One of the funniest but equally dark as hell songs I've heard. The entire album is a classic. If you want to hear what is probably the antithesis to this song, check out Henry Lee from the same album. Definitely watch the music video for that though, the chemistry between him and PJ Harvey is out of this world
That screaming at the end is Blixa Bargeld of German group Einstürzende Neubauten fame. I wish he was still in the Bad Seeds. He always added an extra element of weirdness,
This was a response to the public outrage about the violence in "gangster rap" at the time. Cave was just showing that the violence in folk songs was just as graphic by putting it into a modern vernacular.
One of the songs on this album was a duet with a pop princess - Kylie Minogue. They did that because, well they are both from Australia. It's a beautiful, haunting song, and has a wonderful video. This was when Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds where riding the White Horse.
Blixa for the win. Glad you did the video because it’s hilarious. People always rec the Glastonbury version, which I find pretty cringey. This song makes me laugh but is generally not high on my list. Oh My Lord (studio version) is a great, and underrated, song. Cave is SUCH a good storyteller.
Blixa... you mean that awesome entity from that epic band Einstürzende Neubauten??? Saw Einstürzende twice... at Expo '86 in Vancouver BC 🇨🇦 and at the Commodore Ballroom in '93 during their Tabula Rasa tour
Blixa Bargeld is also the lead singer and of the industrial band Einstruzende Neubauten. They are one of the originators of the German industrial scene. I love Neubauten! There is an interview with Nick Cave about meeting Blixa and describing the first time he heard his scream. It’s pretty fascinating.
Explicit? I'm there for it! I've been called m***** f***** many times, usually preceded by the word "obnoxious". As for Stagger Lee himself, he sounds nice. My favorite part of this was watching you reacting to the...interesting...lyrics. This channel is the best, I swear.
Blixa Bargeld, the guitarist for the bad seeds for decades, is the frontman for an amazing legendary band: “einstürzende neubauten”. You should do some of their work. It ranges from cacophonous industrial-noise to soft beautiful subtle ballads. Some is accessible, some demanding.
Well, I gotta tell you I have heard many versions of this song by Nick Cave and he owns the song in every one. His all guts performances make the blood boil. Thanks for your reaction. .not an easy job on your part, but well done, and poised young fella !!
I’ve been listening to Nick Cave since about 1981, I love his first band The Birthday Party, and still listen to them now (I’m 56) I’ve seen The Bad Seeds and his other band Grinderman at festivals too. Nick Cave is the coolest dude in the world
@@marcusfoley3347 indeed but looking back from here it really is a bit "lost" young nick trying to figure out where he was going...fast forward to the drug and alcohol fuelled Birthday Party - I went to gig once where the poster stated the best rock n roll band in the world - wow that was an eye opener lol... Then the Bad Seeds and his solo stuff an artist who, and i dont say this lightly, I would consider a genius - 58 going on 16
@@group-music I took a trip to Germany right after highschool in the early nineties to see the sights and stretch my legs, my brand new ( to me ) cousin took me to see Einstürzende Neubauten..by that time, they were pretty big, so it was a fairly large crowd ( for that type of music ). It honestly changed everything I thought I knew I liked about music that night. Like the first time you read Kerouac or drink a really good single malt scotch, it takes a minute and then the mind manipulation kinda sets in...how have I lived without this! One of my fondest memories...
StaggoLee is an old blues standard and many covers of it, my wife likes Pacific Gas and Electrics version which is called StaggoLee and I heard Gomez do a great session version. That said Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds Murder Ballads is one of my wife and my favourite albums and Nick Cave is a genius.
I haven't heard this version. If this one is blocked, try the original by Loyd Price. It's old enough, it should be ok? The story of the song is based on a real murder. After hearing this, I'd still recommend you check out the Loyd Price song.
If you liked the scream in the outro, you can thank Blixa Bargeld the lead singer of the German Industrial band Einsturzende Neubauten. Some of their good songs are NNNAAAMMM, Armenia, and Halber Mensch.
