No matter how much I love and respect Cave's more recent work, for me, this version of the Bad Seeds is the absolute pinnacle, and I consider myself very lucky to have seen them a number of times. Saint Huck is such a remarkable song, nothing is 'ordinary': there is no real chord progression. There is no steady beat, the drums mainly create dynamics creating tension, and then there is that bass line, 1 note on 2 octaves which is the constant pulse driving the song (and has much more the function of providing a beat than the drums). After almost 40 years I never get tired listening to it.
I love this song; definitely one of my favourites. The lyrics are amazing, his voice is perfectly crazy,and I really love the drumming style in this song. Just all around wonderful.
Only a certain amount of people inside the Cave,Birthday Party fraternity will appreciate this how sad aural joy and genius still listen to this on vynil .Box for Black Paul also very powerful best piano playing ever at that tempo with what he is trying to get accross.
iggy, elvis, alice (cooper), amazing alex harvey, ramones, sheakespeare, bible characters and stories: all of them and many more in one man giving one hell of a performance!
Thomas Wydler's drumming in this is phenomenal. Have always thought he was a better drummer than Jim Sclavunos, and Jim was the better percussionist... Both are great though!
@Hirnlego999 yea thats funny when I first started listening to nick 80s stuff it does feel like he's "preaching" to me. I chalked it up to him being filled with the holy ghost ha he got the power :)
+Vjeran Stojanac so you're sayin' that Barry Adamson who founded the band in 1982 (34 years), Thomas Wydler, that is in the band since 1985 (31 years), Martyn Casey and Conway Savage who joined in 1990 (26 years), Warren Ellis who came in in 1994 (22 years) and Jim Sclavunos in 1996 (20 years)...these guys are NOT the bad seeds? Oh, c'mon...give me a break! All this with absolute respect for the great artists that Blixa Bargled and Mick Harvey are (and you can really see their greatness in this video that I personally uploaded years ago), but I bet they both will disagree with you, since they've shared the band with those musicians for 20 years and more.
@@MarcoPiscopoWORD! Thank you for the fantastic upload! Saw cave with Colin greenwood a week ago and shouted out for this song to which he replied “I wish we could play that one” . A gem and one of my favorites. What a band and what a performance!
Come on, most eerie chords in this comes from him. He was never supposed to drive a song with his instrument, they used drums and bass for that, but to add a significant portion of atmosphere.
No matter how much I love and respect Cave's more recent work, for me, this version of the Bad Seeds is the absolute pinnacle, and I consider myself very lucky to have seen them a number of times. Saint Huck is such a remarkable song, nothing is 'ordinary': there is no real chord progression. There is no steady beat, the drums mainly create dynamics creating tension, and then there is that bass line, 1 note on 2 octaves which is the constant pulse driving the song (and has much more the function of providing a beat than the drums). After almost 40 years I never get tired listening to it.
I love this song; definitely one of my favourites. The lyrics are amazing, his voice is perfectly crazy,and I really love the drumming style in this song. Just all around wonderful.
This song is like, the opposite of a massage
A beating?
It comes around though, so you grow with it
One of the greatest experiences for me, this Nick Cave, especially to see him live in concert! No doubt about it!
Only a certain amount of people inside the Cave,Birthday Party fraternity will appreciate this how sad aural joy and genius still listen to this on vynil .Box for Black Paul also very powerful best piano playing ever at that tempo with what he is trying to get accross.
iggy, elvis, alice (cooper), amazing alex harvey, ramones, sheakespeare, bible characters and stories: all of them and many more in one man giving one hell of a performance!
This is 100 percent correct!
Not to mention a lot of Homer (Odyssey etc)
total great song:)
total great team: Cave Blixa, Harvey, Wydler, Kid Kongo Powers (Brian Tristan), Roland Wolf
Favorite and all time top 5 from Nick
That's feckin brilliant, not many bands like that out there!
Lange her. Ich war da. Draußen waren viele cobs auf der Reeperbahn, jemand hatte schwarze Karten verkauft und sich eine goldene Nase verdient.
possibly the best thing theyve ever done
I bow before who ever uploaded this. more then 20 years ago and still in high quality. it's priceless. thank you!!!
I WILL LOVE YOU FOREVER, NICK!
Thomas Wydler's drumming in this is phenomenal. Have always thought he was a better drummer than Jim Sclavunos, and Jim was the better percussionist... Both are great though!
Best line up.
OMG!!!!! OMG!!!! OMG!!!! THANK YOU!!!!!
:D :D good version is here ua-cam.com/video/j_LR6UYkROA/v-deo.html
@@Libor-bc3uk that's also very beautiful. Thank you xxx
Yes Nick, YES!
Wow fantastic!!!!
uhuh, thank you mum & dad. I was a child and this was a though education...
Really brilliant. Amazing quality. This is a real find - Thanks!!
woah!, thats it, right there.
this version is stunning, better than the one in the record...great line up 💜👏
Agreed. Also check out the Peel Sessions version.
Thx mate for posting !!!
Awesome song.
Thanks For This Man!
beauuutiful XD thanks for posting this, it's amazing!!
BLIXIA BARGELD & NICK CAVE HOLY SHIT
I second that emotion!
great!
Great! thanks for uploading!
saint hawk tuah
Lol
Wild bunch: cave, kongo powers, harvey, baargeld, wydler, wolf...
RIP Anita Lane
I take this song alludes to the novel Huckelberry Finn?
The Bad Seeds' first recording. An homage of sorts to Mark Twain’s “Huckleberry Finn”.
σε γδαίρνει!
Fucking good
@Hirnlego999 yea thats funny when I first started listening to nick 80s stuff it does feel like he's "preaching" to me. I chalked it up to him being filled with the holy ghost ha he got the power :)
This song makes me aggressive.
Good share although I think the best version is on the bootleg "He put a spell on us"
Contemporary "The Bad Seeds" are not The Bad Seeds without Blixa & Mick!
+Vjeran Stojanac so you're sayin' that Barry Adamson who founded the band in 1982 (34 years), Thomas Wydler, that is in the band since 1985 (31 years), Martyn Casey and Conway Savage who joined in 1990 (26 years), Warren Ellis who came in in 1994 (22 years) and Jim Sclavunos in 1996 (20 years)...these guys are NOT the bad seeds? Oh, c'mon...give me a break!
All this with absolute respect for the great artists that Blixa Bargled and Mick Harvey are (and you can really see their greatness in this video that I personally uploaded years ago), but I bet they both will disagree with you, since they've shared the band with those musicians for 20 years and more.
@@MarcoPiscopoWORD! Thank you for the fantastic upload! Saw cave with Colin greenwood a week ago and shouted out for this song to which he replied “I wish we could play that one” . A gem and one of my favorites. What a band and what a performance!
Such a strange song. How does one even go about constructing it?
skin shrinkwraps his skeleton
he traded the mighty old man river for a dirty old man latrine
nick with blixa > nick with pj > nick with warren.
Legendary stuff, what the hell happened to them??
They got old and had to calm the f down.
pieprzony mistrz!!!
Blixa's literally doing nothing on guitar
Come on, most eerie chords in this comes from him. He was never supposed to drive a song with his instrument, they used drums and bass for that, but to add a significant portion of atmosphere.
@@DRT813 overrated