning the band their first Parental Advisory warning label, Murder Ballads, released in 1996, brought Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds their biggest critical and commercial success, thanks in part to the award-winning single, “Where the Wild Roses Grow,” an unlikely duet with Australian pop singer, Kylie Minogue.

      Closely examining each of the ten songs on the album, Santi Elijah Holley investigates the stories behind the songs, and the numerous ways these ballads have been interpreted through the years. Murder Ballads is a tour through the evolution of folk music, and a journey into the dark secrets of American history.

      Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

      Wild God

        Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds return with new album, ‘Wild God’.

        “I hope the album has the effect on listeners that it’s had on me,” Cave says. “It bursts out of the speaker, and I get swept up with it. It’s a complicated record, but it’s also deeply and joyously infectious. There is never a masterplan when we make a record. The records rather reflect back the emotional state of the writers and musicians who played them. Listening to this, I don’t know, it seems we’re happy.”

        Across ten tracks, the band dance between convention and experimentation, taking left-turns and detours that heighten the rich imagery and emotion in Cave’s soul-stirring narratives. It is the sound of a group emboldened by reconnection and taking flight. There are moments that touch fondly upon the Bad Seeds’ past but they are fleeting, and serve only to imbue the relentless and restless forward motion of the band.

        Produced by Cave and Warren Ellis, and mixed by David Fridmann, Cave began writing the album on New Year’s Day 2023. With sessions at Miraval in Provence and Soundtree in London, the Bad Seeds added their unique alchemy, with additional performances from Colin Greenwood (bass) and Luis Almau (nylon string guitar, acoustic guitar).

        “Wild God…there’s no fucking around with this record. When it hits, it hits. It lifts you. It moves you. I love that about it.” Nick Cave


        STAFF COMMENTS

        Laura says: Wild God heralds a new phase in the constantly evolving story of Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds. It combines the meandering, fluid structures employed since 2013’s Push The Sky Away, with the more muscular, dynamic sound of earlier output. Of course it wouldn’t be a Bad Seeds album without a heavy dose of pain, sadness and death, but unlike the unending bleakness of recent releases, there’s a definite shift both lyrically and musically: glimmers of optimism cutting through the dark skies. With huge string swells and almost gospel-like multi vocal crescendos there’s a power to the songs that perhaps reflects the strength of human spirit: a feeling that despite all the darkness in the world, love & hope will always endure.

        TRACK LISTING

        1. Song Of The Lake
        2. Wild God
        3. Frogs
        4. Joy
        5. Final Rescue Attempt
        6. Conversion
        7. Cinnamon Horses
        8. Long Dark Night
        9. O Wow O Wow (How Wonderful She Is)
        10. As The Waters Cover The Sea

        Nick Cave & Warren Ellis

        Australian Carnage - Live At The Sydney Opera House

          In 2022, Nick Cave and Warren Ellis returned to their native Australia for 16 shows, taking their acclaimed 2021 album ‘Carnage’ on the road, along with songs from the Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds catalogue. Three performances at the Sydney Opera House on December 16th, 17th and 18th were the climactic shows of an emotional trip, captured for a luminous new live album, ‘Australian Carnage - Live At The Sydney Opera House’.

          STAFF COMMENTS

          Barry says: Performers don't come much more experienced or capable than the songwriting powerhouse of Nick Cave & Warren Ellis, and 'live At The Sydney Opera House' perfectly captures a striking string of live performances of their most seminal works, new and old. It's a must-have.

          TRACK LISTING

          SIDE A
          1. Bright Horses (Live At The Sydney Opera House)
          2. Carnage (Live At The Sydney Opera House)
          3. White Elephant (Live At The Sydney Opera House)
          4. Leviathan (Live At The Sydney Opera House)

          SIDE B
          1. Ghosteen (Live At The Sydney Opera House)
          2. Waiting For You (Live At The Sydney Opera House)
          3. Breathless (Live At The Sydney Opera House)
          4. Balcony Man (Live At The Sydney Opera House)

          Nick Cave

          The Sick Bag Song - Reprint

            The Sick Bag Song chronicles Cave's 22-city journey around North America in 2014. Racked by romantic longing and exhaustion, Cave teases out the significant moments - the people, the books and the music - that have influenced and inspired him, and drops them into his sick bag. The book began its life scribbled onto airline sick bags and later evolves into a restless contemporary epic, exploring love, loss, inspiration and memory.

            Nick Cave

            The Complete Lyrics : 1978-2022

              The complete lyrics from cultural icon and bestselling author Nick Cave, spanning his entire career to date, with a new foreword by Andrew O'HaganFrom Nick Cave's writing for The Birthday Party, through highly acclaimed albums like Murder Ballads, Henry's Dream, DIG, LAZARUS, DIG!!! and Ghosteen, this is a must-have book for all fans of the dark, the beautiful and the defiant - for all fans of the songs of Nick Cave. 'The greatest living songwriter' NME'A glowing wire, a mainline to meaning ad feeling and art' New Yorker'Nick Cave is a true lyrical master. He can conjure empathy and hope out of thin air, light out of darkness' Cillian Murphy'His lyrics - so rich in the toils of love, so committed to memory and everlasting presence - are the best-made of his generation' Andrew O'Hagan'A poetic craftsman' Will Self'Alternative rock legend' Billboard'Cave's genius rings loud and clear' Evening StandardCover art by Aleksandra Waliszewska

              Nick Cave And Seán O'Hagan

              Faith, Hope And Carnage

                Faith, Hope and Carnage is a book about Nick Cave's inner life. Created from more than forty hours of intimate conversations with the journalist Sean O'Hagan, this is a profoundly thoughtful exploration, in Cave's own words, of what really drives his life and creativity. The book examines questions of belief, art, music, freedom, grief and love.

                It draws candidly on Cave's life, from his early childhood to the present day, his loves, his work ethic and his dramatic transformation in recent years. Faith, Hope and Carnage offers ladders of hope and inspiration from a true creative visionary.

                Nick Cave

                Seven Psalms

                  ‘While in lockdown I wrote a number of psalms, or small, sacred songs—one a day for a week.

                  The seven psalms are presented as one long meditation—on faith, rage, love, grief, mercy, sex and praise. A veiled, contemplative offering borne of an uncertain time. I hope you like it.’

                  Nick Cave.

                  Nick Cave & Warren Ellis

                  La Panthère Des Neiges - Original Soundtrack

                    Originally available as a digital-only release, Invada Records and Lakeshore Records present the original score by Nick Cave and Warren Ellis to the film La Panthère Des Neiges (AKA The Velvet Queen).

                    The soundtrack is one of Ellis and Cave’s most heartfelt and haunting film projects. 

