Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Stagger Lee (Official HD Video)
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- Опубліковано 14 бер 2010
- Official HD music video for “Stagger Lee’ by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds.
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Promotional Video directed by Emma Davis.
‘Stagger Lee’ was taken from the band’s 9th album
‘Murder Ballads’ and featured the Bad Seeds line up of Nick Cave, Mick Harvey, Blixa Bargeld, Warren Ellis, Martyn P.Casey,Thomas Wydler, Jim Sclavunos & Conway Savage.
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Lyrics:
It was back in ‘32 when times were hard
He had a Colt .45 and a deck of cards
Stagger Lee
He wore rat-drawn shoes and an old stetson hat
Had a ‘28 Ford, had payments on that
Stagger Lee
His woman threw him out in the ice and snow
And told him, “Never ever come back no more”
Stagger Lee
So he walked through the rain and he walked through the mud
Till he came to a place called The Bucket Of Blood
Stagger Lee
He said, “Mr Motherfucker, you know who I am”
The barkeeper said, “No, and I don’t give a good goddamn”
To Stagger Lee
He said, “Well bartender, it’s plain to see
I’m that bad motherfucker called Stagger Lee”
Mr. Stagger Lee
Barkeep said, “Yeah, I’ve heard your name down the way
And I kick motherfucking asses like you every day”
Mr Stagger Lee
Well, those were the last words that the barkeep said
‘Cause Stag put four holes in his motherfucking head
Just then in came a broad called Nellie Brown
Was known to make more money than any bitch in town
She struts across the bar, hitching up her skirt
Over to Stagger Lee, she starts to flirt
With Stagger Lee
She saw the barkeep, said, “O God, he can’t be dead!”
Stag said, “Well, just count the holes in the motherfucker’s head”
She said, “You look like you ain’t scored in quite a time.
Why not come to my pad? It won’t cost you a dime”
Mr. Stagger Lee
“But there’s something I have to say before you begin
You’ll have to be gone before my man Billy Dilly comes in,
Stagger Lee”
“I’ll stay here till Billy Dilly comes in, till time comes to pass
And furthermore I’ll fuck Billy Dilly in his motherfucking ass”
Said Stagger Lee
“I’m a bad motherfucker, don’t you know
And I’ll crawl over fifty good pussies just to get to one fat boy’s asshole”
Said Stagger Lee
Just then Billy Dilly rolls in and said, “You must be
That bad motherfucker called Stagger Lee”
Stagger Lee
“Yeah, I’m Stagger Lee and you better get down on your knees
And suck my dick, because if you don’t you’re sure to be dead”
Said Stagger Lee
Billy Dilly dropped down and slobbered on his head
And Stag filled him full of lead
Oh yeah.
#NickCaveandthebadseeds #StaggerLee #MurderBallads
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I like this song because of its positive message
lolol
Be yourself lee.
Thanks 🙏 that’s the best comment I’ve seen on any song in a long long time, or ever
Yeah, I guess I do too now.
It is just so uplifting and joyous😂
Nick Cave single handedly makes Australia a place of culture
No mate. We have many talents.
@@lucylovic I am not doubting that. I was a big fan of ACDC when I was young. I am just saying that Nick Cave, all by himself, puts Australia on the cultural map.
Do you even Banjo Patterson mate!?@@oreganoregan5947
Ken oath we got chopper,skyhooks and heaps of other good shit.yeeeeeww@@lucylovic
And me of course 🙏😎
This is the perfect choice for ‘first dance’ at a wedding
good lord 😂
I wouldn't get married for my 6th time otherwise
😂
I listened to this for the first time with my dad when we were on our way to the Huntington Gardens. He suggested that we play it in the tearoom.
Well if you say so 😂
To me Nick Cave is the Stephen King of music.
More like Faulkner honestly
@@alexeverson3604 I appreciate the reference, thanks.
They look similar
that's an insult to Nick Cave.
Stephen king isn’t nearly in the same league as Nick Cave
Nick Cave is Australia's - if not one of the world's - greatest ever wordsmiths - his ability to paint a picture with lyrics is undeniably unique - simply brilliant
Thanks for the support, it’s my utmost pleasure having you here, thanks for your support you have been giving me all these years, I wouldn’t be here if not you my lovely fan. I hope you find joy and happiness in my songs?😊
Only Nick Cave could manage to still look menacing in a pink "Take That love you" T-shirt and while pants! Great song!
lol! So true so true! lol
You know, he is not menacing in spite of his outfit but because if it. It s part of the perversion and utterly brilliant.
