First listen to Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Mercy Seat (Reaction)
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So this is a bit heavy, but: Nick Cage lost his son around the same time I and my husband lost our daughter. What he has had to say about grief has been so helpful to me. We were both in the thick of it, but he was the one with the voice of a poet, and he led me out of the darkest place. He really is astonishing.
So sorry for your loss. Thank you for sharing.
Nick Cave is very deep and dark. Not for the average listener. He's great!
Cave is part Poe, part mad preacher, part Johnny Cash. I've been listening to him since 1985 and he still gives me goosebumps when he performs The Mercy Seat as well as so many other songs. There's elegance and danger in his style and content, dark humor, aching tenderness, truth, beauty, life and death. What more could you ask for?
At the end he says, “I’m afraid I told a lie.” This album Tender Prey has a few of my favorites, “Deanna” and “Up Jumped the Devil.” Twisted songs, but good.
Oh you poor doomed boy!!! You've fallin' into a very deep,dark Cave! Happy spelunking, Peace.
Nick performing "Stagger lee' at Glastonbury is a must watch.
That’s amazing Nick is a master, the way he pulled in the audience
Yeeaaaaah!
100% react to this. It is amazing and I can assure you it will be an experience.
Stagger lee glastonbury 2013 is fucking brill
Ahhh just a little story about Nick Cave. My ex-partner was in the same art course as Nick Cave, and Nick Seymour (Crowded House). At the time Nick Cave was in a band called The Birthday Party and he came to an Art Lecture worst for wear, and this was at time of lots of hair product and smoking. I guess you can see where this is going as Nick put his cigarette behind his ear and was too out of it to notice that his hair began to smoke but others were already heading to fire extinguisher and got to Nick just as his hair caught alight. Anyway, besides that little story but your reference to dense lyrics from Nick Cave is spot on. You find that with all his songs as basically he is poet
Great story.
Haha! Was that the school where the teacher always painted perfect formed eggs, and one day Nick painted a male sexual organ and this teacher said his art was "silly"? He tells that in Straight to you documentary. Thanks for shareing this!!
Actually they were still the Boys Next Door back then. The band changed their name b4 they moved to England in 1980 as there was a band called the Kids Next Door or something, sorry can't remember exactly.
Blixa Bargeld is the lead of Germany’s Einsturzende Neubauten, an artsy noise/industrial band, which is REALLY interesting.
Incredible song and is further proof of Cave’s artistry. Good review Daniel
Very well reviewed, young man. Nick Cave, as mentioned, is an extremely complex poet, songwriter and performer. His ability to convey all the above during his multi-layered performance is astounding to me. May you continue to further experience Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds.
Thanks for playing this awesome song :)
Please more Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds you won’t be disappointed
Nick Cave is a legend. Murder Ballads and Henry's Dream are albums to check out.
Cool you doing nick cave.. Its so much great stuff from him jag and his lyrics is always top..
Thoroughly enjoyed that you gave the song a proper in depth reaction. Original version , live version and deep dive on the lyrics. The way it should be done. Great job.
I adore Nick Cave. So glad you found him. Enjoy this beautiful rabbit hole.
Thank you Daniel, I had not heard this before and am so glad you led me to it. I think it is now my favorite Nick Cave song along with Red Right Hand.
Yeah, gotta do Red Right Hand
RRH is great and Stagger Lee
Live cut was TOTALLY needed.
Thanks. I would NOT have enjoyed it without the live version.
Still not my thing but was willing to explore...
This song is different on every live version as well. I've heard about thousand different versions, RUclips and in real life. It can be performed in any way possible and it has been
Nick is an Australian legend! If you want to see another side of his talent check out Into My Arms, a beautiful piano ballad
Your reviews are so thoughtful. So glad you dug even deeper on this one to listen to a live performance as well as the official vid. This band is incredible live, and each live performance is so different from the others. This whole Copenhagen show is stunning.
(They've also done this one at a much quicker and more chaotic pace...)
But Nick Cave is also devastatingly mesmerizing when it's just him and his piano. Definitely chk out the acoustic version of this song, just Nick and piano. There's a great live performance on Letterman.👍🔥♥️
I always thought this was a brilliant song. From proclaiming innocence, to defiance, to fear, and desperation to admission, all while the tension grows, the song keeps driving and building, become more intense as the song/character gets closer to the end. Listen to Johnny Cash's cover if you want to hear the lyrics more clearly. It's slower. Though he self admittedly interpreted the song differently. I'll go with Nick since it's his song. Cave has some great stuff to listen to like Red Right Hand, Idiot Prayer, Into My Arms, I Let Love In, Supernaturally, Henry Lee (with PJ Harvey), The Ship Song, Fifteen Feet Of Pure White Snow, Song of Joy, Breathless, Where the Wild Roses Grow (with Kylie Minogue)....just to name a few. I know he isn't everyone's cup of tea, but I find it inexcusable that Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds are not yet in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. He's also an author, and wrote a bizarre screenplay for a sequel to the movie Gladiator that I hope gets made one day.
who cares about the arbitrary HOF
@@mistert1097 The majority of the people in it
Much prefer the Cash cover, I'm not a huge fan of Cave's singing. Great songwriter though, the lyrics are brilliant.