                    High up on the Tibetan plateau. Amongst unexplored and inaccessible valleys lies one of the last sanctuaries of the wild world, where rare and undiscovered fauna lives. Vincent Munier, one of the world’s most renowned wildlife photographers takes the adventurer and novelist Sylvain Tesson (In the Forest of Siberia) with him on his latest mission. For several weeks, they’ll explore these valleys searching for unique animals and try to spot the snow leopard, one of the rarest and most difficult big cats to approach.

                    Ellis explains how Cave and himself came to be involved : “There is something about the heart of this film that draws you in. I realised after a day, that I wanted to do whatever it took to compose an entire original score. The film deserved to have its own musical voice. I booked five days and asked Nick if he could come in for a day to write a theme song and play some piano. He saw the film and stayed for four days. In the end we made what I think is one of the most beautiful films we have ever worked on. One of my favourite experiences ever working on a project. The stars are the animals in all their wild glory, as we have never seen them before, and man in reverence and wonder.”

                    TRACK LISTING

                    L'attaque Des Loups
                    Les Cerfs
                    Antilope
                    La Bête
                    Les Yaks
                    Des Affûts Elliptiques
                    Les Nomades
                    La Grotte
                    Les Princes
                    La Neige Tombe
                    Les Ours
                    Un Être Vous Obsède
                    L’apparition/We Are Not Alone

                    Aug Stone

                    Nick Cave's Bar

                      "In June 1999, Aug Stone flew to Germany with his best friend to find a bar that Nick Cave was rumoured to own in Berlin. Nine days of "confusion, thwarted plans, and perpetual drunken misery" later the establishment remained elusive, if not apocryphal, but he left with a great tale to tell.

                      Road-trip stories are never really about the destination and this one is hilarious, chaotic and character filled. Taking place in those strange, hazy, pre-internet times when travelling unprepared was a more perilous proposition (and a whole afternoon could be lost trying to find a specific record shop) there is a pleasingly shambolic quality to the book that will be familiar to anyone who ever had a really great idea they didn't quite think through.

                      Whilst it isn't exactly The Dirt levels of excess (there is a bit too much reading of Nabakov and hotels being booked by mothers for that) it contains plenty of the kind of fun, foolishness that is possibly better to experience secondhand than for real. Sort of like a Louis Theroux weird weekend mixed with Withnail & I.

                      If you are a fan of Nick Cave there is a decent amount of drunken discussion of his merits, but it's not a requisite to enjoying the book and like all good autobiographies it's engaging regardless of your prior interest in the subject." - Susan Sloan, Louder Than War

                      Mark Mordue

                      Boy On Fire: The Young Nick Cave

                        A brilliant and soulful biography of one of today's most acclaimed singer-songwriters, Nick Cave.

                        An intensely beautiful, profound and poetic biography of the formative years of the dark prince of rock 'n' roll, Boy on Fire is Nick Cave's creation story, a portrait of the artist first as a boy, then as a young man. A deeply insightful work which charts his family, friends, influences, milieu and, most of all, his music, it reveals how Nick Cave shaped himself into the extraordinary artist he would become.

                        A powerful account of a singular, uncompromising artist, Boy on Fire is also a vivid and evocative rendering of a time and place, from the fast-running dark rivers and ghost gums of country-town Australia to the torn wallpaper, sticky carpet and manic energy of the nascent punk scene which hit staid 1970s Melbourne like an atom bomb. Boy on Fire is a stunning biographical achievement.

                        Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

                        B-Sides & Rarities: Part II

                          B-Side And Rarities Part II was compiled by Nick Cave & Warren Ellis and features 27 tracks from “Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!” in 2006 to 2019s “Ghosteen”. Also features 19 rare and unreleased tracks including first recordings of ‘Skeleton Tree’, ‘Girl in Amber’, ‘Bright Horses’ and ‘Waiting for You’.

                          STAFF COMMENTS

                          Darryl says: Cave and Ellis, what a winning combo! Nick Cave remains one of the greatest talents working in music today, and this offers a fascinating insight into the killer tunes they decided not to release along with some fantastic tracks that were only deemed worthy of B-Side status.

                          TRACK LISTING

                          PART II LP1 & CD1

                          1. A1. Hey Little Firing Squad
                          2. A2. Fleeting Love
                          3. A3. Accidents Will Happen
                          4. A4. Free To Walk (With Debbie Harry)
                          5. A5. Avalanche*
                          6. A6. Vortex *

                          7. B1. Needle Boy
                          8. B2. Lightning Bolts
                          9. B3. Animal X
                          10. B4. Give Us A Kiss
                          11. B5. Push The Sky Away
                          (Live With The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra)*

                          PART II LP2 & CD2

                          1. A1. First Skeleton Tree*
                          2. A2. King Sized Nick Cave Blues*
                          3. A3. Opium Eyes*
                          4. A4. Big Dream (With Sky)*
                          5. A5. Instrumental #33*
                          6. A6. Hell Villanelle*
                          7. A7. Euthanasia*
                          8. A8. Life Per Se*

                          9. B1. Steve McQueen*
                          10. B2. First Bright Horses*
                          11. B3. First Girl In Amber*
                          12. B4. Glacier*
                          13. B5. Heart That Kills You*
                          14. B6. First Waiting For You*
                          15. B7. Sudden Song*
                          16. B8. Earthlings*

                          *previously Unreleased

                          Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

                          B-Sides & Rarities: Part I

                            B-Side & Rarities Part I contains material from Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds’ 30-plus year career. This collection features 56 tracks including rarities, out-takes, covers & B-sides from 1988-2005 across 3 volumes, compiled by Mick Harvey.

                            TRACK LISTING

                            PART I CD1

                            1. Deanna (Acoustic Version)
                            2. The Mercy Seat (Acoustic Version)
                            3. City Of Refuge (Acoustic Version)
                            4. The Moon Is In The Gutter
                            5. The Six Strings That Drew Blood
                            6. Rye Whiskey
                            7. Running Scared
                            8. Black Betty
                            9. Scum
                            10. The Girl At The Bottom Of My Glass
                            11. The Train Song
                            12. Cocks 'n' Asses
                            13. Blue Bird
                            14. Helpless
                            15. God's Hotel
                            16. (I'll Love You) Till The End Of The World
                            17. Cassiel's Song
                            18. Tower Of Song
                            19. What Can I Give You?

