Geez Australia has produced some magnetic frontmen; Nick cave is right up there with the best of them. This was a super track to kick off your Halloween Week, I can't wait for the rest of the week. I notice this is a BBC video, there is another amazing Nick Cave and the Badseeds performance captured by the BBC, it is the 2013 Glastonbury performance of Stagger Lee. The performance is a 10+ minute lesson in crowd interaction and malice. I would love to see a Nick Cave curated week.

As an Australian, I don't think it's at all controversial to say Nick Cave is one of the best songwriters to ever come from here. His compositions always strike me as brilliantly crafted poetry first, then incorporated into a song. Would absolutely love to see a curated week. Would need to include Shivers (written by his equally brilliant erstwhile collaborator, Roland Howard, 1st hit, still haunting and relevant), Into My Arms, as well as one of the duets he did with Kylie Minogue or P J Harvey, at a minimum.

So happy to finally see Nick Cave here. He's not everyone's cup of tea, but if you love him, you love him. I do and I knew you would ( you have impeccable taste ). The music is often quite minimalistic on his tracks, often carried by bass and Nick's awesome, deep, provocative vocals, but the rest of the instrumentation is creative and perfect and ever so tight. I would be so excited for a full week, in the meantime, I'm very excited for this spooky week, thanks guys.❤

I've seen a lot of bands over the years but Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds are without doubt the most exciting live band; the quality of recorded music is excellent of course but the live experience is exceptional. Nick wrote the script & some of the music to a quite excellent 2005 Australian Western film The Proposition.

At last! Nick Cave and The Thamesmen together at last! Gents, try Jubilee Street live in Copenhagen. Also, The Mersey Seat, live. Like all good Oz talent, live is best.

You can take any track from him in the past 50 years and they are gold all the way through. Mercy Seat, Ship Song, Shivers, 15 feet of Pure White Snow, Hand of God, Stagger Lee, or his solo Covid set at Alexandra Palace. He never looks back and is always creating. One of a kind.

Some more songs by Nick Cave you may want to consider: • From her to eternity (a song about neighbourhood, from his first album with the Bad Seeds, title song) • I had a dream, Joe (some faster track) • Loverman (a nice song about a stalker and rapist) • Where the wild roses grow (featuring Kylie Minogue, yes, what a couple...; this song even hit the charts worldwide) • Hallelujah (not Nick's cover of Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah, that's fine too, but Nick's own Hallelujah about a writer's block) • We came along this road (nice first line, nice piano playing) • Fifteen feet of pure white snow (a winter song, or not?) • Dig!!! Lazarus Dig!!! (about careers) • Jubilee Street (adjacent to Penny Lane?) • Push the sky away (trance) • Stagger Lee (some rough language to say the least) • Time Jesum transeuntum et non riverentum (probably a track for Halloween; no worries, only the title is in Latin) • Bright horses (Nick wrote this after his teenage son fell off a cliff near Brighton and died) • any song from the album “No more shall we part”

Oddly, this was song was used as part of a South Australian tourism ad campaign with the punchline "Be consumed". It's beautiful and eerie and worth a look.

The best live performer, I've ever seen. I've seen many great musicians and Bands over my 64 years. Ed Kuepper, investigate.

Isn't Nick Cave the guy behind The Proposition, which is one of the top 3 modern Westerns I have seen? Oh and Happy Hallowen week! I did Google Nick Cave and he is the guy I was thinking of. And he's done the music on several movies I love almost as much as the Proposition in the last 20 years. Will be interesting to hear what his music is like. I went to a lot of the music from the original Twin Peaks series right away, but there is a different twist to it. I also flashed back to Gord Downie as a weird frontman, but again with a twist. The bell is a really nice touch. His movies are also the definition of "less is more" at their best. It's a concept he seems to have mastered.

The brilliant Cool and always well dressed Nick Cave, his writing is deep dark at times but also can take you away to anywhere he directs you to go. Thanks guys this is a great song and I appreciate your love for our nation, and Nick is just one more of our secret greats. Keep Safe Keep Strong 🦘🦘🦘🦘❤❤❤❤🎵🎵🎶🎶

One of my favourite Nick Cave songs. This came on when I was on the way to my grandfathers funeral, having had a joint the volume was cranked, however my sister thought it was in bad taste and told me off

This was used in South Aust in a tv advert for the world class wine area, the Barossa Valley. The ad was brilliantly done

Yes, Nick Cave, finally. More please!

