Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - B-sides And Rarities Part I & Part II

Nicholas Edward Cave (born 22 September 1957) is an Australian singer, songwriter, author, screenwriter, composer and occasional actor. Known for his baritone voice and for fronting the rock band Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Cave's music is generally characterised by emotional intensity, a wide variety of influences and lyrical obsessions with death, religion, love and violence. Accompanied by his ubiquitous backing band the Bad Seeds, Cave's style is inimitable as it ranges across a spectrum that includes noisy, clattering, but extremely musical rock, equal parts mutant rockabilly, garage, indie, post-punk, and cabaret, as well as striking romantic balladry and broken blues. Warren Ellis (born 14 February 1965) is an Australian musician and composer. He is a member of the rock groups Dirty Three and Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. He also performed with the band Grinderman until its disbandment in 2013. He has also composed film scores with long-time collaborator and band-mate Nick Cave. Ellis plays the violin, piano, accordion, bouzouki, guitar, flute, mandolin, tenor guitar, and viola. He has been a member of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds since 1994. In 1993, Ellis was invited to play with Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds as part of a small string ensemble for several songs on Let Love In (released 1994). He would soon join the band as a full-time member, initially emphasizing violin but gradually adding many other instruments. Ellis eventually co-wrote many of the band's songs and became a pivotal collaborator with singer Nick Cave in film scores and other projects. Ellis was also a member of Grinderman, a side-group from the Bad Seeds, who have released two albums and a remix album. "B-Sides & Rarities" is a compilation-album by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, released in March 2005. It features over 20 years of the band's B-sides and previously unreleased tracks, including tracks performed with Shane MacGowan and acoustic versions of "Deanna" and "The Mercy Seat". It is also the first recording to include all members of The Bad Seeds, past and present: Nick Cave, Mick Harvey, Blixa Bargeld, Thomas Wydler, Martyn P. Casey, Conway Savage, Jim Sclavunos, Warren Ellis, Barry Adamson, Kid Congo Powers, James Johnston, Roland Wolf and Hugo Race. Back in 2005, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds released "B-Sides & Rarities", a collection that's exactly as its title describes. Now, 16 years later, the group has another volume of obscurities on the way. Out on Oct. 22, "B-Sides & Rarities Part II" was compiled by Cave and Warren Ellis, and contains 27 rare and unreleased tracks from 2006-2020, including the first recordings of "Skeleton Tree," "Girl In Amber" and "Bright Horses." It will be released on double vinyl, double CD, deluxe double CD and all digital platforms. As for the first "B-Sides & Rarities", this will be the first time it's out on vinyl. In total, the 27-song "B-Sides & Rarities Part II" boasts 19 unreleased tracks, compiled by Cave and Bad Seeds member Warren Ellis, including the first recordings of album cuts like "Skeleton Tree," "Girl in Amber," and "Bright Horses," the studio version of the quarantine-penned "Euthanasia," Cave's cover of Leonard Cohen's "Avalanche," an official version of the spoken-word piece "Steve McQueen," an orchestral take on "Push the Sky Away," and more. "I always liked the original "B-Sides & Rarities" more than any of our other albums. It's the only one I'd listen to willingly. It seems more relaxed, even a bit nonsensical in places, but with some beautiful songs throughout. There is something, too, about the smallness of certain songs that is closer to their original spirit," Cave said in a statement. ""B-Sides & Rarities Part II" continues this strange and beautiful collection of lost songs from the Bad Seeds. I love the final side of the last disc because it reveals the small and fragile beginnings of some of my favorite Bad Seeds songs. 'Waiting for You' complete with bizarre 'canning factory' rhythm track, a gorgeous 'Life Per Se' deemed too sad for "Skeleton Tree", and 'Earthlings' that some consider the finest track of the "Ghosteen" sessions."

LP 1

A1. Deanna (Acoustic Version)

A2. The Mercy Seat (Acoustic Version)

A3. City of Refuge(Acoustic Version)

A4. The Moon Is in the Gutter

A5. The Six Strings That Drew Blood

A6. Rye Whiskey

A7. Running Scared

B1. Black Betty

B2. Scum

B3. The Girl at the Bottom of My Glass

B4. The Train Song

B5. Cocks 'n' Asses

B6. Blue Bird

LP 2

A1. Helpless

A2. God's Hotel

A3. (I'll Love You) Till the End of the World

A4. Cassiel's Song

A5. Tower of Song

A6. Rye Whiskey

B1. What Can I Give You ?

B2. What a Wonderful World

B3. Rainy Night In Soho

B4. Lucy (Version #2)

B5. Jack the Ripper (Acoustic Version)

LP 3

A1. The Ballad of Robert Moore and Betty Coltrane

A2. The Willow Garden

A3. King Kong Kitchee Kitchee Ki-Mi-O

A4. Knoxville Girl

A5. There's No Night Out in the Jail

A6. That's What Jazz Is to Me

B1. Where the Wild Roses Grow

B2. O'Malley's Bar Pt. 1

B3. O'Malley's Bar Pt. 2

B4. O'Malley's Bar Pt. 3

B5. O'Malley's Bar Reprise

LP 4

A1. Red Right Hand

A2. Time Jesum Transeuntum Et Non Riverentum

A3. Little Empty Boat

A4. Right Now I'm A-Roaming

B1. Come Into My Sleep

B2. Black Hair

B3. Babe, I Got You Bad

B4. Sheep May Safely Graze

B5. Opium Tea

LP 5

A1. Grief Came Riding

A2. Bless His Ever Loving Heart

A3. Good Good Day

A4. Little Janey's Gone

A5. I Feel So Good

A6. Shoot Me Down

B1. Swing Low

B2. Little Ghost Song

B3. Everything Must Converge

B4. Nocturama

B5. She's Leaving You

B6. Under This Moon

LP 6

A1. Hey Little Firing Squad

A2. Fleeting Love

A3. Accidents Will Happen

A4. Free To Walk (With Debbie Harry)

A5. Avalanche

A6. Vortex

B1. Needle Boy

B2. Lightning Bolts

B3. Animal X

B4. Give Us a Kiss

B5. Push The Sky Away (Live with The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra)

LP 7

A1. First Skeleton Tree

A2. King Sized Nick Cave Blues

A3. Opium Eyes

A4. Big Dream (With Sky)

A5. Instrumental #33

A6. Hell Villanelle

A7. Euthanasia

A8. Life Per Se

B1. Steve McQueen

B2. First Bright Horses

B3. First Girl in Amber

B4. Glacier

B5. Heart that Kills You

B6. First Waiting for You

B7. Sudden Song.

B8. Earthlings

Acoustic Guitar - Harvey

Backing Vocals - Wolf, Bargeld, Harvey, Johnston, Ellis

Bass - Casey, Harvey, Adamson

Drums - Sclavunos, Harvey, Wydler

Guitar - Bargeld, Powers, Race, Johnston, Ellis

Harmonica - Cave

Organ - Savage, Harvey, Johnston

Organ [Hammond] - Cave

Percussion [Brushed Snare] - Sclavunos

Synthesizer - Ellis

Flute - Ellis

Loops - Ellis 

Piano - Savage, Harvey, Cave, Ellis 

Tambourine - Sclavunos

Violin - EllisVocals - Cave