                            PART I CD2

                            1. What A Wonderful World
                            2. Rainy Night In Soho
                            3. Lucy (Version #2)
                            4. Jack The Ripper (Acoustic Version)
                            5. Sail Away
                            6. There's No Night Out In The Jail
                            7. That's What Jazz Is To Me
                            8. The Willow Garden
                            9. The Ballad Of Robert Moore And Betty Coltrane
                            10. King Kong Kitchee Kitchee Ki-Mi-O
                            11. Knoxville Girl
                            12. Where The Wild Roses Grow (Original Guide Vocal Version)
                            13. O'Malley's Bar Pt. 1
                            14. O'Malley's Bar Pt. 2
                            15. O'Malley's Bar Pt. 3
                            16. Time Jesum Transeuntum Et Non Riverentum
                            17. O'Malley's Bar Reprise
                            18. Red Right Hand (Scream 3 Version)


                            PART I CD3

                            1. Little Empty Boat
                            2. Right Now I'm A-Roaming
                            3. Come Into My Sleep
                            4. Black Hair Band Version
                            5. Babe, I Got You Bad
                            6. Sheep May Safely Graze
                            7. Opium Tea
                            8. Grief Came Riding
                            9. Bless His Ever Loving Heart
                            10. Good Good Day
                            11. Little Janey's Gone
                            12. I Feel So Good
                            13. Shoot Me Down
                            14. Swing Low
                            15. Little Ghost Song
                            16. Everything Must Converge
                            17. Nocturama
                            18. She's Leaving You
                            19. Under This Moon

                            Nick Cave & Warren Ellis

                            Carnage

                              Carnage is a new album by Nick Cave & Warren Ellis, recorded over a period of weeks during lockdown.

                              Although the pair have composed & recorded many soundtracks together, and Ellis is a long-term member of The Bad Seeds, this is the first time they have released an entire album of songs as a duo.

                              Cave describes the album as "a brutal but very beautiful record nested in a communal catastrophe."

                              "Making Carnage was an accelerated process of intense creativity," says Ellis, "the eight songs were there in one form or another within the first two and a half days."

                              Cave & Ellis' sonic and lyrical adventurism continues apace on Carnage, an album that emerged almost by accident out of the downtime created by the long, anxious, global emergency.

                              Carnage is a record for these uncertain times - one shot through with moments of distilled beauty and that resonates with an almost defiant sense of hope.

                              STAFF COMMENTS

                              Barry says: Ellis and Cave go together like chips and gravy, there's no doubting that, but until now, they've not done a full album together that isn't a soundtrack. Now here we get the unmatched songwriting capability of both parties fully focused on an album in which they're allowed free reign and it's BEAUTIFUL. Cinematic in parts, but imbued with the melodic sensibilities that are generally missing from soundtrack work. A brilliant document of two of the greatest musicians in the business, and together, a force that simply can't be bettered.

                              TRACK LISTING

                              Hand Of God
                              Old Time
                              Carnage
                              White Elephant
                              Albuquerque
                              Lavender Fields
                              Shattered Ground
                              Balcony Man

                              Nick Cave

                              Idiot Prayer - Live Alone At Alexander Palace

                                In June 2020, mid lockdown, Nick Cave performed a live set in the vast grandeur of in the West Hall of London's Alexandra Palace. The performance, featuring just Nick at the piano, was filmed and streamed in July and was a beautifully sombre affair that sat perfectly with the mood and uncertainty of the time. 

                                In recent years Nick has performed several solo shows with just a piano, covering material spanning his entire career, but whether it is the shadow cast by the global pandemic or the majestic splendour of the location, this songs here seem somehow more poignant than ever. Although recorded in such a vast space it is the intimacy of the performance that makes it such a compelling listen. Wonderful.

                                The Telegraph ****
                                "Cave's solo live stream could be the most the beautiful and sombre performance he's ever given"

                                The Guardian ****
                                "Cave’s performance in an empty hall, with just piano and voice, seems to try and ward off the terrifying silence of the Covid-19 age”

                                Evening Standard ****
                                "Gravitas echoes beautifully in the void of an empty Alexandra Palace"

                                The Independent ****
                                "‘Idiot Prayer’ performance is stately and beautiful”

                                The Arts Desk ****
                                "The dramatic minimalism of this setting is perfect for an expressive face, and such powerfully emotional songs”

                                STAFF COMMENTS

                                Barry says: There is absolutely no stopping Nick Cave. Even a global pandemic can't halt his transformative live show, and the bleak solemnity of one man and a piano only serves to exacerbate the intoxicating experience.

                                TRACK LISTING

                                Spinning Song
                                Jubilee Street
                                Far From Me
                                Idiot Prayer
                                Sad Waters
                                He Wants You
                                Brompton Oratory
                                Higgs Boson Blues
                                Palaces Of Montezuma
                                Stranger Than Kindness
                                Into My Arms
                                Girl In Amber
                                The Ship Song
                                Man In The Moon
                                Nobody's Baby Now
                                Papa Won't Leave You, Henry
                                Black Hair
                                (Are You) The One That I’ve Been Waiting For?
                                Galleon Ship
                                Waiting For You
                                The Mercy Street
                                Euthanasia

                                Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds

                                Ghosteen

                                Ghosteen is the seventeenth studio album from Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds, following 2016’s Skeleton Tree, and will be released via Ghosteen Ltd. The album was recorded in 2018 and early 2019 at Woodshed in Malibu, Nightbird in Los Angeles, Retreat in Brighton and Candybomber in Berlin. It was mixed by Nick Cave, Warren Ellis, Lance Powell and Andrew Dominik at Conway in Los Angeles.

                                "The songs on the first album are the children. The songs on the second album are their parents. Ghosteen is migrating spirit." - Nick Cave.


                                STAFF COMMENTS

                                Darryl says: Spread across two albums, "The songs on the first album are the children. The songs on the second album are their parents. Ghosteen is migrating spirit." Nick Cave, ‘Ghosteen is a deeply introspective and at times an emotionally devastating listen exploring his personal grief following the death of his son. A melancholic yet beautiful masterpiece.

                                TRACK LISTING

                                Disc 1:
                                1. The Spinning Song
                                2. Bright Horses
                                3. Waiting For You
                                4. Night Raid
                                5. Sun Forest
                                6. Galleon Ship
                                7. Ghosteen Speaks
                                8. Leviathan

                                Disc 2:
                                1. Ghosteen
                                2. Fireflies
                                3. Hollywood

                                Nick Cave & Warren Ellis

                                War Machine - Original Score

                                  ‘War Machine’ is a new Netflix film, directed by David Michôd and starring Brad Pitt and Tilda Swinton among many others.

                                  Military snares set a sharp cadence beneath the score’s eerie synths and strings, instantly reminiscent of ‘Skeleton Tree’ by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds and the beautiful ‘Hell Or High Water’ score.

