- People Ain’t No Good
- Girl in Amber
- There She Goes, My Beautiful World
- The Ship Song
- Into My Arms
- The Mercy Seat
- Darker with the Day
- The Sorrowful Wife
- Stagger Lee
- The Weeping Song
- Skeleton Tree
- Jubilee Street
- Love Letter
- Straight to You
- Higgs Boson Blues
- No Pussy Blues - Grinderman
- Distant Sky
- Babe, I’m on Fire
- Brompton Oratory
- Oh My Lord
- Far from Me
- Push the Sky Away
- No More Shall We Part
- We Know Who U R
- God is in the House
- Nobody’s Baby Now
- Nature Boy
- Lime Tree Arbour
- Where do We Go Now But Nowhere
- Where the Wild Roses Grow (with Kylie Minogue)
- Are You the One That I've Been Waiting For?
- Still in Love with You
- Hallelujah
- Jesus Alone
- Henry Lee (with PJ Harvey)
- Bring It On (with Chris Bailey)
- I Need You
- We Call Upon the Author
- West Country Girl
- Red Right Hand
- Idiot Prayer
- From Her to Eternity
- Tupelo
- As I Sat Sadly By Her Side
- There is a Kingdom
- He Wants You
- Get Ready for Love
- Palaces of Montezuma - Grinderman
- Right Out of Your Hand
- Magneto
- Hide it All Away
- Papa Won't Leave You Henry?
- Get it On - Grinderman
- Death is Not the End (cover, with various)
- Release the Bats - The Birthday Party
- Gates to the Garden
- Breathless
- Black Hair
- Stranger Than Kindness
- Rings of Saturn
- More News From Nowhere
- Do You Love Me?
- Everything Must Converge
- Mermaids
- Sweetheart Come
- The Carny
- Anthrocene
- Babe You Turn Me On
- O Children
- Up Jumped the Devil
- Wonderful Life
- Finishing Jubilee Street
- 15 Feet of Pure White Snow
- Shoot Me Down
- The Lyre of Orpheus
- Wide Lovely Eyes
- We Came Along this Road
- Heathen Child - Grinderman
- Lay Me Low
- I Let Love In
- Dig Lazarus Dig
- Water's Edge
- Lament
- Messiah Ward
- Easy Money
- O'Malley's Bar
- Worm Tamer - Grinderman
- Jennifer's Veil - The Birthday Party
- Jesus of the Moon
- King Ink - The Birthday Party
- Come Into My Sleep
- City of Refuge
- Today's Lesson
- Song of Joy
- Nick the Stripper - The Birthday Party
- The Hammer Song
- The Singer
- Sad Waters
- Junkyard - The Birthday Party
- Green Eyes
Friday 6 July 2018
100 Nick Cave Songs
Here are my 100 favourite Nick Cave songs, in order. They're by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds unless otherwise stated.
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See, I consider myself a Nick Cave fan. I have a lot, if not all, of his albums, and have listened to most of them (again, not all) many times. But even with the songs whose titles I recognise, I struggle to call them to mind in enough detail to allow me to work out how to rank them. How do you hold all this in your head with enough clarity - especially with all the other artists with immense back catalogues, among whom I imagine Nick Cave is only in your top 20? Is it just a question of putting in the hours?
ReplyDeleteWell, he's definitely, these days, in my top 5. And beyond that, yes, I put in the hours with both him and Bob Dylan to get to this list. And also there's a large degree to which the whole thing is tongue-in-cheek. I will do it again intermittently but it's hard without ever-decreasing returns. I want to make a point that lots of people have lots of good songs, but it's pretty rare for someone to have 100 good songs. Cave does, I venture ...
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