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10 Great Nick Cave Songs (videos)

Posted on by Egil Mosbron

Nick Cave is 61 today, here are 10 of his best.

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  1. THE MERCY SEAT – Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

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  2. STAGGER LEE (cover)

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  3. PEOPLE AIN’T NO GOOD

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  4. RED RIGHT HAND

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  5. HENRY LEE (w/ PJ Harvey)

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  6. THE SHIP SONG
  7. INTO MY ARMS

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  8. DO YOU LOVE ME?

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  9. HIGGS BOSON BLUES
  10. DEATH IS NOT THE END (Bob Dylan) – guilty pleasure

..and remember to search youtube for more brilliant Nick Cave songs !!

-Egil

September 22: Happy Birthday Nick Cave

Posted on by Egil Mosbron
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― Nick Cave

“I was about 12 years old and I was sitting watching the television and it was some kind of talent show, you know, and on marches this monkey, this ape, in a pair of red-checked trousers with a little matching jacket holding a ukulele and it started jigging around playing it, and it was looking straight into the camera, straight at me, and I remember thinking, that’s it, that’ll be me, you know, that’ll be me.”
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Nicholas Edward “Nick” Cave (born 22 September 1957) is an Australian musician, songwriter, author, screenwriter, composer and occasional film actor.

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March 3: Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds released The Boatman’s Call in 1997

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..It speak volumes about the album’s universality that its songs have soundtracked everything from Michael Hutchence’s funeral to Shrek 2.
~Stuart Berman (pitchfork.com)

The Boatman’s Call is one of his finest albums and arguably the masterpiece he has been promising throughout his career.
~Stephen Thomas Erlewine (allmusic.com)

Into My Arms – live

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5 Great Songs For Meditation

Posted on by Egil Mosbron

One of my favourite ways to meditate is listening to music. Listening to details in the music and stay present. Here are 5 great songs for meditation.

Van Morrison – In The Garden

The streets are always wet with rain
After a summer shower when I saw you standin’
In the garden in the garden wet with rain

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August 18: Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds released Kicking Against The Pricks in 1986

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Kicking Against the Pricks is the third album released by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. First released in 1986, the album is a collection of cover versions. Like many of our favorite artists (Dylan, Springsteen), Nick Cave dove into “the great songbook from the past” and gave us an album that really stood out in 1986. It wasn’t country, and it most certainly did not fit that new-wave look of Nick Cave and The Bad Seed. They play the songs in a straightforward way, not trying to modernize or make them more rock’n roll. This album was very important in my journey back to traditional folk music and blues standards.

It still stands up very well, and is one of my favorite Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds albums.

The Singer (made famous by Johnny Cash):

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September 20: Nick Cave released Abattoir Blues/The Lyre of Orpheus in 2004

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I’ve always had an obligation to creation, above all.
~Nick Cave

People think I’m a miserable sod but it’s only because I get asked such bloody miserable questions.
~Nick Cave

Everything’s dissolving, babe, according to plan
The sky is on fire, the dead are heaped across the land
I went to bed last night and my
moral code got jammed
I woke up this morning with a Frappucino in my hand
~Nick Cave (Abattoir Blues)

Get ready for Love:

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