Nick Cave - Your Funeral, My Trial live

[TheDreamMechanic]

He may be a good lyricist, but when it comes to live performances, Nick Cave sounds like your average drunk guy at a karaoke bar.

Damn that was awful.

[brianab31]

@TheDreamMechanic Seriously? Are you familiar with Nick Cave? He always sounds like this. I mean you say that like it's a BAD thing....

[manicbabyshambles123]

@TheDreamMechanic What kind of boring cunt wants a polished performance?

[ultravioletlem]

What year was this filmed?

[iesus68]

Once you have attend a gig where Nick plays this song, you can just die happy.

[Zeric47]

This is pretty much perfection all right. What I wouldn't give for him to work on an album with Mark Lanegan.

[twilliams232]

I wish i could attend my own funeral, because this will be playing.

[julesath]

@twilliams232 I kinda want to dance to this at my wedding.

[wanchope6700]

Genius: The only noun (and adjective) suitable for this man. At sixteen, I found Nick cave and thought he was the greatest. I am 34 now, and see no reason to revise that belief.

[conspirator9]

WHO IN THE FUCK clicks 'dislike' on this!??!!

[thefattestwombat]

@conspirator9 7 dopey cunts.

[kingoaxe]

@conspirator9 Hellen Keller, she mistakenly whacked the button seven times.

[kingoaxe]

Hellen Keller, she mistakenly whacked the button seven times.

[betterman011]

Such talent, a gift from god.

Just beautiful.

[jazzbass25]

Dayumm  he turned a tru Sonny Boy blues tune to some kind of weepy, British BS..whatta waste...

[Ciphercode]

Cohen sucks. Morrissey and Nick forever

[evgad87]

@Ciphercode without cohen you wouldn't have cave. nick's acknowledged countless time what a huge influence cohens music and words have had on him in addition to covering some of his songs. at times cohens later vocals and nick's baritone style sound quite similar too.

[rrrorkk]

he nicked the title from an old blues song

[FragileLittleAngel]

the melody...it just captures me...

[staggersu]

SUCH WISE WORDS.

NOTHING MORE TO SAY.

MUTE

il colplvolto

staggersu

[ZoePardeeSinginstone]

Nick Cave is the king. This album is the only one I have on vinyl and it brings me to tears. He, Joan Baez and Bob Dylan are my top three. .

[ashburnhouse]

@ZoePardeeSinginstone Joan Baez... ha ha ha!

[rawtofu]

this made me feel better

[jackblu01]

hey that phrase ,, the title,, the idea comes from sonny boy williamson,, I like what he is doing but it comes from SBW....

[ryukojustme]

When he does a cover it is done in his own unique style and timbre, should be considered an art. To cover Cohen for example is not an easy task. And I enjoy both original and covers if done well.

[stjopan82]

better than roasted duck.....bravisimo Nick!!!!

[evgad87]

bullshit. there's few bands that compare to the stooges hence why teenagers today are still getting into 40 year old albums. and unlike other artists in the 1980s, nick doesn't sound hideously dated.

[claireobscure]

Poor guy.

You miss a lot!

[TheAbsolutionHowl]

Great music is timeless and constantly relevant. Three prime examples of that are; Nick Cave, Tom Waits, and John Coltrane.

[Ladyminamurray]

A muchos de ustedes les falta vivir... y si parece cantar como un ebrio... That`s the point!!

Brutos.

[sphericalpyramid]

No, I meant I was being sarcastic! =) Just an opinion, but he sounds like the drunk guy when it's really late on karaoke night.

[sphericalpyramid]

Another rivoting performance by Nick Cave. Is there a sarcasm button on this thing?

[2teenah2]

yep there is, alot of Nick is sarcastic, but you have to read inbetween the lines to notice. Glad you did.

[Johnnysesto]

As if I give a stuff.........

[2teenah2]

i respect everything Nick Does, he simply is beautiful and amazing. He really brings my soul to weep!

[Johnnysesto]

The whole album, "Your Funeral my trial" has "Spaghetti Western" written all over it. Signed by Sergio Leone and Ennio Morricone.

[Hellerup2900]

ktuyx can't be more right!

[Johnnysesto]

I meant to say that 'borrowing' is not the term used by professional musicians or musicologists. That is psycho-babble. The adaptation of a cantus firmi is not a new phenomenon. It dates as far back as gregorian chant. What you hear in the chromatic chord structures of jazz was influenced by Opera. Italians invented musical notation and the norm to 'borrow' as you say, goes back hundreds of years.