@@dyathink lynchian
I remember years ago the UA-cam comment section were going on about how Nick had to wear that T-Shirt to counter-balance the intense and ruthless machismo of the lyrics.
No-one else could of sung this + being Soo entraining as Nick Cave. I have never been a big fan. After seeing Stagger Lee. Nick is talented, funny. Great entertainer. The theatrics, the dancing, the uncensored swearing & dirty lyrics. It's like watching a Quentin Tarantin movie Shock, violence, swearing, humour, guns cool music, crime, & quirky entertainment. I love it. It's art & if you take it seriously & don't laugh them that's weird because So much is banned due to discrimination or too crude + disturbing. It's funny like "Jackie Brown" or pulp fiction. " banned from saying or
Wife caught me singing this in the shower full tilt. She doesn't know the song.... She's worried.
I often joke that with some of his songs what's really going through his mind and does Susie sleep with one eye open LOL
No wonder!
HAhaha...
probably best not to sing it in the bedroom haha
She should be
I was looking for the 1959 hit for Lloyd Price "Stagger Lee" and found this. Thinking it was a new cover version I gave it a play. I was shocked but in a good way. This is brilliant. This guy is a charismatic genius.
If you like this song, go check out "brother my cup is empty" or " papa won't leave you henry" 2 of the best songs ever in my opinion
P.s gotta read the lyrics to fully appreciate them
Check out the Grateful Dead's version of Stagger Lee. Variations on a theme. "As Stagger Lee lit a cigarette she shot him in the balls..."
He's the best! No one on the planet can do what Nick does!
Funny
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At first I thought it was the guitar wailing.. until I realised it was Blixas' wail of doom and my head exploded. I am writing this with no head.
I lost my eardrums to it too
That's impressive. 😮
The baddest character in this song is the woman who throws him out and tells him to never come back...
They should have done more with her.
"It did occur to me one night, as I performed Stagger Lee in full priapic flight, that Stagger Lee does not shoot Billy Dilly with an actual gun at all, but that his being “filled full of lead. Bang! Bang! Bang!” was simply a metaphor for the force of Stag’s ejaculation, and Blixa’s terrifying and inhuman screeching at the end orgasmic in nature. This made me wonder, chillingly at the time, what sleeping with Blixa must be like - something I am sadly unable to elaborate on." - Nick Cave
That is hilarious!
he just is super hans,
kutty superfast was that the bad thing?🤔
@@TheCaptain610 I have thought this too
"something I am sadly unable to elaborate on"
suure
I love Blixas screams at the end so much. Just inhuman sounds
Yes like some anguished demon from the pits of hell!! Awesomeness!
@Snatch Dizzy that album is awesome! His screams in Armenia are nuts
His screams are legendary. Nothing on earth like them.
Genuinely thought that was guitar screeches.
Jack White tried to mimic Blixa's vocals in his whos with me album and actually managed to pull it off pretty well in my opinion
so elegant, so dirty, so vile, so graceful, so intense, so smooth..the tension builds and builds and then the violence explodes..phew..amazing..
Exactly!
It's so raunchy yet he and the dancers are emitting some sort of vibe as if it should be sexy. It's bizarre and mesmerizing maybe because I was such a fan of the original song.
Those who replied are born for expressing stupidity!😏🤪🥴
An absolutely apt description!
It's a masterpiece. Very clever, funny and entraining. I love it.
I guess Stagger Lee is Henry Lee's badass bro
lol I thought the same thing
No one's putting Stagger in a well.
I know you mean the Nick Cave from the same album, but my first thought was Henry Lee Lucas, which...also kind of fits.
Maybe the girl from Henry Lee is the same girl that was badass enough to kick Stagger Lee out into the ice and snow and told him to never come back no more.
Stagger ain't getting stabber.@@WillowPt
I LOVE THIS STILL IN 2024! :D
Can't point one bad song on Murder Ballads. Albums like that are so rare and they stand the test of time.
Harry Callahan Ahem, that's PJ Harvey. If you like Nick check out her work. She's amazing.
for me Death is Not the End just doesn't fit in with the rest, mind you, I'm not religious so that probably doesn't help.
