Nick Cave- Stagger Lee

[almoore36]

way to butcher a classic......but the screaming was perfect

[drpimpelmees]

How come everytime I want to enter an ingame name,

this one is taken !!!one1

[Rodz95]

LEGEND!!

[AnthropomorphicHorse]

is that blix from einsturzende neubauten? I'd recognise that scream anywhere...

[MangoStarrx3]

Mick jesus christ ungh

[MangoStarrx3]

JESUS FUCKING CHRIST LBLIXA I SPAT OUT Y MY WATER

[XXmello42]

Mmmmm... Blixa's scream

[louisthegoose]

Im straight but Nick Cave makes my balls fizz.

[aornoyboys]

hahaha!!! great dance nick!!!!

[troyltdtime]

Nick Cave dances 100% correct. Scientific law.

[JRHartly1984]

Goddammit Nick Cave is a badass!

[claudek22]

@JRHartly1984 Otally. Complete piss take. That's NC for you. Oiy!

[marthamehmeh]

my storyteller of choice

[losingiswinning]

Nick Cage clearly wants to be Tom Waits in this video.

[jonnyboyW20]

@losingiswinning give it a rest

[wantsomecake328]

@losingiswinning ...and? I wouldn't mind being Tom Waits either, or even just having an ounce of his creativity.

And Nicolas Cage! Where?

[WarGoatForestWolf666]

@losingiswinning If anything he wants to be NWA.

[hillman39]

Remember coming in from the pub years ago and seeing this on MTV for the first time. Blew me away. Cave was never afraid to break the mould. Genius.

[hellencoldwater]

Stagger Lee is a bad ass mofo but not as bad ass as Nick Cave's dancing

[peacefulblonde39]

Yawn! What a boring remake of a classic. ;(

[2666ification]

@peacefulblonde39 incorrect, you lifehouse-listening cunt

[peacefulblonde39]

@2666ification Another white trash, youtuber. Stagger Lee Shelton..was a black carriage driver and pimp convicted of murdering William "Billy" Lyons on Christmas Eve, 1895 in Missouri. The crime was immortalized in a popular song that has been recorded by many artists.The first published version of the song was by folklorist John Lomax in 1910. Herb Wiedoeft and his band recorded the song in 1924.Then Lloyd Price in 59. Dick Clark thought the words were to morbid so they were changed.

[funtommy]

this sucks! My team listens to this song before we have a hockey game and now you tube has screwed up our get pumped up song you suck " by the way i own the song I'm just saying that other teams listen to it to so they have to energy now and if any of our teams lose i will be very pissed" ok done ranting.:)

[stumptown77]

Get this shit off of hear if you cant hear it. Im sure i can find half a million rap songs on hear that say the same things and worse than some of the lyrics in this song.

[MairiMe000]

What the fuck is music there fore but to listen to. Copyright is pathetic.

[JiS01]

Yeah!!!! LETS ROCK TO SILENCE OOOOH FACKIN YEEAAAAH!!!!

[UsssOSMART]

preatty neat, very nice. They're clearing the path to put the web under lock & key; it was only a matter of time, anyway.

[BriggsStratton11]

anyone know where I can get this song? I checked itunes but its a different version and not nearly as good

[BriggsStratton11]

anyone?

[sonofjive]

this version is on the murder ballads album

[issofunky]

THAT'S FUCKING STUPID!

I've PAID FOR THIS ALBUM!!!!!!! I FUCKING OWN IT!!!!!!!!

[SolaceLayfield]

Sad news everyone. The audio content of this video has been claimed due to a copyright issue...

[wdgeo]

It's a 100 year-old folk song for cryin' out loud! Who's claiming a copyright?

[DriverKate]

I'm going to guess it's the braintrust over at Warner Bros. They've gone all twitchy again of late.

[troyltdtime]

@SolaceLayfield Stagger Lee had a talk with the people in charge and cleared things up.

[parhamap]

wtf?!! Why the audio has been disabled?!!!

[harafilm]

hey mother fucker,

[averilleX]

Personally I hope that in 2009, the Bad Seeds will bring back the male strippers in their shows, especially the guy in the yellow shirt lol!

[trollfinger]

You know I think if he recorded this video while he had the mustache he has now it proably would have been banned. I mean he's got the moves but it is slightly disturbing. But I love it.

[filthytruck]

You're so right, and well said. There's little more disturbing than a man with a bad moustache fronting so many men in sweaty singlets singing these lyrics.

