Love this version. The song is so inredible that to hear him sing it without the orchestral back up gives an honest and intimate expression of the heart renching message.
Some of us are on the mercy seat everyday. We sacrifice our lives every day because we choose to follow Yahweh. So we are hated and our lives are threatened, we are tortured, harrassed afflicted. To follow Yahweh you have to be sitting on the mercy seat.
There should be no disagreement as to who's version of this song is best. Nick wrote and recorded it in the early '90s and John liked it enough to record it as well. A great honour. There have been many versions recorded over the years and the song is now larger than the writer or the performers.
Every story is original just like every time Nick Cave sings this song. It is all an evolution of the story, to take its shape and what we hear here we will never hear again. Its a moment in time, just glad someone captured it and shared it
Yo ripredblack read the comments. That response was to someone else. Been a Birthday party fan, Bad Seeds fan, and a solo Cave fan for 27 years. I know who fuckin wrote it.
Oh my god. I've never really listened to Nick Cave, but my friend kept insisting he was fucking amazing. I am SO glad this is the first song I stumbled upon. It's been so long since a piece of music has floored me like this.
I am a huge fan of both Cash and Cave. I still have to vote for Cash's version. Can you imagine if these two would've ever gotten together? Talk about some emotion.
I got to see him do this version live at The Park West in Chicago. It was just him and his piano....it was excellent! That whole night was kick ass!!!
Got see Nick Cave live in Australia in 2005 and it was one of the most amazing experiences of my life - such a powerful and tender singer and such stage presence. Think I must listen to at least one Nick Cave or Grinderman song everyday! My favourite being Opium Tea. But OP is right, this is (or must be) one of the most amazing versions of this song I've heard. The emotion in his voice and the strings in the background are super-powerful.
@711scrilla - There's room in the world for both interpretations as each has its strengths. Cave's is more a dramatic reading of it and very effective in that respect, but Cash's sounds more like a guy who's really on death row and who tells you what's coming down as it's happening to him--it's raw and immediate...and REAL.
Johnny's voice seems to speak from experience. It's like he's really lived this sort of thing, rather than is just acting out a part in song. And he got better as he aged.
@711scrilla - I don't spoke crack and I stand by my points. You're entitled to your opinion and I'm not going to diss you for having it.
Please note that nowhere do I say Cash's version is better than Cave's (I only use the word "better" to express my view that in some ways Cash became a better singer as he aged, not to compare singers).
I merely explain why Cash got through to me more. While typing this I listened to Cave again, and there's no denying the power of his performance.
@711scrilla - I don't spoke crack and I stand by my points. You're entitled to your opinion and I'm not going to diss you for having it.
I didn't say Cash's version is better than Cave's. I used the word "better" to express my view that in some ways Cash became a better singer as he aged, not to compare singers).
My comments were merely to explain why Cash got through more to me, not to convert others to accept my view. I listened to Cave just now and it's a powerful performance, for sure.
@711scrilla - I stand by my points. I didn't say Cash's version is better than Cave's, and only used the word "better" to express my view that in some ways Cash became a better singer as he aged, not to compare singers.
Cave's is a powerful performance, but Cash got through to me more--doesn't make it better. There's no "right" opinion, just some people being affected more by one than the other version.
BTW, Did you know they were fans of each other and recorded songs together? Check it out!
@711scrilla - I stand by my points. I didn't say Cash's version is better than Cave's, and only used the word "better" to express my view that in some ways Cash became a better singer as he aged, not to compare singers.
Cave's is a powerful performance, but Cash got through to me more--doesn't make it better. There's no "right" opinion, just some people being affected more by one than the other version.
BTW, Did you know they were fans of each other and recorded songs together? Check it out!
I can't sing along to this song. The images hit me so hard, even when it's slow like this, but when the song accelerates I almost start to thrash - I can't stand the emotion that's welling up in me. I need to scream, need to whimper and jerk around or I'll explode. Nick Cave takes my breath away.