@@aeric5266 Go to hell. O'Malley's Bar is my favourite of the Murder Ballads.
@@jaxativejax662 I think Death Is Not The End is a great ending if you've listened to the whole album in it's entirely.
True
I don’t understand why you never hear this on the radio?
...because radio went dead after first try...
...because radio is shait nowadays...
Can't get more badass than this
electric six-gay bar goes pretty hard
Electric Six used Viagra™
... in a pink tshirt...
Oh Yes, You can. The guy who walks into O'Malleys Bar is twice as badass ;-)
Aksel Steen fucking ae. Exactly what i came to comment.
One of the deepest and coolest masterpieces in human history ☮️
Stop the madness, stop the war ☮️ Blues is the healer ☮️
In a better world, this song would be a staple at karaoke bars.
I'd have a go lol ....
There is a karaoke version on youtube though
I long for that world.
Yep. It's forbidden here.
Believe me, I've tried.
But Where the Wild Roses Grow we have made just for fun...
It is.
Mind you your friends will be afraid of you for the rest of their lives after you sing it, but it is.
A fun, family sing-along 😋
Hi dear I was on my scrolling mode when I saw your profile and sent a text hope you don't find it pestering...?
I wonder how come this song was never on MTV!? 💙🤣💙
Nick Cave is a genius ☮️
Notice how Blixa has a guitar around his neck most of the time in the video, but doesn't play a single chord. I just love this man. He looks so very shady and awesome in this video.
shady men >
Jerrymylitus
This is how I feel each time I enter in a bar...but after I just take a beer and say "thanks".
Hahaha
Drink everytime he swears or says Stagger Lee
Nobody would survive the first minute 🤣🤣
I just died...
Hahaha lasted for 3 minutes. Wicked challenge...
DO NOT PLAY THIS GAME
Chug everything in your liquor room during the minute that's just all screaming :^)
Dark..creepy..disturbing..hypnotizing..dirty..sexual..depraved..yet still fucking brilliant. I love the bass in this song...actually in all their music.
cuz thats my mate... mr martin casey
Check out Martyn Casey’s previous group The Triffids
This may be the coolest song ever recorded and especially coolest performance, it's beatifully cheesy and brutally cool. I can't help but love this song for it's self-awareness of it being "bad".
I cant stop watching it. I love Nick Caves dirty persona. I want to scrub all that dirty off of him and bottle it..lol
I agree it's out there. Clever, catchy, crude,violent and funny
wrong
@@frankesparros5908 anything better to say?
@@frankesparros5908
Come on, dude. Try to string a sentence together.
1:27 blixa is me everytime I listen to this song
That scream.........Only Blixa can pull this off ! 🖤
My favorite gangsta rap song
Wow, Blixa's screaming was unpredictable and amazing
Got to be one of the best tracks ever
Aesthetic af thin Nick Cave throwing in some moves like jagger in a pink shirt.
And my mum asks me when will she see some grandchildren. Unless I find a man like him, I ain't getting married XD
You need to get out more♠️♥️
Lower your expectations
Heroin chic
right, or like gerard xP
Yeah, those men are gay, though. So it sounds like Grandma is s.o.l.
I wish i could live in this video
"I'm forever near a stereo saying, 'What the fuck is this garbage? ' And the answer is always the Red Hot Chili Peppers"
- Mr. Nick Cave
I'm not disagreeing about the RHCP... but this IS NOT the hill to die on. This is, at best, interesting, and, at worst, a bombastic self-indulgence. Either way, it isn't substantially better than the Peppers. It doesn't help that there is already a GREAT song called Stagger Lee (based on the same true event, I suppose). And the original isn't a self-indulgent abstraction of the idea of music like this is. I can believe this guy has done better, though, and I'm off to look for that now. Bottom line: If you've gotten to the point where you can only imagine making grotesque reflections ABOUT art, you should just find something else to do. This is the musical equivalent of someone who can only get aroused by watching oiled up midgets in walrus costumes fisting each other's assholes while singing the Canadian national anthem. That's NOT sex anymore.
Mr. John Frusciante, folks
@@TroubleToby3040I have to totally disagree. But that's cool.
Good to know someone hates the Chili Peppers as much as I do
@@steverye8872 I respect them but for some reason their music annoys me.