                                  “Together we made a score that was both light and dark, propulsive and meditative at the same time. We developed a kind of ‘spiritual electronics’ that captured both the melancholy and the terrible absurdity of the Afghan war,” Cave and Ellis said in a press release. “It was a great pleasure to work with David Michôd, who is not only an extraordinary filmmaker but a musician too. Our favorite score!”

                                  TRACK LISTING

                                  Ah America
                                  Humble Man
                                  The Bubble
                                  The Civilian Executive
                                  In Liebe Dein (Roedelius)
                                  Badi Basim
                                  Kamee (Roedelius)
                                  The Moon Landing
                                  Our Noise
                                  Fabelwein (Roedelius)
                                  Jeanie
                                  NY Snow Globe (Rachel’s)
                                  Thousands Of Parades, All Over America
                                  Marjah
                                  Staunen Im Fjord (Roedelius)
                                  The Hand Of Helping
                                  Be Lovely
                                  A Page In The History Books
                                  War Machine

                                  Nick Cave & Warren Ellis

                                  Kings - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

                                    Kings is a 2018 crime drama film directed by Deniz Gamze Ergüven (Mustang). Set in 1992, it follows Millie (Halle Berry), a woman living in South Central Los Angeles who takes in at-risk youths to live in her home. When the infamous Rodney King riots grip the city, Millie and her cavalcade of adoptees are thrust into the mounting chaos sprouting all around them. In time, they are forced into unlikely alliances in order to stay alive

                                    Scoring duties for Kings fall to Nick Cave & Warren Ellis of Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds fame. In recent years, they have become a force to be reckoned with in the world of soundtracks, thanks to their impressive work on films like Hell or High Water, Wind River, and the National Geographic series Mars. Cave and Ellis, the later a repeat Ergüven collaborator, pull from their rich history in the music world to deliver an unexpected score that immediately transports the listener to a specific place in time – the hot, angry streets of Los Angeles in the summer of 1992.



                                    Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

                                    Lovely Creatures - The Best Of Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds (1984 - 2014)

                                    • Lovely Creatures is the most comprehensive overview of the recorded work of Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds to date. Spanning thirty years of music from their debut album From Her To Eternity through to Push The Sky Away their 15th studio album, the collection navigates one of the most exhilarating, idiosyncratic and inventive bodies of work created in contemporary music.

                                    • Included are long-standing live favourites “Stagger Lee” and “The Mercy Seat”, their hit single from 1995 “Where The Wild Roses Grow” through to recent fan favourites “Jubilee Street” and “We No Who U R”. There are songs that newcomers may only know from their appearance on film and television soundtracks, notably “O Children” (Harry Potter & the Deathly Hallows Pt. I) and the ubiquitous “Red Right Hand”, most recently familiar to fans of the series Peaky Blinders.

                                    • The album was compiled by Nick Cave and founding member Mick Harvey, with help from the current Bad Seeds. 

                                    Lovely Creatures is available in four formats, all featuring personal and rare photographs of the band: Standard CD, Triple LP, Deluxe 3CD with DVD and the Super Deluxe Limited Edition package. 


                                    STAFF COMMENTS

                                    Laura says: Nick Cave has been one of the most influential and distinctive songwriter / performers of the last 30 odd years. With such a brilliant and varied catalogue spanning 15 LPs, I'd find it virtually impossible to select a mere 21 'best of' tracks, but Nick and ex Bad Seed Mick Harvey have managed it, and that's what you get here on the vinyl and standard CD editions of this release. The deluxe expands futher and is spread across 3CDs and a live/interview DVD.

                                    TRACK LISTING

                                    2CD Tracklist:
                                    CD1
                                    1. Loverman
                                    2. Tupelo
                                    3. Deanna
                                    4. From Her To Eternity
                                    5. The Weeping Song
                                    6. Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!
                                    7. People Ain't No Good
                                    8. Higgs Boson Blues
                                    9. Straight To You
                                    10. Where The Wild Roses Grow

                                    CD2
                                    1. Into My Arms
                                    2. Love Letter
                                    3. Red Right Hand
                                    4. The Mercy Seat
                                    5. O Children
                                    6. The Ship Song
                                    7. Stranger Than Kindness
                                    8. Jubilee Street
                                    9. Nature Boy
                                    10. We No Who U R
                                    11. Stagger Lee

                                    Vinyl Tracklist:
                                    Side A
                                    1. Loverman
                                    2. Tupelo
                                    3. Deanna
                                    4. From Her To Eternity

                                    Side B
                                    1. The Weeping Song
                                    2. Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!
                                    3. People Ain't No Good

                                    Side C
                                    1. Higgs Boson Blues
                                    2. Straight To You
                                    3. Where The Wild Rose Grow

                                    Side D
                                    1. Into My Arms
                                    2. Love Letter
                                    3. Red Right Hand
                                    4. The Mercy Seat

                                    Side E
                                    1. O Children
                                    2. The Ship Song
                                    3. Stranger Than Kindness

                                    Side F
                                    1. Jubilee Street
                                    2. Nature Boy
                                    3. We No Who U R
                                    4. Stagger Lee

                                    Deluxe 3CD + DVD Tracklist:

                                    CD1: 1984 -1993
                                    1. From Her To Eternity
                                    2. In The Ghetto
                                    3. Tupelo
                                    4. I'm Gonna Kill That Woman
                                    5. The Carny
                                    6. Sad Waters
                                    7. Stranger Than Kindness
                                    8. Scum
                                    9. The Mercy Seat
                                    10. Deanna
                                    11. Up Jumped The Devil
                                    12. The Weeping Song
                                    13. The Ship Song
                                    14. Papa Won’t Leave You, Henry
                                    15. Straight To You

                                    CD2: 1994 – 2003
                                    1. Do You Love Me?
                                    2. Nobody's Baby Now
                                    3. Loverman
                                    4. Red Right Hand
                                    5. Stagger Lee
                                    6. Where The Wild Roses Grow
                                    7. Into My Arms
                                    8. People Ain't No Good
                                    9. Brompton Oratory
                                    10. (Are You) The One That I've Been Waiting For?
                                    11. Come Into My Sleep
                                    12. Love Letter
                                    13. God Is In The House
                                    14. He Wants You
                                    15. Shoot Me Down

                                    CD3: 2004 – 2013
                                    1. Hiding All Away
                                    2. There She Goes, My Beautiful World
                                    3. Nature Boy
                                    4. Breathless
                                    5. Babe, You Turn Me On
                                    6. O Children
                                    7. Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!
                                    8. Night Of The Lotus Eaters
                                    9. We Call Upon The Author
                                    10. Jesus Of The Moon
                                    11. More News From Nowhere
                                    12. We No Who U R
                                    13. Jubilee Street
                                    14. Higgs Boson Blues
                                    15. Push The Sky Away