There is so much emotion in this song, in lyrics alone there is a world of emotion. It's no surprise that Nick cave writes books and film screenplays too, he has so much emotion to release that song is still not enough, he is a God when it comes to expression of emotion
omfg i have been listening to this song for 20 years, then I hear this version. its like discovering god, losing your virginity, watching yr first child being born. need i go on. an amazing orgasmic stupendous sound of angels crying. nick cave i love you.
Damn! I've heard this song on the Tender Prey album probably a million times. And yet I'm crying right now. That was the most moving, haunting, beautiful performance I've ever heard.. Wow. Thank you.
@OndineV Best version will not necessarily to do with sound quality ! And this is the best version I've ever heard ! Nick Cave isn´t for everybody,sorry...
...Why have I never heard of this man? I just heard "Darker With the Day" on Pandora and loved it...Started listening to him and came across this....masterpiece. Again, why have I never heard of this man!?
@rock0n316 possibly because he doesn't really seek to be know, back in 97 he told mtv to take him out of their voting list, he lives to write his poetry and lives a very private life
Just figured out... maybe Nick's narrator has to die in order to be revived. Somehow. Just like trees and all die every autumn, and they come out in spring again. Life and death in cycles of time. Death may seem strange at first thought but, given the situation of our narrator here, it might be seen as the only way to achieve salvation. The body dies so that the soul can live again. Like a moth that tries, &tc. - maybe I should ask my nurse about it =)
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The Red Paintings would LOL at you saying that. I've seen them live and they're a good band. But to compare them to Nick Cave is stupid. Nick Cave has written more amazing songs than they've written songs, period.
@sonatamartica He fucking wrote this song you moron. you really should listen to the original recording off of "Tender Prey." Red Paintings... whatever. fuckin' emo crap.
This is my autumn song. Definitely. Watch the leaves falling off the trees. Golden leaves, sweet desolation. Smell the breeze of the new season. Moist air, shy rain. Mountains looming out of the fog in the distance. Get seated in my fav armchair with a glass of red wine, warm taste, with Nick singing his master song in the background. Melancholy and happiness, out of time. When I die I want it to happen in that very situation. Would be perfect.
I know that and now realize how ironical my comment is. Unwillingly so though. Anyway I do know what this song is about, but still it means much more to me than just debating the electric chair issue. Makes me think about life and death, truth also, the duality of all things, guilt and conscience, virtue, many things. What reminds me of autumn is the musical tone of the song in this particular version. I don't really know why. I just did what I told and felt it was perfect.
In early 1986 guy at a record store in Phoenix Arizona, Trax in Wax, gave me a mix tape of Nick Cave and the Birthday Party. Tupelo, Mutiny in Heaven, Zoo Music Girl, Hamlet (pow,pow,pow), Jack's Shadow........I was hooked. The following winter I was at St. Andrews in Detroit when I saw Nick sing the Mercy Seat live for the first time....I was blown away. He gets better every year!
one of the only men that can reroute songs, change them, and still make it completely brilliant. long live the king of songwriting and long live the men who play with him. i've never come across such a talent that can put you through every emotion know to man in one song.
this song is absolutely brilliant!...amazing dark poetry...i don't think such a scene could be better described...not surprised at all that johnny cash would cover this...
For all the fine songs this briliant man has written this must be the best. The perfect tale told in a perfect pysho/hellish voice. This is the truth.
There's a great german cover of this song by "Goethes Erben" whis I liked very very much, when I was younger... Give it a try (it would be better, you speak german :)
@thehappynihilist I actually like the version on the "Live Seeds" 1994 album much more than both Nick's studio version and single version from Tender Prey, as well as the Man in Black's. It's superior to all of the above in my opinion.
This version, without doubt, gave me the single-most LONGEST shiver, in my own personal history of "song shivers". It lingered..caressed and touched deeper...than any moment i've experienced, within a song or with a person for that matter.
This version, without doubt, gave me the single-most LONGEST shiver, in my own personal history of "song shivers". It lingered..caressed and touched deeper...than any moment i've experienced, within a song or with a person for that matter.