[trollfinger]

Thta's akmost what's so right about though. I think his imagination brings him to weird places. Just glad we get postcards like this haha

[klonehelvete]

Man of my love <3

[StaggerLay]

Hey, I'm Stag. And I suck up to Nicky Boy by singing his perverted shit, put in : " trend reversal darker " to see. Oh yeah. Those that dont like that wont like that.

[denisproteor]

Nick Cave fait peur et c'est bien.

[dearmalika]

The lyric is'nt so important, I love the music, it make me crazy!

[sonicjay007]

the song still hurts me..

[phalbo]

On stage Cave go on with the song telling us that stagger go to hell and shot even the devil in his motherfucking's head... Great performer

[edgaralanpol]

1:16 joyyyyy :]

[chgian]

I love this song and I say:

I'm the bad motherfucker called "chgian" and also stag better gets down on his knees

and suck my dick, because If he doesn't he's gonna be dead. Ah Ah Ah Ah IOI

[SlimFitSam]

black ass-hole

[pondmuck]

this guy must have great nightmares haha fukin love it

[Moshpitscum]

just count the holes n the motherfuckers head lol, nick is the greatest, nais xmas for ya

[Nitiika]

he hav male dancers.... odd.

[8clockworkorange8]

he scares me

[tylermane77]

KICK ASS Song. Pure fucking kick assery.

[matty007007]

Preety amazing singer, great song! I just happen to have his sister teaching me back on grade 6, how epic.

[Laggarbacken]

This song is so f***ing great.

[hayoungjin]

4TKB591 Mercedes

[StaggerLay]

Well, to Mr. Cave : " trend reversal God is in the house. " Respect

[420Sabbath]

my old head chef grew up with Nick, Australian bands are aceee

[antarcticsummer]

"It was back in 32 and times was hard..."

[PleiadesSeven]

With all these lean guys on stage dancing like this I feel like I just walked into the local gay bar.

[bigbronzespider]

good. gay bars are fucking fun.

[lindoruthie]

I fecking love Nick Caves voice

[juncajon]

this song is brilliant

[Bongobobby9]

this song hurts... but it's a good song at that.

[MethadonePretty]

Keep it down jstow.

[SaveStef]

Who gave me a thumbs down?? Fuck you!

This tune is hot, it rocks and so is/does Nick, so if you don't give it a thumbs up then I'm sending Mr Stagger Lee after your ass :)

[20blair10]

I can't stop watching....i want to...but i just can't

[jstow01]

This song really isn't very good.

[2teenah2]

it isnt huh, well maybe you need to stay THE FUCK OUT Of here, Nick is a God in all aspects and dont you see the humor

[jstow01]

This song really isn't very good.

[titboxx]

Yes, it is.

[jstow01]

This song really isn't very good.

[allmenwomen]

i always liked the song.i can imagine it as a movie,i dont like violence but the song is great

[SaveStef]

1:07 - 1:30 Love it!

[michaelsteel101]

faggot

[cquence23]

your astute insights are staggering... I truly can't begin to appreciate the magnitude of your intellect

[zackleanne2]

lmao well put

[milirod]

he's hot man, I cannot say otherwise

[SOMOGYI8230]

Can't stop watching this...

[avacadosolive]

I fucking love this man. I saw these guys at the 9:30 Club in D.C. in October. Best concert I've ever been to. And this song was included in their set list!!

[thebone420]

im stagga lee and you better get down on your knees and suck my dick because if you dont your gonna be dead

[ohchino]

and what did your mama said?

[thebone420]

dont fuck with me ohchino. I ll fucking piss on your face

[stellashome]

nick cave dancing=greatest thing i have ever seen

[edgaralanpol]

"oOoh yeah"

[chgian]

this song is simple amazing,

"nick you are great" said Mr. stagger lee

[sparksrule]

Saw them in Sheffield last night. Were superb! They finished with this and Warren Ellis made some howlin' screams on his violin before playing the flute!

[peteron3]

I too were at Sheff,wow, wow and trice wow!, one of the gigs this year , saved the best'till last, what a night.

[lepopnoir]

Me too, oh CHRIST, it was special.

[peteron3]

Yep it was pretty good I have to say.

[grogan01]

Thumbs down on this being an improvement of L Price's Stagger Lee.

[advancedwatcher]

last night at apollo mcr - brilliant!

[dmjoc82]

Nick Cave sure can write a fucken bad ass tune

[deemar325]

Actually this is an old blues song about folk hero Stagger lee, he was the meanest, baddest, black mutha fucka too ever walk God's green earth. Sam Jackson did a version of the song in Black Snake Moan and it has been in African American folklore for quite some time.