                                    DVD
                                    1. Interview, ‘Kippevel’, Netherlands, 1988
                                    2. Night Of The Lotus Eaters, Docks De Suds, Marseilles, France 2008
                                    3. Red Right Hand, Glastonbury Festival, UK, 1988
                                    4. The Weeping Song, ‘Boxed Set’, Glasgow STV Studios, UK, 2001
                                    5. Interview, New York, USA, 2013
                                    6. Higgs Boson Blues, La Fabrique Studios, France 2012
                                    7. Interview, ‘Stranger In A Strange Land’ Documentary, Berlin, Germany, 1987
                                    8. From Her To Eternity, Perkins Palace, Pasadena, USA, 1984
                                    9. Love Letter, ABC Studios, Australia, 2001
                                    10. Interview, ‘Bish’s Biz’, Australia, 2013
                                    11. Do You Love Me? ‘Boxed Set’, Glasgow STV Studios, UK, 2001
                                    12. Interview, ‘Boxed Set’, Glasgow STV Studios, UK, 2001
                                    13. Into My Arms, INmusic Festival, Zagreb, Croatia, 2008
                                    14. We Call Upon The Author, B1 Maximum Club, Moscow, Russia, 2009
                                    15. Interview, Ein Abend In Wien, Rotterdam, Netherlands, 1991
                                    16. The Mercy Seat, Bizarre Festival, Germany, 1996
                                    17. Interview, Columbus, Ohio, USA, 1984
                                    18. God Is In The House, ‘Later With Jools Holland’, London, 2001
                                    19. Interview, ’Bish’s Biz’, Australia, 2013
                                    20. Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!, Globe Annexet, Stockholm, Sweden, 2008
                                    21. Brompton Oratory, ‘MTV Live N Loud’, 1997
                                    22. I’m Gonna Kill That Woman, Posthof, Linz, Austria, 1986
                                    23. Jubilee Street, The Fonda Theatre, LA, USA, 2013
                                    24. The Ship Song, Live At Paradiso DVD, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 1992
                                    25. Interview, Lollapalooza, USA, 1994
                                    26. Loverman, Bizarre Festival, Germany, 1996
                                    27. Interview, Australia, 1988
                                    28. In The Ghetto, Exit, Chicago, USA, 1984
                                    29. Hiding All Away, ‘The Abattoir Blues Tour DVD’, Brixton Academy, London, UK, 2004
                                    30. Interview, Australia, 1992
                                    31. Where The Wild Roses Grow, ‘MTV Most Wanted’, London, UK, 1995
                                    32. Deanna, St Luke’s, London, UK, 2008
                                    33. O Children, Le Trianon, Paris, France, 2013
                                    34. Interview, Festival Crazy Rock, Chile, 1996
                                    35. Stagger Lee, The White Room, London, UK, 1996
                                    36. Interview, Austin City Limits, Austin, Texas, USA, 2014
                                    37. Interview, Australia, 1995
                                    38. Push The Sky Away, The Fonda Theatre, LA, USA, 2013
                                    39. There She Goes, My Beautiful World, ‘The Abattoir Blues Tour DVD’, Brixton Academy,
                                    London, UK, 2004

                                    Approx. Running Time 2hrs 5mins

                                    Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

                                    Skeleton Tree

                                    Skeleton Tree began its journey in late 2014 at Retreat Studios, Brighton, with further sessions at La Frette Studios, France in autumn 2015. The album was mixed at AIR Studios, London in early 2016.

                                    The songs from the album are featured in the film One More Time With Feeling, directed by Andrew Dominik (Chopper, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, Killing Them Softly). The film was comissioned by Nick Cave and is to be the only public statement to accompany the albums’ release.

                                    Given event's in his personal life prior to the release of the album, it's understandable that this album is sombre affair. Although accompanied by a film, it is an album in its own right, rather than a soundtrack. Having said that, the orchestration which forms the backdrop to Nick's rich, half spoken - half sung narratives, has a similar cinematic feel to the haunting, atmospheric film scores that Nick and Bad Seed Warren Ellis excel at.

                                    It’s probably not going to be your choice of listening prior to a night out on the town, but if it’s darkness you’re after, no one does that better than Nick.

                                    A beautiful, moving album.

                                    STAFF COMMENTS

                                    Laura says: Given events in his personal life prior its release, it's understandable that this album is a sombre affair. Although accompanied by a film, it is an album in its own right, rather than a soundtrack. Having said that, the orchestration which forms the backdrop to Nick's rich, half spoken - half sung narratives, has a similar cinematic feel to the haunting, atmospheric film scores that Nick and Bad Seed Warren Ellis excel at. No one does darkness better than Mr Cave.

                                    TRACK LISTING

                                    1. Jesus Alone
                                    2. Rings Of Saturn
                                    3. Girl In Amber
                                    4. Magneto
                                    5. Anthrocene
                                    6. I Need You
                                    7. Distant Sky
                                    8. Skeleton Tree

                                    Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

                                    The Good Son (2010 Digital Remaster)

                                      Released in 1990, ‘The Good Son’ is the sixth album by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds.

                                      ‘The Weeping Song’ and ‘The Ship Song’ have now become firm fan favourites. ‘Foi Na Cruz’ is based partly upon the traditional Brazilian Protestant hymn of the same title. The title translates roughly as ‘It Happened On The Cross’.

                                      Cave later said, “I guess ‘The Good Son’ is some kind of reflection of the way I felt early on in Brazil. I was quite happy there. I was in love and the first year or two was good. The problem I found was... in order to survive you have to adopt their attitudes towards everything, which are kind of blinkered.”

                                      TRACK LISTING

                                      CD/LP
                                      Foi Na Cruz
                                      The Good Son
                                      Sorrow’s Child
                                      The Weeping Song
                                      The Ship Song
                                      The Hammer Song
                                      Lament
                                      The Witness Song
                                      Lucy

                                      DVD (With CD/DVD Version Only)
                                      The Good Son (Dolby Digital Surround Sound / DTS Surround Sound / Stereo)
                                      Additional Tracks (Dolby Digital Surround Sound / DTS Surround Sound / Stereo)
                                      The Train Song
                                      Cocks ‘N’ Asses
                                      Helpless
                                      Video:
                                      Do You Love Me Like I Love
                                      You (Part 6: The Good Son)
                                      The Weeping Song
                                      The Ship Song

                                      Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

                                      The Boatman's Call (2011 Digital Remaster)

                                        ‘The Boatman’s Call’ is the tenth studio album by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, originally released in 1997.