"they are the sick breath at my hind," would be like.......a group of bad things that constantly follow him, causing him greif. that pretty much it. wow, i wish i had me a copy of king ink. however, i feel consulated becasue i have a first edition copy of "and the ass saw the angel" :)
@jacksonmpa IMO, the original version would be perfect if it was closer to the radio edit. I love Nick Cave and I'm probably going to hell for saying this but I'm not sure he really needed to repeat the chorus for five minutes at the end of the track >_>
i could listen t the millions of different versions of this song al day and never get bored... thanks so much for posting this, absolutely beautiful version... haunting.
I disagree Cave and Dylan are completly differntly diferent song writers, nick is is post goth, Dylan is County. It's like comparing the johny cash version of the song, is lovly in its own way, his old voice and and the god frearing in his voice set it aper. This is completly diferent
hauntingly good ;)
glenpoet 1 day ago
Great version, indeed. I did like Cash's cover as well. Just a great song.
deekbo74 1 week ago
I have no idea where this comes from but it makes me cry and want to search out other versions.
TheMimifur 3 weeks ago
Those who say that Nick Cave cant sing is just trolling the internet
emilaofstad 3 weeks ago
great
struggler126 3 weeks ago
How can he perform so bloody well on lives ?
If only his records were better...
The simplicity of the live music missing several instruments and with that pure voice
full of feelings just overtakes me every single time.
I m amazed nick.
thank you for singing for us
BillyDTourist 1 month ago
Goosebumps and shivers are in order here.
MorwennaChase 1 month ago
It's just "good" Until.. you reach the last line. Then you get hit with chills and suddenly really "get" this song, it's meaning, and imagery.
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This should be weaponized.
Joecarnthief 1 month ago 3
This version is so haunting. Johnny Cash's version's good as well.
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dam nick, you sure your not a god lol just so ........your amazing !
silverwolf2061 2 months ago
Wow. I mean...Wow.
youknowsheshalfcrazy 2 months ago
Love this version. The song is so inredible that to hear him sing it without the orchestral back up gives an honest and intimate expression of the heart renching message.
Some of us are on the mercy seat everyday. We sacrifice our lives every day because we choose to follow Yahweh. So we are hated and our lives are threatened, we are tortured, harrassed afflicted. To follow Yahweh you have to be sitting on the mercy seat.
77AWAKE77 2 months ago
I created an account purely to post this comment.
This version is fucking amazing.
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Literally the best songwriter on the face of planet earth.
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There should be no disagreement as to who's version of this song is best. Nick wrote and recorded it in the early '90s and John liked it enough to record it as well. A great honour. There have been many versions recorded over the years and the song is now larger than the writer or the performers.
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This blows compared to Johnny Cash's version..... Very dissapointing who would cheer for this guy?????
irishgagsta251990 3 months ago
Every story is original just like every time Nick Cave sings this song. It is all an evolution of the story, to take its shape and what we hear here we will never hear again. Its a moment in time, just glad someone captured it and shared it
erumaudie 3 months ago
Yo ripredblack read the comments. That response was to someone else. Been a Birthday party fan, Bad Seeds fan, and a solo Cave fan for 27 years. I know who fuckin wrote it.
711scrilla 3 months ago 2
Cant get into Cash or Cave.... this music is depressing. My opinion.
LiquidLightShowHire 3 months ago
Oh my god. I've never really listened to Nick Cave, but my friend kept insisting he was fucking amazing. I am SO glad this is the first song I stumbled upon. It's been so long since a piece of music has floored me like this.
FlyingFuckstorm 3 months ago
I like Cash's version, but I also like Cave's version....
There only one way to sort this...
.....FIIIIGHT!!!......
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One of the best - if not the best - poems ever written by an Australian.
Ragozine77 3 months ago
One of the best - if not the best - poem ever written by an Australian.
