BABE I'M ON FIRE

for me, this song is to nick cave what 'blindness' is to the fall, that sort of late career monolith of a song that towers over everything else they've put out in the last twenty years, and even in my state of disenchantment bordering on complete apostasy, it gives me that fleeting frisson of belief once more. maybe every other severely long-in-the-tooth indie-rock band has one of these?

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

It's just about the only track worth anything on "Nocturama".

"Dead Man In My Bed" is also great but otherwise yeah

"Higgs Boson Blues" especially the slower dream-like version on the Live at KCRW is another Nick Cave tune from the last few years I have gone through periods of listening to over and over.

:It's just about the only track worth anything on "Nocturama".

I was going to say; it's an amazing song, the rest of the album is a complete snooze

i like 'bring it on' but yeah

Oh yeah, that's the other one from that album I kept.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8xjNb-nBC8

I have this memory of ilx really not liking this track when it was new, is that just something I thought?

Babe was the b-side to Bring It On, no need for the album itself at all

Aside from Bring It On and Babe I'm On Fire, I also like Wonderful Life myself but its still a far from essential album. Think he was drifting for a bit: Abattoir Blues is a bit overblown Neil Diamond for me, and Dig Lazarus Dig is fun but not a lot of real spark, but the last two have been great.

Babe was the b-side to Bring It On, no need for the album itself at all

This song would be the ultimate jukebox-hogger.

this song is one of my all time faves

The disgraced country vicar says it
The crazed guitar picker says it
The beatnik, the peacenik
The apparachick says

http://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=3&v=DcJGalE3vn0

The cop with his breathalyser
The paddy with his fertiliser
The man in the basement
That's getting a taste for it says
Babe, I'm on fire
Babe, I'm on fire

mark s says it, momus says it
ned says it, djp says it
stet says it, madchen says it
everyone at the party says

hit me up, baby, and knock me down

Babe was the b-side to Bring It On, no need for the album itself at all

either there was an Australian promo that's not on Discogs or this guy was engaging in wishful thinking

I’d forgotten about bring it on, a very underwhelming single - this should’ve been the (apocryphal) a-side!

it was a double A-side with He Wants You, but only as a radio edit (the video exists in both versions)

bring it on was good

dammit

the proud kangaroo says it
the koala, the echidna
and the platypus too