                                        The album is entirely piano-based and remains one of the most critically acclaimed releases of Nick Cave’s career.

                                        Musically, the album’s tone is considered sombre and minimalist and marks a major departure. Moving away from full band arrangements and character-based narratives, the album’s music and lyrics move towards the more intimate sound of Cave’s solo voice accompanied by piano or a few other instruments.




                                        TRACK LISTING

                                        LP / CD
                                        Into My Arms
                                        Lime Tree Arbour
                                        People Ain’t No Good
                                        There Is A Kingdom
                                        (Are You) The One That I’ve Been Waiting For?
                                        Where Do We Go Now But Nowhere?
                                        West Country Girl
                                        Black Hair
                                        Idiot Prayer
                                        Far From Me
                                        Green Eyes

                                        DVD (With CD/DVD Version Only)
                                        Audio
                                        The Boatman’s Call (5.1 & Stereo)
                                        Little Empty Boat
                                        Right Now I’m A-Roaming
                                        Black Hair (Band Version)
                                        Come Into My Sleep
                                        Babe, I Got You Bad
                                        Videos
                                        Do You Love Me Like I Love You (Part 10: The Boatman’s Call)
                                        Into My Arms
                                        (Are You) The One That I’ve Been Waiting For?

                                        Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

                                        No More Shall We Part

                                          ‘No More Shall We Part’ was released in April 2001 and was the eleventh studio record by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds.

                                          The album came after a 4-year gap from recording, following the much acclaimed ‘The Boatman’s Call’ album and was met with mostly positive reviews.

                                          The album showcases the virtuoso talents of The Bad Seeds, with elaborate instrumental sections on nearly every track. Also, Cave’s lyrics are less obscure than usual and he sings in a wider vocal range than he had previously. Features backing vocals from Kate and Anna McGarrigle.


                                          TRACK LISTING

                                          As I Sat Sadly By Her Side
                                          And No More Shall We Part
                                          Hallelujah
                                          Love Letter
                                          Fifteen Feet Of Pure White Snow
                                          God Is In The House
                                          Oh My Lord
                                          Sweetheart Come
                                          The Sorrowful Wife
                                          We Came Along This Road
                                          Gates To The Garden
                                          Darker With The Day

                                          Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

                                          Let Love In

                                            ‘Let Love In’, the eighth studio album by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, was originally released in 1994.

                                            Their first full-length studio album in over two years, ‘Let Love In’ preserves the same line-up (Nick Cave, Mick Harvey, Blixa Bargeld, Conway Savage, Martyn Casey and Thomas Wydler) as established on its two immediate predecessors: ‘Henry’s Dream’ (1992), the band’s troubled collaboration with producer David Briggs and ‘Live Seeds’ (1993), an interim concert compilation.

                                            The novelty of recording in America with a ‘name’ producer now long behind them, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds returned to familiar turf, choosing to conduct both demo and album sessions in their accustomed habitats of the UK and Australia. In September 1993, recording proper for ‘Let Love In’ commenced at London’s Townhouse III Studios (formerly The Who’s Ramport studio, purpose-built for ‘Quadrophenia’) and the album was completed and mixed at Metropolis in Melbourne by the end of that same year.


                                            Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

                                            Henry's Dream (2010 Digital Remaster) - Collectors Edition

                                              ‘Henry’s Dream’, the seventh album by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, was released in April 1992. It remains a big favourite amongst Bad Seeds fans and is notable for Neil Young producer David Briggs’ ‘live-in-the-studio’ method. Cave and Mick Harvey re-mixed the album and it has a vague concept, with song narratives overlapping and / or sharing characters.

                                              ‘When I First Came To Town’ is based partly on Karen Dalton’s recording of the traditional song ‘Katy Cruel’.

                                              Cave later claimed the songs were heavily influenced by street beggars he saw in Brazil. “They’d get their acoustic guitars with one or two strings and bang away and make a racket that had no sense whatsoever. It was very violent and seemed to come straight out of the heart. Very unmusical.”

                                              TRACK LISTING

                                              Papa Won’t Leave You, Henry
                                              I Had A Dream, Joe
                                              Straight To You
                                              Brother, My Cup Is Empty
                                              Christina The Astonishing
                                              When I First Came To Town
                                              John Finn’s Wife
                                              Loom Of The Land
                                              Jack The Ripper

                                              Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

                                              Murder Ballads (2011 Digital Remaster)

                                                ‘Murder Ballads’ is the ninth studio album by Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds, released in 1996. As the title suggests, the album consists of new and traditional murder ballads, a genre of songs that relays the details of crimes of passion.

                                                ‘Where The Wild Roses Grow’ was a hit single and received two ARIA Awards and guest musicians on the album include Kylie Minogue, PJ Harvey and Shane MacGowan.

                                                It was the band’s biggest commercial success to date, most likely helped by the unexpected repeated airplay of the ‘Where The Wild Roses Grow’ video on MTV, who even nominated Cave for their Best Male Artist award of that year, though this nomination was later withdrawn at Cave’s request.

                                                ‘Murder Ballads’ received almost unanimous critical praise with Rolling Stone awarding it 4 Stars and Entertainment Weekly rating the album very highly as well. Q magazine had this to say: “...Musically, The Bad Seeds touch on tinkling cabaret jazz, country-paced morbidity and every morose station between” while it ranked Number 7 in the NME's 1996 Critics’ Poll.




                                                TRACK LISTING

                                                LP / CD
                                                Song Of Joy
                                                Stagger Lee
                                                Henry Lee
                                                Lovely Creature
                                                Where The Wild Roses Grow
                                                The Curse Of Millhaven
                                                The Kindness Of Strangers
                                                Crow Jane
                                                O’Malley’s Bar
                                                Death Is Not The End

                                                DVD (with CD/DVD Version Only)
                                                Audio
                                                Murder Ballads (5.1 & Stereo)
                                                The Ballad Of Robert Moore
                                                And Betty Coltrane
                                                The Willow Garden
                                                King Kong Kitchee Kitchee
                                                Ki-Mi-O
                                                Knoxville Girl
                                                Video
                                                Do You Love Me Like I Love You (Part 9: Murder Ballads)
                                                Stagger Lee
                                                Where The Wild Roses Grow
                                                Henry Lee

                                                Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

                                                Tender Prey

                                                  ‘Tender Prey’ is the fifth studio album from Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds and was released on 19th September 1988. The album was produced by Flood and recorded during several sessions over the course of four months in West Berlin - where the band were based at the time - and London.

                                                  The album opens with ‘The Mercy Seat’, which has been subsequently played at almost all of the band’s live performances since 1988 and was later covered by one of Cave’s biggest influences, Johnny Cash. ‘The Mercy Seat’ was released as a single in May 1988 as a precursor to the album and ‘Deanna’ was released shortly after the album hit the streets.