Ragozine77 3 months ago
@Ragozine77 One of the great poets of the last 100 years
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deafornot8 3 months ago
I am a huge fan of both Cash and Cave. I still have to vote for Cash's version. Can you imagine if these two would've ever gotten together? Talk about some emotion.
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@chrisb4nu Agreed. I mean, they covered one Hank Williams' song together, but they should have sang this one instead.
gohel50 3 months ago
Im agree the best version, thanks for sharing!!
heautontimorumenus 3 months ago
this is the sort of shite he would have hung misMSeLf over you sad bastARDS UNLESS YOU R OLD AND THIS IS COOL
hardcorelizards 4 months ago
@hardcorelizards Guess I am old and uncool then.....
RachaelE100 3 months ago
@hardcorelizards do you have dyslexia or something?
LewyBNF 3 months ago 2
Amazing version, Check out "Will Miles Mercy Seat cover" great rendition!
waaast 4 months ago
I got to see him do this version live at The Park West in Chicago. It was just him and his piano....it was excellent! That whole night was kick ass!!!
wesdan126 4 months ago
Nick Cave is one of the greatest songwriters of all time.
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Two Words: Perfection & Godlike!
NylaScotia3239 4 months ago
Got see Nick Cave live in Australia in 2005 and it was one of the most amazing experiences of my life - such a powerful and tender singer and such stage presence. Think I must listen to at least one Nick Cave or Grinderman song everyday! My favourite being Opium Tea. But OP is right, this is (or must be) one of the most amazing versions of this song I've heard. The emotion in his voice and the strings in the background are super-powerful.
thenewpoo 4 months ago
he really has managed to bottle raw emotion here. Stunning.
RachaelE100 5 months ago 3
Dude I am not gonna knock Cash, but you are smokin crack if you think his version is better.
711scrilla 5 months ago 26
@711scrilla - There's room in the world for both interpretations as each has its strengths. Cave's is more a dramatic reading of it and very effective in that respect, but Cash's sounds more like a guy who's really on death row and who tells you what's coming down as it's happening to him--it's raw and immediate...and REAL.
Johnny's voice seems to speak from experience. It's like he's really lived this sort of thing, rather than is just acting out a part in song. And he got better as he aged.
Galantski 4 months ago
@Galantski Nailed it.
Khaulepi 4 months ago
@711scrilla - I don't spoke crack and I stand by my points. You're entitled to your opinion and I'm not going to diss you for having it.
Please note that nowhere do I say Cash's version is better than Cave's (I only use the word "better" to express my view that in some ways Cash became a better singer as he aged, not to compare singers).
I merely explain why Cash got through to me more. While typing this I listened to Cave again, and there's no denying the power of his performance.
Galantski 4 months ago
@711scrilla - I don't spoke crack and I stand by my points. You're entitled to your opinion and I'm not going to diss you for having it.
I didn't say Cash's version is better than Cave's. I used the word "better" to express my view that in some ways Cash became a better singer as he aged, not to compare singers).
My comments were merely to explain why Cash got through more to me, not to convert others to accept my view. I listened to Cave just now and it's a powerful performance, for sure.
Galantski 4 months ago
@711scrilla - I stand by my points. I didn't say Cash's version is better than Cave's, and only used the word "better" to express my view that in some ways Cash became a better singer as he aged, not to compare singers.
Cave's is a powerful performance, but Cash got through to me more--doesn't make it better. There's no "right" opinion, just some people being affected more by one than the other version.
BTW, Did you know they were fans of each other and recorded songs together? Check it out!
Galantski 4 months ago
@711scrilla - I stand by my points. I didn't say Cash's version is better than Cave's, and only used the word "better" to express my view that in some ways Cash became a better singer as he aged, not to compare singers.
Cave's is a powerful performance, but Cash got through to me more--doesn't make it better. There's no "right" opinion, just some people being affected more by one than the other version.
BTW, Did you know they were fans of each other and recorded songs together? Check it out!
