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Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - B-Sides & Rarities Audio CD

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Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds Band: Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
Title: B-Sides & Rarities
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Release Date: 2005-03-22
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Deanna (Acoustic Version) 2: The Mercy Seat (Acoustic Version) 3: City Of Refuge (Acoustic Version) 4: The Moon Is In The Gutter 5: The Six Strings That Drew Blood 6: Rye Whisky 7: Running Scared 8: Black Betty 9: Scum 10: The Girl At The Bottom Of My Glass 11: The Train Song 12: Cocks 'N' Asses 13: Blue Bird 14: Helpless 15: God's Hotel 16: (I'll Love You) Till The End Of The World 17: Cassiel's Song 18: Tower Of Song 19: What Can I Give You? 20: What A Wonderful World 21: Rainy Night In Soho 22: Lucy (Version #2) 23: Jack The Ripper 24: Sail Away 25: There's No Night Out At The Jail 26: That's What Jazz Is To Me 27: The Willow Garden 28: The Ballad Of Robert Moore And Betty Coltrane 29: King Kong Kitchee Kitchee Ki-Mi-O 30: Knoxville Girl 31: Where The Wild Roses Grow 32: O'Malley's Bar Pt.1 33: O' Malley's Bar Pt.2 34: O' Malley's bar Pt. 3 35: Time Jesum Transeuntum Et Non Riverentum (by Nick Cave and The Dirty 3) 36: O'Malley's Bar Reprise 37: Red Right Hand (Scream 3 Version) 38: Little Empty Boat 39: Right Now I'm A-Roaming 40: Black Hair (Band Version) 41: Babe, I've Got You Bad 42: Sheep May Safely Graze 43: Opium Tea 44: Grief Came Riding 45: Bless His Ever Loving Heart 46: Good Good Day 47: Little Janey's Gone 48: I Feel So Good 49: Shoot Me Down 50: Swing Low 51: Little Ghost Song 52: Everything Must Converge 53: Nocturama 54: She's Leaving You 55: Under This Moon

Awesome
Deeply felt. Great collection of music reminiscent of Jim Morrison. Go for it.


A treasure chest of goodies
I recently picked up a copy of B-SIDES & RARITIES from my library because I wanted to re-acquaint myself with his music (it has been a few years since I have listened to Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds). I don't really consider myself a diehard fan of Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds but I do like a good deal of his work. It did not take me very long to remember why I like Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds. I just love Nick Cave's deep baritone voice. I am often reminded of one of my favorite singers Voltaire. I enjoyed most of the songs on the album, like the beautiful cover of "What a Wonderful World" and a different version of "Where the Wild Roses Grow" (minus Kylie Minogue). There were a small handful of songs I wasn't too keen on but otherwise this anthology of rare and unheard tracks by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds is a nice reminder to Nick Cave's talents as a singer/songwriter. .


His favourite album, and my favourite album
I purchased these three discs for about 16 dollars, making it my first Nick Cave CD of purchase. This is Nick Cave's very own favourite album by the Bad Seeds, and this also happens to be my favourite album of all time. I listened to it all, and it was just perfect.

I've bought a lot more Nick Cave albums since then, in which he has turned out to be my number one favourite artist, but i always look back on this one as my ultimate favourite.

The 3-disc compliation of b-sides and rarities are all good enough to be sprawled across his other albums, but at the same time im happy that this compliation was made. There is too many songs to highlight, but stand-outs included the bluesy jam of God's Hotel with great lyrics, the acoustic versions of Deanna, City Of Refuge, The Mercy Seat and Jack The Ripper, a great upbeat tune called Come Into My Sleep, a magnificent cover of Rainy Night In Soho, Sail Away, and so so SO many more.

This album showed me how good music can get. I highly recommend you should buy it, right now.

p. s although this is under a kids review, i'm not a kid.


B Sides Ballads
And even plucked out of different eras and line-ups, they actually form a sort of cohesive, deranged, drunken blues and poetry whole. They may be called B Sides and Rarities but there is nothing sub par about these songs.
There are album offshoots, some unashamedly beautiful like Train Song, acoustic versions and jazzed up remixes of classics, like Red Right Hand, Deanna and Scum, there are cover songs and crazy jam session on a theme, both of which apply to Leonard Cohen's Tower of Song, plus live gems like God's Hotel - just listen to what the band does in the background!
For old faithful, this is a treasure box, even if you thought you had it all. I had almost all of these on CD singles and such, but one was rendered inaccessible by technological progress- the track from the X Files soundtrack; it was hidden before the first song and impossible to play on computer CD players. And it's nice to have the whole collection handy on three CDs.
For new fans this could actually be a great, offbeat introduction to the wonderful world of the Bad Seeds: dark humor and great songwriting, with a touch of inspired insanity, in one cool package. Just sample "The Ballad Of Robert Moore And Betty Coltrane", a three minute Quentin Tarantino movie rolled into a song, and you will be exploring Cave in no time.


Knettergek...
Meestal zijn B-sides en rarities een collectie bijeengeraapte rommel die niet verkocht raakt van een artiest die 'fin-de-carriere' is. . maar dit is zeker een uitzondering. Alleen al voor de compleet geflipte versie van O' Malley's bar is het zijn geld meer dan waard. The ballad of Robert Moore and Betty Coltrane had eigenlijk ook op Murder Ballads moeten staan. . .
The Tower of song is beter dan de originele versie. Gewoon supergeslaagd!!.


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