                                                  Cave later admitted that the album “was made at a difficult time in my life when things were spiralling out of control in a lot of areas.”


                                                  TRACK LISTING

                                                  The Mercy Seat
                                                  Up Jumped The Devil
                                                  Deanna
                                                  Watching Alice
                                                  Mercy
                                                  City Of Refuge
                                                  Slowly Goes The Night
                                                  Sunday’s Slave
                                                  Sugar Sugar Sugar
                                                  New Morning

                                                  Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

                                                  Kicking Against The Pricks

                                                    Kicking Against the Pricks is Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds' third album, released in 1986, and consists of cover versions. For this record the Bad Seeds line-up is Cave, new drummer Thomas Wydler, Mick Harvey, Blixa Bargeld and Barry Adamson. Cave would later downplay the importance of the record, but said it helped the band develop musically. Remarking on the song selection, Cave said, "They were all done for different reasons. Basically a list of songs were made and we tried to play them. We tried songs by all sorts of people that never got on the record. Some songs were tributes, like the Tom Jones song; other, we didn't think were ever done particularly well in the first place. Some had haunted my childhood, like "The Carnival Is Over". The strings were arranged by Mick Harvey and played by the Berliner Kaffeehausmusik Ensemble. "The Hammer Song" is an entirely different song than the track with the same title on the 1990 Bad Seeds album The Good Son.

                                                    TRACK LISTING

                                                    1. Muddy Water
                                                    2. I'm Gonna Kill That Woman
                                                    3. Sleeping Annaleah
                                                    4. Long Black Veil
                                                    5. Hey Joe
                                                    6. Singer
                                                    7. All Tomorrow's Parties
                                                    8. By The Time I Get To Phoenix
                                                    9. Hammer Song
                                                    10. Something's Gotten Hold Of My Heart
                                                    11. Jesus Met The Woman At The Well
                                                    12. Carnival Is Over

                                                    Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

                                                    Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!

                                                      ‘Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!’ is Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds’ fourteenth studio album, and was recorded in June and July 2007 at The State of the Ark Studios in Richmond, Surrey, and mixed by Nick Launay at British Grove recording studios, in Chiswick, west London, and was released on March 3rd 2008.

                                                      It would also be the last album to feature founding member Mick Harvey, who left the Bad Seeds in 2009.

                                                      In several interviews Cave has stated that this album would "sound like Grinderman", his side project, who had released their debut album a year earlier. In line with this rough-and-ready approach, the album was recorded in about five days, an uncommonly short period for a full-length album.

                                                      Cave wrote on his inspiration for the album: "Ever since I can remember hearing the Lazarus story, when I was a kid, you know, back in church, I was disturbed and worried by it. Traumatised, actually. We are all, of course, in awe of the greatest of Christ's miracles—raising a man from the dead—but I couldn't help but wonder how Lazarus felt about it. As a child it gave me the creeps, to be honest. I've taken Lazarus and stuck him in New York City, in order to give the song, a hip, contemporary feel. I was also thinking about Harry Houdini who spent a lot of his life trying to debunk the spiritualists who were cashing in on the bereaved. He believed there was nothing going on beyond the grave. He was the second greatest escapologist, Harry was, Lazarus, of course, being the greatest. I wanted to create a kind of vehicle, a medium, for Houdini to speak to us if he so desires, you know, from beyond the grave."

                                                      Critical response to the album was overwhelmingly positive, with reviewers citing this as both a return to greatness and a new side of the band. A review from NME described the record as a "gothic psycho-sexual apocalypse" and gave it 8/10, whilst Mojo magazine proclaimed it their album of 2008.


                                                      TRACK LISTING

                                                      Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!
                                                      Today’s Lesson
                                                      Moonland
                                                      Night Of The Lotus Eaters
                                                      Albert Goes West
                                                      We Call Upon The Author
                                                      Hold On To Yourself
                                                      Lies Down Here (& Be My Girl)
                                                      Jesus Of The Moon
                                                      Midnight Man
                                                      More News From Nowhere

                                                      Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

                                                      Nocturama

                                                        ‘Nocturama’ is the twelfth studio album by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, released in 2003.

                                                        To date, it is the last Bad Seeds album to feature founding member Blixa Bargeld.

                                                        This album reunited Nick Cave with Nick Launay, who had produced The Birthday Party’s groundbreaking ‘Junkyard’ 21 years earlier.

                                                        Featuring the singles ‘Bring It On’, ‘He Wants You’ and ‘Rock Of Gibraltar’, this album finds Cave moving away from ‘Murder Ballads’ and the gory fire and brimstone of yore, and exploring more personal themes.

                                                        More than twenty years into his career at this point, Nick Cave proved himself worthy of the comparisons made in the press on his behalf: now he could stand alongside the likes of Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash and Tom Waits, as a storyteller who could be unflinchingly honest in his work, whilst continuing to grow his fan base.


                                                        TRACK LISTING

                                                        Wonderful Life
                                                        He Wants You
                                                        Right Out Of Your Hand
                                                        Bring It On
                                                        Dead Man In My Bed
                                                        Still In Love
                                                        There Is A Town
                                                        Rock Of Gibraltar
                                                        She Passed By My Window
                                                        Babe, I’m On Fire

                                                        Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

                                                        From Her To Eternity

                                                          Following the break up of Nick Cave’s former group The Birthday Party, Cave and drummer/multi-instrumentalist Mick Harvey put together a new band featuring Einsturzende Neubauten guitarist Blixa Bargeld, additional guitarist Hugo Race, and ex-Magazine bass player Barry Adamson.

                                                          The band entered the studio on September 20th 1983, and after some sessions, emerged as Nick Cave & The Cavemen, playing their first gig in Melbourne on New Year’s Eve 1983.

                                                          The name was short-lived, and was soon amended to Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, in reference to the final Birthday Party release, ‘The Bad Seed’ EP.

                                                          Most of ‘From Her To Eternity’ was recorded in London, with sessions split between The Garden studio in Shoreditch, and Trident, in Soho.

                                                          Cave later said, "Well, I guess we weren't kicking people in the teeth anymore. I mean, it just became different. I wanted it to be more lyrically orientated and getting Blixa Bargeld in the group made an incredible difference. He's a completely kind of atmospheric guitarist and incredibly economical and it gave me room to breathe”.

                                                          The album, produced by Mick Harvey and Flood, was released on 18th June 1984 on Mute Records, Cave’s label for more than the next 25 years. It received great reviews upon its release and is recognised as one of the most timeless albums of the ‘80s.