Seeing Nick at a live concert is one of the most intense experiences! It's like everybody is bewitched. Hope to see him once more in Holland. Love him, he's the greatest!
He had me captivated , and on the edge of my seat the whole time! Nick Cave is my god !
@@ange2370 settle Ange lol. Still, he's better than the imaginary God, at least he's real...
@@themudpit621 LOL, figure of speech, but your right ....STILL, he is "in my eyes" ( Nick not God lol) 😂is the greatest.
Blixas range is unbelievable!
Blixa is the icing on this perfect cake 🍰
I am very amused by the fact that it is the kind of video in which the record label spent a reasonable amount of money with zero chance of MTV airing it.
Anto Dixon MTV Brasil also did it!
Coz he sells records
I don't think they would have spent much on it. It's in a studio, the set looks pretty cheap. There's only two dancers and the band. The lighting, camera work and editing is very good though, so that makes up for a lot of of it. Plus, Nick knows how to play it up for the camera.
@@stopbunsen the editing is amazing
Yeah. It looks like they shot almost all of the videos for this album on the same sound stage. Probably spent two or three days rolling, then dumped them in an editor’s lap and went on tour.
I want this played in my funeral....
LOL!! That's Gold🤣
lets hope the two people who attend are Nick Cave fans.
The best coda in the history of popular music
Blixa scream
There is nothing more badass in the world than this song.
Kids, this is what is meant by “effortlessly cool”.
Always love Blixa's part!
I’m here for the demented screaming at the end.
I regularly come back to watch this video, just because I love to see Blixa's display of the epitome of pure oldschool awesomeness.
So do I. I actually find it funnier now I know the words + start laughing when I know what Nick Cave is going to do and sing next. He tells the story of Stagger Lee sooo well and the drama + dancing. I love the video clip. It's my sense of humour Anton else rather than Nick Cave could not of pulled off the ballad, story,song like He is so funny. I live the tune too.
I love how hes always dancing with his guitar, but rarely ever play anything on it ;)
Nick talked about Blixa’s contributions on guitar in an interview that I watched, he was not of course their lead or even rhythm guitarist, he played his guitar tracks over a mostly finished song in the studio, and they were just weird, unique riffs. They didn’t always go through The entire piece but just kind of peppered in here and there sometimes. Basically to add intrigue, an extra layer of sound. Plus he just also looked good on stage. 😊
That bass, song is INCREDIBLE. Murder Ballads is a masterpiece.
This song is a classic. Still waiting for the day Nick Cave is featured on an episode of Bluey.
Nick Cave one of the few who can pull this off. The man is storyteller and still one of the best.
I would like Tarantino to make a movie called "Stagger Lee" pretty please
I was just thinking that this song is like a tarentino movie
Daniel Hance except it’s not generic, predictable and boring like anything that man-child has shat out.
Hell yeah! And cut of some ears!
@@alimokhtari2287 Anyone could write and direct movies which gross 1.9 billion dollars worldwide, win 2 Oscars, 3 Golden Globes, and 159 other awards.
Dude that would be awesome
Most awesomely homoerotic Nick Cave video ever.
Couldn't agree more. He's awesome
As an Australian. Nick cave Is an inspiration. His words. Compositions and stage presentation. X
Why am I only hearing about this now? This is MUSIC!!!
How this beautiful piece of poetry has escaped me all of my life, is beyond me.
Its amazing
Swagger Lee...
Probably the most bad ass song ever
I adore this song, The whole Murder Ballads album is great but for me this is the highlight
This ......and The curse of Milhaven ! 🖤
His Face alone is worth its weight in gold.
I know. It's sooo funny & entertaining watching Nick dance around singing. He's not trying to be funny . He just nails a perfect performance.. There is not one second of that video, that is not entertaining. For 3 minutes I am just glued to that video I still laugh because Nick is a great entertainer!. I was introduced to it only 2 yrs ago. Every once in a while which I feel like like having a giggle, I put it on.I have not got sick of it. I'm smiling from beginning to end. It lifts me up makes me laugh. Thanks Nick for making that video because I really enjoy it
No in could of sung & danced while telling the tale of the baddest mother fucker in town! Nick nails it Soo well! I didn't know he was so talented. Love him
There are so few songs about the self-actualization of young, disaffected men. This is a breath of fresh air.
OK, but it's about a real murderer who was a bit of a c*nt... so... I guess disaffected is ONE word for it.