[Denellie]

this is a kick ass fucking song

[Fr34k0fth3c3ntury]

I love this song. Hell I love all of the murder ballads album :D. But I do find it funny how he's singing about such a badass toughy like Stagger Lee in a pink shirt :P

[CalfCreek4x12x08]

nick cave knows how to sing about murder, rape, and gambling the RIGHT way :)))

[alicat517]

he makes the strangest faces when he sings, i love him!

[bulldogmannen]

haha love this song (Y)

[Hipster420]

If Frank Zappa and David Bowie had a son together it would be Nick Cave. 5 stars!

[RivaJane]

Holy shit, is that Blixa making that insane noise at 4:12?!

[sonicjoydivisonswans]

why yes.

[RivaJane]

Really? Wow, sweet! Good ol' Blixa

[jogschneider]

Ahoy, Hallowed Turkey Heads, The turkey was too big for me, I gave it to the family down the street,maybe I get a wing, cooked, spicey back, eh? This version of the song, is way full of alliteration (repeated consonant sounds), ONe Fine Dock Rocker, at MdDS, google it now.:)

[Madmoo102]

amazing

[lmharris098]

I absolutely love this guy....my ex got me into him, was gonna take me to see him then dumped me just before....lol...he escaped that one alright...ha ha ha ha. I'm gonna see him in London at the end of the month..can't wait!!!

[georeff23]

why do I feel like this is an up side down Julian Cope?

[zekenzoey]

I just want to point out . . .how badass can Stag really be if he let his woman throw him and his shit out in the snowy street and has the look of a man who hasn't been laid in a month of Sunday's. I think he snapped like a brittle f'in' twig . . . PHHPPPTT!

[disharmonist]

don't question nick cave...

[nephbot]

probably one of the most badass songs in a badass catalog

[thegorn68]

LOL! Awesome.

[ZurrQ]

Love his dancemovees ^^

Great song!

[callicolady]

i'm scared :(

[VUNDRBLUD]

Be careful boys!! Wemon are bad!!! I did the intentional misspelling on purpose.

[jogschneider]

Ahoy, Pirate,or is it Mate?, Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.

[VUNDRBLUD]

Sorry-this song is fun to listen to while the gun is resting on your beer. Just been drinkin'.

Easy to get emotional to this beautiful music.

[hem0223]

he had a colt 45 and a deck of cards...fuck that u dont wanna mess with stagger lee

[zekenzoey]

umn . . .can anybody read what Nick's t-shirt says?

[Cherryblossomksenia]

gotcha! at 0:45 and 1:56 you can read on Nick's t-shirt:

make that

love you

[DrLanceAngry]

it's 'take that love you' it's a Take That t shirt....

I've checked and you can't buy them anywhere!

[atheistx]

Laura Petry wants her capris back.

[nakedinsuburbia]

Your mums on crack,but i'd still suck her sweet nipples.

[atheistx]

What an odd thing to say.

[mikew909]

Indeed. Rather out of context.

[elscorcho19]

nick cave is badass. he writes westerns, good ones at that, in the 21st century.

[Rihards3001]

Cool song:)I like this music.He perfoms very good.

[francisliamburton]

nonetheless, one of the best nick cave songs ever in my opinion

[IdleAl]

Gotta love Nick Cave.

[CalfCreek4x12x08]

this is the rated R version of stagger lee. it is kind of funny isnt it? lloyd price was singing about gambling and murder, yet his voice was so chipper. nick cave sure as hell knows how to sing about gambling, prostitution, and murder the right way! lloyds version of stagger lee always made me laugh, how can someone sound so happy when telling the story of s phsyco?

kudos nick cave!!!

[ZRedPoppy]

Now that is some very hot stuff.

<3 Nick.

[acblaacbla]

nick you are a pirate!!!!!!!!!!!

[derriev]

amazing song, fascinating voice, beatiful video...

is it enough?

[looly353]

Nick Cave = genius.

I's a simple equation.

[flipbrown1981]

WOW Holy Crap Look white folks now Bob Dylan did a good job with the hurricane but really please let us make songs about our folk heroes this guy turned Lee Shelton into a fagot WTF. If you didnt know Stagger Lee is a black pimp who lived in Mississippi in the 1890's He killed a man named William Lyons in a bar. And not because the dude wouldnt give him head

[Carland83]

So....Pimps are okay and faggots are bad. Is that right?

