Top 6@6 Week 31 Headliner Poll: Post Your 6 Fave Songs by Nick Cave

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Subtitled: The obscurity continues If you’re wondering, “who the hell are Captain Beefheat, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds and Leonard Cohen?”, perhaps I’ll see you next week at our more conventional polls.

First: The Who’s, What’s, Where’s & Why’s of the Headliner Poll

In an attempt to squeeze as many bands in the shortest amount of time possible, as a regular feature, The Monday 6 @ 6 Poll, includes a Headliner poll. This Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds poll, like the regularly scheduled Captain Beefheart thread will be closed and tallied 7 days from today, Monday November 26, 2002 at or about 6PM EDT. Results from all polls will be posted a few minutes later on that same day in Week #32’s regularly scheduled Alice Cooper 6 @ 6 Poll.

Second: The Poll & How it Works

It’s simple enough, post your 6 favorite songs by the artist. Personal observations, opinions, liner notes, comments and the like are always welcome but are in no means required.

Third: The Headliner Poll Artist’s Discography (Reader’s Digest Version)

If your memory of the headliner artist of the week isn’t exactly up to speed, here’s a link to their discography with 30 second cuts of some of track previews when you drill down through the albums:

For Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: No More Shall We Part  Secret Life Of The Love Song  Boatman’s Call  Murder Ballads  Let Love In  Live Seeds  Henry’s Dream  Good Son  Tender Prey  Your Funeral My Trial  Kicking Against The Pricks  First Born Is Dead  From Her To Eternity.

Feel free to include tracks from Birthday Party.

The links are provided by CD Now, and are meant to refresh your Nick Cave “101” knowledge & jar loose any forgotten titles. (Please refrain from voting based on .wav previews)

Lastly: The Headliner Poll Artist of the Week

Without further ado, the post punk band from down under: Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds.

Here are my 6 NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS selections:

  1. Red Right Hand
  2. All Tomorrow’s Parties
  3. Black Betty
  4. I’m Gonna Kill That Woman
  5. Tupelo
  6. Deanna

So tell us…Do you have 6 favorite tracks by Nick Cave?

Thanking you all in advance I hope to see someone at the Captain Beefheart or Leonard Cohen polls. Have a great week!

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  1. Nobody’s Baby Now
  2. Do You Love Me? (as done in concert)
  3. Mercy Seat
  4. God is in the House
  5. Ship Song
  6. (Are You) The One That I’ve Been Waiting For?
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I’m restricting it to Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, which is almost impossible as it is, so here goes:

  • I Let Love In

  • Stagger Lee

  • A Box For Black Paul

  • Stranger Than Kindness

  • I Had A Dream Joe

  • Fifteen Feet Of Pure White Snow

ps - how did you manage to come up with three of my all time favourites in the one week :slight_smile: ?

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  1. O’Malley’s Bar
  2. Stagger Lee
  3. Where The Wild Roses Grow
  4. The Ship Song
  5. Death Is Not The End
  6. Fifteen Feet of Pure White Snow
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  • The Curse of Millhaven

  • Papa Won’t Leave You Henry

  • Are You the One That I’ve Been Waiting For?

  • Henry Lee

  • Do You Love Me?

  • The Ship Song

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Nick the Stripper
Shivers
Into My Arms
Do You Love Me?
Red Right Hand
The Mercy Seat

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Wooo!
Really tough to get this down to six John!

  1. Muddy Water
  2. Red Right Hand
  3. Deep in the Woods
  4. By the time I get to Phoenix.
  5. Tupelo
  6. The Friend Catcher
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Again, I’m not really familiar with Mr. Cave’s oeuvre, but

  1. Red Right Hand

is an amazing song.