I’m not sure what the pop-up meant, but I do not want community guidelines. I have never seen this video before and I am a lifelong Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds it is so absolutely perfect. Love your reactions. Keep on keeping on.
Check out Nick Cave’s early work with The Boys Next Door and The Birthday Party. I like all of Nick Cave’s stuff. He was also in Grinderman. Check it out!
Great choice. Check out "(I'll Love You) Till the End of the World" from the Until the End of the World movie soundtrack, An amazing collection of songs.
You know he wrote a very dark and excellent book called "And the Ass Saw the Angel" that I read, like 30 years ago. A couple of his characters from Murder Ballads are in it. He really was a story teller for a very long time, before the death of his son. Then his songs became personal. I have been a fan since the Birthday Party. That was a really edgy avant garde band and if you haven't, you should check them out. There isn't really anything bad Nick Cave has done.
You have to check out the live version - there is an extra verse to it... Stagger Lee vs. the devil ;) I remember being very irritated when I first heard it on Murder Ballads - I was fifteen. And yeah, Blixa's screams are unique. They blow your socks off live - You wouldn't believe that this sound comes out of a grown man.
For what it's worth, this set of lyrics is based on a version of the Stagger Lee story collected during a prison field recording - apparently it was being used as a worksong in the days when such things still existed. (The recording was of course unreleasable in the '50s).
One of the best versions of this that I've heard is on the brilliant live album and DVD 'Abattoir Blues Live ' where he encounters the devil in the last added verse.
I'd highly recommend watching a live version of this. There are several good live versions on UA-cam. The one from Copenhagen, where he invites the audience on stage and picks out a "victim" among them is one of the those great ones :-)
Ha ha. btw the album where this song is from is Murder Ballads. That's the theme. It's a couple of albums later (3 or 4) than Your funeral My trial, the one of The Carny -made when they were in Berlin. When the Berlin Wall fell off he went to live in Brazil and then to England.
Stagger Lee as a song goes way back, many artists wrote their own versions around the same story (Grateful Dead). Another amazing song, you are on a roll.
So fun watching you get deeper and deeper into the amazing Nick Cave, the most self aware, ironic, sensitive, authentic and well-read songwriter and performer there is. He's touring this summer, try to see him live - amazing and life changing experience! Oh, and next week this is happening at movie theaters worldwide: ua-cam.com/video/o-f8HDIs6uM/v-deo.html
About a year ago or so, you did the song Don't Fear The Reaper by Blue Oyster Cult. Would you be willing to do a cover comparison now with the HIM version? I think you would really enjoy their take on it.
My favorite version is David Bromberg's Mrs Delion's Lament: ua-cam.com/video/3vLvXTpE2H4/v-deo.html I also like Mississippi John Hurt's Stack O Lee ua-cam.com/video/KWM82eQKdQk/v-deo.html Wikipedia has great info: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stagger_Lee
Great music and performance with sleazy, funny, cringy overtones. A bit of overkill for my taste but interesting anyway, definitely liked the Carney better. Tactful dissection Daniel 😅 Thank you
I wouldnt say better, its the original for sure, but Nicks version is great, the thing with this album, The murder ballads , is that every song is about murder, its quite unique, especially the song wild roses.
Imagine that real songwriters can come up with original melodies, Creative lyrics and real chord progressions while others who can’t rely on shock value.
LoL this 'genre' is steeped in history and it's your great loss not to bring that awareness to your dismissive assessment of this incredible rendition.
OMG! This reaction was so uncomfortable for me, Daniel. The vulgar profanity. Nice Cave’s over the top video performance. Very dark. Thank you for your careful dissection of these lyrics. I did not like this song.
Oh my God this song sucks on so many different levels I don't know where to begin. What happened to Lloyd Price that's the guy that recorded stagley and that versions awesome
One of the funniest but equally dark as hell songs I've heard. The entire album is a classic. If you want to hear what is probably the antithesis to this song, check out Henry Lee from the same album. Definitely watch the music video for that though, the chemistry between him and PJ Harvey is out of this world
One-hundred percent agreed :)
It used to be my favorite album.
