Right, I'm back after moving house and finally getting back to my favorite Nick Cave's songs...
24. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Sorrow's Child
OK, sorry to say this is the only song from that album on my list. I think it is a bit over rated as an album and I'm totally sick and tired of The Ship Song (it's Jimmy Barnes favorite Cave track) and he should stop singing The Weeping Song live without Blixa too. This is I guess the most melancholic track from one of his most happy albums, well by his standards, which maybe why I don't like it as much. That in turn could explain why I don't like his new stuff. It's not a mid-life crisis because he sounds like he's having too much of a good time even when he's not getting any sex. Anyway I'm writing about Sorrow's Child. It's one of a few of his songs featuring rivers and water. It's not the first on my list and will not be the last too.
Find it on: The Good Son (Album) 1990
23. The Boys Next Door - Shivers
A song not written by Cave but Rowland S. Howard which he could not match up to at the time so it's really a track to make Cave work a lot harder as a songwriter in the early days. It was also banned by Molly Meldrum on Countdown which is of-course just another reason why it's so great. It made it into Triple J's top 10 Nick Cave songs on J-files in the 90's and pretty high too. Of-course some shit band covered it in the 90's and had a hit single with it and on the same label who dropped The Boys Next Door in the 70's after this album but then again Howard thanks Mushroom record's boss, Michael Gudinski on his final album credits Pop Crimes which would have to be the greatest album from last year and totally destroys anything Cave has done in the last five years. Should I say Howard is outdoing him again, maybe just haunting Cave from the grave.
Find it on: Door, Door (Album) 1979
22. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Up Jumped The Devil
A song sandwiched between two of his most famous tracks which for me I wish he would play this one live just once instead of those two, I think he's played The Mercy Seat every time I've seen him live and missed Deanna maybe once but what the fuck am I saying here? A few years ago when on myspace I asked a lot of people what their favorite Nick Cave song was. I remember that Gareth Liddiard from The Drones answered me with this as one of two songs he picked out. Plus it also was chosen for Mojo Magazine, Highway to Hell, the Devils best tunes, the cover mounted CD early this year too.
Find it on: Tender Prey (Album) 1988
21. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Hard On For Love
This is the second song Gareth Liddiard from The Drones picked out as his favorite Cave tracks too which I've kept together here on my list. Here is an interesting fact it was never played live until last years' 2009 Aussie tour so there is hope for those other tracks he never plays live too. This is an overly sexual or just totally erotic track but at the same time a song with so many religious reference's. He come in at her like Lazarus from above and few lines above that she walked straight out of the Book of Leviticus. Then the lord is his shepherd and then down few more line she is now Heaven and Hell so anyway you get the idea and before we get to the final repeated chorus.
Find it on: Your Funeral... My Trial (Album) 1986
2o. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Loverman
To finish off the twenties is a song that should have been on The Best of compilation album but of-course if it was it wouldn't be included here in my chart because of the rules made about this list. I think it was a better single than the others or maybe it was just because it has one of the best ever promo video clips Nick and the Bad Seeds's have made, they all got hypnosis for it, how cool is that. What is not very cool at all is the metal band and disco bloke covers, how to screw-up a great song two different ways but I will not say their names in this blog. Anyway check out the self-portrait drawing at the top of the page done by well... Nick Cave. I wonder if you could hire that today as a costume for Halloween somewhere?
Find it on: Loverman (Single) 1994 or Let Love In (Album) 1994
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