To start with a new book about him is out early next year called Nick Cave: Sinner Saint: The True Confessions, Thirty Years of Essential Interviews edited by Mat Snow. By the way, the editor Mat Snow is the music journalist who is one of the subjects of Scum, a track by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds originally released as a green 7" flexidisc and Snow even talks about it on last years reissue's DVD film titled Do you love me like I love you Part 4: Your Funeral... My Trial which was pretty funny really. This new book has 224 pages it should make it a great read and it's going to be out on January 11, 2011.
Well, it's down to number ten in my fifty greatest Nick Cave tracks and it's getting a bit hard but these songs are my personal favorites. Which means if the song is say number ten in this list, it not necessarily that because all those charts of greatest whatever's I never ever agree with so I'm most likely going to disagree with myself after all this is done. I know I love these tracks more that all his other songs. I would love to see him perform these next few tracks as a set-list for an ultimate concert. I've seen a lot of these preformed over the years but some are still missing being played live well, some of these have never been played live at all.
Anyway here is number...
14. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - I Let Love In
The title track but without the "I" of-course and my favorite track from that album. With the opening lines of "Despair and Deception, Love's ugly little twins came a-knocking on my door, I let them in." It seems to me I like really morbid songs and it gets more and more so the higher I get in this list. Say with the opening lyrics of the first song on the debut Grinderman album he sings "I had to get up to get down to start all over again, Head on down to the basement and shout, Kick those white mice and black dogs out, Kick those white mice and baboons out, Kick those baboons and other motherfuckers out" which is the master plan for his new stuff so hence why I don't like his new words he's singing.
Find it on: Let Love In (Album) 1994
13. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Papa Won't Leave You, Henry
This is a total tsunami or avalanche of Nick Cave lyrics in just a few minutes he fills this song with an unbelievable amount words. This is the opening song from my favorite album of his and there are four tracks here in my chart. It was the first album I bought by Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds too. The first album everyone gets from an artist who become a favorite artist always has a special place for anyone. It's funny because the songwriter plus even the band totally hate it as an album. I even got the new reissue and when you watch the DVD you see the band members all bitching about it then you have Mark Arm from Mudhoney, John Darnielle from The Mountain Goats, Gary Lucas from Captain Beefheart's Magic Band, his ex Viviane Carneiro among others all raving about how great it is, funny, eh?
Find it on: Henry's Dream (Album) 1992
12. The Birthday Party - Mutiny In Heaven
The very last Birthday Party track here but like I said at the top of this post these song go up and down in my opinion or depending on how I'm feeling on the day and today I'm numbering it twelve but it becomes a bit pointless (the numbering that is) because it could be all I wanted listen to next week. It is my favorite The Birthday Party song, I do know that. Critics say Grinderman are like this band which I don't get at all because if you listen to "Mutiny In Heaven" it makes them sound like a lame pop band plus his lyrics are so dense on this track you could drown in them which is something you could never say about Grinderman. His lyrics now are really like pop songs: simple, repeated, uncomplicated and very catchy too. Also this is the very first song on which Blixa Bargeld plays guitar for Cave.
Find it on: Mutiny/The Bad Seed (Compilation) 1983
11. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - People Ain't No Good
It was on his 1997 album but this song was later used in a Hollywood movie. Like "Red Right Hand" has been used to much in films, it's like they use it once and it worked so well so if they need a song just use that from now anyway according to me Hollywood's got a brain like a goldfish but whatever. This was very odd in that kid's movie at first but great, I guess in the end. Now this year "O Children" has been used in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 1. It's funny the year "People Ain't No Good" was used in Shrek 2 was 2004 which was the year "O Children" was originally released on Abattoir Blues/The Lyre of Orpheus album, it's like filmmakers are about six or seven years behind the times. "O Children" is not on the soundtrack but looks like it's all ready become the most downloaded song on iTunes by Cave. I guess it's a good thing, maybe.
Find it on: Shrek 2 (Soundtrack) 2004 or The Boatman's Call (Album) 1997
10. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - The Train Song
This is the first single I bought but I can't stand the A-side but flip side I still find totally beautiful and wonderful. I guess this is a funny one to start my top ten of my all-time favorite Cave tracks with a B-side but there is a reason to this madness. This was the first song heard after my little puppy died. The words really somehow match up to what just happened. I was like thirteen when my Dad gave me one of his dogs litter. I grew up with him and I was into my thirties when he got sick so he was really old for a Staffie. It's so sad writing it all down here and I still miss him but now "The Train Song" is all about that to me. I think I better stop or I'm going to cry.
Find it on: The Ship Song (Single) 1990 or B-Sides & Rarities (Compilation) 2005
Extra, Extra:
Nick Cave's Speed-Camera Car-Crash
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On Tuesday 7th December evening at around 7:OO pm Nick Cave with his his twin 10-year-old sons, Arthur and Earl crashed his Jaguar through a metal barrier and collided with the camera. The crash happened on the eastbound carriageway on Kingsway (road) in Brighton, East Sussex close to where Cave lives. Nobody has been arrested but police inquiries are continuing and a spokeswoman for Cave refused to comment. No other vehicles or people were involved and the speed camera and road barrier which was bent over at 45 degrees. The internet is great because I've found all these photos (below and after) which was taken by Brighton & Hove Studio Ltd and then looked up the road and the speed camera on Google Maps (above and before). Which by memory it's one of the main places/settings in his novel The Death of Bunny Munro but it's not the exact place the main charter dies in a car crash that was in Butlins but that would be too weird, I guess. Sorry for posting all this kind-off gossip maybe news but this is so funny I can't help myself, it's just like that dumb book he wrote last year with his the kids in the car too. He's only just come home after finishing his American tour last week.
The top photo is from Uli M Schueppel's film The Road To God Knows Where which was about Nick Cave & the Bad Seed 1989 tour of America. Nick Cave (front and centre then from left to right) Blixa Bargeld, Kid Congo Powers, Mick Harvey, Thomas Wydler and the late Roland Wolf.
Stay tuned for the final countdown.
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