[zoo74lander]

our folk heroes? !!!

a) murderer pimp= hero?

b) you sound pretty racist bro...

c) is Bob Dylan a white guy...I ain´t sure about that either

[flipbrown1981]

c) Bob Dylan is of jewish decent surprised you don't know who he is.

b) not racist I like white people just like black people a lil more

a) I said folk hero not superhero the badass black man is an archetype that can be found in music, movies and literature, that particular archetype became very popular with movies like shaft and Dolemite to list a few and songs like stagger lee

[zoo74lander]

i do know who Bob Dylan is...

just pointing you out the fact, for ANTHROPOLOGICAL interests that jewish people are usually from semitic ethnic, not caucasian as "white" people use to be...

p.s. if your "idiot" coment was for me...How come i see your misspelling being myself "español"? ( you may need to google that last one)

Anyway, peace, no fighting about this great song

:)

[flipbrown1981]

If your into what it is that Nick Cave does I guess you could say its a cool song he could have used two generic folks though. I find it offensive that he used William Lyons and Lee Shelton as his subject. I bet the families of those two individuals would be appalled if they heard the song. It would be as if I made a song about your grandfather as a raging homo child molester. Hopefully that can help you see my point.

[francisliamburton]

oh and Nick Cave and all of his songs are awesome.

Especially ones about homosexual murderers. You wont get 50 cent singing about this sort of thing and actually being poetic with it.

[deemar325]

I wouldn't go that far it's music mythology now and in a way it makes Lee Shelton immortal his story will forever be remade in song good or bad, I consider it a companion legend too Robert Johnson who sold his soul too the Devil at the crossroads so he could play a mean guitar and as myth has it spawn rock&roll.

[francisliamburton]

actually his name was William "Billy" Lyons.

And actually Lee Shelton told him to suck on it, then "Billy" Said no, so therefore Lee shot that motherfucker and left.

Or he told lee to take his hat off then shoot him.

But i did my research.

[flipbrown1981]

your an idiot that tried to sound smart and it didnt work

[francisliamburton]

well, if im so dumb, how comes i was corect when i just looked it up?

Just because you can call me an idiot does not make me one.

[flipbrown1981]

sorry didnt realize you are a thirteen year old kid your not an idiot buddy you should run for prime minister when you get older little guy. Make sure you ask your parents permission before you listen to Nick Cave though ok. Parents please monitor your children's internet usage. next he will be making pipe bombs in the basement

[francisliamburton]

im not that little -.-

Also its my mums fault i listen to him! Shes seen him live and everything.

Lucky woman.

And i am making a pipe bomb, not sure where i should put it.

[svagrod]

francisliamburton...put your pipe bomb up your ass...what a dumnfuck you must be...loser

[svagrod]

francis put it up your ass

[zekenzoey]

re: And not because the dude wouldnt give him head

well thank God I am no expert on prison rape, but this gave me the vibe that it was more about power and respect than sexual desire. Don't you think a "folk hero" like Stagger Lee did some hard time? and if he was a pimp, he'd be rolling in puddy.

[czeski142]

I admire him.

He's the fuckin' best ;D

[Piggreenbag]

Was he exploring his faggy side in this song? Or was he singing about someone else?

[tvdrpr]

I'm pretty sure this is simply a retelling of the old Stag O'lee story...

[Piggreenbag]

Gotcha..a remake of the old Llyod price song.

[Thefakeshiek]

amazing song

[ktnarnia]

Dear God,

Thank you for making such a beautiful specimen of a man to grace this horrid planet with. That is one fine piece of work. Good job on Nick Cave. Hot.

Your Friend,

KT

[Saxooon]

Nick je tezak emotivac.

[rubberbandman84]

I love the Cave but WHAT THE FUCK was he playin at in this video

[jimminycricket86]

he is in character.....like a man posessed....legend

[AllyLikesEggsh]

I adore Nick Cave, he's so damn talented. His dancing in thie vid reminds me of Garth in Wayne's World though!

[Deoceres]

Foxy! XD

[dsignrdane]

haha, i never thought of that. are you talking about the part when garth is dancing to "foxy lady"?

[AllyLikesEggsh]

I sure am. :)

[killredgold]

nick makes smoking cool

[idislikethissomuch]

Nick's got a style of his own, and I fucking love it!

[AlbertMondback]

Awesome.

[kyrastube]

the thing I love most in this song (and I love many things in this song) is "mister motherfucker" so cool.

nick is amazing, such a voice, such a mind, such a man.

[CalfCreek4x12x08]

yeah, nick cave makes cussing look cool. lol no wonder the little kids do it, they want to be like nick.

[kyrastube]

LOL yeah who would not want to be like nick? well, I would want to be a woman version of him. :P