Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - The Mercy Seat (BoxedSet 2001)

[eceabat]

this is the ultimate momemt of music, it can not go any further..

[mountainvoyager]

Simply Stunning..and FRom a Scottish tv production....we Scots have taste...and yes the crowd Where feeling the vibes Alright...How could One not

[crossfiregr1]

true epic

[crowy85]

Is this song on the 2nd episode of misfits season 1?

[dowsinho]

awesome

[MoodyLiz]

....fantastic performance!

[didipipibi]

Is everybody in that studio deaf? Had this been filmed in a deaf-folks home??

[Sheridanhowells02]

Love you Nick. Blow that crowd your performance was AWESOME

[Miqel101]

Simply stunning...!!

[100thingsbefore2012]

Don't you HATE how the audience is just sitting there, not feeling it, not getting it?

What a effin waste.

[Xoutravolta]

@100thingsbefore2012 I'm sorry, but you can feel something without going crazy about it.

[amongao81]

@100thingsbefore2012 how can you possibly know what the audience were or were not feeling?? thats a pretty bold statement mate.

[htfussman32]

If I was sitting in the front row at 2:50 I would be absolutely terrified.

[modernlover0rosalyn]

So fucking good. Great fucking band....

[sixshooter500]

I think I just came....

[Riddler361]

worst audience ever...sitting there like tepid pudding...

[MrMunkeyfoot]

@Riddler361 maybe they're just ....listening

[lunapark010]

wrong the electric chair is a metaphor for a bar stool and Nick's ongoing struggle with addiction, could reference this a million times over too busy for just that keep it a simple Green Mile link to the Weeping Song/John Finns wife/Murder Ballads that followed etc...

[lunapark010]

wrong the electric chair is a metaphor for a bar stool and Nick's ongoing struggle with addiction, could reference this a million times over too busy for just that keep it a simple Green Mile link to the Weeping Song etc...

[1979sterling]

Thamk you for posting this beautiful version! re: the comment "singular in most of rock music": yes, it does seem stream of consciousness, especially since he switches up the lyrics every time he performs it, which is probably why he's not a master-of-masters in the USa, where we like our burgers to be the same everywhere...

(...this is what the pure Terror before Acceptance of "The End" sounds like,

might I say.........might I know...)

[1979sterling]

Thamk you for posting this beautiful version! re: the comment "singular in most of rock music": yes, it does seem stream of consciousness, especially since he switches up the lyrics every time he performs it, which is probably why he's not a master-of-masters in the USa, where we like our burgers to be the same everywhere...

(...this is what the pure Terror before Acceptance of "The End" sounds like, might I say.......)

[1979sterling]

Thamk you for posting this beautiful version! re: the comment "singular in most of rock music": yes, it does seem stream of consciousness, especially since he switches up the lyrics every time he performs it, which is probably why he's not a master-of-masters in the USa, where we like our burgers to be the same everywhere...

(...this is what the pure Terror before Acceptance of "The End" sounds like......)

[MrNonoz]

This is what The End sounds like

[robtehKILLER]

Anyway I told the Truth

[graffkid321]

w0w man tht cr0wd iz kinna dead..id be up 0utta my seat if he was perf0rming in fr0nt 0f me like tht

[kines68]

What a great recording! Thanks very much for having updated the music quality! I think this is my favorite version of that song, too!

[kines68]

What a great recording! Thanks very much for having updated the music quality!

[col4627]

Can anyone tell me what DVD i have to purchase to get the "Boxed Set", Scottish TV, broadcast of 12 april 2001. I've not been able to find it on Amazon?

Any help appreciated, thanks.

[zabilgy]

This is a great performance. Thank you for sharing it. Just recently getting into Nick Cave...

[parahsezom]

Great song ,my favourite version.

Thanks Uploader!

[FreakyLittleHobbit]

I love this version so much... so intense, building up to the climax. And Nick has such an amazing voice! ( :

Anyone know if this show is available to buy?

[pinkduvetdiva]

I heard this song for the first time this morning-this is simply awesome!

[kaberis7]

just perfect......

[inyangb]

BRILLIANT!!!

[wirtragensterne]

Gänsehaut!

[wirtragensterne]

Great! Gänsehaut! The cover of Johnny Cash ist just very good, too!

[Jefflebowski95]

it builds and builds and builds till you think it cant possibly get any more gut-wrenchingly intense.......then it builds some more.

what. a. fucking. song.

[TheAbsolutionHowl]

@Jefflebowski95 - this is quite possibly the best summary of this song I've seen.

[theonetruedevo]

Any one know what show this is from?

[thesoulbreath]

absolutely:

"Boxed Set", Scottish TV, broadcast of 12 april 2001 Show

[Octobregris]

it's a killer....

i'm afraid he told the truth

[mechroboticon]

This song is singular in most of rock music for several reasons:

1) It is written from the first person perspective of a character who is not the writer

2) It seems to be a stream of consciousness

3) As such, there is the sense that the whole song takes place over the span of only a brief moment or so in the speaker's mind

4) The song builds in intensity without overtly changing its structure.

It's really very impressive --you get the sense this is the very moment before electrocution.

[sandelic1]

@mechroboticon i share your opinion, it does seems like a brief moment in, i get the feeling, courtroom, where justice is made of wood and wire, and god is never far away :D

[Niesrind]

@mechroboticon

1) is not so uncommon - just look at the lyrics to the complete "Murder Ballads", Pink Floyd's "The Wall" or Genesis' "The Lamb lies down on Broadway" for example;

2) isn't every song text like a stream of consciousness?

4) this is only present in few songs - Moloko's "Forever more", Björk's "Declare independance" or Archive's "Again" are building up in a similar way

[dafragsta]

@mechroboticon You pretty much summed up most of Nick Cave's work. He tells stories in a stream of consciousness that never really derails from the narrative and quite a few of the Bad Seeds songs don't really change key or structure. A few have chord changes and a few have breakdowns, but most of his songs just start rolling and don't let up. They just keep building and building.

[Xoutravolta]

@mechroboticon You might want to listen to some Pain of Salvation. They've got plenty of songs written in the first person but from a perspective other than the writer's ^_^

[maximilian533]

wonderful!!!!!the best songwriter ever....

[HighPisi]

this is just insane!

i love when he goes so wild ! i think he should be more wild in all the performences! i want to see more of his rough punk roots! i want him screaming, jumping , giving his soul and at the end recovert it again!

[Fish141186]

But... he's not prostitute. Yes, the concerts ARE for the public. But what you're writing about is impossible to plan or even act.

[Smeagoltje90]

I would be so scared. I was scared when he was acting like that to me during a Grinderman gig, but this looks even more intense...

[kumakuma111]

i've heard so many versions of nick singing this song, but never one as moving as this.

breathtakingingly genius....

[lashwhip]

I knew the version well and it is the best version and I missed it's prescence on You Tube greatly.

[shfinx]

great great video thanks

[erisdiscordia23]

That's one of the best Nick Cave's performances ever. Beautiful, very emotional and intense. I saw it on youtube a few years ago, and then it suddenly disappeared. It made such an impression on me, that I kept checking if someone put it back. :) I'm very glad you uploaded it.

[Borisimo90]

too strange to live too wierd to die

[monstrul42]

intense! although he tries too hard at several moments. see 4:16

[svetimasskausmas]

Thanks, my favourite version.

[sofarfromme]

Thanks for uploading this.

[BloodyVagabond]

wow! what a performance!