Daniel, you have discovered Nick Cave and your life is about to change. There is no one like him and you must see him perform live. He's touring this summer, don't think too much, just do it!
I was 15 or 16 when I first heard this first time. I was in this punk club and when this came from the speakers I was paralyzed and was freaking out wtf this is. Been a fan ever since and seen him live 6 times. Nick Cave to me is what Bob Dylan is to generations before me. Best singer/songwriter ever to me. When he recorded this he was deeply into heroin. Every time I have seen him live I have been in a front row. It's a scary moment when he look straight to your eyes. Great to see younger people appreciating his music and lyrics. Cheers from Finland!
This is my favourite reaction on yt ever. Thank you.
It's my dream to see him work with Diamanda Galas.
This was definitely an interesting listen. My first time hearing this artist and this song. I enjoyed both versions but I think I enjoyed the live version more. It took me on a journey and I enjoyed it. Thanks Daniel!
Glad you've discovered Nick Cave! Try "Do you love me? (part I & II preferably) next - or any of his Murder Ballads - or, indeed, Stagger Lee.
I wondered when you would come across Nick Cave /Birthday Party, great artist and performer. His songs are pure poetry. Too many songs to mention but try the song “Oh My Lord” from the superb album No More Shall We Part.
Red right hand..... Is my favourite Nick Cave song. Has a strong bass line and voice,with a menacing rhythm.
In the early 990s I lived with Jeffrey Lee Pierce of the Gun Club in London and LA actually to keep him alive, but his only TRUE friend to help him out, always, was Nick Cave. Nick, if you ever see this, we know how we loved Jeff, what we tried to do to help him, how much we grieve both about him and our kids, how much fun we had, how much we loved, how young we were... and now there is this kid... our inheritance is in the best hands... the story will be saved and told... Nick Cave is a great human being, and a great friend!
Fantastic.
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds are heavily featured in the German movie, "Wings of Desire", a masterpiece that keeps coming back to a Berlin nightclub in which the young band plays live, in B&W. The film also has Peter Falk playing a version of himself, in Berlin to shoot a movie.
"Wings of Desire" is a languorous, sensual celluloid poem, one of the most beautiful films you will ever experience, starring Bruno Ganz as an angel who falls in love with a pretty trapeze artist. It was remade in Hollywood with Nicolas Cage but it was a terrible remake.
I was lucky enough to first see it in a cinema and then on Laserdisc. I cannot recommend it strongly enough.
Nobody commands the stage like Cave!
I love the version from the Live Seeds album. That also has a phenomenal live version of Tupelo which is one definitely worthy of a reaction
The movie is wings of desire…… nicks inside of that movie that I found out who they were(it’s not a bad movie)
Woo hoo! One of the few bands in this world that I saw live! Nick Cave featured in the famous 1987 German art film 'Wings Of Desire'. Blixa Bargeld tranlates to 'Blix the bartender'.
Bargeld = cash and not bartender
Red Right Hand is probably Cave's most well-known song, and is probably my favorite. Highly recommended.
Nick Cave is exactly that--a deep cave. O'Children and Red Right Hand are my 2 faves of his,,both very different tones, but powerful. The meaning behind O'Children will break your heart.
Nick Cave is the Aussie, bad-ass equivalent of Montreal's Leonard Cohen.
They are heaven's allies, and thus they are privy to a level of divine knowledge far beyond what the bite of a mere forbidden fruit gave to the rest of us.
If most humans must suffer exile from Paradise as punishment for what we know of right and wrong, can you imagine, then, what price such artists pay for their G-d-given insights?
Nick is like a good whiskey... an acquired taste that satisfies the more you experience it over time (not the same night obviously! 🤣).
pretty much sums up discovering new cave songs: first listen, "this is crap", second, "i might like this", third, "this is good", fourth, "omg, this is brilliant", fifth: "this is the best song made ever, period"
Artist .As an artist too I wondered how you would respond love that you questioned sound quality.
You should check out "Jubilee Street" from the same concert ("Live in Copenhagen"), it’s just amazing!😎👍
If you do Stagger Lee, you owe it to yourself to do the live version.