Galantski 4 months ago 3
@711scrilla I did like Cash's version best, until I heard this one!
adamfoul 3 months ago
@711scrilla What does this have to do with Johnny Cash? Cash COVERED this song. Cave WROTE it. Nick Cave KILLS it here.
ripredblack 3 months ago
@711scrilla But the "Live Seeds" version is rawer, meaner...Better...
edstone1 3 months ago
Cash's version is better..........
910benji 5 months ago
this song makes me feel like I have a fever on my skin and a chill in my core... I can feel a velvet agony as I listen to it...
Taraxia 5 months ago
I can't sing along to this song. The images hit me so hard, even when it's slow like this, but when the song accelerates I almost start to thrash - I can't stand the emotion that's welling up in me. I need to scream, need to whimper and jerk around or I'll explode. Nick Cave takes my breath away.
knowledgequeen 5 months ago 3
I hope you are trolling.
hashley4201 5 months ago
wonderful. thank you. coldplay sucks.
xodpod 5 months ago
Thumbs up if you believe his should need a Coldplay cover. I mean that they can do talk, why not? Would be epic, and second only to this one.
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my life would be incomplete without Nick Cave. This is a stunning version of an already amazing song
RachaelE100 5 months ago
Beautiful!
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deafornot6 5 months ago
Incredibly powerful! Thanks uploader
uprussia 6 months ago
Incredibly powerful!
uprussia 6 months ago
twenty years ago i watched a vid. of Nick, a liveconcert, at my friend's place.
And it blew me away. I think i'd never heard such a drama sung and brought so soulful. After that i never payed any attention to this fellow.
And now.......now as i hear this i feel like being a stupid arse. I cannot describe the intensity this song 's doing to me.
Sanveana 6 months ago 2
Wow, stunning version, there's nothing he can't do. Thanks for posting
Zorbathebuddhaful 6 months ago 2
thanks so much for sharing this!
ruteparedes 6 months ago
I hear Ellis/the Dirty Three behind this version - that violin is unmistakable!
annahathis1 6 months ago
It is grand to find another modern example of a soul of passionate performance, a romantic one, juxtaposed to Mr.Pop's.
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deafornot5 6 months ago
There is so much emotion in this song, in lyrics alone there is a world of emotion. It's no surprise that Nick cave writes books and film screenplays too, he has so much emotion to release that song is still not enough, he is a God when it comes to expression of emotion
DarrellX13 6 months ago
its nicks child guess he can dress him how he likes
surfin4 7 months ago
I like this version better than any of the studio ones.
archaist 7 months ago
really like nick cave but this version is too much empathic ans pathetic.
ffiicchhee 7 months ago
whats the problem?
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deafornot3 9 months ago
omfg i have been listening to this song for 20 years, then I hear this version. its like discovering god, losing your virginity, watching yr first child being born. need i go on. an amazing orgasmic stupendous sound of angels crying. nick cave i love you.
kendalandy 10 months ago 35
@kendalandy maybe you went over the top there =)
but hey, i know what you mean!
dumplingsistasty 1 month ago
pfff..... Nick Cave!
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esadofe 8 months ago
wow great version
puddsykit 10 months ago
yay! Still picture clips on youtube! stop jerking off and put up some decent clips ffs!!!!
luddewho 10 months ago
Yeah, the sound quality isn't the best, but, damn, that's a really great reading of the song!
odouglasprice 11 months ago
Damn! I've heard this song on the Tender Prey album probably a million times. And yet I'm crying right now. That was the most moving, haunting, beautiful performance I've ever heard.. Wow. Thank you.
2ndpinkberlin 11 months ago
Whoa - gives the narrator a new perspective, regret oozes(is that a word) from this one - great version!
pellele1 11 months ago
Großartig!!!
Barettahans 11 months ago
Großartig!!!
Barettahans 11 months ago
Best version you say? The sound quality is crap!