This song oozes....
The live version at Glastonbury is a must watch!!!
The 2013 Glastonbury live version is an incredible live performance for sure especially Warren Ellis killing it on the violin
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I'm listening to this, thinking the whole time "how's Daniel going to dissect THESE lyrics"? Admirably navigated.
That screaming at the end is Blixa Bargeld of German group Einstürzende Neubauten fame. I wish he was still in the Bad Seeds. He always added an extra element of weirdness,
Love Warren's work with Dirty Three.
We used to sing this song in Sunday School.
🙂
Murder Ballads is pure gold
This was a response to the public outrage about the violence in "gangster rap" at the time. Cave was just showing that the violence in folk songs was just as graphic by putting it into a modern vernacular.
Murder Ballads is a masterpiece with many great songs on it. Stagger Lee is dark, funny, bleak and expletive ridden to say the least! C.
One of the songs on this album was a duet with a pop princess - Kylie Minogue. They did that because, well they are both from Australia. It's a beautiful, haunting song, and has a wonderful video. This was when Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds where riding the White Horse.
Blixa for the win. Glad you did the video because it’s hilarious. People always rec the Glastonbury version, which I find pretty cringey. This song makes me laugh but is generally not high on my list. Oh My Lord (studio version) is a great, and underrated, song. Cave is SUCH a good storyteller.
Blixa... you mean that awesome entity from that epic band Einstürzende Neubauten???
Saw Einstürzende twice... at Expo '86 in Vancouver BC 🇨🇦 and at the Commodore Ballroom in '93 during their Tabula Rasa tour
@@ecce_neru Yes! I’ve only ever seen him live with Nick Cave, but I love E.N.!
Blixa and his screaming guitar. Love it.
Blixa Bargeld is also the lead singer and of the industrial band Einstruzende Neubauten. They are one of the originators of the German industrial scene. I love Neubauten! There is an interview with Nick Cave about meeting Blixa and describing the first time he heard his scream. It’s pretty fascinating.
His screaming in this song is just amazing
Explicit? I'm there for it! I've been called m***** f***** many times, usually preceded by the word "obnoxious". As for Stagger Lee himself, he sounds nice. My favorite part of this was watching you reacting to the...interesting...lyrics. This channel is the best, I swear.
yeah but have you got a fat boys asshole?
Explicit like "I'd crawl over fifty good pussies just to get to one fat boy's arsehole".
Love Biixa in this one! ❤ Miss him! 😍 Always love Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds! ❤
Please do O'Malley's bar! also! 😃
Blixa Bargeld, the guitarist for the bad seeds for decades, is the frontman for an amazing legendary band: “einstürzende neubauten”. You should do some of their work. It ranges from cacophonous industrial-noise to soft beautiful subtle ballads. Some is accessible, some demanding.
HOLY CRAP! Well…..that was sure a VIBE. It’s like a song noir.
The whole "Murder Ballads" album is great. Check out "Curse of Milhaven" for another great story that's both funny and WTF did I just listen to.
Well, I gotta tell you I have heard many versions of this song by Nick Cave and he owns the song in every one. His all guts performances make the blood boil. Thanks for your reaction. .not an easy job on your part, but well done, and poised young fella !!
I’ve been listening to Nick Cave since about 1981, I love his first band The Birthday Party, and still listen to them now (I’m 56) I’ve seen The Bad Seeds and his other band Grinderman at festivals too. Nick Cave is the coolest dude in the world
Boys next door was his first band. Album is called door door.
@@marcusfoley3347 indeed but looking back from here it really is a bit "lost" young nick trying to figure out where he was going...fast forward to the drug and alcohol fuelled Birthday Party - I went to gig once where the poster stated the best rock n roll band in the world - wow that was an eye opener lol...
Then the Bad Seeds and his solo stuff an artist who, and i dont say this lightly, I would consider a genius - 58 going on 16
It's always nice with some Blixa on top. Thanks!
The stuff during the instrumental was far out. I agree it's brutal but can't deny he did a darn good performance.