Yes great song, Glastonbury is a great version.
Nick Cave (as an Australian) is the one guy we should recognise more , that Melbourne art school vibe is so profound, please do a dive on Nick. See also The Church aussie icons eg "Under the milky Way" it is mind blowing to hear this level of lyricism .
Songwriter, actor, screenwriter, film score composer, novelist, poet. Nick Cave does have a slight bit of talent.
Finally someone reacting to Nick cave. Nick Cave and Warren Ellis are both musical genius.
Tom Waits is another deep & fascinating artist that doesn't get reviewed. His lyrics and voice always remind me in some way of Nick Cave. Or vise versa...both fascinating.
@@bemused9522 I am 70 and have seen more bands than I can remember. The first time I saw Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds it blew me away. His performance skills are off the chart and his relationship with his fans is very special.
I am glad you are checking out Nick Cave, he is a fascinating artist with a wealth of powerful music. You did a great job of breaking down your reactions to a very challenging song. If you continue exploring his work (and I hope you do), I have 2 suggestions from different parts of his work : 1) "Wanted Man", technically a cover of a song Bob Dylan wrote for Johnny Cash but very different from the original, another song where he and his band just continue to crank up the tension and intensity as the song goes on, 2) "Spell" ,, one of the most beautiful songs he has ever done, haunting and lovely.
I've always been a fan of Nick Cave. I'm glad you liked him Daniel. Of course you would like him.
The Johnny Cash version is amazing too.
My favourite version of this song is the accoustic version, included as a 7" on the first (or even early) editions of the album. Or it might even be on his next album. I'm not mouch for Wikipedia.
There's another version of the song you need to hear (video link at bottom), and that's the one by Johnny Cash. How good is it? Here's what Nick had to say about that cover:
"Cave commented on Cash's cover in a number of interviews: 'Like all the songs he does, he made it his own. He's a great interpreter of songs - that's part of his genius. These are the things that can't be taken away from you.' He called it a personal highpoint: 'It doesn't matter what anyone says,' remarked Cave proudly. 'Johnny Cash recorded my song.'" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mercy_Seat_(song)#Notable_covers_and_references
Here's an excellent fan-made video that really does Johnny's version justice: ruclips.net/video/gaIo1trTpKQ/видео.html
Great job, subscribed.
Good choice love Mercy Seat give Carny a listen is one of my favs but for a true love song Into My Arms is exceptional. The Birthday party were very unique to lol. Love your awakenings and realisations there is music out there that is what it's meant to be interpretations of life by Bards. Johnny Cash's rendition is great! My take on Mercy Seat is as a metaphorical for our own conscience and how it can burn us
I truly enjoyed your deep dive. This is one of my all time favourite songs and I loved hearing two versions, and the lyrics, plus people's thoughts on them. I think the last line is ambiguous, but my interpretation is that he IS afraid to die. He IS guilty. He is seeking refuge in religion, but the song expresses the horror of the death penalty, and the very outmoded, inhumane type of eye-for-an-eye justice.
The stanzas of the chorus are repeated so much as the convict has nothing to do on death row but to replay these thoughts ad infinitum. If you read the lyrics more carefully you will see each repeated stanza ends with "And I'm not afraid to die" except the penultimate stanza which ends with "And I'm not afraid to lie", and the last that ends with "But I'm afraid I told a lie" You listened to the shortened radio version of the song. The full album version makes more sense.
Cave returned to this subject and wrote an even better song if that were possible. The Mercy Seat was writen in his twenties and Idiot Prayer written in his late thirties, is a more mature telling of the song. Please check it out.
Thank you, thank you, thank you! I love Nick to the end of my life! We became sort of friends thru my friend Jeffrey Lee Pierce of the Gun Club... he is a great composer and this song is my favorite, but also try Deanna! I said before in a comment that I wish I had a son like you...you are a remarkable young man with a great future as a writer or something...
That's a great artist that can put you into someone's head (in this case a killer facing death) and make you feel the emotions and stress that character is feeling. It's a similar feeling I get as from the live version of Harry Chapin performing "Sniper". Raw emotion and brilliant poetry. Great song pick.
'Peaky Blinders' kinda brought me here ha ha...so I saw Cave and the Birthday Party back in 1982 I think it was, not by choice just that a friend had a spare ticket and I couldn't take to him, probably due to the support act (Lydia Lunch) had droned me into a negative frame of mind...cue some 30 plus years later, Peaky Blinders (you should really give it a viewing in your own time, British TV series, littered with solid music where Cave features predominantly but not solely, this song in particular and a more bluesy/folk version of it) and it became a wonderful 'rabbit hole'...could kick myself but I got there in the end...enjoy.