Love this song but I identify it with the show Peaky Blinders now. Looking forward to seeing the rest of Chris's Halloween week.

Nick Cave does some great murder ballads.

Haha perfect for Halloween...used in most of the Scream movies! Nick Cave is brilliant..yes a poet and oozes kool! My favourite performance is Stagger Lee live at Glastonbury in 2014 i think.

Nick Cave has never been an artist that I’ve ‘got’ so far, but I always liked this song.

If you want to do more Nick Cave, you should check out one of his very early songs with The Boys Next Door called Shivers: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/pb55o9hpqr26mH0.html . Loved this song before I knew it was Nick Cave, as there have been a few cover versions, and it was also used in a movie that I loved when I was younger. It was written by the guitarist of Boys Next Door when he was 16!

As the viaduct looms like a bird of doom, as it shifts and cracks...

Interesting. Nick Cave is probably the best lyricist ever in that industry. I would suggest Joy Division "New dawn fades" to grab your heart as well.

I absolutely luv u guys and how u dig up and appreciate songs like this. Nick Cave is an absolute legend.. one of the coolest guys to ever walk onto a stage. Happy for you that you got to experience such nonchalance and kewlness combined firsthand. Cheers!

A fave Cave, and as you say delicious. Deliciously spacious.

Love the duet with Kylie, Where the Wild Roses Grow

The Red Hand Files Playlist Jubilee Street Into My Arms From Her To Eternity The Ship Song Tupelo The Mercy Seat Stagger Lee Push The Sky Away The Weeping Song Higgs Boson Blues Red Right Hand Ghosteen Bright Horses Straight To You O Children From the man himself!

Also the theme music for Peaky Blinders.

this song is in Dumb and Dumber when Lloyd walking at night in his big foam cowboy hat 😂.

For me this song is always associated with the X-Files, as it was used in one of the episodes + the series official soundtrack "Songs in the key of X"

Sublimely spooky

You mentioned soundtracks… Chris Carter, (X Files) loved his music and used a couple of tracks in the series. Red Right Hand was used in the episode where Scully was kidnapped… also Into My Arms was used in the war of The Worlds series a couple of years ago.

Top 5 live bands I've seen, Cave's a force of nature.

Hi fellas. Each time I try to post a comment with a link KZfaq disappears it so I will limit myself to recommending the Live in Copenhagen version of Jubilee St and either of the Later or Channel 4 live versions of There She Goes My Beautiful World. These are all balls out brilliant performances. For light relief his duets with PJ Harvey and Kylie Minogue are very fine, but there are a good two dozen worth recommending. I need hardly mention that he is yet another product of the Australian pub rock scene of the 70s thru to the 90s.

ooh had tottaly forgotten this damn dint know i needed this so much great tune used to play this on heavy rotation for a year

You know when you're fully baked and ya think ya flyin! I reckon Nicks like that all the time..

More Nick Cave, please. I love your reactions 😊

"The Ship Song", and for a bonus track, the cover version done at, and for, the Sydney Opera House by a bunch of different people.

Murder Ballads album is a classic.

Jubilee Street, live in Copenhagen is worth a look.

love the shabby slink of the rhythm section, that organ almost easy listening, and the intimate story telling of the confidant in the lyrics telling you of the dangers. the bell tolling as if its high noon and the gunman is beckoning you out to pay his fee. obviously theres the devils pact aspect of the tale, the shepard and his flock, but i think the shadowy figure is an embodiment of the age old solution for those in desperate and downtrodden circumstances (the people of the bowery, the slums, the desolate wastelands the inhabit). The secret ingredient being crime itself.

Great song!!! Nick Cave is an incredible artist. I love "The Weeping song", especially the live version with Mark Lanegan ❤

More classic Aussie goodness from the bottom of the swamp

He did a duet with Kylie Minogue called where the wild roses grow

I’m not sure how popular Nick Cave is in Europe but I do recall his band featuring in many scenes in the West German film “Wings of Desire"

You said, less is more. My first impression was: so many musicians and they are hardly playing anything. But the result was a masterpiece.

With a start like that, I was nearly to scared to watch.

Another Aussie singer song writer who is not to well known beyond our shores and has released many fine albums is Dave Graney. He's gone through a few band name variations such as Dave Graney with the White Buffaloes, Dave Graney and the Coral Snakes, The Dave Graney Show etc. Suggested song titles such as "Rock and Roll is Where i Hide" or "You're just to Hip, Baby", "Night of the Wolverine", "Robert Ford on the Stage" and "Listen to Her Lovers Sing" just to name a few. More an Album artist rather than a singles artist. To quote Molly Meldrum "do yourself a favour" and give him a spin.