OndineV 11 months ago
@OndineV Best version will not necessarily to do with sound quality ! And this is the best version I've ever heard ! Nick Cave isn´t for everybody,sorry...
esadofe 11 months ago
...Why have I never heard of this man? I just heard "Darker With the Day" on Pandora and loved it...Started listening to him and came across this....masterpiece. Again, why have I never heard of this man!?
rock0n316 1 year ago
@rock0n316 possibly because he doesn't really seek to be know, back in 97 he told mtv to take him out of their voting list, he lives to write his poetry and lives a very private life
connwilliamsmedia 1 year ago
@connwilliamsmedia Yeah, I read about that...Well, I'm glad to have come across his music and will definitely be looking more into it!
rock0n316 1 year ago
@rock0n316 look up grinderman his side project, if you haven't already
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deafornot2 1 year ago
Some of the best lyrics I've ever heard.
ReggaeMetalFox 1 year ago
yuck!
Flareboxx 1 year ago
I love both Nick Cave and Johny Cash's version, Nick Cave is an amazing song writer, wow
nshvnancy 1 year ago
Reworked and given new life. I love it.
LicoriceTattoo 1 year ago
i saw him 3 or 4 times live but this is the first time i hear the mercy seat this way. It's great
kabba1964 1 year ago
Just figured out... maybe Nick's narrator has to die in order to be revived. Somehow. Just like trees and all die every autumn, and they come out in spring again. Life and death in cycles of time. Death may seem strange at first thought but, given the situation of our narrator here, it might be seen as the only way to achieve salvation. The body dies so that the soul can live again. Like a moth that tries, &tc. - maybe I should ask my nurse about it =)
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deafornot2 1 year ago
where can I find a clean not live version of this song?
TheArcticMonkeyz 1 year ago
Compared to The Red Paintings version, this is rubbish!
still a good song, just he does it no justice.
sonatamartica 1 year ago
@sonatamartica Don't you know that he wrote the damn thing?
sixshooter500 1 year ago
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The Red Paintings would LOL at you saying that. I've seen them live and they're a good band. But to compare them to Nick Cave is stupid. Nick Cave has written more amazing songs than they've written songs, period.
jgammel25 1 year ago
@sonatamartica He fucking wrote this song you moron. you really should listen to the original recording off of "Tender Prey." Red Paintings... whatever. fuckin' emo crap.
jodi183 1 year ago
@sonatamartica your ass got told
firetwiler1 1 year ago
Fucking. Brilliant.
justanotherperson555 1 year ago
This is my autumn song. Definitely. Watch the leaves falling off the trees. Golden leaves, sweet desolation. Smell the breeze of the new season. Moist air, shy rain. Mountains looming out of the fog in the distance. Get seated in my fav armchair with a glass of red wine, warm taste, with Nick singing his master song in the background. Melancholy and happiness, out of time. When I die I want it to happen in that very situation. Would be perfect.
MrBaptl 1 year ago 2
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FYI:
"The Mercy Seat" is the electric chair...
JacKass00001 1 year ago 2
@JacKass00001
I know that and now realize how ironical my comment is. Unwillingly so though. Anyway I do know what this song is about, but still it means much more to me than just debating the electric chair issue. Makes me think about life and death, truth also, the duality of all things, guilt and conscience, virtue, many things. What reminds me of autumn is the musical tone of the song in this particular version. I don't really know why. I just did what I told and felt it was perfect.
MrBaptl 1 year ago
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If U want more autumn settings just look for John Cale, Chrissie Hynde and Nick..
JacKass00001 1 year ago
@JacKass00001 I knew that i had nightmare about this after the first time i heard this
robtehKILLER 1 year ago
Awesome.........!
hailingpearl 1 year ago
In early 1986 guy at a record store in Phoenix Arizona, Trax in Wax, gave me a mix tape of Nick Cave and the Birthday Party. Tupelo, Mutiny in Heaven, Zoo Music Girl, Hamlet (pow,pow,pow), Jack's Shadow........I was hooked. The following winter I was at St. Andrews in Detroit when I saw Nick sing the Mercy Seat live for the first time....I was blown away. He gets better every year!