                                                          TRACK LISTING

                                                          Avalanche
                                                          Cabin Fever!
                                                          Well Of Misery
                                                          From Her To Eternity
                                                          Saint Huck
                                                          Wings Off Flies
                                                          A Box For Black Paul

                                                          Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

                                                          The Firstborn Is Dead

                                                            ‘The Firstborn Is Dead’, co-produced by Nick Cave, the Bad Seeds and Flood, is the second studio album released by Cave & The Bad Seeds, and was originally released on June 3rd 1985.

                                                            Cave explores his fascination with the American South, with references ranging from Elvis Presley to ‘Blind’ Lemon Jefferson.

                                                            Recorded in Berlin, Cave later said of this album, "Berlin gave us the freedom and encouragement to do whatever we wanted. We'd lived in London for three years and it seemed that if you stuck your head out of the box, people were pretty quick to knock it back in, particularly if you were Australian. When we came to Berlin it was the opposite. People saw us as some kind of force rather than a kind of wacky novelty act”.

                                                            The album's title is a reference to Jesse Garon Presley, the stillborn identical twin of Elvis Presley, and ‘Wanted Man’ was Cave’s own take on a song Bob Dylan wrote for Johnny Cash. Dylan gave his permission for the lyrics to be changed, with Cave’s interpretation referencing his friends.


                                                            TRACK LISTING

                                                            Tupelo
                                                            Say Goodbye To The Little Girl Tree
                                                            Train Long Suffering
                                                            Black Crow King
                                                            Knockin’ On Joe
                                                            Wanted Man
                                                            Blind Lemon Jefferson

                                                            Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

                                                            Your Funeral... My Trial

                                                              With ‘Your Funeral… My Trial’ The Bad Seeds expanded their personnel by adding Thomas Wydler on drums, enabling Mick Harvey to display his considerable multi-instrumental talents.

                                                              This was the band’s fourth studio album and was released on November 3rd 1986, and was originally released as a double EP, with production duties handled by Flood and Tony Cohen.

                                                              Cave later remarked "That particular record, which is my favourite of the records we've done, is very special to me and a lot of amazing things happened, musically, in the studio”.

                                                              “There are some songs on that record that as far as I'm concerned are just about perfect as we can get really- songs like ‘The Carny’, ‘Your Funeral, My Trial’, and ‘Stranger Than Kindness’, I think are really quite brilliant“.


                                                              TRACK LISTING

                                                              Sad Waters
                                                              The Carny
                                                              Your Funeral My Trial
                                                              Stranger Than Kindness
                                                              Jacks Shadow
                                                              Hard On For Love
                                                              She Fell Away
                                                              Long Time Man

                                                              ‘Live from KCRW' is a live radio session recorded in Los Angeles in April 2013 & is the fourth official live album in the band's history.

                                                              It features a stripped-down line-up performing classic Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds material alongside four songs from their recent global hit album ‘Push the Sky Away’.

                                                              ‘Live from KCRW’ album line-up:
                                                              Nick Cave: Piano, vocals
                                                              Warren Ellis: Tenor guitar, violin, piano, loops, backing vocals
                                                              Martyn Casey: Bass
                                                              Jim Sclavunos: Percussion, drums, backing vocals
                                                              Barry Adamson: Organ, backing vocals

                                                              TRACK LISTING

                                                              Higgs Boson Blues
                                                              Far From Me
                                                              Stranger Than Kindness
                                                              The Mercy Seat
                                                              And No More Shall We Part
                                                              Wide Lovely Eyes
                                                              Mermaids
                                                              People Ain't No Good
                                                              Push The Sky Away
                                                              Jack The Ripper

                                                              Vinyl Bonus Tracks:
                                                              Into My Arms
                                                              God Is In The House

                                                              Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

                                                              Push The Sky Away

                                                                At the heart of 'Push the Sky Away' is a naturalism and warmth that makes it the most subtly beautiful of all the Bad Seeds albums. The contemporary settings of myths, and the cultural references that have time-stamped Nick's songs of the twenty-first century mist lightly through details drawn from the life he observed around his seaside home, through the tall windows on the album's mysterious and ambiguous cover. The songs on this album took form in a modest notebook with shellac covers over the course of almost a year. The notebook is a treasured analogue artefact but the internet is equally important to Nick: Googling curiosities, being entranced by exotic Wikipedia entries "whether they're true or not". These songs convey how on the internet profoundly significant events, momentary fads and mystically-tinged absurdities sit side-by-side and question how we might recognise and assign weight to what's genuinely important.

                                                                The album has a clarity and sweet strangeness that's built upon the refusal to accept limitations, whether they be the traditional uses and sounds of musical instruments, lyric styles, or diminished spiritual horizons. It's not always apparent what instruments the band is playing: they may be traditional musical instruments but other sounds are clearly generated by objects unrelated to musical instruments. What's being created is a collective musical language that's rich and complex.

                                                                "Well, if I were to use that threadbare metaphor of albums being like children, then Push The Sky Away is the ghost-baby in the incubator and Warren's loops are its tiny, trembling heart-beat." Nick Cave

                                                                STAFF COMMENTS

                                                                Darryl says: Mellow, introspective and moody, 'Push The Sky Away' sees Nick Cave hit top form. Ably backed by the subtly brilliant Bad Seeds, this will go down as one of the standouts in the burgeoning cannon of classic Cave albums.

                                                                TRACK LISTING

                                                                1. We No Who U R
                                                                2. Wide Lovely Eyes
                                                                3. Water's Edge
                                                                4. Jubilee Street
                                                                5. Mermaids
                                                                6. We Real Cool
                                                                7. Finishing Jubilee Street
                                                                8. Higgs Boson Blues
                                                                9. Push The Sky Away

                                                                Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

                                                                Live Seeds

                                                                  Recorded at various concerts throughout Europe and Australia in 1992 and 1993. All of the classics are featured here, "Deanna", "The Ship Song", "Papa Won't Leave You Henry", "Tupelo", "Jack The Ripper", "From Her To Eternity" and many more. But none of those tracks eclipse the live energy of the utterly superb "The Mercy Seat". 13 tracks that showcase the genius and power of Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds in the live setting.

                                                                  Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

                                                                  The Best Of

                                                                    A retrospective, rather than a single compilation, this spans 13 years and 10 albums from the debut "From Her To Eternity" to "The Boatman's Call". 16 tracks in total featuring the duets with Kylie and PJ Harvey, "Where The Wild Roses Grow" and "Henry Lee", the album favourites "The Carney" and "From Her To Eternity" and classic singles such as "The Mercy Seat", "(Are You) The One That I've Been Waiting For?" and "Straight To You".


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