Remember Guy Fawkes night? The burning of the dummy representing Guy Fawkes and the fire works. Better than Halloween.

I actually can’t stand Nick Cave, but I can still recognise the talent. The band too. Must be hard to keep that song under control live. Nick Cave fans are quite dedicated…they should absolutely be on board with curating a week for you guys.

If you can catch Nick on tour in North America right now he’s performing with Colin Greenwood from Radiohead. His cover of Cosmic Dancer is amazing. I went to three of his shows in different cities last year when he toured with Warren Ellis. ❤❤❤

Fantastic use of s p a c e in this track

SA tourism used this song for a in an ad awhile back. You wouldn't think it would fit tourism, but the ad just worked so well.

Tommy Shelby (Peaky Blinders) IS the man with the Red Right Hand ... epitome of cool and savage ... also from the series which has a really cool soundtrack, is the gorgeous little romantic song Breathless ... if you do a Nick Cave week, please include this three-minute ode to love

Aaah, ol' Nick. you've gotta do him. No I ain't got the skills to do it for ya. Mercy seat is a good'n amongst many. Aussie legend, who I'm sure has a lot of respect in the industry. Thanks for that one

Economy being what it was in our humble pub band, that chime would have been the province of the drummer if required. You wouldn't have been game to give him the whole array, just the one. He only hit the correct snare drum 95 percent of the time, and he only had one...😂 Nick Cave is a bit after my heyday of musical discovery, but I'm a fan nevertheless. Thanks for this one, guys. ✌

I recommend checking out any in-depth interview with Nick...very interesting, intelligent fellow.

If you still want to do a week of Nick Cave you can just do the album "Murder Ballads" from start to end... It's a masterpiece!! All with murder stories... Fantastic!

I love RRH, great song. Guys have a look at Where the Wild Roses Grow - Nick Cave & Kylie

Shivers,,, (as Boys Next Door) Dead Joe/Hamlet (pow pow pow) ...(Birthday Party - band is early chaos & punk/industrial influences) - titles from this era hilarious (my opinion) (band makes me think drunk college kid in a corner planing murder, mayhem and illicit cocktails/acts) From Her to Eternity/Tupelo ... early The Bad Seeds Henry Lee (duet PJHarvey) or Wild Roses Grow (duet Kylie Minogue - works surprisingly well)... O Children (used Harry Potter Deathly Hallows prt 1 but don't let that put you off)... Supernaturally... favorite of mine. Stagger Lee from Glastonbury--- mesmeric crowd control & one of few live video's that draw the viewer in as if part of crowd.

If I was going to cover a Nick Cave track for Halloween I would have gone with something from the Murder Balleds album like "Henry Lee" with PJ Harvey, "Where the wild roses grow" with Kylie Minogue or the cover of Dylan's "Death is not the end" with Shane MacGowan, PJ Havery, Anita Lane & Kylie.

Red right hand was the theme music for the series PEAKY BLINDERS

He kept the Bass player through all of his bands for obvious reasons. Always simple bass lines but impossible to not notice

You should check out how he holds the audience on Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Stagger Lee (Glastonbury 2013)

Don't know who's gonna fill your gig, but I bet it includes the Kylie Minogue duet! ;)

Getting strong Peaky Blinders vibes...

Stay off the Moors.

Ren's "Children of the Moon" would've been perfect for your Halloween Week. Maybe next year?

Review Cruel Sea.

Sorry I'm new to the channel. Nick Cave IS (one of) my favorite artist and I could do a pretty decent show-up of Nick's catalogue, considering he has a pretty long and changeing with time catalogue. But I don't know if it's paid or not.. answer this and if so I send the email with pleasure

Deanna From Her to Eternity Mercy Seat Tupelo The Carny Into My Arms

Lots to like about the song and performance, but a few things also that did not appeal to me. Alex you mentioned that that is how you captivate an audience; I was not captivated -- I was like a little child in the backseat of a car that is on a long drive, repeatedly nagging, "are we there yet?" On the special Thamesmen "Spookmeter," I'd give it a 3.5 out of 5.

you maybe eaten by many

Don’t do anymore Nick Cave; just keep stumbling along with pop music.