JasonCopeman 1 year ago
Just a great song both versions by Cash and Nick
atomixdogg 1 year ago
Nick Cave The Mercy Seat (the best version i've ever heard!).
Check this version @ Lowlands festival - 2005. There is much more power in it, which I prefer. But it's a question of what you more like.
Sjors94 1 year ago
Truly is one of the greatest!!!
agencija78 1 year ago
This IS one of the most beautiful versions of this song... Thanks for sharing!
Olgah100 1 year ago
This IS one of the most beautiful versions of this song ... Thanks for sharing!
Olgah100 1 year ago
@Dentonexmachina: Hind refers to hind leg or hind quaters, essentially behind you.
I would interpret this as like 'the devil on my heels' ie something bad following you, haunting you or hanging over you.
Cheers!
hydemd 1 year ago
truly wondrous
blandatious 1 year ago
You can find a download on google if you search Nick Cave live in Portugal and then the date. ( February 25, 2004 )
Garlyto 1 year ago
Amen caro8680!!!!
dksdestiny 1 year ago
As for the 5 people that "thumbs down" this video, deserve to sit in the mercy seat..
CaptianObviousIII 1 year ago
one of the only men that can reroute songs, change them, and still make it completely brilliant. long live the king of songwriting and long live the men who play with him. i've never come across such a talent that can put you through every emotion know to man in one song.
theartofnotbeingseen 1 year ago 39
@theartofnotbeingseen very VERY well said.
thefattestwombat 6 months ago
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very good song. but the cover of "goethes Erben" in german is much better,....
check it out,...... goethes erben - sitz der gnade
HeitzFrosch 1 year ago
very good song. but the cover of "goethes Erben" in german is much better,....
check it out,...... goethes erben - sitz der gnade
HeitzFrosch 1 year ago
this song is absolutely brilliant!...amazing dark poetry...i don't think such a scene could be better described...not surprised at all that johnny cash would cover this...
Stinakat 1 year ago
For all the fine songs this briliant man has written this must be the best. The perfect tale told in a perfect pysho/hellish voice. This is the truth.
TheHughLundy 1 year ago
mmmmm, best version is a cover by Stromkern. check it out.
XanatharEye 1 year ago
I forgot... The cover from "Goethes Erben" is called "Sitz der Gnade" that may help searching... :)
postDelirium 1 year ago
There's a great german cover of this song by "Goethes Erben" whis I liked very very much, when I was younger... Give it a try (it would be better, you speak german :)
postDelirium 1 year ago
wow wow wow
jeanhaliburtonwills 1 year ago
sick breath of my hinde would be a fart to me lol
Pikosaurus 1 year ago
cant see the video but Nick is absolutely on fire. genius
mertinokirkwood 1 year ago
totally the best version ever my heart bleeds when i hear this
thnxs nick
TheJurgonaut 1 year ago
jesus crist of what
blue23d 1 year ago
I saw this version in Melbourne,Festival Hall,t'was absolutely stunning,thanks.
Great sound btw
MisFittz 1 year ago
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thanks Nick Cave for the lyrics but Cash did the song WAAAAY better.
thehappynihilist 1 year ago
@thehappynihilist hell no! however, cash made it sound like from an old dying man..ain't no better but different
muaythai4ko 1 year ago
@thehappynihilist I actually like the version on the "Live Seeds" 1994 album much more than both Nick's studio version and single version from Tender Prey, as well as the Man in Black's. It's superior to all of the above in my opinion.
TroggDoor 1 year ago
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This version, without doubt, gave me the single-most LONGEST shiver, in my own personal history of "song shivers". It lingered..caressed and touched deeper...than any moment i've experienced, within a song or with a person for that matter.
THAT my friends, is a song.
artofsej 1 year ago
This version, without doubt, gave me the single-most LONGEST shiver, in my own personal history of "song shivers". It lingered..caressed and touched deeper...than any moment i've experienced, within a song or with a person for that matter.
THAT my friends, is a song.
artofsej 1 year ago
This is a bit like Jamaican Ginger Cake. Just Amazing on every level.