Murder Ballads is one of my favourite albums, but sometimes I'll replay this song just for that guitar/scream at the end. It's a sound 😂
Thanks for taking on this uncomfortable song. The whole album is a masterpiece, one of my all-time top ten.
Yes.
C.
Top 3 for me. It's amazing!
This is Nick’s take on a traditional folk ballad. There are many other versions by other artists. I miss Blixa too.
I wish Americans could realize the genius of Blixa Bargeld...the definition of a multi-instrumentalist...an actual unicorn.
Amen to that. Blixa is Blixa. Genious
@@group-music I took a trip to Germany right after highschool in the early nineties to see the sights and stretch my legs, my brand new ( to me ) cousin took me to see Einstürzende Neubauten..by that time, they were pretty big, so it was a fairly large crowd ( for that type of music ). It honestly changed everything I thought I knew I liked about music that night. Like the first time you read Kerouac or drink a really good single malt scotch, it takes a minute and then the mind manipulation kinda sets in...how have I lived without this! One of my fondest memories...
Thank you for your reaction to this great and underrated song
StaggoLee is an old blues standard and many covers of it, my wife likes Pacific Gas and Electrics version which is called StaggoLee and I heard Gomez do a great session version. That said Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds Murder Ballads is one of my wife and my favourite albums and Nick Cave is a genius.
I haven't heard this version. If this one is blocked, try the original by Loyd Price. It's old enough, it should be ok? The story of the song is based on a real murder. After hearing this, I'd still recommend you check out the Loyd Price song.
This is from Murder Ballads an album full of killers, gruesome deaths, poethic deaths, strange deaths💀💀💀
If you ever see this, watch the video of Fifteen Feet of Pure White Snow, it's fantastic!!
You're a good sport Daniel. Love your reactions.
The Glastonbury performance of this song was amazing! Extra verse at end also!
your face when the guitar freakout began made me smile so big
The best thing about this video is the pink outfit, considering the content of the song:)
A perfect introduction to blixas (the screaming guitarist) band einsturzende neubauten. Pleeeease do einsturzende next!!!!!!
Blixa is a monster
Brilliant dark and funny. Cave is one of a kind. True artistry. You should have read the lyrics out fully, we can take it.
Check out "bring it on" if you want a little insight on the visual
If you liked the scream in the outro, you can thank Blixa Bargeld the lead singer of the German Industrial band Einsturzende Neubauten. Some of their good songs are NNNAAAMMM, Armenia, and Halber Mensch.
Murder Ballads is a work of art 🎨.
I’m not sure what the pop-up meant, but I do not want community guidelines. I have never seen this video before and I am a lifelong Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds it is so absolutely perfect. Love your reactions. Keep on keeping on.
You get it.
Check out Nick Cave’s early work with The Boys Next Door and The Birthday Party. I like all of Nick Cave’s stuff. He was also in Grinderman. Check it out!
Dark comedy is a perfect description
Great choice. Check out "(I'll Love You) Till the End of the World" from the Until the End of the World movie soundtrack, An amazing collection of songs.
You know he wrote a very dark and excellent book called "And the Ass Saw the Angel" that I read, like 30 years ago. A couple of his characters from Murder Ballads are in it. He really was a story teller for a very long time, before the death of his son. Then his songs became personal. I have been a fan since the Birthday Party. That was a really edgy avant garde band and if you haven't, you should check them out. There isn't really anything bad Nick Cave has done.
This album is brilliant.
You have to check out the live version - there is an extra verse to it... Stagger Lee vs. the devil ;)
I remember being very irritated when I first heard it on Murder Ballads - I was fifteen.
And yeah, Blixa's screams are unique. They blow your socks off live - You wouldn't believe that this sound comes out of a grown man.
There's an AWESOME live performance of this song you can find on UA-cam when Nick and the boys played Austin City Limits.
Back in '32 times were hard.
For what it's worth, this set of lyrics is based on a version of the Stagger Lee story collected during a prison field recording - apparently it was being used as a worksong in the days when such things still existed. (The recording was of course unreleasable in the '50s).