[evgad87]

Johnny you sound like that boring music guy who always has to talk about it rather than simply enjoy it. Nick Cave is 1 of the few icons from the 1980s whose music didn't date and he's still making great music in his 50s. I don't care about "cantus firmi" or italians inventing notation,

[ktuyx]

Well, I'm not a musicologist, nor am I good enough at any instrument to call myself a professional. I am just a fan of music. My point was that Cave was paying respect to his forebears. Just because I didn't remember or know the exact term does not make that point less valid.

[Appers]

He did the same thing a lot 2 albums later, with The Good Son- the first track's chorus was a 19th century Brazilian hymn (Fois Na Cruz), the title track comes from an old African-American folk song (Another Man Done Gone) and Witness Song takes its main hook from a gospel classic (Who Will Be A Witness). It's not really plagiarism so much as it's incorperating older styles of music into modern rock.

[xL0COx]

jaik, good attempt at trying by being negative getting some audience for your music, which did not exactly tickle my senses........anyway must agree that this is not the strongest of nick's undertaking's....no wonder, Sonny's perhaps too big even for Nick.....still you must agree he is an extremely talented chap.....this Nick.....

[ktuyx]

I usually don't like to wade into arguements, but I seriously doubt Sonny Boy Williamson would have any kind of problem with this song. Blues and jazz music are built on borrowing melodies and lyrics and making your own interpretations out of them (how many versions are there of Hey Joe?). Nick Cave has always paid an incredible amount of respect to the artists that came before him, and follows in their tradition of taking an old story and giving it a new, personal twist.

[kendalandy]

amazing version of an amazing song by an amazing artist

[djnause]

gorgeous.

[jimthefin]

BTW.......if Sonny Boy Williamson was alive he would like this.

[reelbigskyline84]

I agree....and can't think of anyone who wouldn't...

[floydjr29]

This never gets old...

To the ignorant fuck moaning about this song,the only similarity with Sonny boy's is the title,you dumb fuck !

[iesus68]

I will never forget once he played this song in Livorno (italy). It was for Let Love In tour. Last encore, with him alone on stage at the piano and crowd almost crying. Unforgettable.

[leegsy]

This is one of my favourite songs of Nick's. When you listen to poetry like this, then you hear something from Oasis, it's really a massive contrast.

I don't think we'll see an artist like this ever again.

[evgad87]

true but why pick on oasis? there's a lot worse popular music out there than them and there is something magical about definitely maybe.

though i do suppose once you get into artists like cave and cohen, everything else does sound boring.

[leegsy]

Oasis just sprang to mind for their sheer arrongance. Don't get me wrong, I was born in 81 so I was quite young when Oasis were massive. I was a really big fan of them but their output after Be Here Now just slid downhill.

[grbavicaNS]

wonderful!

[donnadw]

Beautiful song, thanks for posting.

[teenageradiostar]

also one of my fave songs. love the vid. thanks for posting it.

[pengau]

One thousand Mary's lured me, into gullies damp with clover, bird with crooked wing cast its wicked shadow over, a bauble moon did mock, and trinket stars did smile...your funeral...

It's poetry set to music. And the images it creates are so vivid. I can't think of another contemporary singer songwriter whose lyrics are as evocative. Maybe Leonard Cohen.

If you haven't seen it check out the film The Proposition, written by Nick Cave.

[blackpaul23]

My favourite song ever

[akedwards76]

There's only one disappointing thing....As beautiful as this song is, he practically never plays anything from the amazing Your Funeral My Trial record anymore. Personally I dont think any of his ballads from the last 20 years come close to this, Sad Waters or Watching Alice etc.

[anticlimatic21]

This is a good song.. was "mercy" on this album, too? It sound similar..

[mauriziobb]

"Mercy" is in Tender Pray. This song is the title track of the album 'Your funeral my Trial". Cave wrote it few years before.

Anyway beautiful song!

[belinda17th]

Oh I have to agree with you in that I love Watching Alice and so many others from that time. They are so moving...

[TheAbsolutionHowl]

Have you heard "Jesus of the Moon" yet?

Personally I think it ranks among his best.

[artofsej]

Yeah it's up there :)

Made me cry when I first heard it on the album...so beautiful and he still HAS it.

[egelvet]

Nick cave= God

[molecularash]

i think you left an o out in good.

[egelvet]

euhhh..... no

[egelvet]

nick cave = GOD

[bestofgame]

Einfach das beste, simplement le meilleur, simply the best

[bogthing1]

Fabulous!

Cave at his best.

[johnzamp]

Hi,

What year was this shot and where was it???

[fancazzisting]

bizarre festival 1996, in germany.