I ain't down here for your love or money, I'm down here for your POLL: The ILM Nick Cave Poll RESULTS Thread (#106 in a series)

9= Something’s Gotten Hold of My Heart
40 points, 3 votes
Kicking Against The Pricks, 1986

David & Jonathan, 1967
Gene Pitney, 1968
Olivia Colman, Ben Whishaw, John C. Reilly, Nick Cave & Garry Mountaine

I loooove Somethings Gotten Hold of My Heart so much!! so much drama, terrific cover

i love the Pitney/Marc Almond version too:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZTX0RBlqnM

8. By The Time I Get To Phoenix
40 points, 4 votes
Kicking Against The Pricks, 1986

Johnny Rivers, 1967
Glen Campbell c. 1969 on The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour
songwriter Jimmy Webb, BBC 1971
Isaac Hayes live in Atlanta, 1973 (22 minute video)
Bad Seeds, Philadelphia 7//2/1989 (audience audio)

yesssss <3

7. Avalanche
41 points, 3 votes
From Her To Eternity, 1984

Leonard Coheh, 1971 (from his 1966 poem)
Bad Seeds
Nick Cave 2015 version for "Black Sails"

Seemed a tad peculiar to open your band's first LP with someone else's song. I may even underrate this as a result. (Peculiar post-punk, at least; obviously not at all peculiar if you're, say, Barbra Streisand.)

I think it’s a baller move & a great cover

6. The Singer
45 points, 3 votes
Kicking Against The Pricks, 1986

The Folk Singer by Johnny Cash, 1968
Bad Seeds, live on The Tube 1986

5. Black Betty
45 points, 4 votes
b-side to The Singer, 1986

Iron Head, 1933
Leadbelly,
Looky Yonder by Odetta, 1954
Bad Seeds at Pinkpop, 1990

4. Tower of Song
50 points, 4 votes
tribute album I'm Your Fan, 1991

Leonard Cohen, 1988
Laughing Len on Night Music, 1989 with David Sanborn, George Duke, and Robben Ford, plus his own backing singers Perla Batalla & Julie Christensen
Bad Seeds, 1991

The full episode of Sunday Night / Night Music includes perfs by Was (Not Was), Ken Nordine, and a Cohen / Sonny Rollins collab.

Seemed a tad peculiar to open your band's first LP with someone else's song.

what about your first solo single

3. In The Ghetto
54 points, 4 votes
single, 1984

Elvis Presley, April 1969
Bobbie Gentry, April 1970
Bad Seeds, April 1984 at the Electric Ballroom in Camden
Nick Cave video
The Blizzard King, 3am somewhere

Ha!

i have zero idea what the top 2 will be.

Bad Seeds in Amsterdam, 1992, from the Paradiso VHS, is also good.

I don't think anyone would have predicted the #1 tbh, though it's the only one with a big vote jump! Back in an hour or so for the reveal.

I just remembered a GREAT Nick Cave cover version, which is Don't Go Home With Your Hard On, the studio version unlikely ever to be released, but I had a tape of it in 2004-2005 so it definitely exists. Can't find any trace of it online.

Is it possible it was a napster-like misnamed copy of the David McComb & Adam Peters (plus Martyn Casey and Will Sergeant) version from I'm Your Fan?

(Or a bootleg from the Came So Far For Beauty concert, and Nick traded verses with Jarvis Cocker, Rufus Wainwright and Teddy Thompson? I'd love to hear either that or a real studio version, obv)

2. All Tomorrow's Parties
55 points, 5 votes
Kicking Against The Pricks, 1986

The Velvet Underground And Nico single, July 1966
Nico & The Invisible Girls at Preston Warehouse, November 1982 (inc Martin Hannett and future Primal Scream drummer Toby Tomanov)
Bad Seeds

Sleeping Annaleah?

Gee, that image in the "Tower of Song" vid is great/faintly unsettling.

Ben Smith is apparently the artist.

There are 12 covers on the Kicking Against The Pricks LP. All but the first two and last two placed in this poll.

1. Sleeping Annaleah
68 points, 5 votes
Kicking Against The Pricks, 1986

Weeping Annaleah by Mickey Newbury, 1968
Weeping Analeah by the Box Tops, 1968
Weeping Annaleah by Tom Jones, 1968
Bad Seeds

trophy goes to stirmonster!

woooo such a great one for the top spot

i shall display it with pride.

i thoroughly enjoyed this. a small turnout but perfectly formed. thanks veyy much sic for putting it together and for all the effort you put in.

yeah thanks sic - above & beyond!!

Sleeping Annaleah and Something's Gotten Hold of My Heart were covers that made me rethink and start to love 60 showbiz pop extravaganzas. Or maybe re-love, because that was the sound of TV variety shows like Bobby Vinton and Tony Orlando that are fixed in the dawn of my memory.

i should've voted for "get ready for love"