One of the best versions of this that I've heard is on the brilliant live album and DVD 'Abattoir Blues Live ' where he encounters the devil in the last added verse.
Highly recommend the live version from Glastonbury or some other songs from the album, all fantastic!
When you get a chance check out Nick Cave's live performance of this song from Austin City Limits. It's riveting.
My favorite!
I'd highly recommend watching a live version of this. There are several good live versions on UA-cam. The one from Copenhagen, where he invites the audience on stage and picks out a "victim" among them is one of the those great ones :-)
A powerful brew! Probably not something I’d choose to relax to of an evening, but powerful, visceral, art nonetheless.
Ha ha. btw the album where this song is from is Murder Ballads. That's the theme. It's a couple of albums later (3 or 4) than Your funeral My trial, the one of The Carny -made when they were in Berlin. When the Berlin Wall fell off he went to live in Brazil and then to England.
Not a bad choice from Caves rich production :)
Poor Nick his son died a week ago, and a year ago his young son died falling from a cliff. The man knows heartbreak.
So sexy and so much swag....love love love Nick.....
Kurt Weil-esque.
hahaha, pure class.
Stagger Lee as a song goes way back, many artists wrote their own versions around the same story (Grateful Dead). Another amazing song, you are on a roll.
Hah! Love this song 😆
So fun watching you get deeper and deeper into the amazing Nick Cave, the most self aware, ironic, sensitive, authentic and well-read songwriter and performer there is. He's touring this summer, try to see him live - amazing and life changing experience! Oh, and next week this is happening at movie theaters worldwide: ua-cam.com/video/o-f8HDIs6uM/v-deo.html
Check out his double album
Abattoir Blues
Caves Murder Bollards is a great album.
You need to react to 'The curse of Millhaven' from the same álbum. It's the story of a teenage girl who was a serial killer.
You should listen to “Into my Arms” by Nick Cave ❤️
@@viceroyzh oh thank you! I’ll go have a look see!
Check out Goat by The Jesus Lizard.
A tad different to Bright Horses...
Glastonbury
About a year ago or so, you did the song Don't Fear The Reaper by Blue Oyster Cult. Would you be willing to do a cover comparison now with the HIM version? I think you would really enjoy their take on it.
Dude have you thought about reacting to another Opeth album? You'd like Damnation or Still Life
My favorite version is David Bromberg's Mrs Delion's Lament: ua-cam.com/video/3vLvXTpE2H4/v-deo.html
I also like Mississippi John Hurt's Stack O Lee ua-cam.com/video/KWM82eQKdQk/v-deo.html
Wikipedia has great info: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stagger_Lee
This is an old song, covered many times.
Great music and performance with sleazy, funny, cringy overtones. A bit of overkill for my taste but interesting anyway, definitely liked the Carney better. Tactful dissection Daniel 😅
Thank you
Hes making fun of mtv
lol! It's not a different side dude, Nick is pretty much always ironic. You're a but too young to get it I think,
Stagger Lee was originally Lloyd price 1957. Way better than this version.
I wouldnt say better, its the original for sure, but Nicks version is great, the thing with this album, The murder ballads , is that every song is about murder, its quite unique, especially the song wild roses.
Imagine that real songwriters can come up with original melodies, Creative lyrics and real chord progressions while others who can’t rely on shock value.
All of this genre is Shock Value and nothing more , anyone can exhibit their inablility to find proper words ........ : > P
LoL this 'genre' is steeped in history and it's your great loss not to bring that awareness to your dismissive assessment of this incredible rendition.
@@poltoons In the words of Black Sabbeth , ft Ozzie , F U .......... Lmfao
OMG! This reaction was so uncomfortable for me, Daniel. The vulgar profanity. Nice Cave’s over the top video performance. Very dark. Thank you for your careful dissection of these lyrics. I did not like this song.
I stoped listening to this song because of the language in the song. Sorry Daniel.
Oh my God this song sucks on so many different levels I don't know where to begin. What happened to Lloyd Price that's the guy that recorded stagley and that versions awesome