His work evolved and changed quite a bit through the years. If you want the best of his storytelling, I'd check out his album Murder ballads, with songs like Where the wild roses grow, Curse of Millhaven... His newer work is calmer, more abstract, two of the best songs are Jubilee street and Higgs boson blues (absolutely incredible lyricism in the latter). His newest album is Carnage, a really interesting listen, since it came to life in the time of the pandemic. Great video as always!
Nick Cave. Now that’s a catalog worth exploring. And I’d echo other’s suggestion to check out Johnny Cash’s version too.
The thing that I like the most about this songs lyrically is the very last line "I'm afraid I told a lie"... But what is the lie ? that he is innocent or that he's not afraid to die ?
What a deep and complex song. Much respect Daniel for playing 2 differerent versions to help those who are hearing it for the first time better understand. If anyone's interested, here's the link to Johnny Cash's cover which IMHO holds up in it's own way.
ruclips.net/video/gaIo1trTpKQ/видео.html
Something very different. I liked the contrast between the black and white and then the color. The moods changed back and forth. When he says eye for an eye. A realization is there. Interesting.
Johnny Cash does an excellent version from 2000
Agreed! Johnny does it very well. Daniel, you occasionally do cover comparisons - this would be a good choice if you’re so inclined.
That's where I first heard it.
Johny Cash's version is my favorite. His version is also intense but I find it easier to follow. And his voice brings such a gravity to the narrative.
I started listening ti Nick way back when he was with the Birthday Party. The first album I bought was "The First born is dead", in retrospect maybe one of his weaker albums, 'though their all special. His song writing is unique and formidable I probably never will be able to say that Joy Division isn't the best band ever, but Nick Cave has for many years been the most interesting artist on this planet.
This is one of the fewer times where the live versions of this song just get better and better to where I just don't even care for the original studio version. In fact, I barely even recognize it. My all-time favorite live version of Mercy Seat was from a show they did a few years back in Lyons, France: ruclips.net/video/7wIyQW8cPJI/видео.html
Ok! Ok! I subbed already!
Almost suggested this song recently on your 'Hallowed be thy name' reaction!
Cave has a long and eclectic discography, so for some different vibes, I would recommend 'Fifteen feet of pure white snow', 'God is in the house', 'Supernaturally', and 'O'children'..
Also check out Nick’s friend and former band mate, Rowland S Howard. (RIP to Rowland). He’s just as enigmatic.
Try ‘The Curse of Milhaven’ from his Murder Ballads album.
Don't have to watch the whole reaction... know I'm gonna ❤ 😍 💖 this!!! I watched.
Be careful of Stagger Lee
That Glastonbury live version. Wow
@@Hartlor_Tayley Top notch.
You missed the last line. "I told a lie"
If you EVER get the chance to see Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, do it. They still tour sporadically. It will leave your soul changed.
A bunch of good Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds songs.
As I Sat Sadly By Her Side and God Is In The House are two of my favorites.
That whole album is incredible. No More Shall We Part I think it’s called.
Hartlor Tayley
Yep
That’s it.
A really great album all the way through, you’re right.
I discovered that album (first time hearing Nick Cave) while I was very depressed.
It helped.
@@johnnyripple8972 yes I was also going through some rough waters when that album came out. Helped me too.
Jubilee street great!!!
A true musical genius..... You may like to check out Jubilee Street,...Or one of best performances ever, by anyone...Stagger Lee at Austin City Limits.
Keep digging into post-punk!
If you like strange and weird, you should listen to Oh Lord by Nick Cave. But when you dig into Nick Cave a bot more you should also check out Einsturzende Neubauten. The singer of that band used to be in Nick Cave and the Bad seeds. Start with Sabrina.
Nice that you put much effort in to understand it, but I think Oz did away with capital punishment/state murder in the 60's it's completely outlawed in the EU but after brexit there have been calls to bring it back, nice work sir. x
Next ‘Stagger Lee’ the video!
Nick Cave is a Genius.
Love this. Other greats for me are Fifteen Feet of Pure White Snow, Darker with the Day, Ship Song and Into my Arms.
On a slight tangent (and a little early) I'd be interested to see your reactions to some alternative Christmas songs (or ones which reference Christmas themes), closer to the time. A few which spring to mind are Tom Waits - Christmas Card From A Hooker In Minneapolis, Tom McRae - Christmas Eve 1943 and Leonard Cohen - Dress Rehearsal Rag.
