Just wanted to say thank you for all of the suggestions! I’m taking time every morning to check all of them out, and I like the fact that it will take me a while :)
I listened to Skeleton Tree when it came out and I enjoyed quite a bit, where do I go from here?
CONTEXT: I thought "Today's Lesson" was the best one, but then "Nature Boy" came up on Spotify and now I suppose it might be, too. I described it to a bigger Nick Cave fan than I as "basically Today's Lesson meets Spinning Song" and he thinks that I am ridiculous and that calling it one of the best is ridiculous.
But I believe it is close with "Today's Lesson" for the best one.
Thoughts? Is my comparison apt, and is it one of the best Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds songs?
Thank you for your time
If I like Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, particularly songs like Hollywood, People Ain't No Good, Mercy Seat (acoustic version), what else would I like?
For me it would be
- Higgs Boson Blues
- Jubilee Street
- Curse of Millhaven
- I Need You
- Babe, You Turn Me On
- God Is In The House
- Lay Me Low
- The Mercy Seat
- Tupelo
- Hiding All Away
Honourable mentions: Green eyes, No night out in the jail, The kindness of strangers, Shoot me down, Nocturama, Babe I'm on fire, O Malley's bar, People ain't no good, Easy money.
After 24 hours I will make a ranking of all the songs. Each vote counts. If the song gets ranked 1 it gets 15 points 2-10 3-9 4-8 5-7 6-6 7-5 8-4 9-3 10-2 Honourable mentions get 1 point.
Edit: honourable mentions Edit 2: rankings
Other ones that are on my rotation are The Glow Pt. 2 by the Microphones, Eliot Smith, and A Crow Looked at Me by Mt. Eerie. I'm open to pretty much any genre. Thanks for the recommendations.
These are the results. Thank you all so much for responding. The positive feedback was overwhelming. There was 101 different songs mentioned and all of them are listed below in descending order. The more points the better.
Jubilee Street 66
Into my arms 54
Tupelo 50
Higgs Boson Blues 48
Mercy Seat 45
Red Right Hand 43
There She Goes My Beautiful World 28
(Are you) the one I've been waiting for 24
The Ship Song 23
Breathless 22
Cannibals hymn 22
Loverman 22
Do you love me 20
Papa won't leave you Henry 19
Fifteen feet of pure white snow 18
Henry Lee 18
I need you 16
From her to eternity 16
O children 16
The carny 16
Lay me low 15
Stagger Lee 15
Straight to you 15
Nobody's baby now 15
Magneto 15
What can I give you 15
The curse of Millhaven 14
Oh my Lord 14
Babe you turn me on 13
Brompton oratory 13
I let love in 13
Deanna 13
Dig Lazarus dig 12
Babe I'm on fire 11
Hiding all away 11
Nature boy 10
We call upon the author 10
O Malley's bar 9
Stranger than kindness 9
Moonland 9
Push the sky away 9
Wide lovely eyes 9
More news from nowhere 8
Rings of Saturn 8
Say goodbye to the little girl tree 8
Watching Alice 8
People ain't no good 7
Jack the ripper 7
Hold on to yourself 7
Midnight man 7
West country girl 7
Night of the lotus eaters 7
No more shall we part 7
Waters edge 7
Where do we go now but nowhere 7
Wonderful life 7
Abattoir blues 7
God is in the house 6
Supernaturally 6
Finishing jubilee Street 6
Dead man in my bed 6
Nocturama 5
Muddy water 5
When I first came to town 4
Opium tea 3
I'll love you till the end of the world 3
The weeping song 3
Slowly goes the night 3
Anthrocene 2
Black hair 2
Sorrow's child 2
Girl in Amber 2
Skeleton tree 2
Distant sky 2
Long time man 2
Green eyes 1
No night out in the jail 1
The kindness of strangers 1
Shoot me down 1
Easy money 1
Lovely creature 1
Black Betty 1
She fell away 1
God's hotel 1
Hey Joe 1
Song of joy 1
Blue bird 1
Sad waters 1
Do you love me part 2 1
Idiot prayer 1
Hallelujah 1
Get ready for love 1
We no who u r 1
Where the wild roses grow 1
As I sat sadly by her side 1
We came along this road 1
If you voted on my post yesterday and one if your top 10/honourable mentions aren't there, please let me know as I will add it in.
Basically, whenever fall starts, I start listening to all these folky-indie-whatever bands like Bright Eyes and Sufjan Stevens but all their music is so sad that I end up getting bummed out. Are there any artists similar to the ones I mentioned that have good lyrics and aesthetics but won't leave me feeling very sad?
Edit: man this got a lot of attention! It seems like I'll be set on music for the rest of autumn lol thank you to everyone that responded
What an Album!
I've been severely depressed for years, and am now unemployed. I have a nerve related condition that has me now disabled with limited mobility and I'm in a different country alone -trying to get treatment.....Needless to say I'm not feeling the greatest at this point in my life.
I've been running on autopilot for a while now. Just living day to day, without any emotion or passion. While checking out MetaCritic to find my next show to zone out to, I noticed Nick Cave had a new album and it was rated very highly. I remembered Nick Cave from a movie called The Proposition, which he did the soundtrack for -which is one of my favourite soundtracks ever. So, I decided to give Ghosteen a listen. Now, I haven't really "listened" to an Album in years. At best I'd just have music in the background.
As soon as I started playing The Album, I stopped what I was doing and actually listened to the music and let myself shut off that part of my brain that was stiffling me. The emotions just came out in a flood and I cried for the first time in years. I felt so much better after I had finished the Album, and felt a like a giant weight was lifted off my body. No therapy, drugs, or councelling has had an effect like that on me.
It's a few days later and I'm still feeling better, and I'm even hopefull for the future as I thought I'd never feel emotions again, and just the fact that I was able to feel somthing has me very excited.
Thank You Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds! Having read about the Album and how it was inspired by tragedy -it really comes through in the music. The emotions are so real, I can feel them through the music, and to me that's profound.