Nick Cave is maybe the coolest man ever
"Tommy... have a good week end."
By order of the peaky blinders.
Nice, thats the whole reason I searched this. From that scene
I did it to, for the reason of that scene
@@thisgorgeousseagull aaaaaaaaaAAAAaa
Rem World is over
Definitely no mistaking Blixa's screaming at the end, it is a strangely distinctive sound.
dont you just love to see people enjoy themselves
dude on shakers is the secret hero here
One for Christmas morning perhaps?
"He just shot the bar man. I'll give him a quickie and everything will be fine"
i SAW HIM LIVE he is amazing very intense energy you can feel it hitting you everywhere, never felt this on a concert before
Indeed, seen him many times and he's the best live.
Saw him live for the first time in 2017ish and it was incredible! I saw Grinderman in 2011ish and they were great too.
Saw him live in 1997, where he downed a bottle of red wine on stage, tried three times to play Into My Arms while complaining about how difficult it is to play and sing at the same time, had to be prevented by security from throwing a large synthesizer into the crowd, and finally went to the release party for Prodigy's Fat Of The Land where he danced like a lunatic for an hour, punched a guy and got thrown out. I've seen him a few times since, but that was the most memorable one for me, if not for him
me to
@@magnusalexander2965 I love that story lol, thanks for telling it. That is the Nick my husband loves. he aint into 'old man Nick'. He liked the Birthday Party. I think he might be tone deaf ...
Wow ! This is the coolest shit I've ever seen
I was just tell'n my dog how insanely good this shit is...
I want this song played at my funeral
Totally crazy. I remember the first time I heard it, at its release. I thought "oh yeah it's very cool, the power is growing until the explosive end". Then I read the lyrics (first I ask my english teacher to help me to traduce, I'm french. But she didn't want. I would lately understand why). When I understood the lyrics, the song appears to me as one of my favorite ever. A western, a movie in a song.
ahah la gueule qu'a dû faire le prof ^^
Well, this escalated quickly.😮
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds manage to be so masculine and seedy and perverse and threatening all at once. This is utter filth. This is utter brilliance.
Murder Ballads is his best album.
This one has slowly become my favorite of theirs.
this has to be one of the greatest performances ever recorded
Male gogo dancers + pink Take That shirt make this video 1000 times more badass
I love his face at 2:30 "Oh god he can't be dead" :D
Why
This kind of narcotic... can’t stop listening and watching him, really, it’s a problem, I cannot do anything else...
Needs to be acknowledged as the greatest songwriter now…. While he can enjoy that accolade NOW…. the lyrics, the stories he’s given us for so many years…. One of my most favourite lines… “What’s your pleasure, asked the barman, he had a face like boiled meat” May your God bless you Nick 💙
This one is like cowboy funk. So cool.
If David Bowie had not snatched me away in 1982 to life-long fandom, it would have been Mr. Cave.
I can´t stop listening to this video. The bass line is perfect and my testosterone level goes way up after i watch it.
I wish I was as cool as Nick Cave.
Your hipsterelephant cool' you can't be both.
Its a song about empowerment and following ones heart
Lol😂
Stagger Lee is a true murder story. Lots of other artists have sung about this 1895 murder in St Louis. Google is for Stagger Lee and Stackolee. even The Clash (Wrong em Boyo) sung about it.
most famous version of "Stack O' Lee" is
from 1928, performed by Missisipi John Hurt.
Love the Grateful Dead’s version but this is a wonderful take.
Blixa's scream at the end, that just not natural, get that man a priest NOW!!!!!! :)
This song and video is just another level. I fucking love it.
Imma start dancin like this!
Best. Lyrics. Ever.
Pugnacious. Bone-scrapingly Offensive and festooned in Filth. I love it! The Prince of Darkness at the peak of his powers.
Murder ballads...incredible album
I f'n' idiot sold this vinyl-LP made in 1995...
I was broke so I got something to eat (drink).
Well, cd remains but...
Argh!
Possibly the most badass song ever
Epochal..Nick luvs His American Roots Music.
Gotta love him for wearing the Take That T-shirt!!!
I want this played at my funeral.
Funny that. I want The Trip by Still Corners and Shake Dat Ass by I dunno, Juicy Froot maybe
The ending to this song is so perfect
PEAKY BLINDERS !!!!