So after all this writing about Nick Cave and all 50 of my favorite tracks I don't think I want to listen to him for a while now. Anyway I wanted to finish off these epic blog posts before the end of the year. So here's my top five songs by Nick Cave starting with number...
4. Nick Cave with Bruno Coulais - To Be By Your Side
One of two tracks in my top five Nick Cave songs which are not on a Bad Seeds album, both are from soundtracks. I know that they all should be album tracks but I can't help but number this song up this high. it's one of his most perfectly written lyrics, a totally stunning, captivating and exquisite song. The music by Bruno Coulais absolutely and exactly matched his words. It's also needs to be heard more too because people don't know of it or just don't know how great this is. Plus where else do you get Cave sing along with Geese which are the stars of the film. A wicked movie too.
Find it on: Travelling Birds (Soundtrack) 2002 or under the title Winged Migration in USA or Le Peuple Migrateur in France
3. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Babe, You Turn Me On
Another of his tracks featuring more winged friends with butcher birds, nightingales and even bees too. This is the fourth song from the huge double album I've picked for my favorite Cave songs. Three tunes from The Lyre of Orpheus side and just one from Abattoir Blues and two were rehashed as singles which I would say are two of his best choices, I never liked the singles but those two are flat out outstanding and superb. Only one other album has four tracks here in my list of his best songs. I've only seen his perform it once live and wished he would play it last time but maybe next time, fingers crossed.
Find it on: Abattoir Blues/The Lyre of Orpheus (Album) 2004
2. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Grief Came Riding
This is on my copy of this album but is not included normally. I got it the week it was originally available and it was a bonus track on the album. One of only two Bad Seeds albums recorded at Abbey Road Studios, the other one was the previous album The Boatman's Call. He rarely plays this one live but at a very short, invite only launch party for the album Cave said "the Bad Seeds actually deemed it too depressing" and is about "the misery of living in England". Three songs ended up in my list from this album which ties with The Boatman's Call in second place, the albums with the most tracks I've selected here in my list.
Find it on: No More Shall We Part (Limited Edition) 2001 or B-Sides & Rarities (Compilation) 2005
1. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Loom Of The Land
Well, here is my number one track (finally) and of-course has to be from Henry's Dream album. I really have run out of things to say now after fifty tracks but here goes. An album with only nine songs and I've picked four here it's the album that wins hands down here...if you count Abattoir Blues/The Lyre of Orpheus as one album not two discs or a double album as some people do. I've only ever seen him play this once too but it doesn't matter I love this song so much and I don't really need to explain anymore, full stop.
Find it on: Henry's Dream (Album) 1992
0. Nick Cave with Dirty Three - Time Jesum Transeuntum Et Non Riverentum
But just to be difficult I'm including number zero here. So is this my top song or the previous track? See if you can figure that out. This is the very first Warren Ellis and Nick Cave collaboration, he joined the band Dirty Three for this classic song. In the liner notes for the soundtrack all that was written was "Zero is also a number" and your physically had to rewind your CD which some players didn't do. A hidden track which is the most hardest to find or even just play. The title is in Latin and translates to "Dread the passage of Jesus for He will not return". Epic, Do I need to say anymore?
Find it on: Songs in the Key of X (Soundtrack) 1996 or B-Sides & Rarities (Compilation) 2005
Top photograph by Bleddyn Butcher and was first published in Rolling Stone Australia in May 1994 and now can be found at National Portrait Gallery. He's wearing Smith & Wesson handguns T-shirt, he-ha.
Just to finish off here is a kind-off mix tape thingy called grooveshark so you can play all (but one) tracks on my 50 Greatest Nick Cave Songs, enjoy!
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