I love this song… I only know it from the movie “Dogs in Space” and I’ve been looking for it recently and while I can find lyrics for it, I can’t seem to find the song on any of Nick Cave’s albums. Where the heck is the darn thing? It was in the movie back in the '80s so it’s quite old. Anyone know?
You’re sure he re-recorded it at some point, either solo or with The Birthday Party? Because it’s credited to their old guise, The Boys Next Door, on the soundtrack.
I’m not sure of anything, I just want to own it!
YES!!! You rock my world! 
Glorified pub rock band The Screaming Jets had a number one hit in Australia with a cover of Shivers. I wasn’t a big fan of it, but Amazon have some used copies of the album they put Shivers on for 1 cent in case you’re interested in other interpretations.
Is it a good cover? You say you weren’t a big fan of “it” do you mean the cover or the song itself?
I am a great fan of Nick Cave but much prefer the Screaming Jets version. Mind you I think their singer Dave Gleeson is one of the best rock voices in Australia. As in all things musical you could have answered your own question at the mighty Allmusic where a song search would have given you this with samples of both versions.
I will bookmark that site. I searched several other, similar sites but they didn’t find the song. (And I didn’t know what album to search for, or even, as it turned out, the right band name!)
Learn something new everyday-- I didn’t know there WAS a pre-Birthday Party.
I meant the cover, but I’m a bit of a Caveophile so YMMV. Dave Gleeson does have a good voice, but we are comparing him to Nick Cave here.
Oh goodness. Yes, there certainly was. The Boys Next Door were a bit pretentious, sort of silly sometimes and full of the kind of the kind of teenage angst special to middle-class, public school boys, but they produced some good music. And some startling live shows.
I still have my vinyl copy of “Door, Door” - I’ve always loved “Dive Position” particularly. “Nick the Stripper” was a Boys Next Door song, before they were The Birthday Party.
Many years ago, a kind of super group of Melbourne inner-city luminaries called The Bang Big Band, did a country and western version of Shivers, which actually worked pretty well. I don’t know that it was ever recorded though.
If you want to dig even further, the excellent original version of Shivers, by the Young Charlatans, has finally made it out of the cassette twilight zone onto a great compilation called ‘Inner City Sound’, which also has the early Boys Next Door classic ‘Sex Crimes’ (a song which Roland Howard called in a review of an early BND show ‘The Best Song In The World’).