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  1. Into My Arms
  2. Stranger Than Kindness
  3. The Friend Catcher (with the Birthday Party)
  4. (Are You) the One That I’ve Been Waiting For?
  5. People Ain’t No Good
  6. Do You Love Me?
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  1. (I’ll Love You) Til the End of the World
  2. Red Right Hand
  3. The Mercy Seat
  4. O’Malley’s Bar
  5. Straight To You
  6. Papa Won’t Leave You Henry
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  1. Red Right Hand
  2. (Are You) the One That I’ve Been Waiting For?
  3. Where The Wild Roses Grow
  4. The Ship Song
  5. Mack the Knife
  6. Into My Arms
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  1. Where The Wild Roses Grow
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  1. Papa won’t leave you Henry
  2. Red Right Hand
  3. The Ship Song
  4. Stagger Lee
  5. Had a dream Joe
  6. Tupelo
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Although I know I’d really like most of the songs, I’m not familiar enough to vote for 6. But I do have a couple of Wim Wenders soundtracks (and one song I remember from ‘Murder Ballads’)

  1. Cassiel’s Song
  2. Faraway, so close!
  3. (I’ll love you) 'til the End of the World
  4. Where the Wild Roses Grow
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People Ain’t No Good
O’Malley’s Bar
Tupelo
Straight to You
Ship Song
Red Right Hand

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Where the Wild Roses Grow
Henry Lee
The Idiot Prayer
Where Do We Go Now But Nowhere
Red Right Hand
The Curse of Milhaven

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Hey, John?

While you’re in the C’s, could you conduct a poll on the Coasters?

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  1. Red right hand
  2. Stagger Lee
  3. Do you love me
  4. The b-side to Into my arms (can´t remember the name right now)
  5. The Mercy Seat
  6. As I sat sadly by her side.

So I guess The Cure is coming up soon?

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I have a confession to make.

I used to hate Nick Cave.

There! I’ve said it. It’s out in the open. I used to despise him. I thought that the term ‘overrated’ was invented for him. To me he sounded like an extremely boring guy with extremely boring music that sung songs with Kylie Minogue.

Then I heard The Mercy Seat. So dramatic! So exciting! So dark and powerful, Cave’s once hated voice pronounced gloriously over rapidly rising crescendoes. This was beyond music! It had everything: plot, character development, a twist and a debatable ending. Oh, this could not be just a song. It was a play, a novel, a film, a masterpiece! I played this gem over and over and over, keeping for far too long the CD of most guest-programmed videos that I had been lent (this may also have been because it also had Joy Division, The Pixies, Public Enemy, The Velvet Underground - pretty much every great band ever on it).

I would like to say that this is where I saw the light. Like that guy who was in the bible. Um…doubting Thomas? Did he convert after something miraculous happened? I dunno, I’m not really a bible kind of guy.

But, no, I was more like, well me (me being a damned athiest who can’t accept God no matter how many times he plays the Mercy Seat to me). What I’m saying, I think, is that I was still a stubborn non-believer.

Sure, I heard the Ship Song, and grudgingly admitted my admiration for its quiet beauty, despite Cave’s onerous monotone, and Nick the Stripper also appearing on the previously mentioned ‘most-programmed’ comp, was interesting enough. But, that had to have been the other members of the Birthday Party, right?

But one day it happened. I was convinced to listen to Cave’s latest, ‘No More Shall We Part.’ And, suddenly, everything became clear. There was a god and he was an avant-punk master of the morbid. I heard beautiful hymns, like Fifteen Feet of Pure White Snow and God is in the House.

And I was saved.

So, my six:

  1. The mercy seat
  2. The ship song
  3. Nick the stripper
  4. Fifteen feet of pure white snow
  5. God is in the house
  6. Into my arms
    (Special mention to Red Right Hand, although I’ve run out of space to vote for it.)
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Woo! Nick Cave! :smiley: Or am I showing an innapropriate amount of happiness and excitement for a Nick Cave thread?

  1. Papa Won’t Leave You Henry
  2. The Mercy Seat
  3. Red Right Hand
  4. Deanna
  5. Do You Love Me?
  6. Tupelo

Also, a special mention for “Where the Wild Roses Grow” because it features Kylie Minogue getting thumped with a rock.