5. Black Betty 45 points, 4 votes b-side to The Singer, 1986
Iron Head, 1933Leadbelly, Looky Yonder by Odetta, 1954Bad Seeds at Pinkpop, 1990
― shivers me timber (sic), Friday, 5 February 2021 19:09 (three years ago) link
4. Tower of Song 50 points, 4 votes tribute album I'm Your Fan, 1991
Leonard Cohen, 1988Laughing Len on Night Music, 1989 with David Sanborn, George Duke, and Robben Ford, plus his own backing singers Perla Batalla & Julie ChristensenBad Seeds, 1991
― shivers me timber (sic), Friday, 5 February 2021 20:53 (three years ago) link
The full episode of Sunday Night / Night Music includes perfs by Was (Not Was), Ken Nordine, and a Cohen / Sonny Rollins collab.
― shivers me timber (sic), Friday, 5 February 2021 20:56 (three years ago) link
Seemed a tad peculiar to open your band's first LP with someone else's song.
what about your first solo single
― shivers me timber (sic), Saturday, 6 February 2021 00:03 (three years ago) link
3. In The Ghetto 54 points, 4 votes single, 1984
Elvis Presley, April 1969Bobbie Gentry, April 1970Bad Seeds, April 1984 at the Electric Ballroom in CamdenNick Cave videoThe Blizzard King, 3am somewhere
Ha!
i have zero idea what the top 2 will be.
― stirmonster, Saturday, 6 February 2021 00:12 (three years ago) link
Bad Seeds in Amsterdam, 1992, from the Paradiso VHS, is also good.
― shivers me timber (sic), Saturday, 6 February 2021 00:42 (three years ago) link
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.
― shivers me timber (sic), Saturday, 6 February 2021 00:44 (three years ago) link
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.
― Eyeball Kicks, Saturday, 6 February 2021 01:22 (three years ago) link
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)
― shivers me timber (sic), Saturday, 6 February 2021 02:03 (three years ago) link
2. All Tomorrow's Parties 55 points, 5 votes Kicking Against The Pricks, 1986
The Velvet Underground And Nico single, July 1966Nico & The Invisible Girls at Preston Warehouse, November 1982 (inc Martin Hannett and future Primal Scream drummer Toby Tomanov)Bad Seeds
― shivers me timber (sic), Saturday, 6 February 2021 03:17 (three years ago) link
Sleeping Annaleah?
― stirmonster, Saturday, 6 February 2021 03:26 (three years ago) link
Gee, that image in the "Tower of Song" vid is great/faintly unsettling.
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Saturday, 6 February 2021 03:41 (three years ago) link
Ben Smith is apparently the artist.
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Saturday, 6 February 2021 03:52 (three years ago) link
There are 12 covers on the Kicking Against The Pricks LP. All but the first two and last two placed in this poll.
― shivers me timber (sic), Saturday, 6 February 2021 04:13 (three years ago) link
1. Sleeping Annaleah 68 points, 5 votes Kicking Against The Pricks, 1986 Weeping Annaleah by Mickey Newbury, 1968Weeping Analeah by the Box Tops, 1968Weeping Annaleah by Tom Jones, 1968Bad Seeds
trophy goes to stirmonster!
― shivers me timber (sic), Saturday, 6 February 2021 04:14 (three years ago) link
woooo such a great one for the top spot
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 6 February 2021 04:19 (three years ago) link
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.
― stirmonster, Saturday, 6 February 2021 16:38 (three years ago) link
yeah thanks sic - above & beyond!!
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 6 February 2021 17:33 (three years ago) link
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.
― Citole Country (bendy), Monday, 8 February 2021 20:00 (three years ago) link
i should've voted for "get ready for love"
― kissinger on my list (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 9 January 2024 20:44 (five months ago) link