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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 & The Bad Seeds

      Frogs

        The journey to creating 'Wild God’ began with sweeping epic ‘Frogs’. The first lines Cave penned for the album were powerfully evocative, referencing the first murder in the Bible, Cain’s slaying of Abel. He wrote, “Ushering in the week he knelt down and crushed his brother’s head in with a bone/It’s my great privilege to walk you home.” This striking couplet became the opening lines to the song, and set the tone for the imagery and themes that followed.

        Cave says, “The sheer exuberance of a song like ‘Frogs’, it just puts a big fucking smile on my face.”


        TRACK LISTING

        A1. Frogs
        B1. Frogs (Instrumental)

        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 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 & 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

            One More Time With Feeling

              Visually unique, One More Time With Feeling is a stark, fragile and raw documentary. Shot in 3D, colour and black & white, the film probes the deeply personal circumstances surrounding the making of Skeleton Tree (Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds 16th studio album) and features interviews and live performances by the band in the studio, along with interjected voice-over commentary by Nick Cave.

              Originally conceived as a one-night-only global screening event to take place in 950 cinemas across 30 countries simultaneously on 8th September 2016, One More Time With Feeling extended its initial run over several days as cinemas sold out around the world. Due to overwhelming demand, this extraordinary film has returned to the big screen for its final run and is playing currently in cinemas worldwide.

              Includes 3 exclusive short films from Andrew Dominik.

              "Film of The Year" - MOJO

              "Extraordinary" - **** Evening Standard

              "A deeply personal film" - ***** Time Out

              "An undeniably moving contemplation of shattering loss…a tremendously moving collage." - **** The Guardian

              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

                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

                              Give Us A Kiss

                              Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds release two previously unavailable tracks: Give Us A Kiss and Jubilee Street (live from The Sydney Opera House). The songs from the award-winning feature 20,000 Days On Earth will be available on a limited edition vinyl 10".

                              20,000 Days on Earth is a new feature film starring Nick Cave about 24 hours in his life. It premiered at Sundance, winning two awards – both the Editing and Directing Awards in World Cinema Documentary. The jury describing the film as “being arguably the most exciting film in competition… This is documentary storytelling at its most visionary and mindblowing”

                              The drama-documentary portrays a fictionalized 24 hours in the life of Nick Cave directed by Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard. The film was inspired by a calculation Nick had made in his songwriting notebook working out his time on earth. Forsyth and Pollard have taken this and from it crafted an innovative and powerful film that takes us inside Nick’s artistic process and celebrates creativity.

                              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

                                      Tender Prey (2010 Digital Remaster)

                                        ‘Tender Prey’ is the fifth studio album from Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds and was released in September 1988. The album was recorded during several sessions over the course of four months in West Berlin and London and was produced by Flood.

                                        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.”

                                        This CD and DVD version includes the original album in 5.1 surround sound, five bonus tracks and three videos.

                                        TRACK LISTING

                                        CD
                                        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

                                        DVD
                                        Audio
                                        Tender Prey (Dolby Digital Surround Sound / DTS Surround Sound / Stereo)
                                        The Mercy Seat (Video Version)
                                        Girl At The Bottom Of My Glass
                                        The Mercy Seat (Acoustic Version)
                                        City Of Refuge (Acoustic Version)
                                        Deanna (Acoustic Version)
                                        Video
                                        Do You Love Me Like I Love You (Part 5: Tender Prey)
                                        The Mercy Seat
                                        Deanna

                                        Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

                                        Abattoir Blues / The Lyre Of Orpheus

                                          Not just one album but two from Saint Nick. In a strange perverse way the loss from his band of guitarist Blixa Bargeld has seen them return to the taught, edgy and highly strung sounds that he helped to create: The sound of say "Let Love In", "Murder Ballads" and "Henry's Dream". Death, sex, religion, drugs, gospel gothic and deep romance in fact all of Cave's favourite topics are covered here in a fresh whirlwind of classic song after classic song. This stands up as one of Nick Cave's best ever albums, and don't forget, there's two of them!! Hallelujah!!!

                                          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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