@@viceroyzh yup, fully aware of that, which is why I added the bit about "Christmas themes" in brackets. Trying to find good Christmas related songs that are actually listenable is a tough call. Leonard is my all time favourite artist, I knew I was stretching things a bit with that one but Santa Claus is mentioned twice.
I could also argue that suicide is a Christmas theme in and of itself.
@@viceroyzh I'm very grateful that Cohen never released a Christmas song (unlike a certain Nobel prize winner). I really wasn't trying to start an argument or even suggest that the song has any link to Christmas, only that it had a couple of references to Christmas iconography.
As for suicide at Christmas ... That time of year can be exceptionally hard for many people and the suicide rates certainly spike in December.
@@viceroyzh November 7th will be fully dedicated to his memory here. The news on the 11th hit like a freight train.
@@viceroyzh ps must be Santa was God aweful (In my opinion) as was his disrespect to his audience a few years ago when he mumbled his way through a few songs and didn't even really acknowledge his audience. Don't get me wrong, Blood on the Tracks is one of my all time favourite albums but the approach of Cohen and Dylan live was night and day.
Once at a gig he introduced this song by saying: some mornings I wake up and I feel like sh*t and then I remember that I wrote the Mercy Seat.
sounds more like birthday party , early bad seeds maybe?
"... and anyway I told the truth, but I´m afraid I told a lie." nick has a special fantastic voice, is powerful eloquent. his novel "and the ass saw the angel" from 1990 is also dark, twisted, and absolutely brilliant and a must for those, who love his lyrics.
Great reaction to an amazing song. For something a bit more lighthearted from Nick listen to Cindy Cindy.
Yes - finally more Nick Cave! This is a good song, but personally, I like a lot of other Cave songs more. Thanx for giving it a chance and also listening to a live version. Mr Cave is intense and excellent live, so good live recordings are often preferred. That same concert in Copenhagen, Denmark a few years ago has excellent versions of e.g. Red Right Hand, Stagger Lee and a personal favorite - Jubilee Street (ruclips.net/video/kf_zVzvYWuw/видео.html). And the choral / orchestral version of Push the Sky Away in Sydney Opera House is pure beauty (ruclips.net/video/TJZDyIz-0lk/видео.html).
But then there are sooo many others as well. I love Cave's soft ballads, alone with a piano, but many of his harder and darker or more artsy songs are equally good. I'm not a big fan of his very early punk stuff though.
He fairly recently held concept solo shows "Conversations with Nick Cave" where he answered intimate questions from the audience while playing song requests and allowing audience on the stage etc. Rather magical. On his website "The Red Hand Files", he has this same concept of answering questions of personal, philisophical, religious etc nature and "getting closer" to his audience. Very interesting, and worth checking out. Due to his personality, artistry, troubled youth and loss of a teenage son has led to a very interesting and charismatic performer. I highly recommend any album between "A Good Son" and "Skeleton Tree" except perhaps Nocturama. Plus the live stripped down album "Idiot Prayer" and several songs from earlier and later albums as well.
Johnnie Cash made a version, too, if you like to try it.
Nick Cave is great either way, but it's live that really blows your mind. I recommend Peter Gabriel: Mercy Street, which is a totally different song, but equally great, with an even more interesting background story!
So he confessed at the end?
Hi, try "Murder ballads", the album is whort all your time and more....
You did well…..one of the more intense bad seeds songs, heaven and hell from a man who literally carry’s the bible as song writing inspiration…….i I watched youre “into my arms “ reaction…he has a 40 year catalouge of sweetness,heaven, and hell….l.dive in
Coolest video.
Big cave fan since the early 90's....but i prefer Mr Cashs' version of this song.
This is a classic song. I find Cave fascinating. I don't like everything he's done, but he's been on an incredible journey from heroin-addled punk to piano balladeer. And he's always been a superb lyricist and charismatic performer. Johnny Cash's version is excellent. Regarding the audio, it's not just the unusual spoken-word intro that's odd, I honestly think that the production on this song is seriously sub-par, which is a terrible shame. There's an awful lack of definition in the mix. It should sound apocalyptic, and it just sounds phoned in. I'm glad you went to the live version as well.
And yes, the last very line goes "and I'm afraid I told a lie." Which I had always thought meant that he was definitively admitting his guilt after all - but the other explanation makes sense to me too.
Red Right Hand
Nick Cave has dark romantic verses in his poetry.
He’s a true “Edwardian goth”.
Unfortunately though both versions are adequate the former version especially lacks the power of the original album version. The video version was some bowdlerized remix we got on MTV if we were lucky enough to catch it in 1988 on air.. The original album track from the Tender Prey album in 1988 was far more ferocious.
If your looking for one of his lesser known songs you should give "opium tea" a listen.