JamaicanGingerCake 1 year ago 4
If beauty were a song, it would be this. Incredibly powerful lyrics, it hits me hard every single time.
maidentastic 1 year ago
absolute genius, gorgeous, captivating.
reagente 1 year ago 2
"they are the sick breath at my hind," would be like.......a group of bad things that constantly follow him, causing him greif. that pretty much it. wow, i wish i had me a copy of king ink. however, i feel consulated becasue i have a first edition copy of "and the ass saw the angel" :)
TheSikayou 1 year ago
boach unglaublich schöne version .... i remember the time with friends ... we celebrated this great song... in the 80s
thx 4 that version
fanfarius 1 year ago 2
Great! Watch Eleanoora Rosenholm
lisperiini 1 year ago
Gonna have to buck the trend here and say that the original version is, in my opinion, pretty unbeatable.
jacksonmpa 1 year ago 2
@jacksonmpa IMO, the original version would be perfect if it was closer to the radio edit. I love Nick Cave and I'm probably going to hell for saying this but I'm not sure he really needed to repeat the chorus for five minutes at the end of the track >_>
ramonoski 1 year ago
@ramonoski
Is that not where the power of the song is embedded?
Powly1966 1 year ago
You can truly feel the song in this version!
So evolving, it has grown since the original!
Thanks for posting caro8680
PeterFLOYDIAN 1 year ago
This is head shakingly unbelievable. Thank you for posting.
ahstarkweather 1 year ago
perfect!!!!!!!
jeraltin 1 year ago
indeed the best version you could hear knowing the studio version
it's so peaceful without losing it's power
NilsSG 2 years ago 2
nope. i like the acoustic version on his b sides and rarities.
SammyLuvsYouForever 2 years ago
Probably Nick Cave is the last rock-poet. What the lyrisc! What the voice! It's genious.
akivran 2 years ago 34
@akivran : He is in deed a great rock-poet, but probably not the last.
PeterFLOYDIAN 1 year ago
@akivran rock poet! yes. I love the lecture he gave in Viena - the secret live of the love song.
claramsoares 11 months ago
rock poet! yes. I love the lecture he gave in Viena - the secret live of the love song.
claramsoares 11 months ago
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potisbas 10 months ago
@potisbas A poem by Charles Bukowski?! I challenge you to name it.
wungabunga 10 months ago
@potisbas Wrong. 100% Wrong.
mia7602 10 months ago
@potisbas Bullshit! Name the poem! Nick Cave wrote this in the 80s
JsgHair71 8 months ago
i love you
mar1shant1 2 years ago
SUBLIME simples
razor849 2 years ago
a tear in the corner of my eye. it DOES hurt its so good
twilliams232 2 years ago
i could listen t the millions of different versions of this song al day and never get bored... thanks so much for posting this, absolutely beautiful version... haunting.
sarianlives 2 years ago 2
caro8680 thank you so very much for posting this. it's so good it hurts.
zeljkicica 2 years ago 3
As a songwriter I put him second only to Dylan. And he's a Jim Morrison style crooner, how divine!
richardthethree 2 years ago 2
I totally agree with you.
RapscallionRebellion 2 years ago
I disagree Cave and Dylan are completly differntly diferent song writers, nick is is post goth, Dylan is County. It's like comparing the johny cash version of the song, is lovly in its own way, his old voice and and the god frearing in his voice set it aper. This is completly diferent
rollokb2 2 years ago
I'm speechless.
<3<3<3<3<3
dragmio 2 years ago
Masterful songwriter...the best ever. He touches and connects with my soul, in depths never reached by anyone or anything ever before.
artofsej 2 years ago 2
epic....
xxxpikpaxxx 2 years ago
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WOW this version sucks it just goes to show how brillian Johnny Cash was
cornelwaugh 2 years ago
you must be joking
francoamerican99 2 years ago
@ cornelwaugh
while johnny cash's COVER is as good, it's not better
you clearly don't listen to music
holidayzine787 2 years ago